Artist statement:
What I’m interested in is the observation and analysis of socio-economic trends and cultural changes in my environment and translating it into narrative structures of rich visual symbology. I’m deep into a process that involves creating my own personal iconographical system or mythology at the same time as I’m researching the mythologies of contemporary times that have already been created around me. This research has until now manifested itself as mixed-media installations and documentaries. I want to continue to explore the media of video, film, photography, print and sculpture while mixing the humorous, performative and the dead serious. I believe the local is the global, the personal is the universal and my works will continue to reflect that.
My diverse background in fine art, filmmaking, design and academia allows me to stand on the crossroads of academic and aesthetic work but also different art genres. I’m interested in making experiments with the boundaries, expanding them, minimizing, and mixing them together and then spitting them out again. Thus I choose to collaborate with individuals and artists of different backgrounds to create the necessary dialogue needed to expand my own vision on the issues involved.
–Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, 2009
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Awards
2009 Cultural Price of DV for best Icelandic film in 2008 (Jury prize)
2008 PENNINN award for emerging artists in Iceland
_____Edda, Icelandic Academy Awards for best documentary film
_____Silver Fox for best documentary at Reykjavik Short and Docs
_____(Jury prize)
_____Audience award for best documentary and Skjaldborg Film
_____Festival, Iceland
Solo exhibitions
Upcoming
2012 Spring - Kalmar Konstmuseum. Sweden.
_____Curator: Director Martin Schibli.
_____http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se
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2011 January - Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2010 April - NKD, Berlin, Germany.
Jan-Feb -
PROGRAM, Berlin, Germany.
2007 July - ESKANDAL, Barcelona, Spain. Installation.
2006 October - Sequences real time festival. KronKron, Reykjavik,
_____Iceland. Installation.
Grants and Recognition (selected)
2011 February - Supermarket Art Fair. Participant.
2010 The Visual artists’ Stipend Fund. The Icelandic Government.
2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany. Exhibition grant for
_____"Hops Hopsi" at PROGRAM, Berlin.
Icelandic Visual Art Copyright Association project grant
Muggur, residency grant from The Association of Icelandic Visual
_____Artists
2008 The Visual artists’ Stipend Fund. The Icelandic Government.
2007 Project and art grants from Memory fund of Margrét
_____Björgólfsdóttir, Center for Icelandic Art, Islandsbank Culture
_____Fund, The Student Innovation Fund and Icelandic Art Academy.
2006 Project and art grants from Center for Icelandic Art, Icelandic Film
_____Centre, Mjolkursamsalan ltd., VISA Iceland and Baugur Group.
2003-2005 Project and art grants from the Nordic Institute For
_____Contemporay Art, Icelandic Film Centre, Islandsbank Culture
_____fund, Icelandic Visual Arts Copyright Association, The Icelandic
_____Ministry of Social Affairs and The Art and Cultural Fund.
2004-2005 Klink and Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland. Residency.
Screenings and Film Festivals
2010 October Nordland Art Festival – Nordic Music Festival in Lodz,
_____Poland.
_____September Icelandic Cultural Festival, Nordic House, Helsinki,
_____Finland.Bíó Paradís Cinemateque, Reykjavík, Iceland. Opening
_____programme.
_____March Reindeerland film festival, Egilstadir, Iceland. Shortlisted
_____for Best Icelandic short.
2009 The Scandinavia House. The American-Scandinavian
_____Foundation. NYC.
_____Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival
_____Expresión en Corto International Film Festival Mexico, Official
_____selection.
_____Thessoloniki, Greece. A-level film festival. Official selection.
_____FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, for students
_____Gothenburg, Sweden. A-level film festival. Official selection.
2008 YLE, Finland and RUV, Iceland (National TV)
_____Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany. Official selection.
_____27th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden. Official
_____selection.
_____Nordisk Panorama, 5 cities film festival, Malmö, Sweden. Official
_____selection.
_____Short and Docs, Reykjavík – Winner of the best documentary.
_____Haskolabio cinema in Reykjavik Public regular screenings.
_____Skjaldborg Icelandic documentary film festival - Audience award
_____for Best Film. Only award of the festival.
2006 Club der Polnischen Versager, Torstrasse, Berlin, Germany.
_____“Cold Hearts”, Monkey Town, Willimsburg, NYC, USA. Curated by
_____Package Deals.
2005 Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg, NYC, USA.
