Overview

Þór Vigfússon creates powerful objects with colour, texture, and reflection using prefabricated industrial materials. His deceptively simple works, primarily made of glass, plexiglass, mirrors, and Formica with monotone colour fields, push the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional works. Architecture and space play a vital role in their presentation. The works constantly change, eliciting intimate contemplation from the viewer. Vigfússon‘s geometric works are self-referential, singular, and ideal objects in the minimalist tradition, emphasizing the purification and simplification of the art form. They are both a reflection and a function of the inner rationalism of contemporary technological society.

 

Þór Vigfússon (b. 1954, Iceland) lives and works in Iceland. He studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavik and Strichting De Vrije Academie, The Hague in 1978. Vigfússon has had solo exhibitions at Kópavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur (2024); Quint Gallery, San Diego (2011); LA Art Museum, Hveragerdi (2003); Reykjavik Art Museum (2002) and at The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (1998). He was nominated for the Carnegie Art Award in 2008 (touring exhibition to Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Stockholm, London, Gothenburg and Carros, France).

 

Works
Exhibitions
Public Exhibitions
Biography

b. 1954 in Reykjavik

Lives and works in Reykjavík and Djúpivogur

 

EDUCATION

 

1977-78
Strichting De Vrije Academie, Den Haag, The Netherlands

 

1971-74
Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

1970-71
Reykjavík Art School, Iceland

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

Numers, places, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland 

 

2021

Skaftfell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

 

2017
Í litum, Gallery Gamma, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2016
Moð, The Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen City, China
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2011
Quint Gallery, San Diego, US

 

2010
i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Safnasafnid, Svalbardsströnd, Iceland

 

2005
i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2004
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2003
Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerdi, Iceland

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2020

Threads of Art, National Gallery of Iceland, Iceland

 

2017
Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland

 

2016
Rolling Snowball 7, Djúpivogur, Iceland

 

2015
Rolling Snowball 6, Djúpivogur, Iceland

 

2014
Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
Rolling Snowball 5, Djúpivogur, Iceland

 

2013
Hördur Ágústsson, Camilla Low, Sergio Sister and Thór Vigfússon, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2012
Fedgar/Mædgin, with Helgi Thórsson, Sláturhúsid, Egilsstadir, Iceland
Sýning á einlitum verkum / Exhibition of Monochromes, Artíma Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland (curated by Marteinn T. Tausen)

 

2011
Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

2008
Carnegie Art Award, Touring Exhibition: Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Reykjavík, Stockholm, London, Gothenburg and Carros/France
Icelandic Art, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

 

2006
Tærleikar, with Rúrí and Elina Brotherus, Gerdarsafn - Kopavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland

The Living Art Museum with Kees Visser and Ívar Valgardsson, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

2004
Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2002
Félagar, Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir, Iceland

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík
The National Gallery of Iceland
Reykjavík Art Museum
Kópavogur Art Museum - Gerdarsafn
Safnasafnid, Folk Art Museum, Svalbardsströnd
Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Sjóvá-Almennar, Reykjavík
Reykjavík Energy Headquarters
Kópavogur College
Borgarnes College
Flensborg College, Hafnarfjörður

Art Fairs