RAKEL STEINARSDÓTTIR
Some of my successful accomplishments in this life
Education
Icelandic Academy of Art, Art teaching diploma 2008 - 2009
Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland 2001-2003 Master of Design
École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, France 1997-1998
A guest student in The Icelandic Academy of Art, Fine Art, 1 semester 1996
The Icelandic Academy of Art 1986-1990 BA Graphic Design
Baccalaureat Reykjavík, Iceland 1985
Private exhibitions
Navel of my Universe/Nafli alheims míns, Studio Stafn, Ingolfsstræti, Reykjavík, Sept 2015
Touched/Snart hjarta, The Icelandic Printmakers Gallery, Hafnarhúsinu, Reykjavík, May 2015
Asshole/Rassgat, in TÝS gallery, Týsgata, Reykjavík, April 2015
Togetherness/Sambandið, SIM, Hafnarstræti 16, Reykjavík, July 2012
Handle with care/Meðhöndlist af gætni, Coast Café at Hellnum, June 2012
Unbearable lightness of beeing a potato/Óbærilegur léttleiki kartöfluútsæðis, Skálholt, Iceland, summer 2011
Traces/Slóð, The Icelandic Printmakers Gallery, Hafnarhúsinu, Reykjavík, January 2011
Iceland bags more for your Money/Hringrás vatnsins með manninum, Á næstu grösum restaurant, Reykjavík, December 2004
Safeway, Warehouse, Bræðraborgarstíg 16, Reykjavík, December 2002
Group exhibition
Surrender/Eftirgrjöf, the group exhibition: Umhverfing, my work was situated at Rif, Snaefellsnes, summer 2019
Love Story/Ástarsaga at Kárastíg 1, the group exhibition: Undir berum himni, Thingholtin, Reykjavík, summer 2013
Handle with care, the group exhibition: Flown in, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA January - March 2010
4 Silica Mirrors, LE VERRE AUJOURD'HUI Génération sans frontière, Strasbourg, France, November 2007
Bud/Brum Installation with an audio work, exhibition on Contemporary glass, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur April 2005
Iceland bags more for your Money/Hringrás vatnsins með manninum, Masters Students, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, December 2003
Videos
First/First, video, collaboration with Hallvardur Ásgeirson musician and Snædís Ingadóttir dancer, 2014-15
An Evening Indigo, collaboration with Eva Ingolf and Gunnbjörg Óladóttir, January 2015
Meine heimat, made for Zebra Poetry Film Festival, October 2012
Walking/Ganga, to a poem by Einar Már Guðmundsson Sagnaþulurinn Hómer, exhibited in cites in Germany in connection to the Book Messe in Frankfurt 2011
Curatorials
100 Kápur á Frakkastíg/ Icelandic suffragettes prevailed 100 years ago, an exhibition in my courtyard with 7 artist, Reykjavík Art Festival, May 2015 (Hallgrímur Helgason, Helga Þórsdóttir, Hildur Hákonardóttir, Hlynur Hallsson, Jóna Hlíf Halldórsdóttir, Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir, Ólafur og Lybia)
Wishing Path/ Óskastígur, an exhibition in my courtyard with 18 artist December 2013 (Áslaug Thorlacius, Baldur Geir Bragason, Björk Guðnadóttir, Brynhildur Þorgeirsdóttir, Erla Þórarinsdóttir, Eygló Harðardóttir, Finnur Arnar Arnarson, Gunnar Már Pétursson, Hulda Hákon, Ingimar Ólafsson Waage, Jón Óskar, Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, Magnea Ásmundsdóttir, Olga Bergmann, Ósk Vilhjálmsdóttir, Rakel Steinarsdottir, Tora Victoria, Þóroddur Bjarnason)
Publication
Togetherness/Sambandið was published in the 1st issue of STÍNA, a Cosmopolitian Magazine on Icelandic Litterature and Fine Art, published in Reykjavík, Iceland, April 2015
Teaching
Art teaching in Klettaskóli, a school for children with disability
General teaching in Austurbæjarskóli, Reykjavík
Family
Mother of three children
Grandmother of four children
Sister of four
A Daughter
Sports
Sailing over the Atlantic in December 2019
Hiking, Herðubreið, July 2019
Hiking, Herðubreið, July 2012
A 42 km marathon in Reykjavík August 2010
Hiking, Öræfajökull, Vatnjajökull Glacier, April 1988