RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON (b. 1976 in Reykjavik) studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and The Royal Academy, Stockholm. Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theatre, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting. Pretending and staging become key tools in the artist’s attempt to convey sincere emotion and offer a genuine experience to the audience.
Kjartansson’s work has been exhibited widely. Recent solo exhibitions and performances have been held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Reykjavik Art Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the New Museum, In 2009, Kjartansson represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale, and in 2013 his work was featured at the Biennale’s main exhibition, The Encyclopedic Palace.
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Figures in Landscape 31 Jan - 16 Mar 2019 i8 GalleryFigures in white lab coats roam a man-made landscape, pause, and kill time. They come to us as representatives of logic, science, and human progress. We have seen such images...Read more -
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Song 15 Dec 2011 - 21 Jan 2012 i8 Galleryi8 Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Ragnar Kjartansson, exploring the most basic concepts of every true romantic, youth, love and death. The video installation,...Read more -
Winter Show
Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Ólafur Elíasson, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Lawrence Weiner and more 13 Dec 2008 - 10 Jan 2009 i8 GalleryNew works by Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Kelly Jazvac, Ólafur Elíasson, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ívar Valgarðsson, Guðrún Einarsdóttir, A.K Dolven, Kristján Guðmundsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar...Read more -
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Guilt Trip 13 Mar - 21 Apr 2007 i8 GalleryThe Paradox of Ragnar Kjartansson “… haunting isn’t it? I love the theme of shame and remorse. It is life’s secret invisible thread. Like our good old Mr. Ingmar Bergman...Read more
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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room
St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, England 25 Jun - 3 Jul 2022Ikon presents The Sky in a Room , a major off-site project with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, organised in collaboration with Artes Mundi (Cardiff). The...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen
Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria 17 Mar - 3 May 2022An overly romantic, theatrical, dramatic, minimalist, musical spectacle – in search of a past dead world to find something new. Just as the title suggests,...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Emotional Landscapes
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 22 Feb - 26 Jun 2022'Emotional Landscapes,' an exhibition of Ragnar Kjartansson's works that explores the artist's fascination with America and the North American landscape, opens today at the Museo...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Santa Barbara and To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!
GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow 4 Dec 2021 - 24 Feb 2022Two major installations by Ragnar Kjartansson will open on December 4, 2021 at the GES-2 House of Culture, the V-A-C Foundation’s new permanent site in...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA 2 - 5 Jul 2021From July 2 to 5, Ragnar Kjartansson: Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. It is the...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Sumarnótt
National Gallery of Iceland 7 May - 29 Sep 2021During the bright summer months, the National Gallery of Iceland shows the video installation Death Is Elsewhere by Ragnar Kjartansson – filmed one Icelandic summer...Read more -
ETERNAL RECURRENCE
Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik Art Museum 27 Mar - 19 Sep 2021In this extensive exhibition, the works of Jóhannes S. Kjarval (1885-1972) create a thread which connects different periods in time. His art is displayed along...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy 22 Sep - 25 Oct 2020Fondazione Nicola Trussardi presentsThe Sky in a Room by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík, 1976). The project, staged for the church of San Carlo...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Scheize - Liebe - Sehnsucht
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 20 Jul - 20 Oct 2019With Scheize – Liebe – Sehnsucht, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is showing Ragnar Kjartansson's most extensive show to date in Germany. It brings together all the...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere
The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, USA 30 May - 2 Sep 2019As part of a new series of contemporary installations, The Met presents the world premiere of a major new work: Death Is Elsewhere (2019), a...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson and The National: A lot of Sorrow
Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China 25 Mar - 27 Jul 2018Faurschou Foundation Beijing has the pleasure of presenting A Lot of Sorrow— a video performance by the Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National. The...Read more -
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Barbican, London, UK 14 Jul - 4 Sep 2017This is the first ever UK survey of the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, charting his wide-ranging practice across film and...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: God I feel so Bad
Hafnarhús - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland 3 Jun - 24 Sep 2017After a successful series of international appearances in recent years, including major survey exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, Ragnar Kjartansson opens his first...Read more -
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Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA 14 Oct 2016 - 7 Jan 2017Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most celebrated performance artists anywhere,” Ragnar Kjartansson (Reykjavík, Iceland; b. 1976) came to the Hirshhorn...Read more -
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Copenhagen Contemporary 25 Aug 2016 - 5 Feb 2017As part of its inaugural programme at Papirøen, Copenhagen Contemporary showed two large video installations by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. He has become known...Read more -
Ragnar Kjartansson: The end
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 30 Jan - 18 May 2010A self-described radical post-romantic, the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson traveled westbound towards the Rocky Mountains in search of the epic. Working primarily as a performance...Read more
b. 1976 in Reykjavik
Lives and works in Reykjavik
EDUCATION
1997–2001
Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000
The Royal Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, exchange student
1996–1997
Hússtjórnarskólinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2022
Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen, Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria
Emotional Landscapes, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
The Sky in a Room, St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, England (forthcoming)
Theater Spektakel 2022, Saffa Island, Zürich, Switzerland (forthcoming)
2021
