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Sigga Björg Sigurdardottir * 1977 Reykjavik, Iceland Lives and works in Glasgow and Reykjavik 2002-2004: MFA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1997-2001: BA Fine Art, Icelandic Academy of Art and Design, Iceland |
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Solo Exhibitions
2010 BEAST, Galerie ADLER,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany (with Latefa Wiersch)
SMOKE, Junge Kunst e.V., Wolfsburg, Germany
Yancey Richardson Gallery, Project Gallery, New York, USA
2009 CHEESE, Vélsmiðjan factory, Eistnaflug, Neskaupsstaður, Iceland
2008 Sigga Björg Sigurdardottir, 101 gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Kunstverein Uelzen, Uelzen, Germany (with Michael Nitsche)
2007 Paradox Parade, Galerie
Adler, New York, USA
2006 Wrong House, Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Slurpophobia, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Paracide Park, Centre d´Art et de
diffusion Clark, Montreal, Canada
Sigga Björg Sigurdardottir, subzone1
Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2005 BOX Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland
Dwarf Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Gallery Vesturveggur, Skaftfell, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2000 The window, Gallery Saevar Karl, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ten Disappointments, Gallery Nema
Hvad, Reykjavik, Iceland
Group Exhibitions
2011 From Eternity to Here, Galleri Larm, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2010
Winter 2010, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acquisitions 2006 - 2008, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir,
Iceland
BIAB10 The Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Sumar á Havarí, Gallerí Havarí, Reykjavik, Iceland
I FIZZ ART, Fizz gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Fröhliche Gesellschaft, Parrotta Contemporary, Stuttgart, Germany
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Coloursynthesis Forum, Listasafn Reykjavikur - Reykjavík Art Museum,
Reykjavik, Iceland
Buy what
you love, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
(curated by The Rema Hort Mann Foundation)
2009 Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, National
Galleries of Scotland,
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
FishFocus Festival: Dark Star.
Iceland Videoart between performance, music and animation,
Rome, Italy (curated by Ilari
Valbonesi)
X, No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents, X Initiative, New
York, USA
Bad Moon Rising 4, galerie sans titre, Brussels, Belgium (curated
by Jan van Woensel)
Last Day of Magic, 53rd Venice
Biennial's satellite project "Détournement, Venice 2009"
(curated by Jan van Woensel)
List Án Landamæra art festival, Mosfellsbær art space, Reykjavik,
Iceland
2008 PHANTAKALIFRAGILISTIGEXPIALIGETISCH, Galerie ADLER, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany
Candybar, Galería 13, Mexico City, Mexico
START, Verksmidjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland
Á jaðrinum, Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand (curated by Dr.
Leonhard Emmerling)
Salem, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Edinburgh this summer, Embassy
Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Tomorrow Always Belongs To Us,
Götheborg Konsthall, Götheborg, Sweden
2007 The teardrop explodes, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, A
Winter 07, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen, Denmark
A jadrinum, Film Archive, Auckland,
New Zealand (curated by Dr. Leonhard Emmerling)
An Archaeology, Zabludowicz
Collection: Project Space 176, London, UK
Into the woods, Parrotta Contemporary
Art, Berlin, Germany
Into the woods, Parrotta Contemporary
Art, Stuttgart, Germany (curated by Birgit Kulmer,
Martina Kupiac, Kerstin Schmidt)
Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy, and Detail in Drawing, Curator's Office, Washington,
USA (curated by Andrea Pollan and Dr. Fred Ognibene)
Je suis une bombe, Von der Heyd
Museum, Wuppertal / Kunsthalle Barmen, Germany
Stills, Edinburgh, UK
DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee,
UK
Reduce to max, Roemerapotheke, Zurich, Switzerland
(with Jenny Brillhart, Eva Grün, Jana
Gunstheimer, Rubén Méndez,
Nathan Ritteerpusch a. o.)
