Photo by Alfred Johansson, Paris, 2023
Hands On Press Residency, Kaunas, 2024
Barnes & Noble, Union Square, NYC, 2025
Exhibition opening, Hands On Gallery, Kaunas, 2024
Signing session at Treviso Comic Book Festival, 2023
Bim Eriksson (born in 1991) is a visual artist and storyteller with a multidisciplinary practice rooted in comics and drawing. Her work explores emotional complexity, identity, power structures and soft resistance — often balancing the playful with the unsettling.
Though rooted in the language of comics, her work also extends into sculpture, stage design, and animation.
Her latest graphic novel, Baby Blue (2021), is a dystopian thriller about a society that polices emotions. The book has been published in eight languages, including Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, English, and Portuguese. Baby Blue has been widely recognized for its bold aesthetic and political edge. The Italian edition was nominated for the Carlo Boscarato Award for Best International Artist.
Her comics and narrative works have been published in newspapers and magazines such as Le Monde diplomatique, Internazionale, Galago and BANG.
Comic work is largely solitary, but Bim values the energy that comes from working with others. She has a particular soft spot for music and enjoys collaborating with other artists across disciplines. Driven by curiosity, she often seeks out artistic residencies — not only to deepen her own practice, but to open up new ways of thinking and working. She works from the belief that 1 + 1 can equal 3, if the collaboration is the right match.
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Rights inquiries:
Book & translation – Alessandra Sternfeld at Am-Book alessandra@am-book.com
Screen rights – Julia Angelin at Salomonsson Agency julia@salomonssonagency.com
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Graphic novels and zines
2024 The Comic Artist is Present, Hands on Press
2021 Baby Blue, Galago
2016 I felt nothing when my feelings died, Kartago
Solo Exhibition
2024 The Comic Artist is Present, Hands on Gallery, Kaunas
2023 Baby Blue, Bokbar la librairie-café nordique, Paris
2020 Gale in boots, Open spaces Edsberg, Stockholm
2018 Bad girl aura, Gallery Toppen! Stockholm
2018 Where no one can see me, Lidköping Konsthall, Lidköping
2017 Baby fat, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö
2017 Baby fat, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm
2016 Heroines smell like arsenic, Kåken, Stockholm
Group Exhibitions
2023 Contemporary Swedish Comics, Casa Robegan, TCBF, Treviso
2022 Borders, Garage Coop, Centrale Veuper, Strasbourg
2021 Invisible Lines, Accademia di belle arti di Bologna
2021 Invisible Lines, Tabook book festival, Tabor
2020 Manifestation Lövholmen, Färgfabriken, Stockholm
2010 Zon Moderna, Moderna Museet Stockholm
Comics Published in Papers and Magazines
2024 Papa, Galago, Sweden
2024 Mary Shelley, Historiskan, Sweden
2023 Papa, Le Monde diplomatique, Germany
2023 Comic Jam, Galago, Sweden
2021 Cartoline da Venezia, Internazionale, Italy
2020 The COVID diray, Galago, Sweden
2018 The political game, Frihet, Sweden
2016 The orgasm gap, Galago, Sweden
Comic published in Anthologies
2023 Thank you for a lovely day, Ventil Verlag
2021 12 Comic Pilgrims, Baobab
2021 Invisible Lines Squadro Edizioni Grafiche, Sigaretten
2019 Du springer, Vox by Opal
2017 Utopi / Dystopi, Tidskriften BANG
Talks and readings
2025 Baby Blue reading session, MoCCA Arts Fest, New York
2024 Artist talk and reading session, Nordic Council of Ministers, Riga
2023 Book talk, The sci-fi Bokhandeln, Kulturnatten, Stockholm
2022 Author talk, Ulricehamn Pride
2022 Baby Blue reading session, Hamburg Comic Festival
2022 Dystopian worlds, seminar at Gothenburg Book Fair
2022 Baby Blue reading session, Textival Gothenburg
2022 System Collapse, seminar at Textival Gothenburg.
2022 Book talk, Stockholm International Comic Festival, Kulturhuset.
2022 Anxiety, comics and resistance, seminar at Littfest, Umeå
2021 The body in comics, seminar, Accademia di belle arti di Bologna
2017 Author talk, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm
2016 Book talk, graphic novel debutant evening, Stockholm City Library
2016 I felt nothing when my feelings died, seminar at Gothenburg Book Fair
Represented in public art collections
2019 The round ball, Public art commission, Botkyrka kommun
2018 Bunny in red boots, Lidköping kommun
2017 Circus, Botkyrka kommun
Workshops and teaching
2024 Comic workshop, Segulda, Latvia
2022 Comic workshop, Tranemo Pride, Sweden
2019 Guest teacher, illustration. Berghs School of Communication
2018 Guest teacher, illustration. Berghs School of Communication
2018 Comic workshop, Ritklubben at Beckmans College of Design
2017 Comic workshop, Lidköping Art Gallery, Sweden
2017 Lecture and workshop, Shanghai International Studies University, China
Performance and video
2022 Are you a comic book fan? Short film by The Swedish Institute
2010 To Lee, Performance, Moderna Museet Stockholm