Curriculum Vitae

Einar Falur Ingólfsson
Born 1966, Keflavík, Iceland


Education
1994 MFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York
1991 BA in Comparative Literature, University of Iceland


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Conversations with Sigfús Eymundsson, National Museum of Iceland.

2024 Look of the Sky - A Weather Diary, Akureyri Art Museum.

2022 About Time – Diary of 20 Months. BERG Contemporary Gallery, Reykjavík.

2018 (Full House) / Empty House, Gangurinn / The Corridor – Two exhibitions, Gangurinn – Reykjavík and Gangurinn – Hofsós.

2017    Landsýn / Land Seen, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður.

2017    Griðastaðir / Sanctuary, Ketilhúsið, Akureyri Art Museum.

2016    Blik paa Island – Travels with Johannes Larsen. Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark.

2015 Shelters, Oslo8 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2014 Reykjanesbrautin, Listamenn gallerí, Reykjavík.

2012 Saga-Sites: Landscapes of the Icelandic Sagas; W.G. Collingwood and Einar Falur Ingólfsson. Scandinavia House, New York.

2012 Sanctuary ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik.

2010 Sögustaðir – Í fótspor W.G. Collingwoods / Saga-Places – In the Footsteps of W.G. Collingwood, The National Museum, Iceland. (Small versions exhibited in four other museums/culture centers in Iceland: in Ísafjördur, Akureyri, Dalvík and Akranes).

2008  Staðir – úr dagbók 1988-2008 / Places – From A Visual Diary 1988 – 2008

Reykjavik Museum of Photography.
2007  Aftur, The Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland.
2005  Sögustaðir / Saga Places, Safn, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2004  Saga Sites – From Grettir‘s Saga. Festival Junger Kunstler, Bayreuth, Germany.
2001  Stígar og staðir / Paths and Places. The Corridor, Reykjavík, Iceland.
1998  76 Months: A Visual Diary.  The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
1994  20 Months: A Visual Diary, Artland, SoHo, New York.
1994  Ferðalagamyndir / Pictures From Travels. Gallery 11, Reykjavik, Iceland.


Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Among Gods and Mortals: Icelandic Artists in Varanasi. Listasafn Árnesinga. Artists: Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Eygló Harðardóttir, Guðjón Ketilsson, Margrét H. Blöndal, Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson and Sólveig Aðalsteinsdóttir. Curator: Pari Stave. https://listasafnarnesinga.is/hveragerdi/art-museum-south-iceland-english/exhibitions/among-gods-and-mortals/

2024 “Túndran og Tifið á Sléttu” - The Melrakkaslétta-project. Exhibition of 15 artists, various sites in Raufarhöfn, N-E Iceland, based on common research during time spent in the area during two summers.

2023 Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art, Reykjavík Art Museum.

2023 Resistance - Interplay of Art and Science, The House of Collections - Iceland’s National Gallery.

2023 Snowflakes and Other Surprises, Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden and Photo North – Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland. Curator Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir.

2022 Snowflakes and Other Surprises, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curator Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir.

2018 No Man‘s Land: Where Beauty Reigns Alone? Commission for a group-exhibition. Reykjavik Art Museum. The Reykjavík Art Festival. 

2018 (Full House) / Empty House, Gangurinn / The Corridor – Two exhibitions, Gangurinn-Reykjavík and Gangurinn-Hofsós.

2017 En vidunderlig verden. Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark.

2017 Meeting Halfway / Treffen auf halber strecke. Curator Gerd Anderson. Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, at Münsterland Festival / Burg Vischering, Münster, Germany.

2015 Coping with distance. Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland.

2015 Relooking – Icelandic Landscape Photography. WFFA-Festival, Warsaw, Poland.

2014 ICELAND: Artists Respond to Place. Curator Pari Stave. Scandinavia House, New York / Katonah Museum of Art, New York State.

2013 The Contemporary Portrait. Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland.

2013 Frontiers of Another Nature – Pictures from Iceland. Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki.

2011   Frontiers Of Another Nature – Contemporary Photographic Art From Iceland. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Franfurt, Germany.

