Education
2006-2007 Binger Film Institute, Screenwriting and Film directing, Amsterdam, The Nehterlands
1997-2002 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, mixed media department, M.A.
2000 University of Photography and Film, Gothenburg, Sweden
1996-1997 University of Art and Design, Photography department, Helsinki, Finland
1996 feb, mars Winchester School of Art and Design, England, fine Art
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, Facultad de Bellas artes
Iceland Academy of the Arts, painting and mixed media departments
Master Classes
2008 The Comic toolbox with Jeff Greenstein, John Vorhaus, John Barber
2008 Creative writing class with Þorvaldur Þorsteinsson writer/visual artist
2006 Spacing Out, directing workshop on investigating space and composition with Adrian Heathfield and Jonathan Burrows, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2006 Arista Story Development Workshop, Sirolo, Italy
2006 Screenwriting Masterclass by Mick Casale, Icelandic Filmcentre, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Space and composition, workshop on physical/visual stage dramaturgy with Adrian Heathfield, Copenhagen
2005 Break the Ice, Nordscen Cross-Art-Meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2003-2004 Kópavogur Music School , Electronic Music Studies, Iceland
2003 Disturbances, Symposium of sound,space and movement. Music as structure, a workshop with the
composer Bernhard Lang and the coreographer Xavier le Roy
Upcoming solo Exhibitions
2008 The Reykjavik Museum of Photography
Selected Solo exhibitions
2008 “Lost my head” Galeria Sicart, Barcelona, Spain
2007-2008 “Its all about happiness”Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
2007 “Leave me alone I am trying to sleep”Traschi Galleri Santiago de Chile, Chile
2006 “Drawings” Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2005 “Lost my head” Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden
2005 “Do not let my fragile apperance deceive you” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 “Flying/dying” Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland
2000 "Furs and emotions", installation, Galleri Nema Hvað, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 "Blondes in Paris" installation, Galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 “False teeth” film and photographs, Alagalleria, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “False teeth” film and photographs, The Living art museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Selected group exhibitions
2008 Beyond the mind, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2008 Botnik Space off #2, Skarholmen, Gerleborg, Sweden
2008 “Traits de femmes” Gallery Claude Samuel, Paris, France
2008 Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris, France
2008 Bridge Art Fair, New York, USA
2008 VODOU, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, Swedens
2008 Drawings, Galeria Sicart, Barcelona, Spain
2007 VOUDOU-Galleri Bastard, Oslo, Norway
2007 ARTEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 Landscape and folklore, National Gallery Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2006 Sequences, the real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2006 Icelandic Videoart, KunstWerke Berlín, Germany
2006 Cold Hearts, Icelandic film and video, travelling exhibition, USA
2006 Hit the North, Nordic Film and Video Art, travelling exhibition
2005 “Patricide and Witchtime” Nordic house, Iceland
2005 “Tolerate me” Supermarket of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2005 “E-flux video rental” , Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 “E-flux video rental” The Moore Space, Miami, USA
2005 “E-flux video rental” KunstWerke, Berlín, Germany
2004 “E-flux video rental” E-flux, New York, USA
2004 “Sýn-Vision” Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2003 “1978-2003: Icelandic Contemporary Art for half a century” The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2003 “New times in Icelandic photography” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003 “Totally Motivated” Kunstverein Munchen, Germany
2003 “The Photographic gesture”Minnesota Center of Photography, Minneapolis, USA
2002 “Icelandic photography retrospective” Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2002 “Man and city” Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 “The Tiger and the Polarbear, “Creepy-evil-gay (the bebop kid) galleri Sævar Karl, Reykjavík, Iceland
2002 “Opening hours” Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 “Populated” IASPIS galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 “Die Macht der Gewohnheit” WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2001 "Blick", films, The Modern art museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 "Blick", films Nifca galleries, Helsinki Finland
2001 "Printemps de Septembré a Toulouse" film and photographs, Toulouse, France
2001 "Tiger and polarbear", installation, Slunkaríki, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2001 "Performances" performance, The Living art museum, Reykjavík
2001 "Bitch" photographs, The Yellow house, Reykjavík
2001 "Ready mades in the Yellow House" ready mades, The Yellow House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2001 "The future is now" part of the exhibition"Vision and reality" Louisiana museum of modern art, Denmark
2001 "The future is now" films, Nifca galleries, Helsinki, Finland
2000 "Open/Closed" photograph, galleri@hlemmur.is, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 "a5 guests" Performance with Ragnar Kjartansson, Bergrummet under Sophiakyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 "Le(s) Nord(s)" films, Batofar, Paris
2000 "a5 invitational" Stockholm, Reykjavík, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen,
2000 "MARS"Glassbox, installation, Paris, France
2000 "Emotions, influence...." paintings, the Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Stockholm Art Fair, presented by Galleri 1% from Denmark
1998 “Muu-media festival” films, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “Northern poles” film, MS-Stubnitz, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 “In the air” photographs, Kuvataideakatemia gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1998 “Northern wilderness” photographs, Oxford University Press gallery, England
1998 “Private parking” films, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
1996 “Documenta Gúlp” innstallation, The Living art museum, Iceland
Film projects (Writer/Director)
2005 Lost my head, super 16 mm, 7 min
2003 My Duvet, DV, 1 min for the Euroscreen project
1998 False teeth, 16mm, 3.45 min
1998 Jean 16mm, 4 min
1997 Sköna morgnar i Jönköpping, digital, 4 min
Film projects in development (Writer/Director)
Horrorpop-a feature film project
Selected Film festivals
2007 IETFF, Monte Carlo.Monaco
2006 Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Reykjavik shorts and docs, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Nordisk Panorama, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 Up and Coming filmfestival, Hannover, Germany
1999 Reykjavík short-film festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999 Palm Springs international film festival, USA
1998 Aix en Provence international short film festival, France,
1998 Blue sea film festival, Rauma, Finland
1998 Kill your Darlings, Stockholm, Sweden
Music and sound projects
2008 Angelina, soundpiece for piano, trombone and voice, performed in Við Djúpið music festival, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2007 Vodou, pan scandinavian sound project, exhibitions and a Vinyl record.
