Born in 1975, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland
Education
2003 – 2004
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2000—2003
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, B.A.
1998—1999
Billedskolen, Copenhagen
Awards
2018
Visual Artist of the Year by the Icelandic Art Prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
ASÍ Art Museum, Inlight, Kleifar, Blönduós, Iceland
2017
ASÍ Art Museum, Former St. Joseph’s Hospital, Inlight, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2016
BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015
Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík
2014
The National Gallery of Iceland, 700.is Artist of the Month, Reykjavík
2013
Menningarhúsið Skúrinn/Culture House The Shed, Næturvarp
(Night Projection), Reykjavík
2012
Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Kling & Bang, Reykjavík
2011
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden
2010
South by South West Gallery, Reykjanesbær, Iceland Alessandromarenaproject, Turin, Italy
2008
Galerie Kunstagenten, Gallery Video Lounge, Berlin
Gallery Adler, New York
2007
Safn (Collection), Reykjavík
The Reykjavík Art Museum, D gallery, Reykjavík
2006
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Galerie Adler, Frankfurt
2004
Kling & Bang, Reykjavík
2002
Gallery Priestor, Bratislava, Slovakia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Nordatlantens Brygge, HIGH AND LOW – contemporary art from Iceland, Copenhagen
Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, OH, SO QUIET! Music as we look at it: art and cinema, Hjalteyri, Iceland
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art of East Iceland, C A B L E, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Reykjavik Art Museum, NO MAN'S LAND: WHERE BEAUTY ALONE REIGNS? Reykjavík
Media Art Festival, Roma
2017
Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland
The Reykjavík Art Museum, BOUT, Reykjavík
Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Art, Painting – not a medium,
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2016
Scandinavia House, Another North: Landscape Reimagined, New York
2015
The Royal Society of British Sculptors, SKULPTUR, London
Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, New Release, Kópavogur, Iceland Verksmiðjan
Hjalteyri, Nowhere Else, Hjalteyri, Iceland
2014
Onsite-artprojects, Ice Ice Baby, Vienna
Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Pushing Reality, Berlin
The National Gallery of Iceland, 700.is Artist of the Month, Reykjavík
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Cadences of Line and Color, Reykjavík
Hafnarborg, New Acquisitions, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Your Compound View, Reykjavík
2013
Nordic Outbreak, New York
2012
Liverpool Biennial/City States, Liverpool
Fatamorgana 1, Terlizzi, Bari, Italy
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík
Hangman’s Rock–The Delirium of Vision, Reykjavík
Arario Gallery, Memento Mori, Beijing
Arario Gallery, EORUM SANAI, Cheonan, South Korea
2011
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús, Perspectives–On the Borders of Art and
Philosophy, Reykjavík
The National Gallery of Iceland, Sound Fields, Reykjavík
Arario Gallery, Almost Tangible, Beijing
2010
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, New Acquisitions 2006–2010, Reykjavík
Palazzo Altan, Palinsesti 2010, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy
Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Casa Masaccio, NO-WHERE/NOW-HERE, San Giovanni
Valdarno, Italy
2009
Standpoint, London
The Living Art Museum, Event Nr. 1, Reykjavík
Sequences Real Time Festival, Event Nr. 2, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kling & Bang and X Initiative, No Soul For Sale–A Festival of Independents, New York
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Dreams of the Sublime, Vaasa, Finland
2008
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere,
Reykjavík
Centre for Fine Arts, Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Brussels
Dalir og hólar, Iceland
FIFI Projects, Black Mathematics, Miami
2007
Rekord, Oslo
Kunstverein Heidelberg, 100 days–100 videos, Heidelberg, Germany
GL Strand, 100 days–100 videos, Copenhagen
2006
National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Temporary Cities, Moscow
Gallery Adler, The Un-homely, New York
Sequences Real Time Festival, Reykjavík
Vienna Biennale, Vienna
Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin
Kultur Buro, Barcelona
2004
Vooruit Arts Centre, Etoiles Polares, Ghent, Belgium
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin North, Berlin
2003
Bergen Kunsthalle, Behind the eyes, Bergen, Norway
2002
The Living Art Museum, Converter Projekt Part 2, Reykjavík
2001
Semperdepot, Converter Projekt Part 1, Vienna
2000
The Yellow House, Iceland
Screenings/Performances
2018
Cinéphémère, Tape, Paris
National Sawdust, Trajectories, New York
Njord, New Nordic Music Biennale, Copenhagen
2017
Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Cycle Music and Art Lab, Trajectories, Hong Kong
2016
Abrons Arts Center - Playhouse, OpenICE, New York
Harpa Reykjavík Concert Hall, Scape, Reykjavík
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava
Mengi, Scape, Reykjavík
Sonic Festival, Trajectories, Copenhagen
2015
