Sigrun Lydsdottir (b. 1980)
sigrun.lyds at gmail.com
Education
MA Master Media Design Lens Based, Piet Zwart, Rotterdam NL, 2016 - 2018
BA Performance Design (Honours), Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Liverpool, UK, 1999 - 2002
Exhibitions and Screenings
2018 The Family of No Man, group show, Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, FR
2018 Excavating Empathy, group show, The Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Research Lab, The Utopian Dystopian, group show, The Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam NL
2017 Lens-Based Cohort Screening, Kino, Rotterdam NL
2017 Visuals for Overview for Roger Goula, Shoreditch House, London UK
2017 Research Lab, Rise and Shine! This Must Be Happiness ,The Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam NL
2009 700IS Reindeerland, Experimental Art Festival, Sláturhúsið, Egilsstaðir IS
2009 Vídeóhátíð (Video festival), GalleryBOXi, Akureyri IS
2008 Get RVK, group show, Kaaber húsið, Reykjavík IS
2008 700.is Reindeerland, Experimental Art Festival, Sláturhúsið, Egilsstaðir IS
2007 Cultural Festival, Seltjarnarnes IS
2007 Reykjavík Winter Festival, Group show, Kartefluhlaðan, Reykjavik 2007
2006 Sequences real time art festival, Reykjavík IS
2005 Capturing Hydro, Frognerparken, Oslo NO
Nomination
2018 Nominated for WdKA Masters Research Award
Commissions:
2008 Permanent video installation for Gullfoss (Radisson Blu), Reykjavík IS
2008 Video installations for Einvera, Reykjavík IS
2008 Video murals for an event for Exista, Reykjavík IS
2007 Permanent video installation, Jolene, Copenhagen DK
2005 Photography Project for Hydro NO
Other Experience
2009 - now Mother of two boys, Sindri born 2009 and Stormur born 2015
2009 - 2016 Commercial work for advertising companies and TV stations. Doing Animation, moving graphics, visual effects, graphic design on various projects.
2005 - 2006 Trip around the world, where I took extensive photos and video. Also VJd in New Zealand.
Published
2007 Eyelove Iceland, produced and published a DVD with Icelandic Video Art.
Member of:
Association of Icelandic Artists, SÍM http://www.sim.is
Women in Film and Television in Iceland, WIFT http://www.wift.is