2006
SEQUENCES real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
Video killed the Painting Star, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
The Magic Lantern, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
The Icelandic Painting since 1980, Icelandic Art Museum, Reykavik,
Iceland
The square root of drawing, Temple
Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Un-Homely, Galerie Adler, New York, USA
Icelandic Art in the 3rd Millenium,
Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Contemporary Video Art From Iceland,
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Artist Film Screening, The Open Eye
Club, Glasgow, Scotland
Eine Szene, in der Kunst entsteht:
Iceland, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Linie, Dina4 Projekte, Munich,
Germany
2005 The trap and the Rope, The Jail Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
The ZOO ART FAIR, The Great Unsigned,
London Zoo, UK
Interruption with Sigga Björg and
Laurence Elliot, The Brick Factory, Stockholm, Sweden
Craving your indulgence, The Great
unsigned, London, UK
Berlinvasion with Klink and Bank,
Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany
Lys over Lolland,
SEnglandkerfabrikken, Lolland, Denmark
TIVOLI Group Show, Listasafn
Arnesinga, Hveragerdi, Iceland
Krutt art festival: Lysuholl,
Snaefellsnes, Iceland
The living art museum, Reykjavik,
Iceland
By Proxy, Broadway Gallery. New York,
USA
Where the Wild Things Are, UTS
Gallery, Sidney, Australia
BLOC, The County Hall Gallery,
London, UK
2004 Noonday Demons, CCA - Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow,
Scotland
The Secret Show, Gulbenkian
Galleries, RCA, London, UK
The Winter Mass, The Nordic House,
Reykjavik, Iceland
The Other People Show, Three Colts
Gallery, London, UK
The Dreams of Dystopia, Klink and
Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland
MFA Glasgow, Tramway, Glasgow,
Scotland
Glasgow Art Fair, George Square,
Glasgow, Scotland
2003 International Drawing Research Institute Show, Central Academy of
Fine Arts, Beijing, Xiang,
China
Interim show, Machintosh Gallery,
Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2002 The Open Gallery, co founder of a travelling gallery in
collaboration with Vidhofn, Reykjavik,
Iceland
2001 Around the country, Recidency ended with a show, The old post
office, Vik i Myrdal, Iceland
Flying over Hekla, Kjarvalstadir,
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Group exhibition, Laugarvegur 25,
Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 Painting exhibition, The Yellow House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Drawing exhibition, Kaelirinn,
Laugarnes, Reykjavik, Iceland
1998 Futurama, Gallery Geysir, Hitt Husid, Reykjavik, Iceland
1997 The teenager in the forest, Gallery Nema Hvad, Reykjavik, Iceland
1992 Human Relationship, Nordic travelling exhibition
Performance
2005 Disko Trance from Beyond, Dance-Music-Video-performance in
collaboration with Asdis Sif
Gunnarsdottir at Klink and Bank,
Reykjavik, Iceland and Berliner Liste, Berlin
2002 Malfur Skinnytoe, a puppet show in collaboration with Kira Kira and
the Icelandic Kitchen Motors
at: ICA, London, England; Tjarnarbio,
Reykjavik, Iceland; The Blanc Canvas, Leeds, England
Grants and Awards
2008 Professional Artists Salaries, The Icelandic Government,
Ministry of Culture
Grant towards a show at Gothenburg
Art Museum, CIA, Iceland
2007 Creative Development Grant, The Scottish Arts Council
Grant towards a solo show in New
York, Myndstef, Iceland
2006 The Woollen Glove, Artist Award, The Icelandic Art Academy
Muggur, Traveling Grant for a solo
show in Galerie Clark, Montreal
2005 Svavar Gudnason and Asta Eiriksdottir, Painting Grant, The
Icelandic Art Museum
Muggur, Traveling Grant for Berliner
Liste
Minningarsjodur Margretar, Artist
Grant
Collections
JoMo Art Collection, Belgium
The Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS
Vicky Hughes and John Smith, London
Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Zabludowicz Art
Trust
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland