Biography






Sigrún Gyða Sveinsdóttir (b. 1993, Iceland)

Visual artist, singer and a project manager based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Reykjavík, Iceland


sigrun93@gmail.com
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Education

Sandberg Instituut, MFA, Resolution, Moving Image NL (2019-2021)

Kópavogur Music Academy, classical singing, IS (2012-2019)

Iceland University of the Arts, BA, Fine Arts, IS (2014, 2016, 2017)

Famu, BA, Photography and Film, CZ (2015-2016)


Internship and courses

2018 Internship at Ari Benjamin Meyers composer, Berlin

2018 Internship at Ólafur Ólafsson and Libia Castro, Berlin

2016-2018 Improv 1-3 and musical improv 1-2, Improv Ísland  

2016 Dama, Latvia, 360° video art

2016 Dama, Estonia, scenography


A selections of exhibitions and projects

2021 The Wheel, Reykjavík, Iceland. 

2021 But Now I’m Under Water, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

2020 Performer in Sechnsucht by Liina Magnea at Tanznacht, Ufer Studios, Berlin, Germany

2021 Fokhelt, Ísafjörður, Iceland. 

2019 Solid bodies, Celsius Project Space, Malmö, Sweden.

2019 Everything at the same time, Hafnarborg, Iceland. 

2019 Op., SÍM húsið, Iceland. 

2019 All is fair, Kling og Bang, Iceland.

2019 I want you to draw me like one of your french girls, Harbinger, Reykjavík, Iceland. 

2018 How to be a teenager in Borgarnes (for the general public): Audio Tour, Plan B Art festival, Borgarnes, Iceland. 


2019-2021 Plan-B Art festival, project management and curator. Borgarnes, iceland


Artwork owned by public museums/galleries

2020 I want you to draw me like one of your French girls, owned by Reykjavík Art Museum.


Grants

2020 Iceland art association, travel grant.

2018, Myndlistarsjóður fyrir verkefnið ,,Graf” w. Rannveig Jónsdóttir

2017, Skapandi sumarstörf, grant w. Rannveig Jónsdóttir

2015, Heiti pottur Hins hússins, grant w. Berglind Erna Tryggvadóttir


Other

2021 MC at the karaoke at LungA art festival 2021, performance

2019 Residency at Röstin, Langanes, east Iceland.

2019 Leading a workshop in character making in opera (with Bergur Thomas Anderson)

2019 DJ Amma Deus, MC at the karaoke at LungA art festival 2019, performance

2018 Cycle, hljóð og myndlistarhátíð, assistant project manager. Berlin and Reykjavík

2018 Cycles, music performance at Reykjavík Fringe Festival, Reykjavík 2018 LungA pre party, Neutral Third performance á Húrra, Reykajvík 2018 Babel, Sara Björg Bjarnadóttir, performance, Berlin

2016 Sálnasafn, Gjörningaklúbburinn, Every body’s spectacular,performance, Reykjavík 2016 Sálufélagar, theater show by Nína Hjálmarsdóttur, costumes and set design, Reykjavík

2015 I will not make any more boring art, John Baldessari, Nýlistasafnið, Reykjavík


 

Sigrún Gyða 2021