Born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, 1954
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Reykjavik

Education 
1971-1976			School of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavík 1971 - 1976
1976				Konstfackskolan, Stockholm 1976
1977				Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 1977
Initiatives 
1979				Founding member of The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
1985				Founding member of Boekie Woekie, books by artists, Amsterdam 1985
2000				Founding member of the Dieter Roth Academy, Basel, Switzerland 2000


Solo exhibitions
1979		Gallery Sudurgata 7, Reykjavík, Iceland

1982		Rauda Húsid, Akureyri, Iceland
1982		The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

1984		Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík, Iceland

1986		Oeys etalage, Amsterdam, Iceland

1994		The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

1999		Gallerí I8, Reykjavík, Iceland

2005		Postcards To Iceland, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

2008		Postcards To Iceland, The Graphic Union, Reykjavík, Iceland

2012		Changing Still Lives, Galerie van Gelder & AP, Amsterdam


Group exhibitions
1979		Scandinavian Textil-triennalen, travelling exhibition
1980		Experimental Environmen, Korpúlfsstadir, Reykjavík, Iceland
1982		The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
1983		Scandinavia Today, traveling exhibition through U.S.A., cat.
1983		Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki, Finland
1986		Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
1986		The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland, with Boekie Woekie
1986		Museum Bellerive, Zurich, cat.       
1987		Kultuurrikeskuksessa, Turku, with Boekie Woekie
1987		Kex Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, cat.
1988		Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels, Belgium, with Boekie Woekie
1988		MJS Books + Graphics, New York, U.S.A., with Boekie Woekie
1990		Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany, with Boekie Woekie 
1991		Gaqlerie Slunkaríki, Isafjördur, Iceland
1992		Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam        
1994		Sydgrönlands Kulturhus Puilasoq, Qaqortoq, Greenland
1994		Galerie Von der Milwe, Aachen, Germany
1994		Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt with United Untied with Boekie Woekie, Granery Books, New York, with Boekie Woekie
1994		Granery Books, New York, U.S.A., with Boekie Woekie
1994		5 generations: Gísli Jónsson, Ingveldur Gísladóttir, Margrét Gudmundsdóttir, Rína Thorkelsdóttir, Reynir Hardarson, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
1995		Dieter + Björn Roth, Wiener Secession, Vienna, with Boekie Woekie, cat.
1996		A Seydi, Seydisfjördur with Boekie Woekie
1997		Stretch & Squeeze, MAC - Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, with Dieter + Björn Roth + 6 others and with Boekie Woekie, cat.
1998		Ludwig Forum, Aachen, with Boekie Woekie
1998		Homage a Dieter Roth, Galerie Holtmann, Cologne, Germany, cat.
1999		Homage a Dieter Roth, with many other artists, Nord/LBGalerie, Braunschweig, Germany, cat.
1999		Bound and Unbound, New York, U.S.A., with Boekie Woekie, cat.
2000		Dieter Roth Academy 6.5.-1.7.2000, with many other artists, Volksdruckerei, Basel, Switzerland, cat.
2000		She, The Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China, together with female artists from China and Europe
2000		Dieter Roth Akadémia - Elöretekintés (1998-2001), Gallery Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, cat.
2000		Exhibition of the occasion of the 3rd conference of the Dieter Roth Academy, Mosfellsbaer, Iceland, cat.       
2003 		Roth Zeit, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland, with Boekie Woekie
2004		Dieter Roth Academy and Friends, with many other artists, St.Petri, Lübeck, Germany
2005		Dieter Roth - Lest/Train, Listahàtið, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Hafnarhús, Reykjavík, Iceland, with Boekie Woekie
2011		A for Artists, E for Exhibitions, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2012		A for artists, E for Exhibitions, Part I and II, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2013		Remuer ciel et terre, Les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
2013		Dit en Dat en Dat / This and That and That, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2015		Postcards are to be looked at, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018		Djupþristingur, Nýlistasafnið / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019		... og hvað svoÀ, Nýlistasafnið / The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland


*     = exhibition on tour	
°     = with artist's contribution

		
Books in public collections
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, New York. U.S.A.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Sveaborg, Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Collection Aldo Frei, Frankfurt, Germany
Collection Marvin Sackner, Miami Beach, U.S.A.
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.

		
Work in public collections
Listasafn Kópavogs, Kópavogur, Iceland
Art Collection of the City of Reykjavík, Iceland
Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavík, Iceland
Konstslöjdmuseum, Götenborg, Sweden
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Nýlistasafnið, Reykjavík, Iceland