2004 Iceland Airwaves, Glói-concert
2003- Glói, electronic-music project with Ólafur Breiðfjörð
2004 “I want to be a DJ” project and a concert in KunstWerke in Berlin, Germany
2004 The composition “Chocolate” for piano and tape premiered at Salurinn Kópavogur, by Arne Jörgen Fæö
2004 The song “Gaypopstar” written in cooperation w. Ólafur Breiðfjörð , appears in the german film Jargo
2003- Cooperation with Ólafur Breiðfjörð , music making and performances in Klink &Bank, Iceland
2003 “I want to be a DJ” project for Kunstverein in Munich in cooperation with GIGOLO records.
2001 "It Sounds like art" Performance wih Melkorka Huldudóttir and the band Chiahuahua in the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm
Other projects
2004 “The theater of the Artists” Wrote/directed a play performed in Klink and Bank, Reykjavík
2003 “Euroscreen” a pan european video project
2002 “The Projects” A large scale installation concisting of 12 containers, male choir, dj, 3 film-projections, slides-show and a ghost-sculpture, made escpecially for the annual cultural night of the city of Reykjavik, sponsored by the shipping company SAMSKIP.
2001 Panel discussion on performance art with the coreographer Marten Spangberg and the artistCatti Brandelius in the Modern Art Museum in Stockholm
2001 Panel discussion on Film and Videon in art in the Modern Art Musum in Stockholm
2000 Reykjavík Cultural Capital, A theater installation called "I cought a vampire in Sweden"
2000 Curated a french art-film festival in the Yellow house, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000 Curating the filmprogram "Kvikar myndir" in The Living art museum in Iceland in cooperation with Böðvar Bjarki Pétursson, a program consisting of around 100 art and
short-films as well as computer games.
Grants
2008 Penninn, cultural grant
2008 Muggur, travel grant
2008 Kulturkontakt Nord, Mobility grant
2008 The Swedish-Icelandic fund
2008 Icelandic Filmcentre, Development grant
2008 Muggur, travel grant
2008 CIA.IS, Travel grant
2007 Icelandic Filmcentre, Development grant
2007 CIA.IS travel grant
2007 Travel grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2007 Myndstef-cultural grant
2007 Margret, cultural grant
2006 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2006 Muggur, travel grant
2006 CIA.IS travel grant
2006 Travel grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2005 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2005 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2005 Reykjavík City, Project grant
2004 Myndstef, Project Grant, Iceland
2004 Muggur, travel grant, Iceland
2004 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2004 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2003 Production grant for a short film from The Icelandic Film Fund
2003 Artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and education
2003 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2003 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2002 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2001 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2001 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2000 Scolarship from the Ministry of Education, Iceland
2000 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
2000 Ministry of Culture and education, travel grant
2000 Letterstedtska grant
1999 Sleipnir, travel grant from Nordic institute for contemporary art
1997-1998 CIMO scholarship
1997 The Nordic Cultural Fund, The Lucky thirteen project
ERASMUS stipendium
Residencies
2008 ISCP, (International Studio and Curatorial Program), New York, USA upcoming
2007 TRASCHI, Santiago, Chile
2007 Skaftfell, cultural center, residency program, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2006 El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005 Skaftfell, cultural center, residency program, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2005 Dalsasen, Studio and a grant, Norway
2004 Nordic Air, Studio and a grant from Nifca in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Villa Bergshyddan, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Skaftfell, cultural center, residency program, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2002 ACC,European studio program Weimar, Germany
2002 Sriðuklaustur, residency program, Iceland
2002 Straumur, residencie program, Iceland
2001 IASPIS, Studio and a grant from NIFCA in Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Kjarvalsstudio, a studio in Cite des Arts in Paris, France
Publications
2006 Article by Cristina Marchi in Art Presence, France
2003 Article by Ombretta Argo, in Tema Celeste no 98
2002 White colours, young art in Iceland,Mueckenschweinverlag, Germany
2002 Opening hours, Statens Museum for Kunst, Catalouge
2001 Photographs published in German and French Vouge
2001 Printemps de Septembre-Théatres du Fantastique, Actes Sud, Catalouge
2001 Photograps published in the finnish magazine Sti
2000 Wrote an article in the nordic art review NU in cooperation with Unnar Jónasson
Nominations
2006 DV Icelandic cultaral prize, filmmaking
2005 Eddan, Icelandic film and TV industry awards, Nominated for Best shortfilm of the year
Teaching
2008 Guest lecturer at ARCIS, Valparaíso, Chile
2003 Guest teacher at the Icelandic Art Academy, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 Guest teacher at The Royal Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Guest teacher at The Arts and industrial university, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
Represented in Collections
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Icelandic National Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Spain
Reykjavík Energy, Iceland
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
