Erik Dietman, born September 11, 1937 in Jönköping, died June 28, 2002 in Paris, was a Swedish-French sculptor, painter and draftsman. Erik Dietman trained for a short period at the Skånska painting school in Malmö and moved to France in 1959. He participated in an exhibition for the first time in 1962 at the Galerie Girardon in Paris and had his first solo exhibition in 1964 at the Galleria Sperrone in Turin. Moderna Museet had a retrospective exhibition in 1987, which was also shown in Malmö, Helsinki, Amsterdam and Lyon.
Erik Dietman also had an exhibition at the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1994. During the reign of President Jacques Chirac, in 1998 he was the first Swedish artist to have a work placed in the Tuileries Garden.
Erik Dietman was a professor partly at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, partly at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. He was influenced by Marcel Duchamp and the Dada movement and participated in New Realism and Fluxus. Dietman is represented at, among others, the National Museum, County Museum Gävleborg and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.