EDUCATION
Meisterschülerin, prof. Valie
Export, 1994
Hochschule der Künste Berlin, 1988-1994
MHÍ/ the Icelandic Collage of Arts and Crafts, 1984-1986
Sorbonne, Paris: Civilisation Française 1983 -1984
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
THE POLITICAL PARTY, Iceland,
2007
SHITLAND /
SCHEIßLAND, Karólína Akureyri, Iceland, 2006
THE KÁRAHNJÚKAR PROJECT, Kárahjnúkar, Iceland, 2003 - 2006
SPEAKERS CORNER,
Slunkaríki Ísafjörður, (as The Art Nurses) 2005
THE DANCE, Reykjavik Project Space, (as The Art Nurses)
2005
POSITIVE GROWTH – NEGATIVE GROWTH, ASI art museum,
2005
IN AND OUT THE WINDOW, ASí Art Museum, (as The Art Nurses)
2003
SOMETHING ELSE, Galleri Hlemmur, 2003
BAPTISMAL FEAST, Borgarbókasafn, 2003
SETTLEMENT, Galleri Slunkaríki, Ísafjordur, 2002
SCÉANCE, Galleri Leena Kuumola, Helsinki, 2000
SCÉANCE, Gallerí I8, 1997
SCÉANCE, Reykjavík city hall, 1996
SELECTET JOINT EXHIBITIONS
BYE BYE ICELAND, Akureyri Art
Museum, Akureyri 2008
NATIONAL ARTISTIC CULTURES AND
THE PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION, Warzawa, 2006
EUROPEAN IDENTITY – DOUPTS OR HOPE, Kaliningrad, 2006
RETHINKING NORDIC COLONIALISM, Reykjavik, 2006
SCHEIßLAND, IslandBilder, Cologne, Germany, 2005
NEW ICELANDIC ART, on reality, man and image, National
Gallery of Iceland, 2005
WOHNGLUCK/TRAUMHAUSMUSTER, Kunstfrühling Bremen, Germany,
2005
WOHNGLUCK, Rydöbruk, Sweden, 2005
POLIS, GALERIE SZTUKI WSPÓLCZESNEJ, Poland, 2004
BERLIN NORTH, Hambuger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2004
ETHICS OF ECOLOGY, Frombork, Polland, 2003
FERDAFUDA, Vestmann Islands, 2003
STORM, (Stavanger, Trammefors, Odense, Reykjavík, Malmö),
2002
CAMP, Hofn Hornafjordur, 2002
FERÐAFUDA, Akureyri and Seyðisfjörður, 2002
HYPERCRAZE, The Living Art Museum, 2002
NORDIC OBJECTS, nordic house, Reykjavik, 2001
FERDAFUDA, Slunkaríki, Ísafjördur, 2001
DIA/SLIDE/TRANSPARENCY,Kunstamt Kreuzberg, NGBK, Berlin,
2000
NORDEN, Kunsthalle Wien
THE SEVEN VIRTUES, Thingvellir, Iceland
7/6: Austria/Iceland, Eisernes Haus, Graz
Nordic
Light: The Netherlands
Media Art Institute, 1999
7/6: Austria/Iceland in The Living Art
Museum in Reykjavik, 1999
FIRMA ´99, 1999
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK (Berlin-Reykjavik), 1998
NUIT BLANCE, Museum of modern art, Paris (videoprogram),
1998
ALDRIN UNLOADS EXPERIMENTS, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin, 1997
GOLDRAUSH VII; Martin Gropiusbau, Berlin, 1996
GRANTS
guest artist at Dalsåsen,
Norway, 2006
artist grant from the salary fund for icelandic artists,
2005
artist grant from the salary fund for icelandic artists,
2004
artist grant from the salary fund for icelandic artists,
2000 - 2002
guest artist at Suomenlinna in Finland, 1999
artist grant from the City of Reykjavík, 1999
artist grant from the salary fund for icelandic artists,
1997
grant from the Svavar Gudnason - Ásta Eiríksdóttir
foundation, 1995
grant from the academy in Berlin (NaFÖG), 1994-1996
"Goldrausch" - project for female artist working in Berlin,
1995
OTHER OCUPATION
*has been giving lessons at
the Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík since 1997
and The Reykjavik School of visual Art.
*chairman of the board of the Living Art Museum in
Reykjavik (artist run gallery) 2000-2002
*organizes and leads tours in endengered areas in the
Icelandic highlands
*activ in environmental activism since 1997
*mountaineering in Icelandic highland with foreign hikers
since 1992
*one of the
founder of Framtíðarlandið [Land of the Future] an organization dedicated to encourage
creativity in society.