Overview

As is consistent throughout her practice, Arna Óttarsdóttir uses her own notebooks, which are filled with thoughts and drawings, as source material for her works. By incorporating sketches and less formal visual elements into her weavings, Óttarsdóttir infuses her work with a personal energy. The patterns, textures, and colours vary within individual works, allowing the artist to investigate the aesthetic intricacies weaving allows.  

 

Arna Óttarsdóttir (b. 1986, Iceland) lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Reykjavík Art Museum; Living Art Museum; Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art; Kópavogur Art Museum. Óttarsdóttir's weavings have also been shown internationally at venues including Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Åplus, Berlin; and Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm.

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Biography

b. 1986 in Reykjavik

Lives and works in Reykjavik

 

EDUCATION

2006-2009 - BA from the Iceland University of the Arts 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

More or Less, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 

 

2022

soon, again, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

2019

Allt fínt / Everything is great, Nýlistasafnið - The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

A Soft PowerÅplus, Berlin, Germany

 

2015

i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2014

Heimasæta / Sweet Life, Harbinger, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2013

Gangi þér vel, Kunstschlager, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2012

Veflausnir, Artíma gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland (with Loji Höskuldsson)

 

2009

Velkomin í Crymoville!, Gallerí Crymo, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2008

Leynifélagið, eða: "stelpur komast upp með allt", Gallerí Sykur, Kópavogur

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

2024

Time and Time Again, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

At Hand, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland 

 

2023

Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2021

Iðavöllur: Art in the 21st Century, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Góðir Gestir - group show with Icelandic artistsCecilia Hillström Gallery, Sweden

 

 

2019

Late Summer Show, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ariadne UnravelingAsya Geisberg Gallery, New York, USA

 

2018

High & Low - Icelandic Contemporary Art, at Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2017

Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK

Normality is the New Avant-Garde, Gerðarsafn/ Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland

 

2016

Rolling Snowball 7, Djúpivogur, Iceland

 

2015

Kyrralíf, Gallery Kunstschlager, Reykjavík Art Museum - Hafnarhús, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2014

Mucho Grandi, Hólmaslóð, Reykjavík, Iceland. Collaboration between Festisvall, Regla hins öfuga pýramída, Skiltamálun Reykjavík, Iceland and Járnbraut

S7 - Suðurgata >> Árbær (ekki á leið), Árbæjarsafn, Reykjavík, Iceland. Organized by The Living Art Museum and Reykjavik City Museum, Iceland, part of Reykjavík, Iceland Arts Festival 2014

 

2013

Festisvall, King Size, Leipzig, Germany

Taverna, Hemliga Trädgården, Stockholm, Sweden

Love, The Willows, New York, USA

 

2012

Funtitled, Sound of Mu, Oslo, Norway

Ekki eru allir firðir eins, Gallerí Klósett, Reykjavík, Iceland

Rými málverksins, Listasafnið á Akureyri, Akureryri, Iceland

 

2011

Heyr á Endemi (group exhibition parallel to the publication of the art magazine Endemi), Kling og Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2010

G+A+M+A, Gallerí Crymo, Reykjavík, Iceland

Savage Island, Galleri 69, Oslo, Norway

Supermarket Art Fair 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweeden

 

2009

Inbox/Outpost (artist residency/group exhibition), The herring factory in Djúpavík, Iceland and Galerie Sign, Groningen, Netherlands

 

COLLECTIONS

Hafnarborg, Center for Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður

Kópavogur Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur

The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík

Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik

Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger

Bibliography

2014

S7 – Suðurgata >> Árbær (ekki á leið). Published in connection to an exhibition with the same title. Editors: Bergsveinn Þórsson, Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, Heiðar Kári Rannversson and Unnar Örn Jónasson Auðarson, Reykjavík, Iceland (catalogue)

 

2013

Salon Bimba. Gamli sfinxinn. Reykjavík, Iceland (bookwork)

 

2011

Treystið okkur! Við erum myndlistarmenn. Editors: Arna Óttarsdóttir, Kolbrún Ýr Einarsdóttir, Kristín Rúnarsdóttir and Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir. Crymogea. Reykjavík (book)

 

2011

After 8 with The Reykjavík, Iceland Pencil Heads, NSEW Press (bookwork)

“New Work/New York”. Endemi 1st issue. Reykjavík (article)

 

2008

RiT 3rd issue. Reykjavík, Iceland (article)

Art Fairs