Born 1943 in Dalir, Iceland.
Lives and works in Amsterdam from 1971.
| ART STUDIES |
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| 1958-60 | The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm |
| Gallery Meessendeclercq, Brussel |
| 2008 | Malmö Konsthall, Sweden |
| Bergen Konsthall, Norway |
| 2007 | Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik |
| Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 2006 | Sudsudvestur, Keflavik, Iceland |
| 2006 | Claudin Papillon Galerie, Paris |
| 2005 | Reykjavik Arts Festival, Gallery Slunkaríki, Ísafjordur, Iceland |
| 2004 | Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin |
| 2003 | Safn Collection, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Gallery i8, Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 2002 | Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris |
| Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d´art contemporain, Bignan, France (cat.) |
| Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto |
| 2001 | E 541 Art House, Iceland |
| Ljósaklif, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland |
| 2000 | Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris |
| Hämeenlinnan Art Museum (cat.) |
| Ars Fennica, Waďnö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland |
| 1999 | Gallery Alexandra Von Scholz, Berlin |
| Gallery i8, Reykjavik |
| Gallery Anhava, Helsinski (cat.) |
| Edition Camomille, Bruxelles |
| 1998 | Collection, Another Place, Amsterdam |
| Gallery Fiskurinn, Reykjavik |
| Gallery 20m2, Reykjavik |
| 1997 | Gallery Corridor, Reykjavik |
| Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| 1996 | Galerie Nordenhake, Stockolm |
| Gallery Sólon Islandus, Reykjavik |
| Gallery Alexandra von Scholz, Berlin |
| 1995 | Gallery Riis, Oslo |
| Gallery i8, Reykjavik |
| Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm |
| 1994 | Ultima Thule, Amserdam (cat.) |
| The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| Gallery Riis, Oslo |
| Gallery Anhava, Helsinki |
| Galerie Camille von Scholz, Bruxelles |
| Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| 1993 | National Gallery, Reykjavik (cat.) |
| Venice Biennale, Icelandic Pavillon (cat.) |
| 1992 | ICA, Amsterdam, Rhythms in Space |
| Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm |
| 1991 | Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1990 | Reykjavik Arts Festival, Gallery II, Reykjavik (cat.) |
| Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| 1989 | Gallery Slunkaríki, Isafjördur, Iceland |
| Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm |
| 1988 | Kunstnerens Hus, Oslo (cat.) |
| | Nordic Arts Center, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (cat.) |
| 1987 | Le Magasin/Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (cat.) |
| Gallery Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam |
| Forum, Galerie Bama, Zürich (cat.) |
| 1986 | Galerie Bama, Paris |
| 1985 | Gallery Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam |
| 1984 | Galerie Bama, Paris |
| 1979 | Galerie Bama, Paris |
| Gallery Helen Van der Meij, Amsterdam |
| 1977 | Seriaal, Amsterdam |
| Gallery Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik |
| 1976 | Galerie Elsa Von Honolulu, Gent |
| Galerie Gaëtan, Geneve |
| 1974 | Gallery SÚM, Reykjavik |
| 1973 | In-Out Center, Amsterdam |
| Gallery Fignal, Amsterdam |
| 1972 | In-Out Center, Amsterdam |
| 1971 | Gallery Balderich, Mönchengladbach |
| Gallery Fignal, Haarlem |
| Gallery 845, Amsterdam |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2008 | "Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere", Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| 2007 | "Ad mynda ord", Hoffmannsgallery, Reykjavik |
| "Drawing A Tiger", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin |
| "O-Nattura Alas Nature", National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik |
| 2006 | "Northern Images", Hoffmannsgallery, Reykjavik |
| EMMA (opening exhibition), Espoo, Finland (cat.) |
| "Chers Amis", Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France |
| "Wintery Cold", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 2005 | "Polyfoni", Suomenlinna, Helsinki |
| "Tivoli", Hveragerdi, Iceland (cat.) |
| "Horizontal Memories (Water Event)", Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (cat.) |
| 2004 | "Do it", e flux (cat.) |
| "Out of Place", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin |
| "Ars Fennica", Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku, Finland |
| "Ars Fennica", Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg |
| "Where do we go from here", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York |
| "Handlungsanweisung", Kunsthalle Wien (cat.) |
| "Les mémes et méme quelques autres", Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| "Éblouissement", Jeu de Paume, Paris (cat.) |
| 2001 | "Somewhere of the rainbow", FRAC Haute Normandie, France |
| 2000 | "Azerty, un avécédaire autour des collections du FRAC Limousin", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| Museum of Earth, Varsaw |
| "64°N - 20° V", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm |
| "In the Mirror of Space & Time", Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik (cat.) |
| "Árátta", Listasafn Kópavogs, Iceland (cat.) |
| "Interplay", Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo (cat.) |
| "Amateur / Eldsjäl", Goteburg Art Museum, Goteborg (cat.) |
| "Norden", Kunsthalle, Vienna (cat.) |
| Carnegie Art Award 2000, Helsinki, Oslo, Goteborg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reykjavik |
| 1999 | "Natures Mortes", Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris |
| Museum of Foreign Art, Riga |
| "Dularfulli gardurinn", Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik |
