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Name: Katrín Sigurdardóttir
Birthplace: Reykjavík, Iceland
Birthdate: February 28, 1967
Sign: Pisces
Education: Iceland Academy of the Arts,
Reykjavík; BFA from San Francisco Art Institute;
MFA from Rutgers in New Jersey
Materials: natural wood and construction materials, plastics, various architectural modelling materials
including hobby models
Where you can find her work in Iceland: The National Gallery, The Reykjavík Museum of Art, ASÍ Art Museum,
and Icelandair’s permanent collection
Where you can find her: aboard Icelandair
What she’ll tell you: “I describe myself as a sculptor, rather than an installation artist, as I think
the former can, in my case, include the latter. Basically, I’m just a three-dimensional artist. I work
with space.”
Think: place, dreams, memory
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