The Royal Academy has some 120 Swedish and 30 international members. Members are nominated to the following categories: artists, architects, honorary members and international members.

H.M. The King and H.R.H. the Crown Princess are its principal honorary members.

The Academy holds plenary meetings to decide on issues of particular importance. Its administrative board serves as the Academy’s board of directors. The Academy also has several sub-committees and grant and award committees.

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts is a legal entity and is largely self-funding. 

The Administrative Board
The Administrative Board consists of a president, a permanent secretary, a vice-president and six members who are chosen for a period of three years at a plenary meeting.

The Presidium
The Presidium consists of the president, the permanent secretary and the vice-president. The Presidium has the Administrative Board’s mandate to decide on issues requiring immediate action, when it is not possible to convene a plenary meeting or a meeting of the Administrative Board.

Current Presidium
Press: Helena Tallius Myhrman
Vice President: Clara Kristalova
Permanent Secretary: Elisabeth Alsheimer Evenstedt

The president
The president is the chairman of the Academy and chairs the plenary meetings and the Administrative board meetings. The president is elected by the members of the Academy for a period of three years. Helena Tallius Myhrman is the current president.

The permanent secretary
The permanent secretary serves as the CEO of the Royal Academy, and is tasked with its budget, staff, organisation and development of activities. The permanent secretary attends all the Academy’s internal meetings and certain external meetings.
The permanent secretary is appointed for a certain period that can be extended. The current permanent secretary is Elisabeth Alsheimer Evenstedt.

The vice-president
The vice-president assists the president. The vice-president is elected by the Academy members for three years and is currently the artist Klara Kristalova.

The office
The office manages collections, administration, communication, photo-documentation, technology, building maintenance and the cafe. The office is headed by the permanent secretary and implements the Academy’s decisions, examines and handles incoming enquiries, administers grants, prepares agendas and takes minutes at Academy and board meetings and coordinates internal and external communications. The office carries out research projects and makes material from the Academy collections, archives and library available to researchers. The office also organises and produces exhibitions and programmes for the Royal Academy and others.

It handles the regular technical maintenance of the listed building on Fredsgatan 12 and its technological systems, special refurbishment and renovation projects and contacts with users and tenants. > The office

The in-house architect
The in-house architect is the Royal Academy’s expert adviser to the permanent secretary and the Administrative Board. The primary mission of the in-house architect is to liaise and monitor that the architectural, artistic, antiquarian and technical aspects of the building are duly considered in any maintenance, renovation and installation work. The current in-house architect is the Academy member Erik Wikerstål.

Financial committee
The financial committee handles investments and reports to the Administrative Board. The committee consists of the president, the permanent secretary, two members and an external adviser.

Auditors
Elected auditors and an external auditor.

The exhibition committee
The exhibition board makes formal decisions on exhibition proposals.

The election committee
The election committee proposes members to the Academy’s boards.

GRANT AND AWARD COMMITTEES

Grant committees, grants that accept applications
The committees select recipients among applicants for the Academy’s grants.

The Royal Academy’s grants for art students and young artists
The Royal Academy’s grants for architects
The Royal Academy’s grants for artists

The Hjalmar Wicander Fund, open for applications
A committee consisting of Academy members and external participants. The Fund awards grants for “works of a monumental or decorative nature in connection with a non-governmental public building or facility”.

Award committees
The committees appoint recipients of awards and prizes at the Royal Academy Celebration.

The Asmund and Lizzie Arle Sculpture Prize
The Augusta, Oscar and Harry Höckert Prize
The Axel Theofron Sandberg Watercolour Prize
The Carl Christensen and Maria Lisa Ekman Prize
The Egron Lundgren Prize
The Erik Lindberg Fund for Swedish Medal Design
The Göran Lagervall Prize
The Hans and Desy Viksten Grant
The Marta Larsson Rome Travel Grant
The Paul Hedqvist Award
The Nisse Zetterberg Rome Travel Grant Foundation
The Vera and Göran Agnekil Grant for Young Artists

Grant committees not open for applications
Committees consisting of Academy members and external participants. These grant committees select grant recipients but are not open for applications.
The Inez Leander Committee
The Ragnar von Holten Memorial Fund
The Claes Bäckström Memorial Fund
The Sven Erixon Committee
The Bengt Harald Evers Committee
Färg och Form
The Jan Inghe-Hagström Memorial Fund
The Rittner Scholarship Fund

GRANTS AND AWARDS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ACADEMIES 

The Bernadotte Programme
Since 2016, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Swedish Academy and the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture operate a joint grant programme to promote inter-Academic work for the benefit of researchers and young artists.

Den tänkande handen (The Thinking Hand)
Den tänkande handen is an annual exhibition of young illustrators and draughtsmen. The exhibition is co-organised by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Court. Its purpose is to show how drawing is implemented both as a technique and a genre, and what free creation in art can entail.

The Rolf Schock Prizes
Rolf Schock, who died in 1986, stipulated in his will that his substantial fortune should be used as follows: the Royal Academy of Fine Arts shall nominate an award winner in one of the visual arts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shall nominate an award winner in logic, philosophy and mathematics, and the Academy of Music shall nominate an award winner in one of the musical arts.

EXTERNAL COMMITTEES

The Royal Academy is represented in various bodies.

The Unman Scholarship Fund
The Uddenberg-Nording Foundation’s Scholarship Committee
The Stockholm Beauty Council (Skönhetsrådet)
The Nordic Art Association, Swedish section
Svensk-danska kulturfonden (Swedish-Danish Arts Fund)
The Board of the Foundation for the Gerlesborg School of Fine Art
Swedish Institute in Rome
The Eva Bonnier Foundation
The Board of the Emma Ricklund Foundation
The Kajsa and Olle Nyman Arts Foundation
The C.M. Lerici Foundation