Education
2009 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Program in Film and Video.
2004 BA, Iceland Art Academy, Department of Visual Art.
2003 ERASMUS exchange, École des Beaux Arts de Marseille.
Selected screenings and exhibitions
2022
Re-Spirit Trans-Spirit, Screening at Charta Gallery, Sofia Art Week, Bulgaria
Grounded Currents - Curator, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, Iceland
Video art for multimedia performance HRAFNTINNA, at Harpa Concerthall, Reykjavik Art Festival 2022
2021
The desert remembers it was an ocean, When the light hits just right, Vaasa, Finland
2020
LANDVIST Stóri Klofi, group exhibition, Iceland
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William Helsinki international Film Festival
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William Moviate Underground Film Festival
After the end of the night comes the day, group exhibition, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, Iceland
RAFLOST, Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts, Iceland National Gallery
2019
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William, FOGO Island Arts Film competition winner
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William, Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, Canada
A tree is like a man/En la maloca de Don William, Sequences IX, Reykjavík, Iceland
A tree is like a man/En la maloca de Don William, Tacoma Film Festival
Message2Man Film Festival: A program of films by Thorbjorg Jonsdottir, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Evocations of Landscape – Nordic Avant Garde, group show, St. Petersburg, Russia.
A tree is like a man/En la maloca de Don William, Camden Intl Film Festival
A tree is like a man/En la maloca de Don William, San Diego Underground Film Festival
Mild Humidity-The Digital Age of the Aquarius, group exhibition, Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri
A tree is like a man/En la maloca de Don William, Savonlinna Intl Nature Film Festival, Finland
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival, Patreksfjordur Iceland
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William IMAGES Festival, Toronto, Canada
A tree is like a man/ En la maloca de Don William CPH:DOX, World Premiere, NEXT:WAVE competition.
Fixed Points, group exhibition, Verksmidjan Hjalteyri, Iceland
Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium Circle 7, Vilnius, Lithuania, Away from here (in collaboration with Gunnhildur Una Jonsdottir)
2018
The Desert Remembers it is an Ocean, video installation, “Fragments of a Line” at Verksmidjan Hjalteyri, Iceland
Your Friend Jeff (in collaboration with Lee Lynch) Installation and video, Wind and Weather Gallery, Iceland
Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium Circle 7, Riga Latvia Remembering self (in collaboration with Gunnhildur Una Jonsdottir)
2017
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Residency Tissardmine, Morocco, participant
Time Like Water Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, Hong Kong
Clockworking visuals to composition by composer Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir,
performed by Nordic Affect String Quartet, Reykjavik Festival, Los Angeles
Time Like Water Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival, Oslo Norway
2015
Land of Meadows (work in progress, co-directed with Lee Lynch) at FID LAB at FID Marseille
DIRT, group show at JANCAR Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Time Like Water, Alchemy Film Festival, Scotland
2013
Clockworking, visuals to composition by composer Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir,
performed by Nordic Affect String Quartet, premiered at Iceland Airwaves 2013
Time Like Water, JEONJU International Film Festival, Seoul, South-Korea
Time Like Water, FLEX Film Festival, Florida, USA
2011
Ocean Ocean, Zinebi International Film Festival Bilbao, Spain
Guðrún Northern Wave Film Festival, Iceland
2010
Ocean Ocean, Papay Gyri Nights 2011 Art Festival, Orkney
Ocean Ocean, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland
Ocean Ocean, Art Happens, Sweden
Ocean Ocean, Reindeerland Film Festival, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
Thoka included in the 17th edition of Journal of Short Film
2009
Ocean Ocean, CalArts Showcase, Redcat, Los Angeles
Ocean Ocean, Hinterland Film Festival, USA
Ocean Ocean, NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents presented by Kling & Bang at X Initiative Gallery, New York
2008
The Emperor, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland
Thoka and Over, Hungarian Dances and Romanticism; Concert and film at the Art Museum of Sigurjón Ólafsson, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Thoka, Fallbrook International Film Festival, California
The Emperor at The Player Piano Project, USC Thornton Music Masters Series, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Buffalo, Surreal Cinematic Work LACMA, Los Angeles
The Emperor, Confronting Paradise, New York
The Emperor, CalArts Showcase, RedCat Theatre, Los Angeles
2006
Buffalo, Experimental and Politique, France
Buffalo, 26th Munchen international Festival of Film Schools, Germany
2004
Dagskrá (group exhibition), Gallery Publik, Paris, France
Cuts from Reykjavík (group exhibition), Frisor Beige, Berlin, Germany
Listaháskóli Íslands Graduation Show (group exhibition) Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
2002
Art conference “Real Presence 2002”, Belgrad, Serbia
Teaching experience
Visiting Artist Faculty, CalArts School of Art, Valencia, CA. Spring 2015
Adjunct teacher, Iceland Academy of the Arts. Fall 2013 - present
Founder and instructor, Teenage Wasteland of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland and Los Angeles, California. 2013- present
Instructor, Reykjavik Art School Iceland
Adjunct teacher, CalArts School of Film and Video, Valencia, CA 2009-2012
Associate teacher, CalArts School of Film and Video, Valencia, CA 2009-2011