Eydís Einarsdóttir

ABOUT:

Born in Iceland, Eydís S. Luna Einarsdóttir is a visual artist with a lifelong, far-ranging photographic practice. Growing up amidst Iceland’s striking visual environments, she developed a close relationship with the camera early in life. In 1990 her passion for photography brought her to the United States, where she studied at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA (BA, 1993). There after Eydís stayed on in the USA, spending majority of the time in California and New York City, before settling in Vancouver in 2005.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Photography has been at the centre of my life and creative practice from my earliest years, having been raised in an artistic family amidst Iceland’s remarkable natural environments. What developed at first into a successful commercial photography practice became, over time, a personal artistic vision. Given my origins, I am drawn to the ocean shore when seeking stillness and repose, and my photographic work to date has explored the formal expressions of natural water in its various states: the diverse, variegated surfaces of seas and lakes, sometimes almost metallic, and the horizon’s unflinching, linear perfection.

My approach is rooted in a deep understanding of ...

Brooks Institute of Photography BA 1993

2022 Harmony Arts Group Exhibition, West Vancouver, BC, Canada

2014 The Cultch Pieced Together - Group Exhibition, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2014 Eastside Culture Crawl, Open Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2013 Eastside Culture Crawl, Open Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2013 Photoville by United Photo Industries - Online and Outdoor Presentation, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2013 Slideluck Vancouver, Group Show, Vancouver, BC, Canda

2008 The Flower Box - Solo Show, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2008 Tricera Imaging - Image display showcasing different papers by Epson, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2007 Eastside Culture Crawl, Open Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2004 Thorvaldsen Restaurant & Art Gallery - Solo Show, Reykjavík, Iceland

2002 Private Business - Solo Show, New York City, NY, USA