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Occupation Art curator
Chairman of the Art Museum of the University of Iceland
Associate professor of art history and theory, University of Iceland Website starfsfolk.hi.is/en/simaskra/4408 Alma maters Pantheon-Sorbonne University, University of Iceland Residence Reykjavik, Iceland, Paris, France | ||
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Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (born Reykjavik) is an Icelander art curator. She specializes in contemporary art, photography, history of photography and fashion. She is associate professor of art history and art theory at the University of Iceland.
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Career and works
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir works as professor of Art history, Art Theory, and Curatorial Studies at the University of Iceland.
She has written extensively on modern and contemporary art, photography, history of photography, and fashion, and has been the curator for several exhibitions related to Icelandic art in various European countries.
She is chairman of the Art Museum of the University of Iceland.
She received the Fjöruverðlaunin price in 2009 in the category "Best non-fiction".
Books and major articles
Curator and co-curator
She has worked with a number of artists including Anne Herzog, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, Halldór Ásgeirsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Kristleifur Björnsson, Olga Bergmann, Ólöf Nordal, Pétur Thomsen, Sigurður Guðmundson, Sigurður Guðjónsson, Hlynur Hállsson Spessi, et al.