_____Public library, Charlstone, South-Carolina, USA.
2004 Garage Cinema, side program of Nordisk Panorama.
Group exhibitions (selected)
Upcoming
2011 October - YOU ARE HERE: Berlin – Tokyo. 30-day festival in
_____collaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT),
_____Tokyo, Japan. Curated by a team of Antonin Gaultier, Thomas
_____Antonietti, Nine Yamamoto- Masson, Robert
_____Okuda-Fitzpatrick, Sebastian Mayer and Irene Piepenbrock.
_____http://www.youareherefestival.org
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2010 Sept. 3rd - YOU ARE HERE: Berlin – Tokyo. Launch at VACANT,
_____Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.
_____May until July EXKURS. Isländische Kunst in
_____auBergewöhnlichen Zeiten, in Felleshus, Scandinavian
_____Embassy in Berlin. Curated by Markús Þór Andrésson.
2007 Graduation exhibition from Icelandic Academy of the Arts
_____Reykjavík, Iceland.
2006 Grand Narrative at Galerie Bergstub'l. Curated by Carrie
_____Roseland at BootLab, Berlin, Germany.
_____Gallery Signe Vad, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Lina
_____Björn.
2005 KlinK and BanK Invasion at Berliner Liste
_____Old Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Nína
_____Magnúsdóttir. Sponsored and supported generously by
_____Thyssen-Bornesmisza Art Contemporary.
_____Garnival, Reykjavík Cultural Night / Visual art and music in the
_____garden at Thorsgata 6., Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by
_____Hulda Ros Gudnadottir and Berglind Jona Hlynsdottir.
_____Strange Attractors, deliberate disguises, The Living Art Museum,
_____Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Signal in the heavens, Reykjavik
_____Art Festival. Shared the space with Thomas Hirschhorn.
_____Purgatory, Gallery Boreas & Galapagos Art Space, NYC, USA.
_____Curated by Signal in the heavens.
2001 Digitarts – MA degree show at Middlesex University. Interactive
_____design, The Bridge Gallery, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane,
_____London, UK.
Higher Education Studies
2007 B.A. Visual Art, Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland.
_____Graduation piece was titled Don´t stop me now. I´m having a
_____good time.
2001 M.A. Design for interactive media, Landsdown Centre for
_____electronic arts, Middlesex University, London.
_____Graduation theses was titled Interactive art.
1999 B.A. Social Anthropology, University of Iceland.
Other professional experience
1. Assistance, production, managing, writing, content development, design
2007 - DIONYSIA international cross-genre residency in Iceland,
_____director and founder. Selection committee.
2000 - Various design for print, web, stage, set and clothing.