Ragnar Kjartansson: Santa Barbara, GES-2 House of Culture, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Ragnar Kjartansson: Sumarnótt, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Ragnar Kjartansson: Sumarnótt, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Boston, MA
2020
Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, MA
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in the Room, Church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto, Milan, Italy
2019
Focus On: Ragnar Kjartansson, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
The Visitors, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Ragnar Kjartansson. The Man, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Cordoba, Spain
Scheize – Liebe – Sehnsucht, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Ragnar Kjartansson: A Lot of Sorrow, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, MFA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson: Death Is Elsewhere, The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Figures in Landscape, i8 Gallery, Iceland
2018
Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, Women’s Building, San Francisco, California, USA
Krieg (War), National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ragnar Kjartansson: A Lot of Sorrow, Faurschou Foundation Beijing, Beijing, China
S.S. Hangover, The Contemporary, Austin, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Sky in a Room, National Museum Cardiff, Wales
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2017
Ragnar Kjartansson: God I feel so bad, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Raw Salon: Ein Rohspiel, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
No Tomorrow (with Margrét Bjarnadóttir) performed by the Icelandic Dance Company, London, UK and Reykjavik, Iceland
2016–2017
Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican, London, UK;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
2016
The Visitors, The Frist Center, Nashville, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson, Copenhagen Contemporary, Kaupmannahöfn, Denmark
The Visitors, Le Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France
A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and the National, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Architecture and Morality, cca, Tel Aviv, Israel
Krieg (War), Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany
The Visitors,University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Woman in E, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2015–2016
Seul celui qui connaît le désir, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2015
The Visitors, The Vinyl Factory, London, UK
A Lot of Sorrow, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
The End, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The Fall, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National,König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Song, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Me and My Mother, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
The End, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, Australia
The Visitors, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Visitors, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Visitors and The Man, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
2014–2015
Black Box: Ragnar Kjartansson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
2014
The End – Rocky Mountains, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
The Palace of the Summerland, Ragnar Kjartansson and Friends, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA
Bjarni Bummer Listens to Take it Easy by the Eagles, Skúrinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
Me, My Mother, My Father and I, New Museum, New York, USA
The Visitors, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Der Klang der Offenbarung des Göttlichen, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany
The Visitors, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2013–2014
The Visitors, Kling & Bang Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Visitors, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2013
Ragnar Kjartansson, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA
A Lot of Sorrow, Ragnar Kjartansson and The National, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
The Visitors, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
The End, Szene Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
The Visitors, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Scandinavian Pain: Ragnar Kjartansson, Edvard Munch, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
2012
The End, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Visitors, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
2011–2012
Song, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2011
Endless Longing, Eternal Return, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Bliss, Performa 11, New York, USA
The Man, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, USA
Ragnar Kjartansson, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage, bawag p.s.k. Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2010
The End, Hafnarborg—Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Me and My Mother, ex3 Contemporary Art Center, Florence, Italy
Studio: The Night—Eroticism, Folköl, Melancholia, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ragnar Kjartansson, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
The End, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2009
The End, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
H2H, Athens, Greece
Call/Response: The Gund Gallery Turns 10, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!, GES-2 House of Culture, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Eternal Recurrence, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Pleasure Pavilion: A Series of Installations, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY Plus One, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
2020
The Blue Peal of Bells, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand, MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Come Closer, Biennale Ve veci umeni / Matter of Art 2020 (VVUMOA), Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Photography’s Last Century: The Collection of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Unique, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Up to and Including Limits: After Carolee Schneemann, Muzeum Susch, Susch, Switzerland
2019
Happy !, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
MOMENTUM 10 - The Emotional Exhibition, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
Nordic Impressions - Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden, ASF + Scandinavia House, New York, USA
2018-2019
Allting föreställer. Ingenting är., Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Nordic Impressions: Art from Åland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland
Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821-2017, Phillips Collection,
Washington, D.C
2018
Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Viena, Austria
Nordic Views, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh, USA
2017-2018
Commissions from Performa’s Archives, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
La mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2017
Soundtracks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Voice, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Opnun, Kling og Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
