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Biography |
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1967 |
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Born in Iceland |
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1990 |
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BFA San Francisco Art Institute,San Francisco, California, USA |
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1995 |
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MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
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1999 |
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Nordic Committee on Art and Design: Residency at Nordic Artists´Centre Dale, Norway |
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2000 |
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The Icelandic Ministry of Culture: National Artist Endowment |
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2000 |
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The Icelandic Ministry of Culture: The Gudmunda Kristinsdóttir Memorial Award |
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2000 |
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The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art: Residency at the NIFCA studio, Riga, Latvia |
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2001 |
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Nordic Committee on Art and Design: Residency at Nordic Artists´Centre Dale, Norway |
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2002 |
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The Icelandic Ministry of Culture: National Artist Endowment |
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2002 |
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Carnegie Art Award - Finalist, |
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2003 |
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Art OMI International Artists Colony, Ghent, NY, USA. |
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2003 - 2004 |
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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Artists Residency Program, Woolworth Building |
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2005 |
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The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, USA |
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2005 |
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The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. New York, USA |
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Lives and works in New York |
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Exhibitions |
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2010 |
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The Suburban, Oak Park, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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2009 |
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Eleven Rivington, New York (solo) |
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2009 |
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Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York. cat. (solo) |
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2009 |
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Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium- traveling to MArta Museum, Herford, Germany |
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2009 |
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Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego |
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2009 |
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The Cabinet, Sala Murat, Bari |
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2009 |
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Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium |
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2009 |
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Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art , Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA |
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2008 |
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Megastructure Reloaded, designed by Dennis Crompton of Archigram. MODEM / Kunstlerhaus Betanien, Berlin, Germany |
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2008 |
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Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist in collaboration with Olafur Eliasson, Reykjavik Museum of Art |
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2008 |
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World Histories, Commonality and Contrast in 21st Century Art, De Moines Art Center, USA |
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2008 |
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Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo) |
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2008 |
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Coulisse, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil (solo) |
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2008 |
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Its not Your Fault, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York |
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2008 |
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Pleinairism, Galleri i8, Reykjavik |
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2008 |
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Poeticia de Natureza, MAC / Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil |
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2008 |
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Frederiksborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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2008 |
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The Armory Show, New York (Galleri i8) |
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2008 |
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Artissima, Torino, Italy (Galleria Maze) |
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2008 |
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NADA, Miami (Eleven Rivington) |
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2007 |
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Artissima, Torino, Italy (Galleria Maze) |
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2007 |
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Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium |
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2007 |
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Megastructure, EAP, Berlin, Germany |
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2007 |
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Acting in Utopia, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria |
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2007 |
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National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik , Iceland |
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2007 |
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Land Grab, Apex Art, New York |
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2007 |
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Artist Project, Cabinet Magazine, issue 24, Shadows |
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2007 |
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Alas, Nature, National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland |
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2007 |
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Double X-Rated, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York |
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2006 |
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PS1, New York, NY, USA (solo) |
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2006 |
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Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Bourgogne, Dijon, France (solo) |
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2006 |
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i8 gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo) |
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2006 |
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Soft Sites, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA |
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2005 |
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Sala Público Siqueiros, El Cubo, Mexico City, Mexico (solo) |
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2005 |
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Cristinerose / Jossée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA |
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2005 |
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Gallery i8, Reykjavik, Iceland |
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2005 |
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The Here and Now, The Renaissance Society, Chicago |
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2005 |
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Moving Centers, National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland |
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2005 |
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Odd Lots, White Columns, Queens Museum of Art & Cabinet Magazine, New York |
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2004 |
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D segni, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (cat.) |
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2004 |
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Reykjavik Museum of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland (cat.) |
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2003 |
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Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy (solo) |
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2001 |
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Gallerí Sævars Karls, Reykjavik |
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2000 |
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Veg(g)ir / Walls-Ways, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Museum of Art |
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1999 |
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Floating Garden, Jensbua Foundation, Flekkefjord, Norway |
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1998 |
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Fyrirmynd/Model, ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik, (cat.) |
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1996 |
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Vidbunadur / Safeguard, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik |
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