JANUARY 6 / HERDÍS HLÍF ÞORVALDSDÓTTIR
Herdís primarily works with classic Renaissance-style oil paintings with an emphasis on classic hand gestures and references to the history of art and culture. Her works are often funky, dreamy, vulnerable and emotional. Imagery is on the edge of timelessness, but is often seasoned with details that give clues to the current moment.
FEBRUARY 3 / HALDÓR RAGNARSSON
Halldór (b. 1981) lives and works in Reykjavík. Halldór completed his B.A. degree (2007) and M.A. degree (2014) from the Fine Arts Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, after previously studying philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Iceland. Halldór has 13 solo exhibitions behind him as well as having participated in a number of group exhibitions; both here and abroad.He mainly works with painting as a medium and often uses text in his works where sentences or words are repeated
MARCH 9 / GABRÍELA FRIDRIKSDOTTIR
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir (b. 1971) graduated from the sculpture department of the Icelandic School of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1997 and studied at AVU in Prague. She has held numerous exhibitions around the world, both alone and with others, and represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
APRIL 20 / JÓN PROPPÉ AND ÓLÖF BJÖRG
cooperation exhibition between Jón Proppé art theorist and Ólöf Björg Björnsdóttiir artist
MAY 11 / SIGURGEIR SIGURJÓNSON
Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson ( b. 1948). After studying photography in Iceland in 1965-69, he went abroad for further study at the Christer Strömholm school of photography in Stockholm in 1970-71 and in San Diego, California in 1980-84.
JUNE 1 / ÝMIR GRÖNVALD
Ýmir Grönvold (b. 1994) lives and works in
Reykjavík. He graduated from art faculty of the Art University of Iceland in 2018, as well as having attended an exchange program at the painting department at the Royal Academy in Den Haag.
JULY 6 / SIGTHORA ODINS
Sigthora Odins (b. 1981) graduated from the visual arts department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2015 and has also completed a diploma in ceramics from the Reykjavík Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. Sigþóra has participated in group exhibitions in Iceland and abroad, including in collaboration with the art group "Computer Spirit" in the years 2016 - 2018 in Norway and Estonia. She has held two solo exhibitions of her work in Iceland and Denmark and has received recognition for her work in the Netherlands
AUGUST 3 / EGILL LOGI JÓNASSON
Egill Logi Jónasson graduated with a diploma from the Art School in Akureyri in 2012 and graduated from the Iceland University of the Arts with a BA degree in 2016. He uses diverse media in his artistic creation such as paintings and music. He is also known as his alter ego "Drengurinn fengurinn".
AUGUST 31 / MIREYA SAMPER
Mireya Samper studied art at Iceland's School of Arts and Crafts as well as at the University of Arts in Marseille, France, where she took both a BA degree and a Master's degree. She has exhibited sculptures, installations, paintings and outdoor artworks all over the world, including in France, Japan, India and Iceland. She has also worked on film, documentary and television productions. Mireya founded and manages the art festival Fresh Winds Art Festival, which takes place in Suðurnesjabær every other year, and was awarded the Lily of the Valley in 2018. Mireya was recently honored by the French Minister of Education with the highest French word in the field of art and literature, L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
OCTOBER 12 / ÓLÖF NORDAL
In her works, Ólöf Nordal (b. 1961) has worked with the nation's cultural heritage, history and memory in a critical and analytical way. Her artistic research focuses on the identity of a nation in post-colonial times, the origin and reflection of folk memory in the present, and the fragment that reflects into the past. For a long time, she has worked with birds in her works, which are often rooted in folklore, image creation and contemporary culture. Her work continues to explore folkloric traditions about Icelandic nature as well as the methods of science that seek to preserve and display nature, while making it the subject of fiction along the way.
NOVEMBER 9 / KRISTÍN GUNNLAUGSDÓTTR
Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir (b. 1963) began studying art early at the School of Art in Akureyri in 1975 with courses and completed her preliminary studies there in 1986. She graduated from the School of Art and Handicrafts in 1987. In the years 1987-1988 she stayed in a monastery in Rome and studied icon-making and painting. In 1995 she graduated with honors from the Accademia di belle Arti in Florence. In her visual arts, Kristín mainly works with paintings, tapestries with embroidery, drawings, egg tempera with gold leaf and watercolors. Kristín has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in art events at home and abroad. She has also taught art at the Art School in Reykjavík, the University of the Arts and Einar Granum Kunstskola Oslo. Kristína was awarded the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for her contribution to art in 2018.