Artist News Update NOTCH Art Festival 2011 Gudrun Kristjansdottir’s mural, The Wall, which incorporates volcanic ash from her native Iceland, is currently on view in Beijing, China! Notch is an annual art festival bringing together Nordic and Chinese artists for creative exchange and interaction.
Gudrun Kristjansdottir’s personal view of nature stems from her fascination and preoccupation with the constant shifts and changes in the Icelandic landscape wrought by its highly variable weather system. In her installations, she meticulously records these mutations—unique but impermanent patterns, prosaic imprints created by winds, drifting snow, fog and rain—in different media, thereby transforming the exhibition space and highlighting the complex relationship between art and nature, perception and reality. Education 1977-1979 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Aix-en-Provence, France 1974-1979 The Reykjavík School of Art Grants 2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2002, 01, 00, 96, 91, 87 Icelandic State Fund for Artists 1998 The City of Reykjavik Selected Solo Exhibitions 2009 Hafnarborg Institute of Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland 2008 Gallery Agust, Reykjavik, Iceland 2007 ASI Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Hafnarborg Institute of Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland 2005 Skalholt Cathedral, Iceland Dandruff Space, Williamsburg, NY 2005, 1998 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Video instalation, The Nordic Houses, Berlin, Germany 2003 Skaftfell, (May and August), Seydisfjordur, Iceland 2000 Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland 1999 Galleri Island, Oslo, Norway 1998 Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA 1996 Sjónarhóll / Gerðuberg, Reykjavík, Iceland 1995 Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland 1994 Gallerí Sólon Íslandus, Reykjavík, Iceland 1993 Gallery De L'Awei, Drachten, Holland 1992 The Nordic house / FÍM Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland 1991 Gallery Orpheus, Eskilstuna, Sweden 1990 Gallery Persons & Lindell, Helsinki 1989 SCAG, Copenhagen, Denmark 1988 Gallerí Nýhöfn, Reykjavík, Iceland 1987 Slunkaríki, Ísafjörður, Iceland 1986 Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 From Iceland, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Hay Hill Gallery, London, England NOTCH Art Festival, Annual Nordic and Chinese art festival, Beijing, China 2010 Imprints, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Reykjavik Academy, Iceland Art and Scholars 2007 Ways in Between, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Moving Mountains, LA Art Museum, USA 2005 New Location, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Ferdafurda Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland 2002 Moment, Santiago de Compostella, Spain Andrá, Listasafn ASÍ, Reykjavík Iceland Nordic Contemporary Art, Hadelands Glassverk, Norway 2001 The Treasure of the Modern Day, Gallery Fold, Reykjavík, Iceland Nordic Contemporary Art, Steninge Palace, Sweden Art in the Woods, Hallormstaðaskógur, Iceland 2000 Pittura de DOZZA, Bologna, Italy International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC Black & White, New Bedford Art Museum, MA 1999 The Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle 1993 Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany Gallery Frank Bustamante, New York, NY 1992 Safnaðarheimilið, Akureyri, Iceland 1991 The Hafnarfjörður Arts Festival, Hafnarborg, Iceland 1988 Wang Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway 1990, 89, 87-85, 83 Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland Selected Public Collections Selected Public Collections Reykjavík Municipal Art Museum, Iceland The National Art Gallery of Iceland Gerðarsafn, Museum of Kopavogur, Iceland Hafnarborg, The Hafnarfjörður Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland The University of Iceland The National Bank of Iceland The District Court of Reykjavík Icelandair