Katrín Elvarsdóttir

born 1964, Iceland

info@katrinelvarsdottir.com

 

Education

1993 Art Institute of Boston, B.F.A.

1990 Brevard Community College, photography

1988 University of Iceland, B.A. in French

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 BERG Contemporary, Fifty Plants for Peace — Reykjavik, Iceland

2021 Hafnarborg, Songbirds — Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2019 Residence of the Ambassador of Iceland, Space-Time Continuum — Berlin, Germany

2018 Berg Contemporary,  The Search for Truth — Reykjavik, Iceland

2016 Gerðarsafn, Double Happiness — Kópavogur, Iceland

2015 Schody Galeria, Equivocal — Warsaw, Poland

2014 Deborah Berke, Vanished Summer — New York, USA

2013 ASÍ Museum, Vanished Summer — Reykjavík, Iceland

2012 The Shed, Here You’ll Find No Roses Growing — Reykjavík, Iceland

2010 Gallerí Ágúst, Equivocal: The Sequel — Reykjavík, Iceland

2010 Reykjavík Art Museum, Nowhereland — Reykjavík, Iceland

2008 Gallerí Ágúst, Equivocal — Reykjavík, Iceland

2008 Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Home-Away — Reykjavík, Iceland

2007 National Museum of Iceland, Without a Trace — Reykjavík, Iceland

2007 ASÍ Museum, Of This World — Reykjavík, Iceland

2005 Ísafjörður Art Museum, Longing — Ísafjörður, Iceland

2005 SÍM House, The Savior — Reykjavík, Iceland

2004 Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Memory — Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2003 Mokka, Breathless — Reykjavík, Iceland

2003 Seventh and Second Gallery, Revenants — New York, NY, USA

2002 Akureyri Art Museum, Revenants — Akureyri, Iceland

2002 Gallerí Skuggi, Revenants / Proximal Dimension — Reykjavík, Iceland

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 The Northern Photographic Centre — Snowflakes and Other Surprises, Oulu, Finland

2023 BERG Contemporary — ‘’Tis the season… , Reykjavík, Iceland

2022  Landskrona Foto — Snowflakes and Other Surprises, Landskrona, Sweden

2022  Akureyri Art Museum — Black and White,  Akureyri, Iceland

2022  Ísafjörður Art Museum — Nr4 Umhverfing, Ísafjörður, Iceland

2022  Ars Longa Art Museum — Rolling Snowball, Djúpivogur, Iceland

2022  National Gallery, Staged Moments — Reykjavík

2021  Fotografisk Center — Snowflakes and Other Surprises, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021  Dunker’s culture house — Nordic Salong, Helsingborg, Sweden

2021  Reykjavík Art Museum — Abracadabra, Reykjavík

2021  Streetlevel Photoworks — Forever changes, Glasgow, Scotland

2021  Bærum Kunsthall — PULS- ISLAND, Oslo, Norway

2021  Reykjavík Art Museum — Eilíf endurkoma, Reykjavík

2021  LÁ Art Museum — Iðustreymi, Hveragerði

2020  BERG Contemporary — Vegetation, Reykjavík

2020  Reykjavík Museum of Photography — Fjarski og nánd, Reykjavík

2020  Sláturhúsið, MMF — LAND, Egilstaðir

2020  Hafnarborg, Silent Spring — Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2020  Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Imprint — Kópavogur, Iceland

2019  HiB, Skúrinn — Reykjavík

2019  Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival — Athens, Greece

2019  Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Exposures — Reykjavik

2019  Listasafn Reykjanesbæjar, Ljós og tími — Reykjanesbæ

2018  Forum Box, Dinner party with Cyclone — Helsinki, Finland

2018  The Museum of Photography, Nature as Playground — Seoul, South Korea

2018  Kunstlerhaus 1050, EIKON Award — Vienna, Austria

2018  FLUSS, Ultima Thule — Schloss Wolkersdorf, Austria

2018  Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Embody — Kópavogur, Iceland

2017  Martin Asbæk Gallery, Human;Nature — Copenhagen

2017  Martin Asbæk Gallery, Summer in the City — Copenhagen

2017  Mikligarður, FÍSL 2017, Höfn í Hornafirði, Iceland

2016  Titanik Gallery, Cyclone 3 — Turku, Finland

2016  Fotobook Festival, A Decade of Icelandic Photobooks — Youngstorget, Oslo

2016  National Gallery, Lightpaint — Reykjavík

2015  Musée de l’Elysée, Nuit des images, Rökkur — Lausanne, Sviss

2015  Hafnarborg, No Site — Hafnarfjörður

2015  The Factory, ÍSÓ 2015 — Ísafjörður

2015  University of Richmond Museum, Anti-Grand — Richmond, VA, USA

2014  Hillyer Art Space, Visible Iceland — Washington, DC, USA

2014  Reykjavík Museum of Photography, From a Different Angle — Reykjavík, Iceland

2014  LÁ Art Museum, Cyclone — Hveragerdi, Iceland

2014  Akureyri Art Museum, Icelandic Contemporary Portraits — Akureyri, Iceland

2013  Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Nordic Art Station — Eskilstuna,Sweden

