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Past Resident
2023: The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association, Gallery Gudmundsdottir, Icelandic Art Fund

Artist

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir explores social engagement, connections and ideas between socio-economic systems and the environment through installations, paintings, sculptures, objects, photographs, film, and performances. Gudnadóttir’s multidisciplinary practice connects the artist’s personal perspective to global histories.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir has exhibited work at Berlinische Galerie, Germany; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany; and Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Maess Anand and Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir

March 28, 2023, 6–7:30pm

Part of a series of 5 photographs teased from an archive of research photographs for the SILICA art practice as research project that traces the manufacturing of semiconductors for solar cells. Oceanic transport is large part of that process.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, S-I-L-I-C-A 02, 2022, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 47³/₁₆ × 31¹/₂ in. (119.89 × 80.01 cm)

A Keep Frozen installation of 11 paintings and a found ghostnet and a nautical rope arrranged in a constellation for Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters group exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanin, Berlin. Photo credit: Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Keep Frozen was a long-term research process with multiple outcomes.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Keep Frozen, 2021, ship paint on aluminum plates, dimensions variable.

A Keep Frozen video work. Cinematic documentation of a 48 hours dock workers performance in a former power station in Leipzig, Germany. Performance developed in collaboraton with dock workers abstracting their usual labor tasks of moving boxes from one pile to the other in an endless choregraphed rhythm. Their performance as well as the performance of the film crew was open to the public.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Labor Move, 2016, 3-channel video, 14 min.

Part of series of experiments with the qualities of the material of charcoal. Existing on the line of painting and drawing each work is unique. Part of the SILICA art practice as research project. Mining and use of coal plays an important part in the project.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Untitled, 2023, charcoal on archival paper, 16¹/₂ × 11¹¹/₁₆ in. (41.91 × 29.72 cm)

Part of the SILICA art practice as research project. Purer silicon is created in factory smelters where the silicon and oxygen in a silicon dioxide compound is seperated by combining carbon with the dioxide. The outcome is a lustrous metalloid, neither a rock nor a metal and both.

Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir, Untitiled, 2023, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper, 16 × 16 in. (40.64 × 40.64 cm)

Residents from Iceland

Bjargey Ólafsdóttir

Iceland

Icelandic Art Center, Myndstef, Penninn, City of Reykjavik

2009

Hildur Bjarnadóttir

Iceland

Ingunn Wernersdóttir

2008

Jon Bergmann Kiartansson Ransu

Iceland

Gallery Turpentine, Icelandic Art Center, Ministry of Science, Education and Culture

2006

Ireland

Past Resident
2023: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin

Artist

Aideen Barry

Aideen Barry is a multidisciplinary artist whose modes of expression include performance, moving image, and sculptural manifestations. Using visual tricks to intensify the suspension of reality, Barry explores subjects such as domestic labor, examinations of class, otherness, environmental change, and human vulnerability.

Aideen Barry has exhibited work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kazten Center at American University Museum, Washington D.C.; and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Aideen Barry and Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia

March 14, 2023, 6–7pm

Aideen Barry, Béal (All Silent but for the Buzzing ) & The Monachopsis Drawing Editions, 2021, sound and architectural installation, dimensions variable