| "00", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1998 | "Look me in the eyes", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| "Losse werken, rake klappen", Gallery van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1997 | "Tekeningen", Gallery Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam |
| "De Verbouwing, de Verhuizing & de Verandering", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1996 | "Maisons-Cerveaux", La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France |
| "Dix ans de Création ŕ Marseille", CIRVA, Musée de la Charité, Marseille |
| "Landscape", Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik (cat.) |
| 1995 | "Pas pour la galerie", Galerie Camille Von Scholz, Bruxelles |
| "Tekeningen & tekeningen", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| "Collection", FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France |
| "Maisons-Cerveaux", FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France (cat.) |
| 1994 | "Wanĺs 94", Wanĺs, Sweden (cat.) |
| 1993 | "Reconsidered images", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| "Edities & unica", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1992 | "Artscape Nordland", Hattfjelldal, Norway |
| "Il paesaggio Culturale", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome |
| "Ijsland - Island", Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, Holland |
| Gallery Van der Berge, Goes, Holland |
| 1991 | "Ruhrfestspiele", Recklinghausen, Germany |
| "They see the light", Gallery van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| "Kunst Europa 1991 - Island", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln (cat.) |
| "Six logos around the carpet", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| 1990 | Nordic Art Center, Helsinki |
| "The Nordic '60s, Upheaval and Confrontation", National Gallery, Reykjavik; |
| "The End of the Century", The Museum for Crafts, Moscow |
| "Achilles de kwetsbare plek", Kasteel Groenevald, Baarn, Holland (cat.) |
| "New nordic Art", The Central House of Artists, Moscow (cat.) |
| "Ruhrfestspiele, European Workshop", Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany (cat.) |
| "Utopies", Grand Palais, Paris (cat.) |
| 1989 | "Many Pearls for a Line", Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam |
| "Utopies 89 – L'Europe des Créateurs", Grand Palais, Paris (cat.) |
| Gallery Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam |
| "Borealis 4", Nordic Art Center, Helsinki; Louisiana, Humlebaek, Danmark (cat.) |
| "SÚM, 1965-1972", Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris |
| 1988 | "Nýlistasafnid 10 ára", The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| "Aldarspegill", National Gallery, Reykjavik |
| 1986 | "Nordanad", Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (cat.) |
| "Nordanad", Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris ; |
| 1984 | "10 gestir á Listahátíd", Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| 1983 | "ARS ’83", Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (cat.) |
| 1982 | The Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.) |
| "Sleeping Beauty - Art Now, Scandinavia Today", Guggenheim Museum, NewYork ; |
| "Einkaheimar – Personal Worlds", The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik |
| 1981 | "Aspects de l'art déaujourd'hui 1970-80", Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genčve |
| 1978 | "Personal Worlds – Reality as Metaphor", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.) |
| "Elva moderna isländska konstnärer", Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (cat.) |
| 1977 | "Ça va ?, Ça va ?", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.) |
| 1975 | Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Holland |
| Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (cat.) |
| 1974 | "Driemans-tentoonstelling", Gallerie t'Hoogt, Utrecht |
| "H20", St. Nicolaj Kirke, Copenhagen (cat.) |
| Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (cat.) |
| 1973 | 8e Biennale de Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.) |
| 1972 | "Communications", Gallery Inhibodress, Sydney |
| SÚM á Listahátid í Reykjavik 1972, Gallery SÚM (cat.) |
| 1971 | SÚM IV, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (cat.) |
| 1969 | SÚM III, Gallery SUM, Reykjavik (cat.) |
| 1967 | UM '67, Laugardalshöll, Reykjavik |
| 1966 | "Den Nordiske Ungdomsbiennale for Bildende Kunst", Louisiana, Humlebaek, Danmark |
| 1965 | SÚM I, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik |
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| PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS |
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| 2007 | Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Sculpture Park, France |
| 2006 | Isafjordur Collage, Iceland |
| 2004 | Reykjavik Energy, Iceland |
| 1993 | Artscape Nordland, Hattfjelldal, Norway |
| 1982 | Amsterdam City Hall |
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| PUBLIC MUSEUMS |
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| FNAC (Fonds national d´art contemporain), Puteaux, France |
| FRAC (Fonds régional d´art contemporain), Bourgogne, Dijon, France |
| FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France |
| FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France |
| Liectensteinische Staatliche Kunstsamlung, Vaduz |
| ASI Art Museum, Reykjavík |
| Reykjavik Art Museum |
| The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík |
| Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
| Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö |
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki |
| National Gallery, Reykjavík |
| Netherlands Government Collections, The Hague |
| Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), Amsterdam |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |