Ingólfur Arnarsson’s work is highly precise and dense. In a methodic tracing of lines on paper, matter is superimposed on the support, its mass and structure blends with the surroundings and architecture. Only with closer viewing can the slight nuances and patterns of the superimposed strictures appear to the onlooker’s eye.
After graduating from the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts in Reykjavik and from the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Ingólfur Arnarsson has presented his work in various national and international exhibitions. In 1992, he was invited for a residency by Donald Judd to work on a permanent installation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, USA. Solo shows have been held at The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2018); ASÍ Art Gallery, Reykjavik (2014); and Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (2013). His work has also been showcased in group exhibitions at the LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland (2022); Tbilisi History Museum and Contemporary Art, Georgia (2019); National Gallery of Iceland (2016); Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (2008); and the Drawing Center, New York, USA (2007).
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (IS)
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum (IS)
Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
University of Iceland Art Collection
The Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art (IS)
Art Museum of Isafjordur (IS)
Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE)
Museum Moderner Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven (DE)
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (DE)
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa (USA)
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Michigan (USA)
Safn, Reykjavík (IS)
Ferocious Glitter (3), Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space, Ísafjarðarbær (IS)
Jarðhæð / Ground Level, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Reykjavik (IS)
Skúrinn, Reykjavik (IS)
Sleeper, Edinburgh (UK)
Stöpullinn, ASÍ Art Gallery, Reykjavík (IS)
Ingólfur Arnarsson and Sachiko M, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (IS)
Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur (IS)
1.h.v., Reykjavik (IS)
Sudsudvestur, Reykjanesbær (IS) (with music by Ben Frost)
Kubburinn, Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavik (with music by Stilluppsteypa)
Sleeper, Edinburgh (UK)
Safn, Reykjavik (IS)
CCNOA, Brussels (BE)
Kjarvalsstadir, The Reykjavík Municipal Art Museum (IS)
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (IS)
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (DE)
Slunkariki, Isafjordur (IS)
Museum Moderner Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven, studio a, Otterndorf (DE)
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, (USA) (permanent installation)
Galleri Krokur, Reykjavik (IS)
Galleri Birgir Andrésson, Reykjavik (IS)
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
Slunkariki, Isafjordur (IS)
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
Gangurinn, Corridor, Reykjavik (IS)
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
Rauda húsid, Akureyri (IS)
Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland
more overall, Irène Laub gallery, Brussels (BE)
Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (IS)
Are you glad if you can ask something?, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði (IS)
Góðir Gestir – group show with Icelandic artists, Cecilia Hillström Gallery (SE)
Structure and order: Draft of Contemporary Art History in Iceland (IV), Reykjavik Art museum (IS)
Nasasjón, Tbilisi History Museum and Contemporary Art Space Batumi (GE)
Nasasjón, Städtische Galerie Speyer, Speyer (DE)
Drawings, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt (DE)
OPNUN, Kling and Bang, Reykjavik (IS)
Eggert Pétursson & Ingólfur Arnarsson, Gallerí Gestur, Reykjavik (IS)
Thurídur Rós Sigurthórsdóttir / Ingólfur Arnarsson, Skaftfell, Seydisfjördur (IS)
Andreas Karl Schulze / Ingólfur Arnarsson, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt (DE)
Nasasýn, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (UK)
Your Compound View, Listasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavik (IS)
Faster and Slower Lines – From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús, Reykjavik (IS)
Nasasynir, Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt (DE)
Iceland Hits Donube, Kunsthalle Krems, Donau festival (AT)
Straumur Burdarás, Akureyri Art Museum (IS)
Fokhelt, Breidakur 17-19, Gardabær (IS)
Open, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
Levity, Drawing Center, New York (USA)
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour von Karin Sander, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (AT)
IS/NZ, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (DE)
Woolenmaiden Hus, (project by Ólöf Björnsdóttir), Project, Dublin (IE)
Telling a work of art (project by Karin Sander), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (NZ)
Converter Project 2, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
CAMP, Lejre (DK)
Drawing Iceland, Galeri 54, Gothenburg (SE)
Naumhyggja, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (IS)
Árátta, Kópavogur Art Museum, Kopavogur (IS)
Solitude im Museum/Solitude au musée, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Etienne (FR)
vis-à-vis, Galerie Januar e.V., Bochum (DE)
hvít, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (IS)
(Antarctica) Brahma, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (AT)
Donald Judd and Artist Friends, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (AT)
Icelandic abstract art-under review, Reykjavik Art Museum – Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik (IS)
Papierarbeiten, Köstring/Maier, Munich (DE)
Ludwig Gosewitz and his Icelandic friends, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (DE)
Räume für neue Kunst, Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal (DE)
Kunstverein St. Gallen in Katharinen, St. Gallen (CH)
Kunst, Europa-Island, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (DE)
Nordiska teckningar, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki (FI) (travelling exhibition)
Norraena Húsid, Reykjavik (IS)
Galerie Leger, Malmö (SE)
Kex, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden; UKS, Oslo (NO)
Aurora 1, Nordiskt Konstcentrum, Sveaborg, Helsinki (FI)
Filiale, Basel (CH)
Iceland: The Art Revealed, Franklin Furnance, New York (USA)
Reykjavík-Amsterdam, Ter Weerszijden van de Meridiaan Museum, Fodor, Amsterdam (NL)
St. Petri, Lund (SE)
Zona, Firenze (IT)