Born in 1943 in Dalir (Iceland)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
More or Less, i8 Gallery (new space), Reykjavik (Iceland)
2009
Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (Spain)
Untitled, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
The Fall, Meessen De Clercq (wunderkammer), Brussels (Belgium)
Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
2008
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
Konsthalle, Malmö (Sweden)
Kunstmuseum, Bergen (Norway)
2007
Serpentine Gallery, London (U.K.)
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2006
Sudsudvestur, Keflavik (Iceland)
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
2005
Reykjavik Arts Festival, Gallery Slunkaríki, Ísafjördur (Iceland)
2004
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2003
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Safn, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2002
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'Art contemporain, Bignan (France)
Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (Japan)
Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris (France)
2001
Something Black, Something White, Something Neither Black Nor White, Ljósaklif, Hafnarfjördur (Iceland)
Lightcliff Art, Ljósaklif, Hafnarfjördur (Iceland)
E541 Art House (Iceland)
2000
Ars Fennica. Waïnö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku & Hämeenlinna Art Museum (Finland)
Museum of Earth, Warsaw (Poland)
Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris (France)
1999
Edition Camomille, Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (Finland)
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galerie Alexandra Von Scholz, Berlin (Germany)
1998
Gallery 20m2, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Gallery Fiskurinn, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Collection, Another Place, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1997
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
Gallery Corridor, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1996
Gallery Alexandra von Scholz, Berlin (Germany)
Gallery Solón Islandus, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
1995
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galleri Riis, Oslo (Norway)
1994
Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (Finland)
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
Ultima Thule, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galleri Riis, Oslo (Norway)
1993
Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Icelandic Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
National Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1992
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
Rhythms in Space, ICA, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1991
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1990
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
Reykjavik Arts Festival (Iceland)
Listahátíd in Reykjavik. Gallery 11, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1989
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
Gallery Slunkaríki, Isafjördur (Iceland)
1988
Nordic Arts Center, Sveaborg/ Galleria Augusta, Helsinki (Finland)
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (Norway)
1987
Forum, Galerie Bama, Zürich (Switzeland)
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Le Magasin / Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (France)
1986
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1985
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1984
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1979
Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1977
Gallery Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1976
Galerie Gaetan, Geneva (Switzerland)
Galerie Elsa von Honolulu, Ghent (Belgium)
1974
Gallery SÚM, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1973
In-Out Center, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1972
In-Out Center, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1971
Galerie Fignal, Haarlem (Netherlands)
Galerie Balderich, Mönchengladbach (Germany)
Gallery 845, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
In the face of spatial grandeur, Circuit, Lausanne (Switzerland)
2009
Volcano Lovers, Ise Cultural Foundation, Soho, New York (USA)
Quiet Revolution: A Hayward Touring Exhibition, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK)
ArtBasel 40, Galerie Anhava (Helsinki), Basel (Zwitserland)
ArtBasel 40, Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin/Stockholm), Basel (Switzerland)
Zweimal hat ihn niemand gesehen, Künstlerhaus, Bremen (Germany)
La Boucle et la spirale, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
2008
Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, (cur. Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist), Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Absens, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
2007
Drawing A Tiger, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
O-Nattura Alas Nature, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Ao Mynda oro, Hoffmannsgallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Marseille Artistes Associés 1997-2007, Chapelle de Vieille Charité (CIRVA), Marseille (France)
2006
In Between, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet - The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn (Sweden)
Chers amis, Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan (France)
Winter cold, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
EMMA (opening exhibition), Espoo (Finland)
Northern images, Hoffmannsgallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2005
Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Polyfoni, Suomenlinna, Helsinki (Finland)
Tivoli, Hveragerdi (Iceland)
Horizontal Memories (Water Event), Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (Norway)
2004
Éblouissement, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (France)
Les mêmes et même quelques autres, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
