Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic artist whose practice combines cultural anthropology, artistic research, and lived experience. Through processes of displacement, observation, and defamiliarization, she creates poetic works that examine how places are shaped by historical, social, economic, and environmental forces. Her projects often position the Sub-Arctic within broader global networks, revealing connections between local realities and transnational systems.
Working across video, installation, sculpture, photography, performance, and documentary, Guðnadóttir develops long-term, site-responsive projects grounded in sustained field research and collaboration. Her interdisciplinary practice engages questions of place, labour, infrastructure, power, perception, and the production of knowledge, often bringing together artistic, scientific, industrial, and community perspectives.
Guðnadóttir has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Berlinische Galerie, Reykjavík Art Museum, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her work has been featured in international publications such as Flash Art and e-flux Criticism, and presented in museums, festivals, and cultural institutions worldwide. In Iceland, her work has received significant recognition, including the Guðmunda Award (2019), established by the artist Erró and awarded by a jury comprising directors of Iceland’s leading contemporary art museums, and the Skjaldborg Award (2016), presented by Iceland’s national documentary film community.
She has held residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) and ISCP (New York). 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.