Videoartchannel, Contemporary video art, online and site-specific screening
Malmö Konsthall bookstore, Nordisk Panorama – Nordic Short and Doc Film Festival
Remembering – a glimpse of a memory Art film from Iceland, Malmö, Sweden
Kópavogshæli, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Diptych, Kópavogur, Iceland
2014
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Trajectories, Augarten, Vienna [performance]
Issue Project Room, Ultima hits New York, Brooklyn, New York [performance]
Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík Center for Visual Music festival, Reykjavík [performance]
2011
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Video screening program, Frankfurt
Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, The Confected Video Archive of Kling & Bang, Hamburg
24th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseilles, France
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Bergen Kunsthall, Landmark, Bergen, Norway [Nordic Art Express screening]
2010
Kling & Bang Gallery, Whirlpool, Reykjavík
Fotogalleriet Oslo, Nordic Art Express, Oslo
2009
Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Northwave, Rome
FISHEYE International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Rome Biennale di Venezia,
Northwave, Venice [book and video screening project]
2008
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a, The Building, e-flux video rental, Berlin
The Film Archive, Á jaðrinum, Wellington, New Zealand
2007
Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
The Film Archive, Prater Art Sessions, Vienna 2007, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Motorenhalle, Dark Places, Dresden, Germany
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, Berlin
2002
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
Museums Quartier 21, Sound Performance, Vienna
2001
The Living Art Museum, Polyfonia, Reykjavík
Collections
The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík
Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Arario collection, South Korea
Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Private collections in Iceland, Germany
Grants
2015 3-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2012 12-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2011 Muggur, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, travel grant
2009 12-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2008 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2007 Myndstef, project grant, Iceland 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2006 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture
2005 Dungal art grant, Iceland
Sigurdur Gudjonsson
Born in 1975, Reykjavík, IcelandLives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland Education 2003 – 2004 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 2000—2003 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, B.A. 1998—1999 Billedskolen, Copenhagen Awards 2018 Visual Artist of the Year by the Icelandic Art Prize Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 ASÍ Art Museum, Inlight, Kleifar, Blönduós, Iceland 2017 ASÍ Art Museum, Former St. Joseph’s Hospital, Inlight, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland 2016 BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland 2015 Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík 2014 The National Gallery of Iceland, 700.is Artist of the Month, Reykjavík 2013 Menningarhúsið Skúrinn/Culture House The Shed, Næturvarp (Night Projection), Reykjavík 2012 Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Kling & Bang, Reykjavík 2011 Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden 2010 South by South West Gallery, Reykjanesbær, Iceland Alessandromarenaproject, Turin, Italy 2008 Galerie Kunstagenten, Gallery Video Lounge, Berlin Gallery Adler, New York 2007 Safn (Collection), Reykjavík The Reykjavík Art Museum, D gallery, Reykjavík 2006 Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany Galerie Adler, Frankfurt 2004 Kling & Bang, Reykjavík 2002 Gallery Priestor, Bratislava, Slovakia Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Nordatlantens Brygge, HIGH AND LOW – contemporary art from Iceland, Copenhagen Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, OH, SO QUIET! Music as we look at it: art and cinema, Hjalteyri, Iceland Skaftfell Center for Visual Art of East Iceland, C A B L E, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland Reykjavik Art Museum, NO MAN'S LAND: WHERE BEAUTY ALONE REIGNS? Reykjavík Media Art Festival, Roma 2017 Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland The Reykjavík Art Museum, BOUT, Reykjavík Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Art, Painting – not a medium, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland 2016 Scandinavia House, Another North: Landscape Reimagined, New York 2015 The Royal Society of British Sculptors, SKULPTUR, London Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, New Release, Kópavogur, Iceland Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, Nowhere Else, Hjalteyri, Iceland 2014 Onsite-artprojects, Ice Ice Baby, Vienna Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Pushing Reality, Berlin The National Gallery of Iceland, 700.is Artist of the Month, Reykjavík The Reykjavík Art Museum, Cadences of Line