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Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson

bryndis@btinternet.com
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www.snaebjornsdottirwilson.com

Selected solo exhibitions and events

2009 -

Radio Animal:

Interspecies, London, 1st - 4th October 2009

Lancaster, Market Square, 23rd October 2009

Egremont Crab Fair, 19th September 2009

British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Broughton Game Fair 28th of June

Appleby Horse Fair and Lancaster Garden and Country Fair 4th-6th June 2009

Lancaster Garden and Country Fair, 4th-7th June 2009

2009 -

between you and me:

Kalmar Museum, Kalmar Sweden, 29th August - 24th October 2009

Pod Space Gallery Newcastle, Sydney Australia, 12th July - 2nd August 2009

Glashuset, Gothenburg 27th March to 12th April

 

2007 -

Flu(y)ga, Konstmuseum Gothenburg, 28th April to 4th June 2007

2006 -

(a)fly - between nature & culture, National Museum of Iceland & Reykjavík City Library, Reykjavík Art Festival 14th May to 11th June 2006

2004 -

“Big Mouth” Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

2003 -

There are some things you have to know - 300m3, Göteborg, Sweden

2003 -

vogguvisur/lullabies - Hafnarhusid, Reykjavík City Museum. Iceland

1999 -

home - Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland

1999 -

Littoral - Maritime Museum, Exeter – solo residency/group exhibition

 

nanoq: flat out and bluesome, Photographic Installations and events

2010 -

Manchester Museum, UK, 15th of February 2010 to 11th of July 2010

2004 -

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum 28th November 2009 to 9th of January 2010

2009 -

Grenna Museum, Sweden 13th of June to 13th of September

2009 -

New Walk Museum, Leicester 24th January to 5th April 2009

2008 -

Scott Polar Research Institute, 13th May to 20th August 2008

2007 -

Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway, 30th November 07 to 1st of September 08

2007 -

Nordic House, Faroe Islands, 14th March to 30th April 2007

2006/7 -

Horniman Museum, London Oct 06 – March 2007

2006/7 -

Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen, Sept 06 – Feb 2007

2006 -

nanoq, installation and book launch, Valand School of Art, Gothenburg

2006 -

Sensi(a)ble Spaces, Askja, The Centre for Natural Sciences, University of Iceland

2006 -

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol

2004 -

University Museum of Natural History, Oxford

2004 -

nanoq: flat out and bluesome (installation) Spike Island, Bristol

2004 -

White Out a conference organised by the artists and Spike Island with talks by Ivars Silis, Dr. Steve Baker, Dr. Garry Marvin and Michelle Henning

Selected group exhibitions and events:

2009 -
Interspecies, Art Catalyst - The A Foundation, London, UK

2008 -

HEAT, Art and Climate Change, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2008 -

Animal Gaze, London Metropolitan University, London touring to Plymouth, Exeter

2008 -

Bye, Bye, Iceland, Akureyri Art Museum

2007 -

Icelandic SealCenter, Iceland. 26st June to 31st August 2007

2006/07 -

Lowood Collection 2007, Lowood Gallery, England (to March 2007)

2006 -

Sequences, International real time festival, video screening, Simm House, Hafnarstræti, Reykjavík

2005 -

animal, Lowood Gallery, England

2002 -

Living Landscape: European Topographies, curated by An Tuireann, Skye and West Cork Arts Centre - group exhibition

Forthcoming Events and Exhibitions

2010 -

Residency Galleri Svalbard,, April 2010

2010 -

Uncertainty in the City, Publication, the Green Box, Berlin, October 2010

2010 -

Uncertainty in the City, Exhibition, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, drawn from research 2007-10 (September 2010)

Publications:

2009 -

Spaces of Encounter: Art and Revision in Human – Animal Relations published by Art Monitor.

