Erla Thorarinsdottir

Erla Thorarinsdottir graduated from Konstfack in Stockholm 1981. She has been working in Scandinavia and in New York, Paris, Andalusia, China and India. Her current base is in Reykjavik

Erla works with time, space and processes where memory, human context and scale is integrated. Painting is a steady occupation. Within her paintings she has used sheets of silver, building light sensitive bodies that exposed to light and time oxidize and transmute. Ever changing light in Iceland is integrated in these works and so is time and sulphur and whatever is in the air; structure and chaos.

Her practice incorporates painting and photography, textile design, stone works and installations

Education: 1976-1981: Konstfackskolan, The University of Art and Design in Stockholm, Sweden and Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam, Holland.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2011 Safnasafnid, Iceland Kjarnar og grjót
2010 ASÍ Art Museum, Reykjavik samtímis
2007 Galleri Anima, Reykjavik. O+
2007 The Culture House, Reykjavik. Collective properties; official spaces from colonial and postcolonial times
2006 Galleri Anima, Reykjavik. Daeldir og duldir
2005 Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China. Disappeared women reappear
2005 Gallerie Anderwerld/Katuin, Groningen, Holland. Schildjerin
2004 Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik Municipal Art Gallery. Corpus lucis sensitivus
2003 Gallerie Anderwereld/Katuin, Groningen, Holland. Corpus
2003 Slunkarki, Isafjordur, Iceland. Birting
2002 Galerie 19 Rouge, Luxembourg. Timings
2001 Kopavogur Art Museum, Gerdarsafn, Iceland. Timasetningar
2000 Hallgrimschurch, Reykjavik. Timarymi
1998 The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Oxidations
1997 Forum, Stockholm. Instans
1997 ASI Art Museum, Reykjavik. Stadir


Selected group exhibitions:
2013 Koli Environmental Art Festival, Finland
2013 Hafnarborg, Iceland. ...