and Color, Reykjavík Hafnarborg, New Acquisitions, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland The Reykjavík Art Museum, Your Compound View, Reykjavík 2013 Nordic Outbreak, New York 2012 Liverpool Biennial/City States, Liverpool Fatamorgana 1, Terlizzi, Bari, Italy The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík Hangman’s Rock–The Delirium of Vision, Reykjavík Arario Gallery, Memento Mori, Beijing Arario Gallery, EORUM SANAI, Cheonan, South Korea 2011 The Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús, Perspectives–On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavík The National Gallery of Iceland, Sound Fields, Reykjavík Arario Gallery, Almost Tangible, Beijing 2010 The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, New Acquisitions 2006–2010, Reykjavík Palazzo Altan, Palinsesti 2010, San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Casa Masaccio, NO-WHERE/NOW-HERE, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy 2009 Standpoint, London The Living Art Museum, Event Nr. 1, Reykjavík Sequences Real Time Festival, Event Nr. 2, Reykjavík, Iceland Kling & Bang and X Initiative, No Soul For Sale–A Festival of Independents, New York Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Dreams of the Sublime, Vaasa, Finland 2008 The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Reykjavík Centre for Fine Arts, Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Brussels Dalir og hólar, Iceland FIFI Projects, Black Mathematics, Miami 2007 Rekord, Oslo Kunstverein Heidelberg, 100 days–100 videos, Heidelberg, Germany GL Strand, 100 days–100 videos, Copenhagen 2006 National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Temporary Cities, Moscow Gallery Adler, The Un-homely, New York Sequences Real Time Festival, Reykjavík Vienna Biennale, Vienna Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin Kultur Buro, Barcelona 2004 Vooruit Arts Centre, Etoiles Polares, Ghent, Belgium Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin North, Berlin 2003 Bergen Kunsthalle, Behind the eyes, Bergen, Norway 2002 The Living Art Museum, Converter Projekt Part 2, Reykjavík 2001 Semperdepot, Converter Projekt Part 1, Vienna 2000 The Yellow House, Iceland Screenings/Performances 2018 Cinéphémère, Tape, Paris National Sawdust, Trajectories, New York Njord, New Nordic Music Biennale, Copenhagen 2017 Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Cycle Music and Art Lab, Trajectories, Hong Kong 2016 Abrons Arts Center - Playhouse, OpenICE, New York Harpa Reykjavík Concert Hall, Scape, Reykjavík Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava Mengi, Scape, Reykjavík Sonic Festival, Trajectories, Copenhagen 2015 Videoartchannel, Contemporary video art, online and site-specific screening Malmö Konsthall bookstore, Nordisk Panorama – Nordic Short and Doc Film Festival Remembering – a glimpse of a memory Art film from Iceland, Malmö, Sweden Kópavogshæli, Cycle Music and Art Festival, Diptych, Kópavogur, Iceland 2014 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Trajectories, Augarten, Vienna [performance] Issue Project Room, Ultima hits New York, Brooklyn, New York [performance] Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík Center for Visual Music festival, Reykjavík [performance] 2011 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Video screening program, Frankfurt Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, The Confected Video Archive of Kling & Bang, Hamburg 24th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseilles, France Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland Bergen Kunsthall, Landmark, Bergen, Norway [Nordic Art Express screening] 2010 Kling & Bang Gallery, Whirlpool, Reykjavík Fotogalleriet Oslo, Nordic Art Express, Oslo 2009 Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Northwave, Rome FISHEYE International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Rome Biennale di Venezia, Northwave, Venice [book and video screening project] 2008 Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a, The Building, e-flux video rental, Berlin The Film Archive, Á jaðrinum, Wellington, New Zealand 2007 Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands The Film Archive, Prater Art Sessions, Vienna 2007, Auckland, New Zealand 2006 Motorenhalle, Dark Places, Dresden, Germany KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, Berlin 2002 Uppsala Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden Museums Quartier 21, Sound Performance, Vienna 2001 The Living Art Museum, Polyfonia, Reykjavík Collections The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík The Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland Arario collection, South Korea Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany Private collections in Iceland, Germany Grants 2015 3-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2012 12-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2011 Muggur, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, travel grant 2009 12-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2008 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2007 Myndstef, project grant, Iceland 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2006 6-month artist stipend, The Icelandic Ministry of Culture 2005 Dungal art grant, Iceland