2013  ASÍ Museum, Auglitis til auglitis — Reykjavík, Iceland

2013  Hippolyte Gallery, Frontiers of Another Nature — Helsinki, Finland

2012  Hafnarborg, Skia-Shadow — Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2012  Voies-Off Festival, Family Business/Photography From the North — Arles, France

2012  LÁ Art Museum, Nautn og notagildi — Hveragerði, Iceland

2012  La Sala, Art of Darkness — Brooklyn, NY, USA

2012  Reykjavík Photography Festival, Icelandic Contemporary Photography 1990-2011 — Iceland

2011  Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frontiers of Another Nature — Frankfurt, Germany

2011  Akureyri Art Museum, Awakening — Akureyri, Iceland

2010  Reykjanes Art Museum, Window Mirrors — Reykjanesbær, Iceland

2009  LÁ Art Museum, Flash at a Moment of Danger — Hveragerði, Iceland

2009  Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Camera Works 2009 — Ridgefield, CT, USA

2008  National Museum of Iceland, Reflection – Icelandic Contemporary Photography — Iceland

2008  Eagle Art Gallery, Magic Silver — Murray, KY, USA

2007  Stay Gold Gallery, Blowup — Brooklyn, NY, USA

2005  C.A.T. Nordlicht, Myth & Melancholy — Cologne, Germany

2005  Living Art Museum, Morar-nærvidd, with M. Hemstock — Reykjavík, Iceland

2004  La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, SYN — Paris, France

2004  Klink og Bank Gallery, Sound & Vision — Reykjavík, Iceland

2003  Society for Contemporary Photography, Current Works 2003 — Kansas City, MO, USA

2003  Gallery Korea, Haunted — New York, NY, USA

2003  LBI Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Photography and Digital Images — Loveladies, NJ, USA

2003  Rathaus, Nordisher Klang 2003, Contemporary Reykjavík — Greifswald, Germany

2003  Reykjavík Art Museum – Kjarvalsstaðir, New Times in Icelandic Photography — Reykjavík, Iceland

2003  Korean Cultural Center, Cultural Narratives — Los Angeles, CA, USA

2003  Soho Photo Gallery, Krappy Kamera — New York, NY, USA

2003  Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Light-Speed — Reykjavík, Iceland

2002  Moscow House of Photography, Seasons of Icelandic Photography — Moscow, Russia

 

Monographs

2021 Songbirds. Self-published, Reykjavik, Iceland

2016 Double Happiness. Crymogea, Reykjavík, Iceland

2013 Vanished Summer. Crymogea, Reykjavík, Iceland

2012 Equivocal. Crymogea, Reykjavík, Iceland

2005 Mórar-nærvídd. 12 Tónar, Reykjavík, Iceland

 

Selected Bibliography

2020 Silent Spring. Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2020 Fegurðin er ekki skraut. Íslensk samtímaljósmyndun, Fagurskinna, Reykjavík

2019 The Shed. Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag, Reykjavík, Iceland

2018 Nature as Playground. The Museum of Photography, Seoul, South Korea

2017 Shifiting Coordinates. 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnaty, OH, USA

2017 EIKON #100—Special Issue. Vienna, Austria

2015 Antigrand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape. Univ. of Richmond Museums, VA, USA

2014 Cyclone. Listasafn Árnesinga, Hveragerði, Iceland

2013 Nordic Now. Aalto, Helsinki, Finland

2011 Frontiers of Another Nature. Crymogea, Reykjavík, and Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin

2009 Afturgöngur og afskipti af sannleikanum. National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík

2008 Reflection: Icelandic Contemporary Photography. National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík

2007 Without a Trace. National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík

 

Awards & Grants

2024 Ministry of Culture, 9-month artist stipend — Iceland

2023 Muggur, Travel Grant — Iceland

2023 Icelandic Art Center, travel grant — Iceland

2022 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, project grant — Iceland

2022 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2021 Icelandic Art Center, travel grant — Iceland

2021 The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant — Iceland

2021 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2020 Ministry of Culture, 3-month artist stipend — Iceland

2019 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2019 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, project grant — Iceland

