Anna Jóelsdóttir is a contemporary artist of Icelandic heritage, now based in Reykjavik She is known for sculptural works of painted canvas often created as site specific installations.

Early life and education

She studied at the University Teachers College of

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

(BEd, 1978), the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(MA Applied Research in Education,

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, 1985) and at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

where she received an MFA in 2002.

Work and Artistic Practice

Anna's work in the early 2000s, were abstractions "inspired by her search for a center in a globalized world" In 2011, ''Chicago Art Magazine'' described Anna's work as having "a whimsical, illustrative quality, but with the movement and vibrancy of sound. Manipulation of the paper transforms her drawings into sculpture, books, and larger than life installations. In the third dimension she is able to play with the interconnected tensions between negative and positive spaces, light and shadow, and the fragility and durability of her material." Anna's artworks were exhibited in numerous galleries across the world: th
Tarble Arts Center
EIU)

Akureyri Art Museum The Akureyri Art Museum ( is, Listasafnið á Akureyri , regionally also ) was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the galler ...

, Iceland an
ASÍ Museum
in Reykjavík. She has had solo exhibitions at th
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
an
Hafnarborg Institute in Iceland
She has also exhibited at th
Evanston Art Center
in Illinois, th
Living Art Museum in Reykjavík
and th
West Bend Art Museum
in Wisconsin. Jóelsdóttir studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her MFA. Anna lives and works in

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References

External links

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Review: Anna Joelsdottir/ZG Gallery
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