Born in Baer Dölum (Iceland) in 1943. Lives and works in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany) upcoming
Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva (Switzerland) upcoming
2018
Hreinn Fridfinnsson: By the Ocean, Eenwerk, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2017
Hulduklettur, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2016
Gallerí Gangur / The Corridor, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2015
I collected personal secrets, Kunstverein, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Between what and what not, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Echoes and Reflections, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (Sweden)
2014
Hreinn Fridfinnsson & Bruce McLean, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (Austria)
Time and time and again, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
A portrait of a Sculptor as a Sculpture, with a Sculpture by the Sculptor (with Kristinn E. Hrafnsson), i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2013
Around and About, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid (Spain)
Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2012
Hus (House), The Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður (Iceland)
2011
Galerei Anhava, Helsinki (Finland)
2010
Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
More or Less, i8 Gallery, 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 (The Netherlands)
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The 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 (The 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 (The Netherlands)
1991
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The 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 (The Netherlands)
Le Magasin / Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble (France)
1986
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1985
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1984
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1979
Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Galerie Bama, Paris (France)
1977
Gallery Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1976
Galerie Gaetan, Geneva (Switzerland)
Galerie Elsa von Honolulu, Ghent (Belgium)
1974
Gallery SÚM, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1973
In-Out Center, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1972
In-Out Center, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1971
Galerie Fignal, Haarlem (The Netherlands)
Galerie Balderich, Mönchengladbach (Germany)
Gallery 845, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Unending Gift, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Una fornace a Marsiglia / A furnace in Mareille, Cirva, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, (Italy)
2017
Skulptur Projekte 2017, Münster (Germany)
Many. More. Most. - From the Museum Collection of the Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (Sweden)
Happy People, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2016
Expanding frontiers, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris (France)
Blancs d'hiver, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
The Me in Me, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna (Austria) curator Krist Gruijthuijsen
Lightpaint. The Photo and the Painting in our Times, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Once we were next-door neighbors, ASÍ Listasafn / ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavík (Iceland)
Frequent Long Walks, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
After Gerolama Cardano's suspense, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
198920072016, Galerie Papillon, Paris (France)
Gerdarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, CYCLE Musical and Art Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2015
25 años, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid (Spain)
A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
My first summer in the Sierra – Works from the Centre national des arts plastiques, Frac île-de-france - Château de Rentilly, Paris (France)
Real Life, Skaftfell Art Center, Seydisfjördur (Iceland)
Notions of Time, SAFN Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
Le verre vivant II, MUDAC, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Gathered Fates, Curated by Ignasi Aballí, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2014
Solides fragiles, Mudam, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Saint Jerome, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture / GCCC, Moscow (Russia)
Pushing Reality, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin (Germany)
DRAWN, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
2013
Mon íle de Montmajour, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles (France)
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík (Iceland)
Only To Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (Slovania)
Otremare, Gallery Vistamare, Pescara (Italy)
2012
Hangman's Rock - The Delirium of Vision, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík (Iceland)
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Défier l'éphémère, Centre de Création contemporain, Tours (France)
Performances da Abstraçao / Performing Abstraction, Luciana Brito Galeria, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Particles, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Ends of the Earth – Land Art to 1974, MOCA Los Angeles (USA); Haus der Kunst, Munich (Germany)
Disserting Nature, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla (USA)
2011
La Vie Mode d'Emploi (Life A User's Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Is History Gallery Story?, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris (France)
In Between, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Limites multiples, L'Orangerie, Bastogne (Belgium)
Be Nice To Me, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (Germany)
Faster and Slower Lines, Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland)
2010
Exhibition, exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino (Italy)
Objects are like they appear, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Cornered Rooms: Facing In - Facing Out, Waterside project space, London (UK)
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 (Switzerland)
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)
Mirrors, MARCO Vigo, Vigo (Spain)
Several Friends, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
2008
Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, (cur. Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist), Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Icelandic Art, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Absens, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Dreams of the Sublime and Nowhere, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Le bruissement des images, Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, Pontault Combault (France)
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 (The 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)
Azerty, 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 (The Netherlands)
Tekeningen, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Dularfulli garourinn, Asmundarsalur, Reykjavik (Iceland)
1998
Losse werken, rake klappen, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Look me in the eyes, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1997
De Verbouwing, de Verhuizing & de Verandering, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Tekeningen, Gallery Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam (The 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 (The Netherlands)
1994
Wanås Exhibition 1994, Knislinge (Sweden)
1993
Edities & unica, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Reconsidered images, Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1992
Gallery Van der Berge, Goes (The Netherlands)
Ijsland - Island. Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg (The 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 (The Netherlands)
They see the Light, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The 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 (The 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 (The Netherlands)
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Utopia 89, L'Europe des Createurs, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Many Pearls for a Line, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (The 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 (The Netherlands)
1977
Ca va? Ca va, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
1975
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (Switzerland)
Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde (The Netherlands)
1974
H2O. St. Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Driemans-tentoonstelling, t'Hoogt, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (The 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 (The 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)