Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic artist whose work blends an academic background in cultural anthropology with personal, lived experience. Through processes of self-reflection, displacement, and defamiliarization, she creates poetic, research-based works that challenge familiar narratives and explore complex, historically contingent spaces, often framing the Sub-Arctic in relation to global imaginaries.
Her transdisciplinary and collaborative practice spans video, installation, sculpture, photography, performance, and documentary. Known for her long-term, site-specific approach, Guðnadóttir works discursively across fields, engaging professionals and non-experts alike. Her projects evolve through sustained artistic and anthropological inquiry, with a particular focus on place, power, labour, and perception.
Guðnadóttir has exhibited widely internationally, with solo exhibitions at institutions including the Berlinische Galerie, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and participation in numerous group exhibitions and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her work has received critical attention in international art publications, including Flash Art and e-flux Criticism. She is the recipient of the Guðmunda Award (2019) and the Skjaldborg Award (2016), and her films and installations have been presented at international festivals and institutions.
She has held residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and ISCP (New York), and in 2025 Distanz Verlag published a monograph on her long-term research project Keep Frozen. Guðnadóttir holds an MA in Interactive Design from Middlesex University, a BA in Visual Art from the Iceland University of the Arts, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Iceland.