DODDA MAGGÝ Born in 1981, Iceland Lives and Works in Reykjavík, Iceland
DODDA MAGGÝ Born in 1981, Iceland Lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland
Education
2016 BFA in Musical Composition, The Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík,
Iceland 2010 Master Class in Documentary Film, SoundImageCulture, Brussels, Belgium
2009 MFA level study in Sound Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Copenhagen, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden, Oslo National College of
the Arts, Oslo
2009 MFA of Fine Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2004 BFA of Fine Arts, The Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
Awards
2018 The Guðmunda S. Kristinsdóttir Art Fund
2017 Young Talent Award, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark 2006 Guðmunda Andrésdóttir Art Foundation, Grant, The Icelandic National
Museum
2006 Foundation in Memory of Margrét Björgólfsdóttir, Grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Reykjavík City Hall, Aureole, Winterlights Festival 2021, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Reykjavík City Hall, Alda, Winterlights Festival 2019, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017 ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, AROS FOCUS//NEW NORDIC, Aarhus, Denmark
BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland Kópavogur Church, Winterlights Festival 2017, Kópavogur, Iceland
2016 Mengi, Coil, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015 Kópavogur Church, Doríon, performance with Katla Women’s Choir,
Kópavogur, Iceland
2014 The National Gallery of Iceland, 700IS, Artist of the Month, Madeleine,
Reykjavík, Iceland
Mengi, Video/Music Performance, Reykjavík, Iceland 2013 The Shed Culture House, ÆSA, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
2010 Reykjavík Art Museum, Lucy D15, Reykjavík, Iceland
2010 Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Vision, West Midlands, UK
2008 ET4U, Exhibition no. 40 'International video screening 2008', Bøvlingbjerg,
Denmark
2007 i8 Gallery under the stairs, Late Midlight Early Aftermoon, Reykjavík, Iceland 2006 Vane Gallery, Video/Music, Newcastle, UK
2005 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Verk 19, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Reykjavík Art Museum, Iðavöllur: Icelandic Art in the 21st Century, Reykjavík,
Iceland
2020 National Gallery of Denmark, Unboxing: The Goodiepal Collection,
Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 BERG Contemporary, Cheating the Constant, Reykjavík, Iceland Gerðarsafn – Kopavogur Art Museum, OH, SO QUIET! Music as we look at it: art
and cinema, Kópavogur, Iceland
2018 Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, OH, SO QUIET! Music as we look at it: art and cinema,
Hjalteyri, Iceland
Urban Legends: Northern Lights Festival, Hull, England
Copenhagen Opera House, 100-året for Islands suverænitet, Copenhagen, Denmark
MAXXI – The National Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture, Media
Art Festival, Rome, Italy
2017 2nd Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Reykjavík Art Museum, Fact of the matter, Reykjavík, Iceland
Reykjavík Art Museum, Bout: Video Works from the Collection, Reykjavík, Iceland 2016 20th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts, Raflost, Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015 Nordic Music Days - Nordic Sound Art, Kongernes Lapidarium, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Vane Gallery, Ten, Newcastle, UK Quartair, Reykjavík Stories, Den Haag, The Netherlands Kópavogur Art Museum, Illumination, Kópavogur, Iceland
Nordisk Panorama, Remembering – A glimpse of a Memory, Malmö Konsthall,
Malmö, Sweden
Videographe, Video Art Triangle, Montréal, Canada
Oodaaq Festival, Rennes, France
Turtle Salon in the Project Rooms, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden 2014 Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Mdf Berlin, Pushing Reality, curated by Nina
Grundemark, Berlin, Germany
National Gallery of Iceland, At Twilight, Reykjavík, Iceland
Reykjavík Art Museum, Cadence of Line and Color, Reykjavík, Iceland
Vane Contemporary Art, Between Fact and Fiction, Newcastle, UK
London Art Fair, represented by Vane Contemporary, London, UK Salon, Bakkehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Turtle Salon in the Forest, Sallbacken, Duved, Jamtland, Sweden
Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts, Raflost, Reykjavík, Iceland
Papay Gyro Nights 2014, Papay Arts Centre, Orkney, UK and Hong Kong, China
Oslo Screen Festival, Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway
Nordic Outbreak, Umeå, Sweden 2013 Nordic Outbreak, Reykjavík Art Museum Reykjavík, Screen City Festival,
Stavanger, Norway, with The Trinity Session in the Maboneng Precinct,
Johannesburg, South Africa, ISEA2013, Sydney, Australia, Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza, New York, Scandinavia House, New York
Luminous Language, Launch F18 Gallery, New York