Nordic Matters, Southbank Centre, London, U.K
2016
Dicker als Wasser. Konzepte des Familiären in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstpalais & Stadtische Sammlung Erlangen, Erlangen
Reading Prison, Art Angel, Reading, U.K
Life Serial, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery – Columbia University, New York, USA
I See a Darkness, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Auf den Schultern von Giganten, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Moving Image Department – 4th Chapter: The Rhetoric Of Time, Revisited, National Gallery Prague, Veletržní Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
Collection on Display: Momentary Monuments, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Lines of Flight: Life Serial, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Spring Performance Festival, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015–2017
Sound in Motion, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2015–2016
The Bauhaus #itsalldesign, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany; Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Inaugural installation, The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA
Saga. Iceland: Art and Narrative, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2015
Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park, Creative Time and Central Park Conservancy, Central Park, New York, USA
Falling Fictions, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Fireflies in the Night, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Australia
MusicNOW Festival, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Listening, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK; The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK; Site Gallery, Sheffield, uk; Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
Piano Pieces – Pianos. Sounds. Art., Neue Residenz, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Sounds from a Safe Harbour Festival of Music, Art and Conversation, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Home Manchester, Manchester, UK
Saga: Narrative Art, Listasafn Islands, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Überschönheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Und weg mit den Minuten. Dieter Roth und die Musik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
A man walks into a bar… ., me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014–2015
Artes Mundi 6, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, uk
2014
High Performance: Time-Based Media Art since 1996 from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Rīgas Mākslas Telpa, Riga, Latvia
Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York, USA
Manifesta 10, Vitebsk Station, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rolling Snowball 5, Chinese European Art Center, Djúpivogur, Iceland
Score, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Your Compound View, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Island: Wenn Bilder erzählen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
All Together Now, Nuit Blanche, Hart House, Toronto, Canada
Stanze/Rooms, Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Truly Flabby Preludes (For a Dog) 1/4: Pink Noise, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
2013
Göteborg Biennial, with Andjeas Ejiksson, Stora Teatren, Gothenburg, Sweden
Towada Art Festival at Towada Art Centre, Japan
Civilization: Monumental Materialism. Artists colony, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Deep Feelings: From Antiquity to Now, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, Venice Biennale, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
A Space called Public, part of Elmgreen & Dragset’s project of public artworks, Munich, Germany
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico(The Encyclopaedic Palace) 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Trekk: Contemporary Currents in Icelandic Art Today, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Forde, Norway
1.pers.sing.: The artist’s body between self-portrait and performance, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Association e.V, Montabaur, Germany
Sequences VI Real Time Art Festival, Reykjavík
2012
I Wish this was a Song: Music in Contemporary Art, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Songs of space, time and lust, Ephemeropterae˜ XIV / XV+, tba21, Vienna, Austria
Á Ciel Ouvert - Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada
True Stories, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bliss, The National Theatre of Iceland as part of The Reykjavík Art Festival, Iceland
A House Full of Music: Strategies in Music and Art, Institute Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
It’s Not the End of the World, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2011
A Strange Affinity to the Beautiful and the Dreadful, Hendershot Gallery, New York, USA
Meer Light, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Prospect.2, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA
The Garden of Forking Paths, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
iRonic, Die feinsinnige Ironie der Kunst, Kunstparlais Erlangen, Germany
Figura cuncta videntis (the all-seeing eye) / Homage to Christoph Schlingensief, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2010
Scene Shifts, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA
Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Nordens U-land?, Isländsk konst i kristid, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Performa 09, with Alterazioni Video, Performance Space 122, New York, USA
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, USA
Lífródur, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
PUBLIC ARTWORKS
This Must Be the Place, permanent installation, Bergen Airport, Bergen, Norway
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Center for Curatorial Studies – Hessel Museum
of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
El Mirador Project, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, AZ
Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,Turin, Italy
Glenstone, Potomac, MD
Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA
Haudenschild Collection, La Jolla, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
D.cC, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami,
Florida, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Broad, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
University of Copenhagen Maersk Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
AWARDS
2016
Reykjavik City Artist, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
Richard Serra Award, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award,
St Petersburg, Russia
The Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award, Artes Mundi, Cardiff, Wales, for The Visitors
2012
Icelandic Visual Art Awards, Akureyri Art Museum,
Akureyri, Iceland
2011
Malcolm McLaren Award at Performa 11, New York,
USA, for Bliss
2006
Hlustendaverðlaun fm957, Reykjavík, Iceland
MUSIC
Ongoing
All Star Band, Bel-Air Glamour Records
2005
Trabant – Emotional, Southern Fried Records
2003
The Funerals – Lordy, 12 tónar
2002
Trabant – Eva 3, music for a ballet, Ekka Dance Theater
2001
Trabant – Moment of Truth, Thule Musik, tmt
The Funerals – Pathetic Me, Thule Musik, tmt
2000
Kanada – Kanada, Thule Musik, tmt
1996
Music for ‘Sirkús Skara Skrípó’, Loftkastalinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
1996–2008
Rassi Prump
1995
Kósý, Kósý Jól, Kisi-hljómplötur