Agda Viker

Agda Viker (26 January 1883 – 19 March 1969) was a Swedish-born American painter and artist active in Chicago, Illinois. She specialized in still lifes, portraits, and landscapes made in oil, pastel, or watercolor.

Agda Elin Viker was born on January 26, 1883, in Husaby, Sweden, the daughter of the regimental pastor Nils Gustaf Strömbom and the pianist Maria Sofia Elisabet Ählström. She was the younger sister of Betzy Helström, a noted Chicago flower painter. 

Viker immigrated to the United States in 1901. She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago as well as in private lessons from Wellington Jarard Reynolds, Frederic Victor Poole, and Frederick F. Fursman.

Viker's artwork was featured in several American and Swedish-American group exhibitions in Chicago from 1933–1956. She also exhibited separately in Rockford, Illinois, and Chicago, among other places. She was a member of the Cordon Club, Chicago.

In 1910, Agda married Guttorm Aabel Viker, an architect whose name was Americanized to George. They lived in Chicago.

Viker died on March 19, 1969, in Des Plaines, Illinois, at the age of 86.