Education
2018 - 2021 Iceland University of the Arts (IUA), BA-degree
Fine Arts department.
2019 Athens School of Fine Art (ASFA), Erasmus student
Sculpture department.
Solo exhibitions
2023 Helsinki International Art Programme (HIAP) — Pleasure Isle (FI)
2023 The Nordic House — Possible oddkin (IS)
2022 Ásmundarsalur — Deeper (IS)
2022 Nýp — Steady now, everything in its place (IS)
2021 The Settlement Center — Hybrids (IS)
Selected group exhibitions
2023 The Nordic House — Sequences XI festival (IS)
2023 Reykjanesbær Art Museum — Dedication (IS)
2023 Ásmundarsalur — December-show (IS)
2023 Vane Gallery — Closed Enough (UK)
2023 The Living Art Museum — Goodgonebadwrong (IS)
2022 ARoS Aarhus Art Museum — Flux factory (DK)
2022 Skaftfell Art Center — Alter (IS)
2022 Akureyri Art Museum — Thirsty Beings (IS)
2022 Akureyri Art Museum — The turnip (IS)
2021 Reykjavík Art Museum — On purpose (IS)
2021 Institute for (X) — The Museum of Natural Non-History (DK)
2020 MEME Athens — Soup Opera (GR)
Grants
2023, 2024 Artists’ salary Fund: 3 & 6 months.
2021, 2022, 2023 Icelandic Visual Arts Fund.
2019 Rannís: Icelandic Center for Research Fund.
Interviews (linked)
2022 Hús og hillbilly: Þórir og Brák í Freyjulundi lifa með árstíðunum.
2022 Artzine: Blætismenning garðyrkjunnar.
2021 Streymi Listaháskóla Íslands: Einkasýning Brákar Jónsdóttur.
Job experience within the field of art and culture
2012 - present Alþýðuhúsið, Siglufjörður — Co-director
A family/artist-run cultural institution and a home gallery for contemporary art in Siglufjörður, Northern Iceland.
2019 - 2021 Artist’s books in Iceland, Reykjavík— Researcher
A research project on the birth of artist’s books in Iceland and the international network that surrounded them.
2015 - 2017 Kaktus, Akureyri — Co-founder/curator
An artist-run cultural space for underground/grass root and experimental projects and festivals in Akureyri, Northern Iceland.