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Born in 1959 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Lives and works in Reykjavik.

Education
1983 The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, IS
1985 Jan Van Eyck Akademie, NL

Solo exhibitions
2022 Flói/Bay, Kleifar, Blönduós, IS
2021 Silent Silence, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2020 HLJÓÐ, Neskirkja, Reykjavík, IS 
2019 RiðHz Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2019 Four colours, Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, IS
2019 Over and out, ÁsmundarsalurHallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, IS
2019 WWU Gallery, Bellingham, WA, USA
2017 Tonspur #73, Vienna, AT
2016 Finnbogi Petursson, Berg Contemporary, Reykjavik, IS
2016 Dream, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, Ca, USA
2015 Sea state, Reykjavik, IS
2014 SECOND/SECOND, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2014 Sea state, Eskifjordur, East IS
2013 - 2014 OFF 3hz.Kapitelsaal, Krems, AT
2013 Major, MHFI Sculpture garden, Reykjavik, IS
2012 Public Art Center-Hlemmur (Kling & Bang), IS
2011 White Light/Black Light, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2010 Reykjavik University, Deep 2010, permanent work, IS
2009 Sean Kelly gallery, NY
2009 Lighthaus Arnsberg, DE
2007 Gallery 100°, Reykjavik Energy, IS
2006 Prefix ICA, Toronto, CAN
2006 InterAccess, Toronto, CAN
2006 Gelbe Musik, Berlin, DE
2006 i8, Reykjavik, IS
2005 Malakoff tower, Island bilder, Colonge, DE
2005 Circle 1991, Reykjavik Energy, headquarters (Permanent work), IS
2005 Current, Vatnsfell, in the highland of Iceland (Permanent work), IS
2005 Elements, the watertanks, Reykjavik Arts Festival, IS
2004 Geometric ligth house, (Permanent work) Akureyri, IS
2003 Asmundur Sveinsson Museum, the Dome, Reykjavik, IS
2002 Orchard Gallery, Derry, N- IE
2002 National Gallery of IS
2002 Gothenburg Konstmusem, Gothenburg, SWE
2001 la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
1999 i8, Reykjavik, IS
1997 Sjonthing F.P., Gerduberg and Sjonarholl, Reykjavik, IS
1996 Slunkariki, Isafjordur, IS
1995 Cafe Mokka, Reykjavik, IS
1994 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, IS
1991 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
1989 Gallery Krokur, Reykjavik, IS
1988 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
1987 Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, NL
1985 Gale Rijder, Arnhem, NL
1985 Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, NL
1985 Theatercefe, Maastricht, NL

2025 Räumlichkeit, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, DE
2025 PHANTOM VISION, LAM, Budapest, HU
2025 LIGHT SOUND SENSES, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, AT
2023 Gardening of Soul, Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, CZ
2016 Artists As Catalysts, Moscow, RU
2016 By Water, Ekenas/Tammisaari, FI
2016 Art Wuzhen, Utopias-Heterotopias, Wuchen, CHN 
2016 freq_out12, Third Man Sewer, Vienna, AT
2015 Listeria, Reykjavik, IS
2015 Rolling Snowball/6, Djupivogur, IS
2015 Sequences VII, Reykjavik, IS
2014 Skandion Clinic, Uppsala, Sweden, freq_out (Permanent installation), SE
2014 Tresure of Lima, Cocos Island, CR
2014 Reykjavík Visual Music – Punto y Raya Festival, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
2013 Artists As Catalysts, Bilbao, ES
2013 Sonic Acts - The Dark Universe, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2012 freq_out8 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
2012 Between dry land, Karlsruhe, DE
2012 4th Marrakesh Biennale, Koutoubia mosque, Marrakesh, MA
2012 freq-out 8, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 The Morning line, Vienna, AT
2011 THREE PARTS WHOLE, i8, Reykjavik, IS
2011 Rewire festival, Den Haag, NL
2011 Long Are The Days, Short Are The Nights, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2010 Unsound, Krakow, PL
2010 ArsElectronica, Linz, AT
2010 Donaufestival, Krems, AT
2010 RUHR Light biennale, DE
2009 Roskilde Resonerer, Musicon, DK
2009 i8, Reykjavik, IS
2008 freq-out 7, Kortrijk, BE
2008 H2O, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, RU
2008 Art against architecture, National Gallery, IS
2008 Silance, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
2008 Buddah in Akureyri, Akureyri Art Museum, IS
2008 Rainbow Audio Transformation, Antverpen, BE
2007 freq-out 6, Budapest, HU
2007 freq-out 5, Chaing Mai, TH
2006 Sequences, Reykjavik, IS
2006 The Polypoetry Festival, Bad Taste, Reykjavik Arts Festival, IS
2006 Art, Life &Confusion/47th October Salon, Belgrade, RS
2006 Norse Ferrytales, Sognfjord, NO
2006 Sonambien, freq-out4, Berlin, DE
2006 Sonic Presence, Bergen kunstmuseum,”Two Conscious”, NO
2005 C.A.T, Island bilder, Colonge, DE
2005 Carnegie Art Award, various countries until 2007
2005 freq-out3, Paris, FR
2005 Lorna, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2005 Praying for silence, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, DE
2004 freq-out2, Oslo, NO
2004 Ein-leuchten, Museum Der Moderne, Salzburg, AT
2004 Galleri 100°, Reykjavik IS
2003 Masters of the Third Dimension, LA, Akureyri, IS
2003 D!sturpances, Charlottebog, Kobenhagen, DK
2002 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
2002 Camp Hofn, Hornafjordur, IS
2002 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik IS
2002 Roda Sten, Gothenburg, SE
2001 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA
2001 Camp Lejre, Lejre, DK
2001 Goteborg Biennale, Gallery 54 Gothenburg, SE
2001 SculptureCenter, New York, USA
2000 National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, IS
1999 Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE
1999 Galerie Schuppenhauer, Koln, DE
1999 Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, SE
1999 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, FI
1999 Centre Regional D´Art, Sete, FR
1998 Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, FR
1998 Memorian Exhibition of Dieter Roth, Seydisfjordur, IS
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, LT
1995 4th. International Istanbul Biennial, TR
1995 Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI
1995 La Hora Del Norte, Madrid and Barcelona, ES
1995 Ars 95, Helsinki, FI
1993 Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, IS
1993 The Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw and Gallery Wyspa Gdansk, PL
1991 Kunst, Europa, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
1985 Dominicanerkerk, Maastricht, NL
1983 Gullstrondin, Reykjavik, IS
1981 Living Art Museum - "Bruni BB", Reykjavik, IS
1980 Gallery Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik, IS

2018 1-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
2014 6-month visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
2011 2-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
2007 2-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
2003 6-month visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
2001 1-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
1999 6-month visual artists stipend, City of Reykjavik
1997 Edstrand Awards, Malmo, SE
1996 3-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture
1994 DV-Awards for Visual Arts
1992 1-year visual artists stipend, from the Iceland Ministry of Culture

Works in collections
Skandion Clinic, Uppsala, 2014, SE
Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, IS
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
T-B A21, Wien, AT
Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca Collection, USA
Landsvirkjun, Vatnsfellsvirkjun (Electric power plant)
Reykjavik Energy, headquarters, IS
Petur Arason and Ragna Robertsdottir Collection - SAFN Reykjavik -Berlin
Malmo Kunst Museum, SE
Nordiska Akvarell Museum, SE
National Gallery of Iceland, IS
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, IS
Akureyri Museum of Art, IS
The Grammar School of Sund, IS