Una B. Sigurðardóttir b. 1983 in Iceland
Una B. Sigurðardóttir completed her BA degree from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in the spring of 2008. She lived and worked in Reykjavík until 2011, as an artist and a poet, as well as teaching figure drawing at a secondary grammar school. She completed her MA degree in Fine Arts in the spring of 2013 from St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts in The Netherlands. Currently she lives and works in Galway Ireland.
In 2007 three books with her texts and drawings, “The Adventures of the Sick Girl”, “The Sick Girl Kills” and “Soap Stories”, were published. From 2009-2011 Una ran a studio at Hvefisgata 61 in collaboration with other artists and writers. She was a member of Gallery Crymo, an artist-run, non-profit gallery, and sat on its board of management from 2010- 2011. Through her activities Una has been involved in the organisation of several artistic events and festivals, participated in numerous exhibitions in Iceland and abroad, and given performances and readings of her own works. In resent years Una has stayed as a residency artist in countries such as Japan and Spain.
In Una’s works there are underlying narratives, and her work is liberally spiked with humor. Una seeks to process her personal vision of the status quo, looking at societies and identities in the context of the global realities that modern man is faced with. Therefore many images of consumerism and popular culture have become motifs in her work as well as cultural and social specifics.
Her body of work is marked by multiplicity and the desire to experiment with materials and method. She mostly works in mediums such as drawing/collage, performance, installation and text. Collaborations with other visual artist, poets and musicians is a recurring thread throughout her carrier.