Dodda Maggý

Born 1981, Keflavik, Iceland
2013-15 Musical Composition, The Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2010 SoundImageCulture, Master Class in Documentary Film, Brussels, Belgium
2007-09 Nordic Sound Art (MFA), joint study programme between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Malmö Art Academy, Oslo National College of the Arts and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
2006-09 Master of Fine Art, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001-04 BA Fine Art, The Icelandic Academy of the Arts (LHI), Reykjavík, Iceland
1997-2001 Visual Art, Breidholts College, Reykjavík, Iceland
1995-2000 Grafarvogur Music School, Reykjavík, Iceland
1990-93 Sigursveins D. Kristinsson Music School, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives in Reykjavík, Iceland

 

Works

Solo Exhibitions

2017
‘ARoS Focus/New Nordic: Dodda Maggý’, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
‘Variations’, Berg Contemporary, Reykjavík, Iceland

2016
‘Coil’, Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland

2015
‘Doríon’ (performance), Reykjavík Arts Festival 2015, Kópavogur Church, Gerðarsafn, Iceland

2014
‘Madeleine’, 700IS Reindeerland, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

2013
‘ÆSA’, Menningarhúsið Skúrinn, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland

2010
‘Vision’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
‘D15’, Hafnarhús, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

2008
‘Exhibition no. 40: International video screening 2008’, ET4U, Bøvlingbjerg, Denmark

2007
‘Late Midnight Early Afternoon’, Galleri i8, Reykjavík, Iceland

2006
‘Video/Music’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2005
‘Rainbowproject’, The Dale Biennale, Dale, Norway
‘Work 19’, Gallery Vesturveggurinn, Seydisfjordur, Iceland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
‘Vicennial’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Bout: Video Works from the Collection’, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

2016
‘Future Memory’, Reykjanes Art Museum, Keflavík, Iceland
‘Raflost: Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts’, Mengi, Reykjavík, Iceland

2015
‘Nordic Music Days: Nordic Sound Art’, Kongernes Lapidarium, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Kvennaveldið: Konur og kynvitund’, Reykjanes Art Museum, Keflavík, Iceland
‘Remembering - A Glimpse of a Memory’, Nordisk Panorama, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
‘Reykjavík Stories’, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
‘Ten’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘Birting / Illumination’, Kópavogur Art Museum, Gerðarsafn, Iceland
‘Línubilun / Line Fault’, OffVenue Sequences Real Time Art Festival, Ekkisens, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Turtle Salon’, Project Rooms, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
Oodaaq Festival (video art), Rennes, France

2014
‘Pushing Reality’, Mdf Berlin, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘At Twilight’, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Salon’, King Christian VII’s apartment, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Turtle Salon in the Forest’, Sällbacken, Duved, Jämtland, Sweden
‘Raflost’, Icelandic Festival of Electronic Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
Oslo Screen Festival, Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway
‘Papay Gyro Nights 2014’, Papay Arts Centre, Papa Westray, Orkney Islands
‘700IS Reindeerland’, Winterfestival, Reykjavik City Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘Cadences of Line and Color’, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘Nordic Outbreak: Confronting Elements’, Rådhusparken, Umeå, Sweden
‘Between fact and fiction’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2013
‘Nordic Outbreak’, Scandinavia House, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New Museum, New York, USA touring to ISEA2013, Sydney, Australia, Johannesburg, South Africa, Screen City Festival, Stavanger, Norway, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA

2012
‘Horizonic - Unfolding Space through Sound Art’, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland, touring to Fogo Island Arts Corporation, Canada, Ystads konstmuseum, Sweden, Les Boréales Festival, Caen, France
‘Festisvall 3.5’, Artíma Gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Belgrade Art Fair’, with NOVA, Belgrade, Serbia
‘Festival Miden 2012’, with NOVA, Kalamata, Greece
‘Papay Gyro Nights’, with NOVA & Papay Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland, touring to Hong Kong, Bergen Kjøtt, Norway
‘Festisvall’, Bíó Paradís, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘AAVE Festival’, Cultural Centre Malmitalo, Helsinki, Finland
‘Super Nova’, with NOVA, Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin, Germany
‘Museum Night’, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland

