RÓSA GÍSLADÓTTIR

Born in 1957 in Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland

Education
2014         M.Art.Ed., Iceland Akademy of the Arts (IS)
2000-02  MA in Art as Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University,
                  Manchester with Prof. Ian Rawlinson and Prof. Pavel Büchler (UK)
1985-86  Meisterschülerin with Prof. Sir. E. Paolozzi (DE)
1981-86  Diploma, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München (DE)
1977-81  Iceland Akademy of the Arts (IS)

Awards and recidencies
2023        Selected (one of six) to participate in a sculpture competition for The New National Hospital in Iceland (Nýr Landspítali).  
2023        Artist of the Year Nomination, Icelandic Art Prize 2023
2022        Designed and created the award sculpture („Íhlutur“) for the 2022 President of Iceland‘s Export Award (recipient: Efla)
2020        Gerður Helgadóttir Prize for Sculpture 2020    
2020        Closed sculpture competition for Icelandic Regional Development Institute (Byggðastofnun). First Prize. Sauðárkrókur, Iceland
2018        Closed international sculpture competition, Vogabyggð, Reykjavík
2018        Skriðuklaustur, Artist-in-Residence, Iceland
2016        Circolo Scandinavo, Artist-in-Residence, Italy
2013        Closed sculpture competition, HB Grandi, Reykjavík
2011        Closed competition, Litlahlíð, Reykjavik Art Museum
2011        Barbara and Magnús Á. Árnason Art Fund, Iceland
2001        Closed competition for tombstones, Cemeteries of Reykjavík
1995        Krefeld, Artist-in-Residence, Nordrein Westphalen Art Festival, Germany
1988        Artist-in-Residence, Big Scale, Malmö, Sweden
1984        Digital Equipment Art Prize, München, Germany
1981        Svava Finsen Prize, Reykjavík

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023        Gerðarsafn – Kópavogur Art Museum, FORA, Kópavogur, Iceland
2022        The Einar Jónsson Sculpture Museum, Rósa Gísladóttir's Museum in Einar Jónsson's Sculpture Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022        Ásmundarsafn, Spacial Infractions, Reykjavík, Iceland
2020        Skálholtskirkja, Displacement ¬– Rome at Skálholt, Iceland
2019        BERG Contemporary, Medium of Matter, Reykjavík
2015        Hallgrímskirkja, City of God, Reykjavíkv 2013 Harpa, Displacement – Rome/Reykjavík, Reykjavík
2013        LÁ Art Museum, Parallel and Contrary, Rósa Gísladóttir – sculptures in LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
2012        Mercati di Traiano, Come l’acqua come l’oro... Rome
2011        Gallerí Ágúst, The Doubt of Future Foes exiles my present joy... Reykjavík
2009        Galleria 196, Looking at the Overlooked, Rome
2007        Galleria Via Larga, Florence (with Brigitta Reinhardt)
2006        Stadtgalerie Baliere Frauenfeld, Switzerland (with Brigitta Reinhardt)
2004        ASÍ Art Museum, Still life from the Plastic Age, Reykjavík
1999        The Living Art Museum, Still life, Reykjavík
1995        Gallery Birgir Andrésson, Reykjavík (with Brigitta Reinhardt)
1991        State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, New York (with Brigitta Reinhardt)
1989        Gallery Sævar Karl, Reykjavík
1988        Gallery Svart á hvítu, Reykjavík
1984        Reykjavik Art Museum (Kjarvalsstaðir), Reykjavík

