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b. 1956 in Reykjavik

Lives and works in Reykjavik

 

EDUCATION AND MORE

 

2019
Co-curator of Really-Sequences IX festival, Reykjavík, with Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir

 

2000-2007 

Professor at Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

1992-1997        

Co-founder and co-director of “Second Floor” exhibition space, Reykjavik, Iceland (with Pétur Arason)

 

1983-1993        

Director of Mixed Media Department of the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts

 

1979-1981        

Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

1976-1979        

Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland

Co-founder and co-director of Gallerí Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

1974-1978        

Reykjavík School of Art, Iceland

  

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2019

Ferocious Glitter (3), Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space, Ísafjarðarbær, Iceland

 

2018

Jarðhæð / Ground LevelReykjavik Art Museum - Hafnarhús, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2014

Skúrinn, Reykjavik, Iceland

Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland

Stöpullinn, ASÍ Art Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

Ingólfur Arnarsson and Sachiko M, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2013       

Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland

 

2012       

1.h.v., Reykjavik, Iceland

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2022

Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik 

Are you glad if you can ask something?, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland

 

2021

Góðir Gestir - group show with Icelandic artists, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Sweden

 

2020

Structure and order: Draft of Contemporary Art History in Iceland (IV), Reykjavik Art museum. Iceland

 

2019 

NasasjónTbilisi History Museum and Contemporary Art Space Batumi, Georgia

 

2017
Nasasjón, Städtische Galerie Speyer, Speyer, Germany

Drawings, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany

OPNUN, Kling and Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2016

Eggert Pétursson & Ingólfur Arnarsson, Gallerí Gestur, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2015

Thurídur Rós Sigurthórsdóttir / Ingólfur Arnarsson, Skaftfell, Seydisfjördur, Iceland

 

2014

Andreas Karl Schulze / Ingólfur Arnarsson, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany

Nasasýn, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland

Your Compound View, Listasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2011        

Faster and Slower Lines – From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Reykjavik, Iceland

Nasasynir, Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2010       

Iceland Hits Donube, Kunsthalle Krems, Donau festival, Austria

Straumur Burdarás, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland

 

COLLECTIONS


National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

University of Iceland Art Collection

Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
Art Museum of Isafjordur, Iceland

Museum Moderner Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven, Germany

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Michigan, USA

Safn, Reykjavík, Iceland