Fahlström出生于巴西圣保罗，作为唯一的孩子FrithjofFahlström和KarinFahlström。在1939年7月，他被送往斯德哥尔摩访问了一些远亲后第二次世界大战他开始研究，后来作为一个作家，评论家和记者工作。从1960年直到1976年，他结婚的瑞典流行画家巴尔布鲁Östlihn。

1953年Fahlström了他的首次个展，展示了绘画歌剧院，一个房间大小的毡尖笔绘制。此外，在1953年他写了HätilaragulprPåfåtskliaben，一个宣言的具体诗歌，发表在瑞典于次年中英文翻译（由玛丽·艾伦·绍尔特于1968年，在她的诗集“诗混凝土，一个世界观”）。

1956年Fahlström搬到了巴黎，并在那里生活了三年才搬到前街工作室，纽约市。在纽约，他曾与不同的艺术家，并探讨他作为一个艺术家进一步发挥作用。1962年他参加了新实在主义展在悉尼贾尼斯画廊，在纽约市。他的作品被列入1964年威尼斯双年展，他在科迪尔和埃克斯特罗姆公司，纽约有一个个展。1965年他加入了西德尼·詹尼斯画廊。

1966年他的作品吻甜比葡萄酒的性能被列入9的夜晚：剧院工程，举办艺术与技术实验在第26街军械库，纽约。同年他的照片纸上油画被列入称为群展情色艺术在悉尼贾尼斯画廊。Fahlström曾在悉尼贾尼斯画廊在纽约市举办个人画展，1967年，1969年，1973年和1976年。1973年，他写了一个剧本叫黑室的基础上，水门事件，并对他有一个回顾艺术学院摩尔图库在费城，宾夕法尼亚州。

Fahlström的工作是收集在现代艺术博物馆

尽管一些批评，如弗朗西斯理查德驳回他为“倒退到超现实主义或宣传鼓动在最坏的情况” 其他评论家，如玛丽·弗拉纳根也见过他使用游戏作为构成关键比赛的例子。
 

Fahlstr m was born in Brazil, St Paul, as the only child of FrithjofFahlstr m and KarinFahlstr o m o. In July 1939, he was sent to Stockholm to visit some relatives after the Second World War he began to study, then as a writer, critic and journalist. From 1960 until 1976, he married the Swedish pop artist barbro stlihn.
In 1953, Fahlstr m had his first solo exhibition, painting opera, a felt tip pen room size drawing. In addition, in 1953 he wrote by H tilaragulprP f tskliaben, concrete poetry a manifesto, published in Sweden in the following year in English (translated by Mary Alan Sault in 1968, in her poetry "poetry concrete, a view of the world").
In 1956, Fahlstr m moved to Paris and lived there for three years before they moved to the studio, New York city. In New York, he worked with different artists and explored his role as an artist. In 1962 he took part in the new realism exhibition at Janis Gallery in Sydney, in New York. His work was included in the Venice Biennale in 1964, he and Cordier Ekstrom company, New York had a solo exhibition. In 1965 he joined the Sidney Janis gallery.
In 1966 his work performance than sweet kiss Wine was included in the 9 night Theatre Project, organized art and technology experiment in the twenty-sixth Street armory, New York. In the same year his photo paper was included in the oil painting exhibition called erotic art in Sydney Janis gallery. Fahlstr o m in Sydney Janis Gallery in New York city held a personal exhibition, 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1976. In 1973, he wrote a script called black room, Watergate, and he had a retrospective Art Gallery Moore School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fahlstr, M's work is collected in the Museum of modern art
Although some critics, such as Francis Richard dismissed him as "a throwback to surrealism or propaganda at worst" other critics, such as Mary Flanagan has seen him using the game as an example a key game.