SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON
b. 1975, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland
HONORS
2022 Iceland’s Representative, 59th Venice Biennale
2018 Visual Artist of the Year, Icelandic Art Prize
EDUCATION
2003–2004 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Austria
2000–2003 Iceland University of the Arts, BA
1998–1999 Billedskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Internal Space, The EinarJónsson Sculpture Museum, Iceland
2024 Scopes of Inner Transit, Francisco Carolinum Linz, Austria
2024 Sonic Spectral, LÁ Art Museum, Iceland
2024 Edda, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023 Enigma, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
2023 Conductive Path, Verksmiðjan, Center for Contemporary Art, Hjalteyri,Iceland
2022 Perpetual Motion, Icelandic Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale (Cur. MónicaBello)
2022 Transits, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland (Cur. Mónica Bello)
2022 Perpetual Motion, BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022 Lightroom, Regelblau 411, Thyholm, Denmark
2021 Unseen Fields, BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018 Inlight, ASÍ Art Museum, Kleifar, Blönduós
2017 Inlight, ASÍ Art Museum, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2016 Sigurður Guðjónsson, BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015 Connection, Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, Iceland
2014 700.is Artist of the Month, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
2013 Prelude, Outvert Art Space, Ísafjörður, Iceland
2013 Næturvarp (Night Projection), Culture House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2012 Prelude, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2012 Distance, Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2011 Sigurður Guðjónsson, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
2011 Sigurður Guðjónsson, Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden
2010 Skruð, South by South West, Reykjanesbær, Iceland
2010 Sleep, Alessandromarenaproject, Turin, Italy
2008 Galerie Kunstagenten, Video Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2008 Deathbed, Galerie Adler, New York, USA
2007 Bleak, Safn (Collection), Reykjavík
2007 Breed, Reykjavík Art Museum, D-Gallery, Reykjavík
2006 Bleak, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
2006 Deathbed, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Host, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavík
2002 Gallery Priestor, Bratislava, Slovakia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Sequences Real-Time ArtFestival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2024 Wuhan Biennale, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai), China
2023 Icelandic Embassy, Paris, France
2023 Parallel Dimensions, Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany
2023 Opnun, Y Gallery, Kópavogur, Iceland
2023 Composition in Five Movements, Skaftfell Art Center, Seyðisfjörður,Iceland
2022 Luondu Luonddus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany
2022 Perpetual, Aguélimuseet, Sala, Sweden
2022 Some New Works, The National Gallery of Iceland
2022 Rolling Snowball, Djúpivogur, Iceland
2021 Eternal Recurrence, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
2020 Kunsthalle Seinäjoki: Nice to (finally) meet you!, Seinäjoki, Finland
2019 Oh, So Quiet!, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland
2018 NO MAN'S LAND, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
2018 FIAC Cinéphémère, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France
2018 Cable, Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2018 Media Art Festival, Rome
2018 OH, SO QUIET!, Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri
2018 High and Low, Nordatlantens Brygge
2017 Painting – Not a Medium, Hafnarborg, Iceland
2017 Cycle Music and Art Festival
2017 Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland
2017 Bout, Reykjavík Art Museum
2016 Another North, Scandinavia House, New York
2015 SKULPTUR, Royal Society of British Sculptors, UK
2015 New Release, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum
2015 Nowhere Else, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri
2014 Ice Ice Baby, Onsite-Artprojects, Vienna
2014 Pushing Reality, MDF Berlin, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery
2014 700.is Artist of the Month, National Gallery of Iceland
2014 Cadences of Line and Color, Reykjavík Art Museum
2014 From the Hafnarborg Collection, Hafnarborg
2014 Your Compound View, Reykjavík Art Museum
2013 En Thulé froiduleuse, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques etPlastiques
2013 Nordic Outbreak, New York City
2012 Liverpool Biennale / City States
2012 Fatamorgana 1, Bari, Italy
2012 Hangman’s Rock, Kjarvalsstaðir, Iceland
2012 Memento Mori, Arario Gallery Beijing
2012 Eorum Sanai, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2011 Perspectives, Reykjavík Art Museum
2011 Sound Fields, National Gallery of Iceland
