2024-27 SAQA Global Exhibition Aviary – A touring exhibition
1. Gadsden Arts Center & Museum, Florida, Sept-Dec
2023 Disappearing Landscape, FELTO Felt Museum, Soltau, Germany, Aug-Nov
2022 TORG Art Fair – with The Textile Association, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2021 TORG Art Fair, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2021 Disappearing Landscape, The Palokka Library, Jyväskylä, Finland, Sept
2020 Disappearing Landscape, Akureyri Art Museum’s summer exhibition.
2019 TORG Art Fair, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2017 European Art Quilts – Le Grande Finale, Goes, The Netherlands, July/Aug
2017 Northern Landscape, Jämsä, Finland, July/Aug
2014-16 European Art Quilts VIII A touring exhibition, Birmingham, England:
Museum TwentseWelle, Enschede, The Netherlands; Textilmuseum Krefeld, Germany; Museum Tuch + Technik, Neumünster, Germany; Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, England
2012–22 Wool & Sheep around the North Atlantic, A touring exhibition in Norway
2012 The Textile Association, Reykjavik, March
2011 Gallery SÍM, Berlin, Sept
2011 The Textile Association, Akureyri, July
2009 Contemporary Nordic Quilt, Rhösska museet, Gothenburg, May-Sept
2009 Þverskurður, The Textile Association, Gallery Gerdarsafn, Feb
2008-10 European Art Quilts V A touring exhibition, Birmingham, UK; Chojun Textile& Quilt Art Museum, Seoul, South-Korea; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky; Textile Museum, Herning, Denmark; German Textil Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2008 Galleri Frøya, Jubilee Exhibition, West-Norway, July
2007-09 European Art Quilts IV, A touring exhibition, La Sucrière, Lyon, France; Museum of Printed Textiles, Mulhouse, France; The Dutch Textile Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands; Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; CK Media Gallery, Golden, Denver, Colorado; Textile Museum, Herning, Denmark; Textil Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
2006 The Islands in the North-Atlantic, Copenhagen City Hall, March
2006 NAS Keflavik 3rd Annual Fine Art Show, March
2005 World Quilt Show on Tour: Ohio; New Hampshire; Pennsylvania; California.
2005 Festival of Quilts, European Art Quilt Foundation, Birmingham, August
2005 NAS Keflavik 2nd Annual Fine Art Show, June
2005 World Quilt Carneval, a part of WorldExpo in Nagoya, Japan, May
2004 The Textile Association, Gallery SÍM, Reykjavik
2003 The Icelandic Quilt, Gerduberg Culture Centre, Reykjavík
2003 World Quilt Tour, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania & California
2003 Hungarian Blueprint, Gödöllö, Debrecen & Tiszaujvaros, Hungary,
& Val d’Argent, France
2002 Nordic Art Quilts, at The International Quilt Festival í Houston, Texas
2001 Icelandic Quilters, Reykjavík City Hall
1997 l’A.P.P.E.L. Culture Festival, Gondrin, France
1995 The Golden Chest, Laugarvatn, South-Iceland
1992 Foreign artists living in Iceland, Gallery Austurstræti 8, Reykjavík
1990 Gallery Allra handa, Akureyri
1983 Gallery Paletten, Tromsø, Norway
1983 Tromsø Art Association, Tromsø, Norway
1978 Trondheim brukskunstforening for Decorative Arts, Norway
Education
2006 & 2008 Courses in needle felting with Birgitte Kragh Hansen, Denmark
1987 A course at Myndlistaskólinn Art School, Reykjavík
1986 A course in drawing with Ingiberg Magnússon, Reykjavík
1976-78 Art studies at Elen Ofstad School, Trondheim, Norway
Miscellaneous
2023 4 works in the book Stitched Journeys with Birds,
200 artists/500 works
2018, 20 & 23 Artist residencies in Gammel have, Fyen, Denmark, September all years
2011 & 2013 An artist residency in Berlin, Germany, September both years
2013 A speaking part in the movie Metal Head
2011 An artist residency in HÖFN residency, Marseille, France April/May
2009 1 of 3 actors in a 13 television & cinema advertisement series for Thule
2009 Translated The White Book by Einar Már Gudmundsson to Norwegian
in cooperation with Matthias Kristiansen, published by Cappelen-Damm
2007 An artist residency in Gammel have, Fyen, Denmark, July
1982 Christmas handicrafts in children´s TV Stundin okkar, RUV, Iceland
1979-80 A partner in the collective store Tusind Sind, Copenhagen, Denmark
1978 1. price for textile artwork in the Norwegian magazine Det Nye.
1972 Graduated as a practical nurse in Trondheim, Norway
1970 A coach and a head coach at Damenes roklubb rowing club, Trondheim
1969 Gold in The Norwegian Junior Championships in a doble scull
1967 Gold in The Norwegian Senior Championships as a coxswain in a coxed four
Has arranged courses in application and quilting in the Vestfjords and in Hafnarfjördur, and taught handicrafts in Borgarnes primary school, as well as at Reykjavik social work for seniors.
A member in SÍM, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, The Icelandic Textile Association. and SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates.
A grant from the ministry of education to participate in WorldExpo, Nagoya, Japan, 2004
Travel grants from Muggur fond, 2007 and 2009.
A travel grant from the official artists’ stipend fond for an artist residency in Marseille 2011.