Handlungsanweisung, Kunsthalle, Wien (Austria)
Where do we go from here, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (USA)
Ars Fennica, Russian State Museum, St-Petersburg (Russia)
Ars Fennica, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku (Finland)
Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
Do it, e flux
2002
Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto (Japan)
2001
Ljósaklif, Hafnarfjördur (Iceland)
Somewhere over the rainbow, FRAC Haute-Normandie (France)
2000
64 N. - 20 V, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
Carnegie Art Award 2000, Helsinki, Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reykjavik
Amateur / Eldsjäl, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg (Sweden)
Norden - Zeitgenössisches Kunst aus Nordeuropa, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria)
Interplay, Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo (Norway)
Museum of Earth, Warsaw (Poland)
Árátta, Listasafn Kópavogs (Iceland)
In the Mirror of Space and Time, Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Aserty, un abécédaire autour de collections de FRAC Limousin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
1999
Natures Mortes, Galerie Papillon - Fiat, Paris (France)
Museum of Foreign Art, Riga (Lettony)
00, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Tekeningen, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Dularfulli garourinn, Asmundarsalur, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1998
Losse werken, rake klappen, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Look me in the eyes, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1997
De Verbouwing, de Verhuizing & de Verandering, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Tekeningen, Gallery Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1996
Maisons-Cerveaux, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (France)
Dix ans de création à Marseille, CIRVA, Musée de la Charité, Marseille (France)
Landscape, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1995
Pas pour la galerie, Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels (Belgium)
Maisons-Cerveaux, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (France)
Collection, FRAC Limousin, Limoges (France)
Tekeningen & tekeningen, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1994
Wanås Exhibition 1994, Knislinge (Sweden)
1993
Edities & unica, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Reconsidered images, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1992
Gallery Van der Berge, Goes (Netherlands)
Ijsland - Island. Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg (Netherlands)
Artscape Nordland, Arctic Circle (Norway)
Il Paesaggio Culturale. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma (Italy)
1991
Kunst Europa 1991, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln (Germany)
Six Logos around the Karpet, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
They see the Light, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen (Germany)
1990
Ruhrfestspiele, European Workshop, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Germany)
The End of the Century, The Arts and Crafts Museum, Moscow (Russia)
New Nordic Art, The Artists' Center, Moscow (Russia)
The Nordic '60s, Upheaval and Confrontation, National Gallery, Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Utopies, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Achilles de kwetsbare piek, Kasteel Groenevald, Baarn (Netherlands)
1989
SUM 1965-1972. Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Borealis 4, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Helsinki and Louisiana, Humlebaek (Denmark)
Galerie Claude Papillion, Paris (France)
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Utopia 89, L'Europe des Createurs, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Many Pearls for a Line, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1988
Aldarspegill, Islensk myndlist í eigu safnsins 1900-1987, Listasafn Island, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Nylistasafnid 10 ára, Listasafn Island, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1986
Nordanad, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (France)
Nordanad, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (Sweden)
1984
10 gestir Listahátídar '84 á Kjarvalsstödum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1983
ARS 83, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki (Finland)
Sleeping Beauty - Art Now, Scandinavia Today, Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA)
The Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
1982
Einkaheimar - Personal Worlds, Nylistasafnid, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1981
Aspects de l'art d'aujourdhui 1970-80, Musée d'art et d'histoire photographie, Geneva (Switzerland)
Elva moderna isländska konstnärer, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (Sweden)
1978
Personal Worlds - Reality as Metaphor, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1977
Ca va? Ca va, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
1975
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (Switzerland)
Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde (Netherlands)
1974
H2O. St. Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Driemans-tentoonstelling, t'Hoogt, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (Netherlands)
1973
8ème Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (France)
1972
SÚM á Listahátíd í Reykjavík 1972, Gallery SÚM, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Communications, Galerie Inhibodress, Sydney (Australia)
1971
SUM IV, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1969
SUM III, Gallery SÚM, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1967
UM'67, (Ungir myndlistarmenn), Laugardalshöll, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1967-66
Den Nordiske Ungdomsbiennale for Bildende Kunst, Louisiana, Humlebaek (Denmark)
1965
SUM I, Asmundarsalur, Reykjavik (Iceland)