2008 Reykjavik Art Museum, assistant to the curator of Reykjavik Art
_____Museum, part-time, fixed-term. The job involved organising
_____production of exhibitions, including overseeing workers and
_____hands-on work building art works and arranging them in space.
_____Both practical and at the desk co-ordination.
2001 Until 2008 Co-producer of documentary films The Cornershop
_____and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
2000-2006 Design Puffin hoodies. Berlin (BestShop), Reykjavik
_____(KronKron) and Barcelona (Eskandal).
_____Set design for The Icelandic Opera, TV commercial, etc. Various
_____website design.
1999 Until 2000 Project manager for EDUCATE Iceland, a databased
_____search website on educational opportunities, fixed-term.
1999 Content writer and developer for www.vestfirdir.is, a website on
_____Westfjords area Iceland, fixed term.
2. Lecturing and Artist/Directors Talk
2009 March: FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic. A talk about The
_____Cornershop documentary.
2008 December: Icelandic Film and TV Academy. A talk about The
_____Cornershop documentary.
2007 June: Befitting, befogging, beguiling and bethinking. Lecture at
_____Provincialism seminar at the Reykjavik Academy.
Publicly available material
Publication
2010 September: Hops Hopsi: Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir (editors)Fotini
_____Lazaridou-Hatzigoga and Carson Chan. PROGRAM – initiative
_____for art and architecture collaborations. ISBN 978-3-00-030922-9.
_____Catalogue.
Articles/sections/review
Upcoming
2011 April: Lynx Magazine, international art magazine.
_____Editor: Christian Gfeller. Co-editor: Nine Yamamoto-Masson.
_____Publishers: Bongoût, Berlin. http://www.bongout.org
Selected
2011 February 11th: ´Þegar hjól sirkussins fara að snúast á ný´
_____in Morgunbladid. ****1/2, art review by Thora Thorisdóttir.
2009 February: NEON, German magazine. Interview and discussion
_____about the work Don’t stop me now inside a longer article. Berlin,
_____Germany.
2008 ‘Befitting, befogging, beguiling and bethinking’ in The
_____Provincialists (essay p. 67).The Faroe Islands Art Museum.
_____Faroe islands, Denmark. ISBN: 978-99918-987-4-2. Selection of
_____essays.
_____19.06 until 2009: various media articles and reviews about The
_____Cornershop
_____19.06: Afternoon Radio at National Radio Chanel 2
_____Film review **** review (full house) by film critic Olafur H.
_____Torfason.
_____17.06: 24 stundir/ Film critic in the Street paper
_____15.06: **** critic by the film critic. Morgunbladid/Film critic in the
_____Morning news paper
_____Til heiðurs hornkaupmönnum þjóðarinnar – **** critic on The
_____Cornershop documentary by film critic Sæbjörn Valdimarsson
_____15.06: Fréttablaðið/Culture section of the Afternoon paper
_____Kaupmennirnir á horninu – one page interview and article by
_____Hanna Björk Valsdóttur about The Cornershop documentary.
_____31.05: Morgunblaðið/Culture section of the Morning news paper.
_____Að brjóta niður mörk – interview and article by Einar Falur
_____Ingólfsson about DÍÓNÝSÍA.
_____30.05: Víðsjá/ The culture radio program on National Radio
_____channel 1 (RÚV). Culture and Art. Interview by Guðni Tómasson
_____about the DÍÓNÝSÍA project.
_____17.05: Kvika/ The film radio program on National Radio
_____channel 1 (RÚV). Interview by the documentary club
_____Homer about The Cornershop documentary.
_____15.05: Kastljós/ News program at the The Icelandic National
_____Broadcasting Service (RÚV). Interview by Thóra Tómasdóttir
_____about The Cornershop documentary.
_____14.05: Víðsjá/ The culture radio program on National Radio
_____channel 1 (RÚV). Interview by Haukur Ingvarsson about The
_____Cornershop documentary.
2007 14.04. Fréttablaðið/Culture section of the Afternoon paper. Ad
_____rækta gardinn sinn – Article written by Kristrún Hauksdóttir.
_____An interview about DÍÓNÝSÍA.
_____July/August Icelandic Art News. Published by Center for
_____Icelandic Art. Visuals in an article about Sequences Real-time
_____Festival. Visuals also on the promotional material of the festival.
_____Reykjavik, Iceland.
2006 11.11. Morgunblaðið/Lesbók – cultural special of the Morning
_____Paper. Skvett úr koppnum á Sequences - a review of the
_____Sequences International Real-time Festival that took place in
_____Reykjavik in October 2006. Written by art critic Thora Thorisdottir
_____with a special mention of my solo exhibition in KronKron.
2005 May: Signal in the Heavens curatorial group. ´Reaching for the
_____Stars. Just to Surrender´. A catalogue for part three Purgatory at
_____Gallery Boreas, NYC in April 2005 and part three Strange
_____Attractors, deliberate disguises at the Living Art Museum in
_____Reykjavik in May 2005. Reykjavik, Iceland.
Websites
2007 02.06
www.provincialists.com. ‘Befitting, befogging, beguiling
_____and bethinking’. A lecture delivered at the Reykjavik Academy
_____about my artwork and curatorial project.
2000
www.vestfirdir.is, text and informational architecture structure.