Haraldur Jónsson’s CV

Studies

1991-1992 Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
1990 Meisterschüler
1987-1990 Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1984-1987 Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Iceland
1983-1984 The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts
1982-1983 Arts Plastiques, Université d´Aix en Provence, France

Solo Shows (selection)

2010 TSOYL, the book, Útúrdúr, Iceland
2009 Aural Constellations, Nuna-Now, Gimli, Canada
2009 Projection, The Wake, Akureyri, Iceland
2008 Flicker whatever, SudSudVestur, Keflavik, Iceland
2008 Darklight, ASI Museum, Reykjavik
2008 Öffnung, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
2007 Ode, Foundations of Music Hall, Reykjavik(with Olof Bjornsdottir), Sequences
2007 Crumpled Darkness, Ardbia Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2006 Development, Skaftfell, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2005 Diagrams and Emotional Models, 101 Gallery, Reykjavik
2005 The Story of Your Life, The National Museum, Iceland
2005 Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Municipal Museum, Reykjavik Art Festival
2005 Cul de Sacs, The Corridor, Reykjavik
2004 Psychosomatic Sculptures, BANANANAS, Reykjavik
2004 Surface Sense, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
2003 Galaxies and black holes, Gallery I8, Reykjavik
2001 Black Eye, Artist on The Corner, Reykjavik
2000 Chamber Music, Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway
1999 Anatomy of Feelings 2, Gallery oneoone, Reykjavik
1998 Anatomy of Feelings 1, Nordisk Konstnarsenter, Dalsåsen, Norway
1997 Interiors, Gallery I8, Reykjavik
1997 Returning letters, Rivedal / Grendahuset, Norway
1997 Oxygen Wall, Slunkariki Gallery, Isafjordur, Iceland
1996 Municipal Museum, Reykjavik
1995 Galerie Van den Berge, Goes, Holland
1994 Living Art Museum
1994 The Corridor, Reykjavik
1993 Budir, Snaefellsnes, Iceland
1993 Galerie IN SITU, Aalst, Belgium
1990 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

Group Shows (selection)

2010 Alternative Eye, Kjarvalsstaðir, Iceland
2010 Vanitas, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 Reality Check, Reykjavik, Iceland
2010 Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Hamm, Germany
2009 Volcano Lovers, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
2009 Survival in Sea, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
2009 No Soul for Sale, X Initiative, New York, USA
2009 We Know More Than We Can Tell, Context Gallery,Derry, N-Ireland
2008 Moment of Truth, Sequences, Reykjavik
2008 It´s Not Your Fault, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
2008 Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum
2008 Silence, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik
2008 Drawings, Hoffman Gallery, Reykjavik
2006 Aceart Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. With Steingrimur Eyfjord
2006 Sequences, Reykjavík
2006 EILAND, Grotta, Iceland
2006 In Order of Appearance, Living Art Museum.
2006 Word Music, Gallery Lobster or Fame, Reykjavik
2006 Homesick, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
2006 The Other Side of Things, BUS gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 KBB, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Images of the North, Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavik
2005 Mythos und Melankolie, CAC, Cologne, Germany
2004 Gallery Kuckei-Kuckei, Berlin, Germany.
2004 Ijs/Ice, Museum Dhont Dhaens, Deurle, Belgium.
2004 Violence of Tone, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
2004 Videoabende, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany
2003 HUS, Project, Dublin, Ireland
2003 5th Romanian Biennal, Iasi, Romania
2003 Illuminated Emotions, Reykjavik Light Festival
2002 Different Times, Alaska Greenhouse, Reykjavik
2002 Projections (with Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir) Warner Studios, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Self Esteem, CCA, Vilnius, Lithuania
2001 Remedy for Melancholy, Edsvik, Sweden
2000 Power of Light, Helsinki, Finland
2000 CASE, art meets design, Reykjavik
2000 The Coast, Reykjavik
2000 Under the Same Sky, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2000 7/6, Graz, Austria
2000 Hors la Carte, CRAC, Sete, France
1999 Fin de Siecle, National Gallery, Iceland
1999 Death Wish, Akureyri Art Museum
1999 6/7, Austria-Iceland, Living Art Museum
1999 FIRMA ´99
1999 Heartbeat, a traveling exhibition through the main hospitals around Iceland
1998 Stations to Stations, Living Art Museum
1998 In the Skin, Living Art Museum
1998 International Red Cross College, Norway, performance with Kjartan Slettemark
1998 AFSE Studio Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Chrymogaea, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997 Roundabout, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
1997 International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii
1997 A4, Bergen, Norway
1996 The Secret Life of Icelanders (with Kristin Omarsdottir), UTV Moskau, Wien, Frankfurt, Chicago, Stuttgart, Berlin, London, München, Lüneburg, Paris, Köln,Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Bad Tölz, New York and Reykjavik
1996 TUKT, The Sidumuli Prison, Reykjavik
1996 Gallery Van den Berge, Goes, Holland
1995 Icelandic Art 1900-1995, Reykjavik Municipal Museum
1995 Contemporary Icelandic Art, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1994 HAUL, St. Katherines Docks, London
1995 17 years, Living Art Museum
1994 Sculpture/Sculpture/Sculpture, Reykjavik Art Festival
1993 New Acquisitions, National Gallery, Iceland
1993 Situation ´93, Reykjavík-Cologne, Living Art Museum, with Roberto Ohrt, Dietrich Dietrichsen, Paschutan Buzari and Steingrimur Eyfjord
1992 ISLAND-IJSLAND, DA Goes, Vlissingen, Middelburg, Holland
1992 AURORA 5, Joensuu, Finland
1991 EUROPE UNKNOWN, Cracau, Poland
1990 Spielmühle, Salzburg, Austria
1989 Staattheater, Remscheid, Germany

Writings

NOT, a love story, Bjartur Publishing 2001
Ectoplasms, monologues, Bjartur Publishing 1998
An Empty Apartment, radio play, Icelandic Broadcasting Service, 1996
Sometimes always, prose, Bjartur Publishing 1995

Collections

Reykjavik Municipal Museum, Iceland
National Gallery, Iceland
Living Art Museum, Iceland
National Museum, Iceland
Art Museum of the University of Iceland
Icelandair Art collection
Grendahuset, Rivedal, Norway
Private Collections in Iceland, Germany, Holland, Spain, England and USA