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Artist Statement:
artist statement is an abstract story. |
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the bug in the
shower floating towards the drain in the steamed up mirror soldiers
click heels in dirty blood under the windows of lowering helicopters
reflecting the super model’s glossy stilts on fuchsia runway where
the mouse ate the poison as the old woman in sap green cardigan,
orange button missing, reached out for the baby in blue long gone
home to mother polar bear and the swing came back before the girl in
rose jumped and ran from the playground as the ancestors began
disappearing and the noise from the empty buildings echoed on the dark
cliffs in the dense reddish distance; the dandelions are over. |
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Resume: |
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Education: |
MFA. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
M.A. Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia,
England
B.Ed. University Teachers College of Iceland |
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Awards& Grants: |
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2005 |
Individual Artist Award Nominee, The Richard H. Driehouse Foundation,
Chicago. |
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2004 |
American Scandinavian Foundation |
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2003 |
Myndstef, travel grant
Residency Fellowship, Hafnarborg Art Museum, Iceland
Residency Fellowship SÍM, Union of Icelandic Artist, Reykjavík,
Iceland |
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2002 |
Honorary Mention, School of the Art Institute Graduation Fellowship |
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2001 |
Nippon Steel /USA Residential Award
Teaching Assistantship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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2000 |
Teaching Assistantship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Scholarship from the Soroptimists of Europe
Residency Fellowship at Hafnarborg Art Museum, Iceland
Parson Group, Student Award
Nippon Steel /USA Residential Award |
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1999 |
Bryan Lathrop Fellowship. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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1984 |
Foreign & Commonwealth Official Scholarship & Award Scheme |
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Solo Exhibitions: |
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2009 |
the dandelions are over: New Paintings
& Installation by Anna Jóelsdóttir,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2008 |
NEXT
Art Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL |
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2007 |
2007 LOOPTOPIA, Sticks-Installation/Performance, Macy’s storefront
window,
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Invitational, curated by Angelique
Williams |
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2006 |
heima? / home?,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
heima? / home?,
ASÍ
Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland |
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2005 |
space/time,
New Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York |
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2004 |
SubCity Projects, Chicago, 25 Sticks, an installation of 3D
paintings
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 42ºN/ 66ºN, Staci Boris,
curator |
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2003 |
Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, Iceland, Flutter/Flökt
SIM Gallery, Reykjavík,
Iceland
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago |
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2000 |
Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, Iceland |
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Group Exhibitions: |
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2009 |
Whimsical Impetus, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
Clusterf@#k,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2008 |
Infrastructure,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
STRAUMAR,
ASI Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Quarter Century of Art at Hafnarborg,
Hafnarfjörður Institute of Culture and Fine Art,
Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Group Think,
Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2007 |
Art Miami, Miami,
FL
Summer Show ‘07,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Works, Group Show,
Lillstreet Art
Center, Chicago, IL
Group,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2006 |
“Land Escape”,
River East Art Center, Chicago curated by Joseph Tabet
Open House Project, Evanston,
curated by Jodie Jacobi
Summer Show '06,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Six Degrees of Separation,
Stefan Stux
Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago, International Contemporary Art Fair, Zg Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
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2005 |
Beijing Biennial, Beijing, China, catalog
Zg Gallery Chicago, “Working Process”
Evanston Art Center,
Invisible Worlds,
Curated by Shona Macdonald, Evanston, IL
The Living Art Museum, curator: Ransu, Reykjavík, Iceland, Cataloge |
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2004 |
Evanston Biennial, Monique Meloche & Dominic Molon,
curators
Higher Gallery,
Chicago,
Touch, Ed Schad, curator
Feltre School, Chicago, Collegiere/To Collect |
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2003 |
Prater Rouse Gallery,
Norfolk,
Virginia, Tabla Rasa
The Open Gallery,
Reykjavík,
Iceland
Fassbender Gallery,
Chicago |
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2002 |
Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, “New Talent”
MFA Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago
Nippon Steel/ U.S.A. Residential Award Exhibition.
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2001 |
Hotel Show, Embassy Suites,
Chicago
Parson Group Award Exhibition, Partners in the
Arts Project,
Chicago
Nippon Steel/ U.S.A. Residential Award Exhibition.
Chicago |
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2000 |
Gerðuberg Center for Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
Chicago Art Open Student Show |
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1999 |
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Spring exhibition |
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1995 |
West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, Wisconsin
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Bibliography & Publications: |
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2007 |
ArtStyle Chicago, web magazine,
chicagoarts-lifestyle.com |
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2006 |
"Anna Joelsdottir: Heima Home" by Audry Mast, Flavorpill Chicago,
Issue 108, October 10, 2006
"Finding Order in Chaos," by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader,
September 15, v.35, no. 52, sec. 2
"The Start of New Art," by Joanne Hinkel, Center Stage Chicago,
August 28, 2006
"Gallery Beat," Style
Chicago, September 1, 2006 |
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2005 |
LIST #3, CIA.is - Contemporay Icelandic Art . Web Magazine.
“Morgunblaðið,
(Icelandic newspaper)p.39
NEW YORKER, Review July 4, p.21
“Morgunblaðið” (Icelandic newspaper) May 21 , p.63
“Morgunblaðið”
(Icelandic
newspaper). Review. Feb.21. p. 37
Living Art Museum
Reykjavík, Iceland.
Exhibition Catalogue.
Evanston Art Center, catalogue |
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2004 |
ART PAPERS. Review by Michelle Grabner, Nov/Dec issue, p.50
“Morgunblaðið.”
Interview. August 13
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Summer Catalogue. |
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2003 |
“Morgunblaðið.”
Review. August, 2003
“Fréttablaðið” (Icelandic newspaper). August, 2003
New American Painting, The Open Studio Press. No. 47, Staci
Boris, curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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2001 |
“Back to the Books,” American Artist. January, 2001 |
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2000 |
Morgunblaðið.” Review,
March 28, 2000
“Dagblaðið” (Icelandic newspaper), Review,
April 10, 2000 |
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1987 |
I Have Feelings. Series of photographs and a Teacher’s Guide.
National
Center for Educational Materials of
Iceland. |
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