2011
‘Wit, Fear and Sarcasm ’, The Fine Art Society, London
‘Sound Fields’, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Endemis óhljóð’, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘RiseAndShine’, with NOVA, Formverk, Eskiltuna, Sweden

2010
‘Remote Viewing Part 2’, The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
‘Icelandic Artists on Film’ (screening), Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, Yale University, New York, USA
‘Whirlpool’ (screening), Villa Reykjavik with Kling & Bang, House of Ideas, Reykjavík, Iceland

2009
‘No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents’, presented by Kling & Bang, X Initiative, New York, USA
‘Rotate’, Contemporary Art Society, London
‘Rundgang’, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘EXIT 09’, GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Soundings – Nordic Sound Art’, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
‘Video Art in Public Spaces’, Dalarna, Gävle and Uppsala, arranged by Kultur i länet, Sweden

2008
Project for ‘Fake magazine’, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art Castilla y León) for Frieze Projects, Frieze Art
Fair, London
‘Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award’, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
‘Wundergrund 2008’, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Birnam Art Trail’ (CVACV collection), PVAF, Perthshire, Scotland

2007
‘Vane Shorts 1’, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
‘El Grillo’, Skaftfell, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
‘Feminism Now?!’, Babel / Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, Norway
‘Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Award’, Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
‘LARM’ (film and video festival), Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
‘700IS Reindeerland’ (film and video festival), Fljotdalsherad, Iceland
‘Hit the North’, NOASS, Riga, Latvia
‘Video killed the Painting Star’, CCA: The Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
‘Film in the Park’, Wik Sculpture park, Wik, Sweden
‘Nördik Impakt 9’ (electronic arts festival), Caen, France
‘VideoVaka II’, Galleri Box, Akureyri, Iceland

2006
‘Aus Dem Norden’, Spiegel/Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
‘Project Patterson’, Sudsudvestur, Keflavik, Iceland
‘Fun in the Midnight Sun: New Norwegian Video’, Videotage RecRoom, Hong Kong
‘Sequences: Real Time Festival’, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Verk’, Forsbacka Factory, Forsbacka, Sweden
‘John skis or Sally swims’, UKS, Oslo, Norway
‘Hit the North’, FilmForm/Cinemateket, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Fin de semana islandes en el Raval’, KBB Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
‘Victoria Film festival’, Victoria, Canada

2005
‘RUSH’, Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery, Chicago, USA
Scope Art Fair, Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery stand, Miami, USA
Nova Young Art Fair, New Context Gallery stand, Chicago, USA
‘Grassroot 6’, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Augnablik’, Brick-5 Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2004
‘Video 2004: Videoart from Norden and Baltikum’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Scope Art Fair, New York, USA, curated by Tor Jørgen van Eijk
‘Program’, PUBLIC, Paris, France
‘North and Down’, Nordic House, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Cuts from Reykjavík’, Frisör BEIGE, Berlin, Germany
‘Graduation Exhibition’, LHI, Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
‘A.N.T.I.R.U.S.T.’, CD produced by Serge Comte

2003
‘Time’, Tjarnarbíó, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Unease’, Sigurjons Olafsson Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

2002
‘Untitled,’ Reykjavik City Library, Reykjavík, Iceland

2001
‘Me-Object’, Laugavegurinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘Readymade’, Gula Husid, Reykjavík, Iceland
‘The Sea’, Town Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia

Awards and Residencies

2016
Artist’s grant, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education

2015
Artist’s grant, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education

2014
Travel Grant, The Icelandic Art Center, Iceland
Project Grant, Myndlistarsjóður, Iceland
Travel Grant, Myndstef, Iceland

2013
Project Grant, Myndstef, Iceland

2012
Residency at Kjarvalsstofa, Cité Internationales des Arts, Paris, France
Artist's grant, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, Iceland

2010
Artist’s grant, Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education, Iceland

2006
Grant, Gudmundu Andrésdóttir Art Foundation Grant, Dungal Art Foundation, Iceland
Grant, Dungal Art Foundation, Iceland
Grant, Foundation in Memory of Margret Björgolfsdottir, Iceland

2005
Residency, NKD (The Nordic Art Centre in Dale), Norway

Bibliography

2006
‘Video/Music’, essay, Paul Usherwood, Vane