Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Kristoffer Zetterstrand (born 27 September 1973) is a Swedish artist, known for creating most of the paintings featured in the video game Minecraft and being the brother of Elin Zetterstrand, Markus Persson's ex-wife.

Education and work Kristoffer Zetterstrand studied at Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm and at Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Zetterstrand's works are influenced by both classical and Renaissance artwork, as well as computer graphics and 3D modeling. His debut exhibition in 2002 consisted of compilations for the video game Counter-Strike. In 2010, Markus Persson, Zetterstrand's former brother-in-law, included some of Zetterstrand's paintings in his game Minecraft, His paintings are often based on virtual still lifes and scenography sculpted in 3D applications, and he has broadened his sources of images to include vintage photography and imagery.

Awards In 2008, Zetterstrand received the IASPIS artist in residency grant. In 2012, he received the Marianne & Sigvard Bernadotte Art Award. In 2013, he was awarded the Stora Kakelpriset, an annual prize for the most innovative use of tiles or ceramics in construction in Sweden, for his mosaic Ager Medicinae (The Medical Landscape). The work is in size and was commissioned for the exterior of the parking garage at New Karolinska University Hospital in Solna. It depicts a rough timeline of the development of medicine in pixellated style.

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