2011 Thingvellir. LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland.
2010 Spegilsýnir – Window Mirrors. Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland.
2009 Leiftur á stund hættunnar / Flash at a Moment of Danger. LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland.
2008  Endurkast / Reflection. FÍSL founding exhibition. The National Museum, Iceland.
2006  Skarð (with Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson), Anima Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2003  Flogið yfir Heklu / Flying over Mt. Hekla. Kjarvalsstaðir – Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
2001  Reykjavik Today: 17 photographers. Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland.
2001  Faces and Figures: Contemporary Scandinavian Photography, Scandinavia House, New York.
2002  Seasons in Icelandic Photography, Moscow House of Photography, Russia.



Curatorial Projects
2014 Ragnar Axelsson: Mirror of Life. The Reykjavik Museum of Photography.

2010  Úrvalið / The Selection -  Icelandic Photography 1871 – 2009. Bryggen Culture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009  Úrvalið / The Selection -  Icelandic Photography 1871 – 2009. The Akureyri Museum of Art, Akureyri / Hafnarborg Art Center, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.

2006  Vegvísar, a group exhibition in the Hoffmann-Gallery, Reykjavík.

2004  Sýn – 10 Icelandic photographers, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.

2002  Seasons in Icelandic Photography. (With Pétur Arason). Moscow House of Photography, Russia. 


Grants
Three or six months Artists‘ Stipend, from Icelandic Ministry of Culture: 2024, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2012, 2010, 2007.

2023 Myndstef - Project Grant, for Look of the Sky - A Weather Diary.

2o22 Resident for four months in Vatnasafn / Library of Water, Stykkishólmur, Iceland, participating in the global project World Weather Network.

The Visual Arts Fund – Project Grant: 2022, 2017, 2015.

2016 The Jóhannes Nordal Grant – Given by The Central Bank of Iceland.

2014 Sleipnir – Travel Grant.

2012 Myndstef – Travel Grant.


Selected Books and Publications

2025 Útlit Loptsins - Veðurdagbók / Look of the Sky - A Weather Diary. Publisher: Kind.

2022 About Time - Diary of Twenty Months / Um tíma - Dagbók tuttugu mánaða. Published at the same time as the exhibition with same title in BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik. 128 pages. ISBN 9789935952066

2019-20 A visual diary – 14 limited edition books in 50 numbered copies: 

Surfaces – Varanasi Diaries I. ISBN 9789935944702

Scenes – Varanasi Diaries II. ISBN 9789935944719

Sociaety – Varanasi Diaries III. ISBN 9789935944726

About Time – Roma Diaries. ISBN 9789935944757

Time After Time – Roma Diaries I. ISBN 9789935944740

Onward – Iceland Diaries I. ISBN 9789935944795

For the Times – Roma Diaries II. ISBN 9789935944733

Onward – Iceland Diaries III. ISBN 9789935944795

Dust to Dust – Egypt Diary. ISBN 9789935944764

The Flood – Varanasi Diaries IV. ISBN 9789935944788

Roundabout – Iceland Diaries II. ISBN 9789935952004

The Clearing – Iceland Diaries IV. ISBN 9789935952042

Across – Iceland Diaries III. ISBN 9789935952035

To Continue – Iceland Diaries IV. ISBN 9789935952059

Corona Days – Iceland Diaries V. ISBN 9789935944771

2017 Land Seen / Landsýn . 182 pages, 26 x 29 cm. Crymogea. ISBN 9789935420800

2017 Færingesagaen. Illustrations for a new Danish publication of the Saga, in two volumes. Selection from Saga-Sites and Land Seen, and new work from the Faroe Islands. Frydenlund forlag. Editor: Kim Frandsen. ISBN 9788771189926

2017   KATALOG Magazine, 27.2. Cover and 7 pages. The project with Johannes Larsen‘s drawings. 

2015 Culturescapes Island. Merian Verlag, Switzerland.

2014 Scandinavian Review, 2014: „Uncommon Ground – Iceland: Artists Respond to Place“

2014 Vatnsdalsá – The Story and the Anglers. Co-authors Þorsteinn J, Sigurður Árni Sigurðsson. G&P, Iceland. ISBN 9789979726265

2013 Boat Magazine, 6/2013. „Saga-Steads“

2013 Nordic Now! Nordic (Art) Photography. Special issue of Filter, Objective and 

Photo Raw, 2013.

