Niklas Asker is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and painter. After 10 years as a professional artist, he has worked with everything from Television and editorial illustration to adapting a bestselling novel into comic form for the worlds largest book publisher. In 2009 his first original graphic novel Second Thoughts was published by Top Shelf Comics. Since then the book has been translated into 5 different languages. On top of this, Niklas is exhibiting his painting regularly in Sweden and abroad and has had 6 solo gallery shows since 2009. In 2012, Niklas graphic novel version of The City of Ember, the best-selling book by Jeanne DuPrau, was published and was an immediate hit.
// SELECTED COMMERCIAL CLIENTS:
SWEDBANK
Scientific American Mind
The Deal magazine
US Dep of Transportation
SVT, Swedish Public Television
IKEA
Microsoft
Dazed & Confused
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden's biggest newspaper)
Bonnier Carlsen
// GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PAINTING:
Projekt Konst, Palladium, Malmö, 2006
Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Museum of Art, Stockholm, 2011
Absolut Svenskt, Gallery Genesis, Athens, 2011
Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Museum of Art, Stockholm, 2012
// SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PAINTING:
Galleri Silfverberg, Silfverberg & Silverberg, Malmö, 2009
Carina Björck Gallery, Stockholm, 2010
Galleri Eklund, Stockholm, 2011
Galleri Rönnquist & Rönnquist, Malmö, 2012
Falsterbo Konsthall, Falsterbo, 2012
Galleri Nils Åberg, Gothenburg, 2012
//PUBLIC COMMISSIONS:
2 murals at Mazetti, the new cultural center in Malmö, 2007
240 square meter decoration in Ängavägens pedestrian and traffic tunnel, Vellinge, 2011
// AWARD / NOMINATIONS:
Malmö City art scholarship, 2009
// EDUCATION:
Kuben Art School (painting), Örebro, 1998-1999
Örebro Art School (painting), Örebro, 1999-2001
Malmö Comics Art School, Year 1, 2001-2002
Malmö Comics Art School, Year 2, 2003-2004