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023–24   BERG Contemporary, ´Tis the season…, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023        Reykjavik Art Museum (Hafnarhús), Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art, Reykjavík, Iceland
2023        Living Art Museum, Fragments of Other Knowledge, Reykjavík, Iceland
2020        Hafnarborg Museum, efni:viður – DesignMarch, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2017        Haus der Katholische Aktion, Crossing Borders, Symposium, Salzburg, Austria
2016        United Nations, ART FOR ACTION – Icelandic Art in the service of sustainability, New York
2016        Scandinavia House Gallery, Borrowed Time, New York
2015        Künstlerforum, All Together Now, Bonn, Germany
2015        Reykjavik Art Museum (Kjarvalsstaðir), Women's Time – Here and Now Thirty Years Later, Reykjavík
2015        Soane's Museum, Inspired by Soane: I found this and thought of you... London
2015        Saatchi Gallery, Joanna Bird Collection, Collect 2015, London
2015        Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, Ákall, Hveragerði
2014        Center of Contemporary and Experimental Art (CCEA), Time and Space, Symposium, Jerevan, Armenia
2013        Nordic House, Relate North, Reykjavík
2013        Künstlerforum, Grenzüberschreitungen (Crossing Borders), Symposium, Bonn
2012        Listasafn Árnesinga Art Museum, Pleasure and Functionality, Hveragerði
2010        Reykjavik Art Museum (Hafnarhús), Vanitas, Still-life in Contemporary Icelandic Art, Reykjavík
2009        Second edition, Creative Emergencies, waste, water and energy in international contemporary art, Ravenna, Italy
2007        Cascina Farsetti, Gli artisti si incontrano, Rome
2002        Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2002        Brown Brothers Mill, Walking Distance, Salford, UK
2000        The Coastline 2000, Reykjavík
1997        Sculptors’ Association Anniversary Exhibition, Reykjavík
1991        Ithaca Gun Factory, Art in the Factory, New York
1988        Big Scale, Malmö, Sweden
1987        Reykjavik Art Museum (Kjarvalsstaðir), Icelandic Abstract, Reykjavík
1987        7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition, Budapest
1986        Galerie am Maxwehr, Landshut, Germany
1985        Reykjavik Art Museum (Kjarvalsstaðir), Here and Now, Reykjavík
1985        Kunstzentrum No 66, München

Lectures
2023         “Sacrifice” (tentative title). National Gallery, New Delhi (December 2023)
2023         “FORA”, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland
2023         “Rósa Gísladóttir's Museum in Einar Jónsson's Sculpture Museum”, The Einar Jónsson Sculpture Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022         “Spacial Infractions”, Ásmundarsafn, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019         “Medium of Matter, the making of an exhibition”, Crossing Boarders VI Symposium, Vienna, Austria
2016         “Is Keldur Reliquary from Armenia?” Crossing Boarders IV Symposium, Skálholt, Iceland
2014         “Wie Frei ist ein Künstler”, Symposium in 64. Festival Junger Künstler, Bayreuth, Germany
2014         “Exhibition in Trajans Markets, the making of”, Time and Space, Symposium, (CCEA), Yerevan, Armenia

Grants
2024         Ministry of Culture, 6 month artist stipend, Iceland
2023         Ministry of Culture, 6 month artist stipend, Iceland
2022         Myndstef, project grant, Iceland
2022         Ministry of Culture, 12 month artist stipend, Iceland
2021         Myndstef, project grant, Iceland
2021         The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant, Iceland
2020         Ministry of Culture, 2 month artist stipend
2020         The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant, Iceland
2019         Myndstef, project grant, Iceland
2018         The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant, Iceland
2018         Ministry of Culture, 3 month artist stipend, Iceland
2015         Muggur, travel grant, Iceland
2014         The Visual Arts Fund, Project Grant
2014         Ministry of Culture, 2 month artist stipend
2013         Myndstef, project grant, Iceland
2012         CiAl (Consorzio Imbaggalli Aluminio), grant for exhibition in Rome
2012         Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, grant for exhibition in Rome
2012         Promote Iceland, grant for exhibition in Rome
2012         Ministry of Culture, 6 month artist stipend
2012         CIA, Spontaneous Support, Iceland
2012         Muggur, travel grant
2010         Ministry of Culture, 12 month artist stipend
2009         Kópavogur, Stipendium, Iceland
2009         Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, Stipendium
2009         CIA, Spontaneous Support
2009         Myndstef, project grant, Iceland
2000         Ministry of Culture, 12 month artist stipend
1996         Ministry of Culture, 6 month artist stipend

Public collections
        The National Gallery of Iceland (IS)
        Reykjavik Art Museum (IS)
        Icelandair Art collection (IS)
        Harpa Concert Hall (IS)
        Garðabær Conservatory (IS)
        Icelandic Regional Development Institute (IS)

For more information, please visit
www.bergcontemporary.is