2009 -

A Safe Passage in Centrifuge Art Prize Publication, Salford University England

2009 -

Transmission: HOST, published by Sheffield Hallam University

2008 -

HEAT, Art and Climate Change, published by RMIT

2008 -

BIPOLAR, Published by Arts Catalyst, edited by Kathryn YusofF

2006 -

nanoq flat out and bluesome, A Cultural Life of Polar Bears, Publication, Black Dog Publishing

2006 -

(a)fly – flug (a; 84 page book ) featuring research and documentation of the project with essays by Dr. Karl Benediktsson, Ron Broglio, Mika Hannula and the artists

2004 -

Big Mouth – 84 page book, featuring research and documentation of three recent project by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, with essays by Juan Cruz, Dr. Nikos Papastergiadis, Dr.Francis McKee and the artists, published by Tramway, Glasgow and CIA

2004 -

Freefall – Arts Council England publication. Essay on the artists, entitled Temporary Migration by Nikos Papastergiadis

2004 -

Big Issue, no 581 nanoq flat out and bluesome

2004 -

Artist’s Newsletter (May issue) nanoq flat out and bluesome

2004 -

Saga Magazine, Frozen in Time, Nigel Blundell

2003 -

NatSCAN (Natural Sciences Collections Association) issue #1. Article: nanoq: flat out and bluseome

2003 -

vogguvisur/lullabies, exhibition publication for Hafnarhusid, Reykjavik City Museum. Iceland. Essay by Juan Cruz

1999 -

home - Artists’ book published for Slunkariki, Isafjördur Iceland. Edition 200

Selection of recently published articles

2009 -

Animals and Society (Australia) Study Group News Bulleting, June

2009 -

reCollection the Journal of the National Museum of Australia, Dr. Libby Robin

2009 -

Modern Painters, March

2008 -

Art Artistic Research and the Animal Question Art Monitor, No.3. with Dr. Helena Pedersen

2008 -

Antannae, Issue 8, Winter

2008 -

Antannae, Issue 6, Summer

2007 -

Snæbjörndóttir/Wilson with Dr. Steve Baker, www.artand research.org.uk

2007 -

Polar bear: Lost and Found, Current TV broadcast

2005 -

Saga Magazine, Frozen in Time, Nigel Blundell

2003 -

NatSCAN (Natural Sciences Collections Association) issue number one.

Selection of recently published reviews

2009 -

nanoq in http://www.opinia.co.uk written by Marzena Parzymies (February)

2009 -

nanoq:flat out and bluesome, A Cultural Life of Polar Bears by Ruby Russell

2008 -

Get Polarized, in the Herald Sun Australia by Sally Bennett

2008 -

Changing the artistic climate, in the Critics, by Andrew Stephens (6-9-09)

2007 -

Cultural Geographies in Practice, Review by Dr. David Matless

2007 -

New Scientist: February 17, p. 48 Second Sight

2007 -

frieze magazine: June/July/August p. 263 Great White Bear, Andrew Dodds

2007 -

Art and Research, Sam Stead

2007 -

List 11, cia.is

2007 -

The Royal Photographic Society Journal, December/January Vol. 146. Iss10

Residencies& Research

2007 -

Storey Gallery, Lancaster Research August - September

2002 -

Arts Council England - International Fellowship, Melbourne, Australia

2002 -

Straumur Hafnarfirdi, Iceland

2001 -

Residency NIFCA Qaqortoq, Greenland

1999 -

Site/Space/location/Place, Littoral, Maritime Museum, Exeter, England

Awards:

2008 -

Henry Moore Foundation for Uncertainty in the City

2008 -

University of Cumbria Research Grant for Uncertainty in the City

2007 -

Art Council of England

2007 -

Arnulfska foundation, Sweden

2006 -

Art Council of England, Research award

2006 -

Cumbria Institute of the Arts research award ((a)fly in my soup)

2006 -

British Council award

2005 -

City of Reykjavík. Research award

2005 -

Cumbria Institute of the Arts research award

2004 -

Cumbria Institute of the Arts research award

2003 -

Henry Moore Institute, award

2003 -

ACE national touring, major award

2003 -

Arts and Business award

2002 -

Arts Council England International Fellowship Award at VCA, Melbourne, Australia & Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford

2002 -

SAC, assistant grant for nanoq – flat out and bluesome

2001 -

British Council award

2001 -

North West Arts, small assistance grant

2000 -

Nordic Institute for Contemporary Arts Residency award