 Biography
+Born on 6 June in Östra Sallerup, Scania/Skåne
+Skånska Målarskolan, Malmö
+Otte Sköld’s painting school, Stockholm
-–1950
+The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
+The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
+Debut at Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+Awarded the X-et scholarship
+Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+Bienal Internaçional de São Paulo, São Paulo, group exhibition
+Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm
+La Biennale de Paris, Manifestation des Jeune Artistes, Paris, group exhibition
+Images from Frosta Shire, Galerie Burén, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, solo exhibition
+Abstract Sculptures and Realistic Portraits, Galerie Burén, Stockholm, solo exhibition

Leaves his professorship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and moves to his childhood home in the south of Sweden, Benarp, Skåne.
-–1972
+Gives up painting.
+Redovisning 1969, Galleri Östergren, Malmö, group exhibition
+Sammanfattningar 1962–76, Galerie Burén, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+Ur dagens läge (Skåne), Galleri Händer, Stockholm, group exhibition
+Sextant. Six artistes suédois contemporains, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, group exhibition
+Bienal Internaçional de São Paulo, São Paulo, group exhibition
+Retrospective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+Retrospective, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, solo exhibition
+Tretton samtida, Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, group exhibition
+Awarded the Friends of Moderna Museet artist grant of SEK 100,000 for “his paintings in the realist style, demonstrating great originality and intensity and for following his own path consistently and perseveringly for four decades”.

Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, group exhibition
+Donates 25 of his works from 1961–1985 to Malmö Konstmuseum.

Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, solo exhibition
+The Louisiana Exhibition 1997 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, group exhibition

Awarded the Rolf Schock visual arts prize, “for his rare artistic integrity and strong poetic style”. Northern Lights. Gathering Light, Moderna Museet’s International programme, Riksutställningar, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth; Flinders University Art Gallery, Adelaide; The Arts Gallery, Singapore; Båtsmanskasernen, Karlskrona; Konstens Hus, Luleå; Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås; Sandvikens Konsthall, Sandviken; Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg; Gotlands

Konstmuseum, Visby; Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, group exhibition
+Awarded third prize in the Carnegie Art Award 1998 for “his painting, which opens up new roads with uncompromising radicality for this artistic medium with its historical legacy. For feeling necessary and reliable, and for being entirely without aesthetic affectation.”

Carnegie Art Award 1998, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Sophienholm, Lyngby; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo; Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki; The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, group exhibition
+Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, group exhibition
+Century of innocence: the history of the white monochrome, Rooseum, Malmö, group exhibition

Konkret: Rörelser i nordisk konst under 1900-talet, Dansmuseet, Stockholm, group exhibition
+The Identity Frieze, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, solo exhibition

Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening/Swedish Association for Art, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen, solo exhibition
+Moderna Museet at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, group exhibition
+Åmells, London, solo exhibition
+Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, solo exhibition
+The Moderna Exhibition 2006, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, group exhibition
+Founds the Torsten Andersson Foundation on 4 January.

Awarded first prize in the Carnegie Art Award 2008 with the motivation “Torsten Andersson is awarded the Carnegie prize of SEK 1,000,000 for his matchless oeuvre of painting that consolidates two absolute opposites, the general and the personal. Torsten Andersson has worked indefatigably over 40 years to formulate this paradox, a personal language. The paintings he exhibits prove that he has succeeded! The result is energetic, wonderfully material and absolutely unique!”

Carnegie Art Award 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden; Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen; Kópavogur Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur; The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; The Royal College of Art, London; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, group exhibition
+Carnegie Art Award 2008, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden; Den Frie Udstilling, Köpenhamn; Kópavogur Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur; Konstakademien, Stockholm; The Royal College of Art, London; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, grupputställning
+Died on 30 May in Benarp, Skåne.