2019 The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant — Iceland

2018 The Icelandic Finnish Cultural Foundation — Finland

2017 EIKON Award (+ 45) — Austria

2017 Icelandic Art Center, travel grant — Iceland

2017 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2016 Danish Arts Foundation, travel grant — Denmark

2016 Icelandic Art Center, project grant — Iceland

2016 Kulturkontakt Nord, mobility grant — Finland

2016 Muggur, residency grant — Iceland

2016 Icelandic Art Center, travel grant — Iceland

2015 The Northern Lights Confucius Institute, publishing grant — Iceland

2014 Ministry of Culture, 12 month artist stipend — Iceland

2013 The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant — Iceland

2013 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, travel grant — Iceland

2013 Ministry of Culture, 3-month artist stipend — Iceland

2013 City of Reykjavík, project grant — Iceland

2012 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2012 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, project grant — Iceland

2011 Ministry of Culture, 3-month artist stipend — Iceland

2010 City of Reykjavík, project grant — Iceland

2009 Künstlerhaus Lukas, 1-month scholarship — Germany

2009 Ministry of Culture, 6-month artist stipend — Iceland

2009 Ridgefield Guild of Artists, First Prize in Camera Works 2009 — USA

2008 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, project grant — Iceland

2008 Icelandic Art Center, project grant — Iceland

2007 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, Honorary Award nomination — Iceland

2007 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, travel grant — Iceland

2007 Muggur, Residency Grant — Iceland

2007 Stockholm Cultural Fund, travel grant — Sweden

2004 Bank of Iceland, Cultural Fund Grant — Iceland

2003 Ministry of Education, travel grant — Iceland

2003 Society for Contemporary Photography, Merit Award — USA

2003 Soho Photo Gallery, First Prize in Krappy Kamera — USA

2002 Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, project grant — Iceland

2002 Ministry of Education, Arts & Culture Fund grant — Iceland

2002 South Shore Art Center, Third Prize in White, Black and Shades of Gray — US

 

Curatorial Work

2023 Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Graduation exhibition 2023 — Reykjavik, Iceland

2022 Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Graduation exhibition 2022 — Reykjavik, Iceland

2021 Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Graduation exhibition 2021 — Reykjavik, Iceland

2020 Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Graduation exhibition 2020 — Reykjavik, Iceland

2019 Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Afjúpanir/Exposures — Reykjavik, Iceland

2018 Pingyao Photography Festival, This Island Earth — Pingyao, China

2018 Photographic Center North, This Island Earth — Oulu, Finland

2018 Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Þessi eyja jörðin — Reykjavik, Iceland

2017 Galleri Image, This Island Earth — Aarhus, Denmark

2017 Photobook Week Aarhus, A decade of Icelandic Photobooks — Aarhus, Denmark

2016 Fotobook Festival, A decade of Icelandic Photobooks — Youngstorget, Oslo

2016 National Museum of Iceland, Andvari / Breeze — Reykjavík, Iceland

2015 Musée de L’Elysée, Rökkur — La Nuit Des Images, Lausanne, Switzerland

2014 National Museum of Iceland, From a Different Angle — Reykjavík, Iceland

2014 Reykjavík Museum of Photography, From a Different Angle — Reykjavík, Iceland

2014 Norwegian House, Landform — Stykkisholmur, Iceland

2010 Nordic House, Núna–The Present is Now — Reykjavik, Iceland

 

Boards & Committees

2022-2025 Icelandic Art Council board member, Ministry of culture and business affairs, Iceland

2021-2024 Art Council member, Gerðarsafn Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland

2015-2025 Co-Director, Co-Founder, The Icelandic Photography Festival, Iceland

2019-2024 Chairman of The Professional Committee, The Photography School, Iceland

2012-2015 Co-Founder, Board member, Photography Days Festival, Iceland

2011-2015 Board Member, Icelandic Art Center, Reykjavik, Iceland

2012-2015 Professional Committee, Icelandic Art Center, Iceland

2009-2012 Board Member, SÍM – Visual Artist Association, Iceland

2007-2013 Co-Founder, Board Member, The Icelandic Contemporary Photographers’ Association

 

Lectures & Teaching

2016-2024 The School of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland — part-time teacher

2020 Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland — workshop manager

2018 Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland — photography workshop teacher

2016 The School of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland — Annual Review Committee Member

2016-2018  The School of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland — workshop teacher

2016 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland — guest lecturer

2015-2018  The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland — part-time teacher

2015 Iceland Academy of the Arts, M.A. studies program, Reykjavik, Iceland — guest lecturer

2013 Iceland Academy of the Arts, M.A. studies program, Reykjavik, Iceland — guest lecturer

2006-2009  Iceland Academy of the Arts, Photography As an Artistic Medium, Reykjavik, Iceland — course organizer and teacher

2005 Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland — guest lecturer