SIGURÐUR GUÐMUNDSSON

b. 1942 in Reykjavik

Lives and works in Xiamen, Amsterdam and Reykjavik

EDUCATION

1963-1964         

Academie ’63, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1960-1963         

Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Journey of Being, hunt kastner, Prague, Czech Republic

2019

Sculptural Poems, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden

Skúlptúr of nánd / Intimacy and Sculpture, The Reykjavik Art Museum - Ásmundarsafn, Reykjavik, Iceland

Eight Poems, CEAC / Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China

2017
Sigurður Guðmundsson, Arion Banki (Headquarters), Reykjavík, Iceland

2016

4 Parts Divided, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

2015

Untitled Meanings, Levant Art Gallery, Shanghai, China

2013

Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2012    

Petite Retro, Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, France

Situations, Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder, Denmark

Untitled Music, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen City, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

hvað var - hvað er  - hvað verður? ARS LONGA, Djúpivogur, Iceland 

2022

Staged Moments, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik

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

2019

Nordic Impressions - Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden,  ASF + Scandinavia House, New York, USA

Eccentric Abstraction, Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mind the Gap, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany

2018

Pressure of the Deep, Nýlistasafnið - The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

From Iceland/Frá Íslandi, KEG-Expo gallery, Schijndel, Netherlands

2017
The Transported Man, Eli and Adythe Broad Art Museum at MSU, Michigan, USA
Rolling Snowball / 9, Djúpivogur, Iceland

2016

Behold the Man – 100 years, 100 faces, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Holland

TEXT, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Lightpaint, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

I Prefer Life (From the Reydan Weiss Collection), Weserburg Museum für modern Kunst, Bremen, Germany

2015

My first summer in the Sierra – Works from the Centre national des arts plastiques, Frac île-de-france - Château de Rentilly, Paris, France

2014

Pushing Reality, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Absurde, vous avez dit absurde?, Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France

Your Compound View, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Rolling Snowball 5, Chinese European Art Center, Djúpivogur, Iceland

SAGA (Island – Kunst and Narration), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany

Næturvarp/Video Knight, Slíjm, Reykjavik, Iceland

2013     

En Thulé froiduleuse, aspects de la scène artistique islandaise contemporaine at the Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Moving, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen City, China

2012    

Hangman´s Rock – The Delirium of Vision, Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland

The Imminence of Poetics, Thirtieth Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil

Nautn og notagildi, Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerdi, Iceland

Fragments of Unspoken Thoughts, Galerija Jakopič, Lubljana, Slovenia

Ends of the Earth – Land Art to 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Ends of the Earth – Land Art to 1974, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Rolling Snowball 3, Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou, China

Minning um Myndlist, ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

AWARDS

1989                  

Hendrik-Steffens Prize, Stiftung F.V.S. zu Hamburg, Germany

1987-1988        

DAAD grant, Berlin

1978-1986        

Teacher at the Academie voor Kunst en Industrie, Enschede, The Netherlands

1985                 

Prince Eugen medal, Sweden

1978    

Co-Founder of The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

1972    

Co-Founder of In-Out Center, Amsterdam

1970-1971        

Ateliers '63, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1969    

Co-Founder of Gallerí Súm, Reykjavik