SIGRUN LYDSDOTTIR (b. 1980)
+354 8617139 - sigrun.lyds@gmail.com - www.sigrunlyds.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
2019 Solo exhibition, Sometime, Anne and Haiken, Rotterdam, NL
2019 Ohzo, Group Exhibition with Monday Collective, Wijcoop, Rotterdam, NL
2019 Commune Exhibition Art Rotterdam, group exhibtion, The Commune, Rotterdam, NL
2018 The Family of No Man, group exhibition, Cosmos Arles Books, Arles, FR
2018 Reflex Action, Graduation Exhibition, Piet Zwart Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 Excavating Empathy, group exhibition curated by Shimon Attie, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Research Lab, The Utopian Dystopian, group exhibition, 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, Sláturhúsi›, Egilssta›ir IS
2009 Vídeóhátí› (Video festival), GalleryBOXi, Akureyri IS
2008 Get RVK, group show, Kaaber húsi›, Reykjavík IS
2008 700.is Reindeerland, Experimental Art Festival, Sláturhúsi›, Egilssta›ir IS
2007 Cultural Festival, Seltjarnarnes IS
2007 Reykjavík Winter Festival, Group show, Kartefluhla›an, Reykjavik IS
NOMINATION
2018 Nominated for WdKA Masters Research Award
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2016 Commercial work for advertising companies and TV stations. Doing Animation,
moving graphics, visual effects, graphic design on various projects.
MEMBER OF
Monday Collective, Rotterdam
Association of Icelandic Artists, SÍM http://www.sim.is
Women in Film and Television in Iceland, WIFT http://www.wift.is
PUBLISHING
2007 Eyelove Iceland, produced and published a DVD with Icelandic Video Art.
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