Una B. Sigurðardóttir, Artist & Poet
Born 1983, Iceland
Lives and works in Ireland
2011- 2013 MA certificate in Fine Art, Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, s’Hertogensbosch, the Netherlands
2009-2010 Courses in Creative Writing, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
2007 Video Atelier with Erasmus, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
2005 – 2008 BA certificate in Fine Arts, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
2001 Photography, studies at Brian Sweeny
1999 – 2004 Certificate in Fine Arts, Secondary Grammar School – Department of Breidholt College, Reykjavik, Iceland
Selected Exhibitions
2013 “Albatross”, installation and performance shown at the St.Joost MA- Fine Art graduation show at De Service Garage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012 “Doomsday Blues”, a performance shown on Kunstfaii , with the assistance of Thomas Denken and Yukari Matsumoto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2012 “Beach”, photoshop collage printed on paper, shown on the St.Joost MA- Fine Art exhibition at Showhall, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.
2012 “Being here”, sculpture and drawings exhibited in Confictable Cube, Toride, Japan.
2011 “OOIOO”, installation and sound, showed on the exhibition “My Friend the Foreigner” in the The Old Ambulance Depot Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2011 “Welcome to the Greenhouse”, performance and installation made in collaboration with Sunneva Ása Weisshappel, the work was showed on Sequences, Real time Art festival in Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010 “Star Wars: A Unique Collector ́s Item”, 20 packagings/sculptures, showed on the group exhibition “The Empire strikes back” in Gallery Crymo, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010 “Replacing the view – Warsaw”, photo-collage printed on a window stickers, made in collaboration with Rakel McMahon, displayed in the windows of the Culture Centre of Political Critic during the festival “The Cultural
Appearances of Iceland” Warsaw, Poland.
2010 “Plastic is forever”, installation and performance on ALT_CPH in space, at Fabrikken for Kunst and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 “Skrílinn gegn ákæruvaldinu”, 2 paintings showed on a group exhibition in the Living Art Museum, supporting the cause of the RVK 9, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010 “Are you afraid of big brother? Remember his little sister”, photo-collage printed on a window stickers, made in collaboration with Rakel McMahon, displayed on Laugarvegur 22, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010 “Sýna málverk, sýna skúlptúr, nr 2.” painting, sculptures and installation in collaboration with Katrínu I. Jónsdóttur, Gallery Crymo, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2010 “Replacing the View – Hverfisgata”, photo-collage printed on a window sticker, made in collaboration with Rakel McMahon, displayed on Hverfisgata 61, Reykjavík, Ísland.
2010 “Pulse”, installation with sculptures made out of sugar in Gallery 69, Oslo, Norway.
2009 “Singing over bones”, performance, on Sultan Eldmóður night at Bakkus, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009 “Weeping over bones”, “The Bounty Hunter & the Whistling Heart of Dixie” and “A letter to Mihai from Una”, 3 video works screened on “No Soul for Sale- A Festival Of Independents”, at X Initiative, New York, United States. Also screened on a video festival in Gallery Box, Akureyri, Iceland.
2009 “Point zero”, installation, video and performances on the show “Opið; til eru hræ”, in collaboration with Katrín I. Jónsdóttir, Eva Berger and Rakel McMahon, in Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. During 5 weeks we worked in the gallery and used it as a studio and a meeting point of different art forms; dance, theater, music, video and poetry. The visitors could see art works in progress and take part of multiple events.
2008 June-August, “Sub Rosa-investigation”, an art project made in collaboration with Saga Ásgeirsdóttir, Reykjavik City and immigrants in Iceland. The aim of the project was to explore and introduce the sub cultures of immigrants in Reykjavík, Iceland. The result, “Viewpoint”, a video installation was shown at Borgarbókasafn Reykjavíkur in connection with Culture Night of Reykjavik City, Iceland.
2008 “Viva” outdoor-installation on the graduation show of The Iceland Academy of the Arts in Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2008 “I like porn, you like spring”, sculptures on “Hardware/Software” in Skaftfell Art Centre, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
2007 “Siblings”, “Laughter”, “Little Red Riding Hood & the Wolf” and “Group”, video works screened on Uhoco/Multiplace-video festival, Brno, Czech Republic.
2006 June-August, “Grísalappalísur”, performances and sculptures made by the group “Grísalappalísu”, Una Björk Sigurðardóttir, Rósa Valtingojer, Steinunn Gunnlausdóttir and Saga Ásgeirsdóttir, in collaboration with Reykjavik City.
2006 “Drifted by sea”, outdoor-installation on “Björtum dögum”, an Art Festival of Hafnafjarðarbæjar, Hafnafjarðarbær, Iceland.
2006 “Bloodmilk”, performance, on a performance night at the Living Art museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2004 July-September, “The never existing band”, performance theater, in collaboration with Hrafnhildur I. Thoroddsen, Lúkas Bogdan Stencel, Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir and Saga Ásgeirsdóttir, at Brunnenstrasse 183, Berlin, Germany.
Grants
2011 Egill Skallagrímsson, The embassy of Iceland in London.
2011 Muggur, travel grant, SÍM.
2010 CIA, Center of Icelandic Art
2010 Menningar og ferðamálasvið, Reykjavík city.
Residencies
2012 Estudio Nómada (http://www.estudio-nomada.com/?estudioLocation=barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.
2012 Haisyakkei (http://haisyaku.jugem.jp/), a residency program in collaboration with Toride Art Prodject, Toride, Japan.
2008 Skaftafell residency program in collaboration with the Diether Roth Academy and the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.
Published Works
2007 “Ævintýri sjúklegu stelpunnar”, “Sjúklega stelpan drepur” og “Sápusögur”, 3 poetry/comic books published by Flugfiskar, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Other
2004 Street performances in Berlin and Barcelona.
2005 Props for the Summer Opera.
2007 Poetry readings on the International Poetry festival of Nýhil.
2008 Poetry readings on the International Poetry festival of Nýhil. “Gáttir”/”Gateways”, a collection of poems, was published in connection with the festival.
2008 Front page of the Student Magazine and 2 artworks inside the magazine.
2008 “Crisis-cards”, political Christmas-Cards, 12 in a packages, 150 pieces, made in collaboration with Katrín I. Jónsdóttir and Rakel McMahon.
2009 Poetry reading at various poetry nights in connection with Nýhil during the period from august to december.
2009 Poetry reading at poetry and performance night at Útúrdúr, an alternative bookshop.
2010 In collaboration with Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir and town of Stöðvarfjörður, organising the art festival Æringur, which was held in Stöðvarfjörður.
2010 Assisting and co-organising the Art festival “The Cultural Appearances of Iceland” in collaboration with the Polish organisation Political Critic. The festival was held in november in Political Critic’s Culture Centre in Warsaw.