2012 KATALOG magazine, 24.2. Shelters.

2011 Án vegabréfs / Without A Passport (Ferðasögur / Travel Essays), Crymogea. 

ISBN 9789935420190

2011 Frontiers of Another Nature – Pictures from Iceland. Crymogea, Reykjavík, and Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin. ISBN: 9935420167

2010 Sögustaðir / Saga-Steads – In the Footsteps of W.G. Collingwood. Crymogea. Nominated for The Icelandic Literary Prize. ISBN 9789935420015

2009 Úrvalið / The Selection – Icelandic Photographs 1866-2009. Sögur útgáfa í samstarfi við Listasafnið á Akureyri og Þjóðminjasafn íslands. ISBN 9789979988755

2008  Endurkast/Reflection. Catalogue, The National Museum, Iceland.
2008  Staðir / Places – From A Visual Diary 1988 – 2008, Reykjavik Museum of Photography.
2007  Extraordinary Child (essay), with Mary Ellen Mark, Ívar Brynjólfsson and Margrét   Hallgrímsdóttir. The National Museum, Iceland. Nominated for The Icelandic Literary Prize. ISBN 9789979790143
2007  Aftur, The Reykjanes Art Museum, Iceland. 

2001 Faces and Figures – Contemporary Scandinavian Photography. Editor: Ann Sass. American Scandinavian Foundation, Scandinavia House, New York. 

Work in the collection of:
National Gallery of Iceland, Akureyri Art Museum, Hafnarborg Culture Center, The Reykjavík Art Museum, The National Museum of Iceland, The University of Iceland Art Museum, The Reykjanes Art Museum, The Reykjavík Museum of Photography.

Various private and company collections, in Iceland and abroad.

Work
2022–2023 The Icelandic participant in the World Weather Network, partly as resident and “weather reporter” in Vatnasafn / Library of Water. The network is a constallation of weather stations set up by 28 arts agencies around the world, in Iceland by the Icelandic Art Center.

2013–  Culture Editor, Morgunbladid.

2014–2017 Taught international workshops with Ragnar Axelsson (RAX) in Reykjavik.

2010–2014 Taught international workshops with Mary Ellen Mark in The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts.

2007–2012  Senior Culture Editor and reviewer, the daily Morgunbladid

2007–2017 On the advisory board of Ljósmyndaskólinn (The Photography School), Reykjavík. 

1995–2007  Picture editor of the daily Morgunbladid, resposible for the photo department and the visual side of the paper.
1981–1995 Stringer, culture-journalist, literary reviewer; Morgunbladid.

- Reviewer at international photographic festivals: Ljósmyndahátíð í Reykjavík 2015; Landskrona Fotofestival, Sweden 2016; China International Photographic Art Festival, Zhenzhou 2016.
- Articles on visual-arts and literature for various publications, in Iceland and abroad.
- Photographs published in various publications, in Iceland and other countries.
- Photo-essays from countries like China, India, Japan, Bolivia, U.S.A, Faroe Islands etc.
- Part-time teacher, The Iceland Academy of the Arts, since 1997.
- Part-time teacher, Ljósmyndaskólinn, since 1995.
- Has tought on various photograhpic courses and workshops, in Iceland and abroad.
- Lectures and participation in workshops and seminars on contemporary photography and visual arts in Iceland, China, Switzerland, Denmark, Mexico, Lithuania, Germany, USA.

 

Contact

Einar Falur Ingolfsson
einarfalur[at]gmail.com

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