Papay Gyro Nights 2013, with 700IS Reindeerland, Hong Kong, China, and Orkney, UK
700IS Reindeerland, 50 Years of Video Art, Marseille, France, The Nordic
House, Reykjavík, Iceland
2012 Horizonic: Unfolding Space through Sound Art, Les Boréales Festival, Caen,
France, Ystads Konstmuseum, Sweden, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland
Artíma Gallerí, Festisvall 3.5, Reykjavík, Iceland
Belgrade Art Fair, with Nova, Belgrade, Serbia
Festival Miden 2012, with NOVA, Kalamata’s Historic Centre, Kalamata, Greece
Papay Gyro Nights 2012, with NOVA & Papay Arts Centre, Bergen Kjott,
Bergen, Norway and Hong Kong, China Bíó Paradís, Festisvall, Reykjavík, Iceland
AAVE Festival, Cultural Centre Malmitalo, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Super Nova, with NOVA, Berlin, Germany
Museum Night, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Papay Gyro Nights 2012, with NOVA, Papay Arts Centre, Orkney, UK
2011 FAS Contemporary Art, Wit, Fear and Sarcasm, London, UK National Gallery of Iceland, Sound Fields, Reykjavík, Iceland
Formverk, RiseAndShine, with NOVA, Eskiltuna, Sweden
Reykjavík Dance Festival 2011, Reykjavík, Iceland
Dorothea Schlueter Gallery, The Confected Video Archive of Kling & Bang,
presented by Kling & Bang, Hamburg, Germany
2010 The Pacific Design Center, Remote Viewing Part 2, curated by Paul Young, Los Angeles, USA
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Icelandic Artists on Film, Yale
University, New York, USA
2009 Contemporary Art Society, Rotate, London, UK
Exit, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Soundings, Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark Video Art in Public Spaces, Dalarna, Gävle and Uppsala, arranged by Kultur i
länet, Sweden (group)
No Soul For Sale – A Festival Of Independents, presented by Kling & Bang, X
Initiative, New York, USA
2008 Birnam Art Trail CVACV collection, PVAF, Perthshire, UK (group)
Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Fake magazine, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art Castilla y León), Frieze
Art Fair, London, UK
Wundergrund 2008, Mezzanin Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Trondheim Matchmaking, Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway
2007 The New Zealand Film Archive, On the Edge, Auckland, New Zealand
Babel / Galleri Blunk, Feminism Now?!, Trondheim, Norway
Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award, The Museum of National History Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerod, Denmark
El Grillo, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Kulturhuset, LARM Nordic Sound Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Trondheim Matchmaking, Blæst, Trondheim, Norway
Vane, Vane Shorts 1, Newcastle, UK
700IS Reindeerland, ASU, Arizona, USA 700IS Reindeerland, MMU, Alsager Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
700IS Reindeerland, Fljótsdalshérað, Iceland
NOASS, Hit the North, Riga, Latvia
FilmVideoKonstfestivalen, Ihersalen, Uppsala, Sweden
CCA: The Center for Contemporary Arts, Video killed the Painting Star,
Glasgow, UK Film in the Park, Wik Sculpture Park, Sweden
Nördik Impakt, Caen, France
Gallerí Box, VideoVaka II, Akureyri, Iceland
Cologne LISTE, represented by Vane, Cologne, Germany
Cirka Puerto Rico, represented by Vane, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006 Spiegel/Lothringer, Aus Dem Norden, 13, Munich, Germany Bergen Kunsthall Landmark, John skies or Sally swims, Bergen, Norway
UKS, John skies or Sally swims, Oslo, Norway
Project Patterson, Suðsuðvestur, Keflavík, Iceland
Forsbacka Factory, Verk, Forsbacka, Sweden
Sequences Real Time Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
Victoria Film festival, Victoria, Canada Videotage RecRoom, Fun in the Midnight Sun: New Norwegian Video, Hong
Kong, China
Nördik Impact 8, Programme Video (Hit the North), Caen, France
Cinemateket, Hit the North, by FilmForm, Stockholm, Sweden
KBB Gallery, Fin de semana islandes en el Raval, Barcelona, Spain
Bridge Art Fair, represented by Vane, Miami, Florida
Berliner Liste, Berlin
NOVA Art Fair Chicago, video screening courtesy of Kasia Kay Art Projects
Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2005 Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, RUSH, Chicago, IL, USA The Living Art Museum, Grassroot 6, Reykjavík, Iceland
Brick-5 Gallery, Augnablik, Vienna, Austria
Scope Art Fair Miami, represented by Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, Miami, FL,
USA
NOVA Art Fair Chicago, represented by New Context Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Scope Art Fair New York, NY, USA Bergen Kunsthall Landmark, Video 2004; Videokunst fra Norden og Balticum,
Bergen, Norway
Program, PUBLIC, Paris
The Nordic House, North and Down, Reykjavík, Iceland
Cuts from Reykjavík at Frisör BEIGE, Berlin, Germany
A.N.T.I.R.U.S.T, cd produced by Serge Comte, Reykjavík, Iceland
Public Collections
The National Gallery of Iceland
The Reykjavík Art Museum
The Dungal Art Foundation
For more information, please visit www.bergcontemporary.is