2011 Almost Tangible, Arario Gallery Beijing
2010 Fotogalleriet Oslo (Nordic Art Express)
2010 New Acquisitions 2006–2010, Reykjavík Art Museum
2010 Palinsesti, Palazzo Altan, Italy
2010 No-Where/Now-Here, Casa Masaccio, Italy
2009 Standpoint, London
2009 Event Nr.1, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík
2009 Event Nr.2, Sequences, Reykjavík
2009 No Soul For Sale, X Initiative, New York
2009 Dreams of the Sublime, Vaasa, Finland
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Reykjavík Art Museum
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, BOZAR, Brussels
2008 Dalir og hólar, Iceland
2008 Black Mathematics, FIFI Projects, Miami
2007 Rekord, Oslo
2007 100 days – 100 videos, Heidelberg
2007 100 days – 100 videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen
2006 Temporary Cities, NCCA Moscow
2006 The Un-homely, Galerie Adler, New York
2006 Sequences Real-Time Festival, Reykjavík
2006 Vienna Biennale, Austria
2006 Bus Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin
2006 Kultur Buro, Barcelona
2004 Étoiles Polaires, Vooruit, Ghent
2004 Berlin North, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003 Behind the Eyes, Bergen Kunsthalle
2002 Converter Projekt Part 2, The Living Art Museum, Iceland
2001 Converter Projekt Part 1, Semper Depo, Vienna
2000 The Yellow House, Iceland
SCREENING / PERFORMANCE
2024 Enigma, CERN Art andScience Summit, performed by Ensemble Phoenix Basel
2023 Fuser, Winter Lights Festival, Reykjavík
2022 Enigma, performed by The Rhythm Method, Lucerne Festival
202 Enigma, performed by Spektral Quartet, Reykjavík Arts Festival
2022 Enigma, performed by Spektral Quartet, Adler Planetarium, Chicago
2019 Enigma, World Premiere, Spektral Quartet, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
2019 Trajectories, Lucy Yao, Areté, New York
2019 Trajectories, Blind Whino, Washington, DC
2019 Trajectories, International Festival for Experimental Music, Hamburg
2018 Trajectories, National Sawdust, New York
2018 Trajectories, Njord Biennale, Copenhagen
2017 Trajectories, Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
2017 Trajectories, Ning Yu, Corcoran Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2017 Mykonos Multimedia Festival (Veil, Recorder)
2016 Jihlava International Documentary Festival(Relief, Balance, Veil, Recorder)
2016 Scape, Nordic Affect, Mengi, Reykjavík
2016 Scape, Nordic Music Days, Harpa, Reykjavík
2016 Trajectories, Sonic Festival, Copenhagen
2016 Trajectories, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Abrons ArtsCenter, New York
2015 Videoartchannel, Contemporary Video Art
2015 Nordisk Panorama, Malmö Konsthall
2015 Cycle Music & Art Festival, Dyptich
2014 Trajectories, Thyssen-Bornemisza TBA21, Vienna
2014 Ulima hits New York, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
2014 Reykjavík Center for Visual Music Festival, Harpa
2014 Oslo Screen Festival, Cinemateket
2014 Nordic Outbreak, Umeå
2013 Nordic Outbreak, Greenland / Iceland / Stavanger / NYC
2011 Frankfurter Kunstverein (Video Program)
2011 Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, Hamburg
2011 Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille
2011 Alchemy Film Festival, Scotland
2011 Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall (Nordic Art Express)
2010 Whirlpool, Kling & Bang
2009 Fisheye International Experimental Film Festival, Rome
2009 Northwave, Biennale di Venezia project
2008 The Building, e-flux Video Rental, Berlin
2008 Auckland & Wellington Film Archives
2007 Crossing Border Festival, The Hague
2006 Dark Places, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2006 Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, KW Institute, Berlin
2002 Uppsala Short Film Festival
2002 Museums Quartier 21, Vienna
2001 Polyfonia, The Living Art Museum, Iceland
Bibliography
2022 Sigurður Guðjónsson:Perpetual Motion, Distanz
2021 Ragna Sigurðardóttir, On the Art of Sigurður Guðjónsson, Skírnir
2016 Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Magnetic Memories, Stara
2015 Jón Proppé, SKULPTUR, Hatje Cantz
2012 Ólafur Gíslason, An Attempt on the Veil of Aesthetics, Skírnir
2011 Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir, Perspectives, Reykjavík Art Museum
2010 Neil Mulholland, Art Review, Jan–Feb 2010
2009 Shauna Laurel Jones, Icelandic Art Today, Hatje Cantz
2009 Lorella Scacco, Northwave, Silvana Editoriale
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Reykjavík Art Museum
2008 Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, BOZAR Expo, Brussels
2008 Young Icelandic Artists in D:gallery, Reykjavík Art Museum
2006 Christian Schön, Dark Places, LIST Icelandic Art News
2004 Berlin North, ed. Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof
Collections
The National Gallery of Iceland,Reykjavík
Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík
Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður
Gerðarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum
Arario Collection, South Korea
Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Private Collections (Iceland, Germany)