Yst

Yst artist

Education

• Newcastle University U.K. Master of Fine Art. 2006-2008
• A large number of courses in psychology, education, community management and fine art
• Akureyri School of Visual Art. Fine Arts, 1998-2002
• Håkon Öen. Family Therapy, 1985-1988
• Esra S. Péturson. Psychoanalysis, 1981-1984
• Gothenburg University Sweden M.Sc. in Psychology (Clinical Child Psychology) 1981
• University of Iceland. Basic Philosophy and Swedish, 1978
• University of Iceland. BA in Psychology Education and Teaching, 1977
• Roosevelt University, Chicago USA. Computer Science, 1972
• Akureyri Junior College. Dept. of Natural Science, 1967-1971

Work

• Member of SIM (Icelandic Artists Organization)
• Member of board in Myndlistarfélagid 2009-2010.
• Member of The Sculptural Association Reykjavík.
• Clinical Psychologist in Reykjavik Day-Care Dept for four years and then at Kopasker Health Center for another four years.
• Member of the Community Council in Öxarfjördur District for twelve years and thereof working as The Community Manager for ten years.
• Member of several councils and committees in my community, for the North-Iceland Council and countrywide.
• First reserve Member of Parliament ( Althingi) for one election period, with a short sitting and filed one individual Motion on Road Improvement in North-Iceland and represented Iceland in an UN conference (FAO) in Holland about Women in Rural Areas.

Performances

• Burðast með sjálfsmynd with Súpan in Akureyri 2010
• Burðast með sjálfsmynd with Súpan in Reykjavík 2009
• Þú ert hér Yst alone on Þórsnes at Lagarfljót 2009

Private Exhibitions

• Nýr vinkill Exhibition at Bragginn Yst 2016
• Beggja skauta byr Exhibition at Bragginn Yst at summer solstice 2015 – Nominated to the Eyrarrós cultural award 2015
• Móðirin / The mother Celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to elections in Iceland.  Safnahúsið in Húsavík, Sept – Dec 2015
• Dans við Presthólalón í Norðurþingi 1999 – 2014
• Á milli steins og sleggju – í góðu tómi  in Bragginn summer 2013
• Gegnsæi til hvers? Bragginn summer 2012
• Jóreykur Bragginn summer 2011
• Út úr myrkri Populus Tremula autumn 2010
• Minni Íslands   Bragginn summer 2010
• Newcastle – New York – Nýja Ísland  National Culture House Des. 2009 trough Febr. 2010
• Populus Tremula: Út úr myrkri Autumn 2010
• Bragginn: Minni Íslands Summer Solstice 2010
• National Centre for Cultural Heritage: Newcastle – New York – Nýja Ísland Dec. 2009 through Febr. 2010
• Bragginn: Sagt í lit Summer 2009
• Ketilhúsið Akureyri: Ekki án Spring 2009
• Mokka Reykjavík: Sé þig Early Spring 2009
• Café Karolína Akureyri: Línan – ferð án fyrirheits Autumn 2008
• Hatton Gallery, Newcastle: Still Waters run Deep Late Summer 2008
• Bragginn: Teikning Summer 2008
• Hatton Gallery Newcastle: From One To Another Autumn 2007
• Bragginn: Tilraunir – Tvenndarleikir 2007
• Bragginn: Yst fyrst fryst … svo? 2006
• Bragginn: Yst sem innst 2005
• Öxarfjörður: Sólin í Ásbyrgi 2003
• Bragginn: Bragginn outside 2002
• Íþróttahöllin Akureyri: Óður 2002
• Skólahúsið Kópaskeri: Fyrstu sporin 2001

Group Exhibitions

•  Þitt er valið – eða? Björgum jörðinni / Your choice – or? Saving the world. Verksmiðjan Hjalteyri, June 2015
• Í hnút Almanakið List í 365 daga for the year 2015
• Tíðir installation together with Ingibjörgu Guðmunds in Bragginn summer 2014
• Gullgrafarastétt  Stétt með stétt in Deiglan in Listagil Akureyri vinter 2014
• Án titils   Almanakið List í 365 daga/year 2014
• Ert Þú Hér?  Undir berum himni  in Þingholt  Reykjavík  from Listahátíð through Menningarnótt 2013
• Veran með Myndlistarfélaginu – í Boxinu í Gilinu á Akureyri í febrúar 2013
• Ugglan and Til hennar  on Cultural Congress Day in Raufarhöfn with the Miniser of Culture and Education and the Chairman  for Icelandic Artist Assotiation BíL vinter 2012
• Til hennar bookwork with poems by Jónas Friðrik  also 15 works by Yst in MHR loopshow in Kling og Bang summer 2012
• Konur skrifa baki brotnu  in  MHR 40 years Anniversary book  printed 2012
• Sameign – Einkaeign? in  Hlynur Hallsson´s Blatt – Blað  in (I)ndependent people in Reykjavík Art Museum Hafnarhús from Reykjavik Arts Festival through Summer 2012
• Mynni  inside Akureyri Airport in  Allt+  Sjónlistamiðstöðin´s exhibition summer 2012
• Til hennar in a show of bookworks at the entrance to Netverk bókverka in The Nordic House from Reykjavik Arts Festival untill The Icelandic National Day 2012
• Almannagjá  in  Myndin af Þingvöllum –   Listasafn Árnesinga’s  loopshow Summer 2011
• færi Myndlistarfelagid in Hof from Akureyrarvöku through September 2011 20 x 20 Myndlistarfelagid at the Opening Ceremony of Hof from Akureyrarvoku through November 2010
• Self portraits Súpan together with young and old in Bragginn in November 2009, SÍM-house and Kaffistofa LHÍ in Reykjavík in December same year and lastly in Gallery Box in Akureyri in January and the beginning of February 2010
• Margt býr í skúmaskotum Association for Fine Art in Gallery Box in Akureyri late October 2009
• Fljótið og hringurinn Art in Nature-workshop in Eiðar and exhibition in Slaughterhouse Egilsstadir in October 2009
• The sculpture Flug at List í garðinum in Akureyri Botanical Garden Autumn 2009
• Million Things in One Long Gallery Newcastle Early Spring 2007
• María Mey with Súpan. The premiére in Bragginn, also exhibited in Safnaðarheimili Akureyrarkirkju, summer 2004
• Tíu sinnum tíu (10×10) Anniversary Exhibition for Akureyri Art Society Ketilhús Dec 2001 Book art Student Exhibition Akureyri Deiglan Autumn 2001 Myndlistarsýning Student Exhibition Húsavík Museum Summer 2000
• Apples Exhibition for Dorrit Hallström´s students Stockholm Spring 2000
• Sculpture Student Exhibition Akureyri Ketilhús Spring 2000
• Teríusýning Student Exhibition, Akureyri Spring 2000
• Brúarkynning Student Exhibition, Akureyri Dec 1999 – Jan 2000
• The Spring Exhibitions in Akureyri School of Visual Art 1999-2002

Cultural Grants

• Uppbyggingarsjóður Norðurlands granted the exhibition beggja skauta byr 2015
• Nominated to Eyrarrósin (Cultural Price) 2015
• Eyþing, Atvinnuvega- og Nýsköpunarráðuneytið, Vegagerðin, Norðurþing and many more granted the sculpture Dansinn at Presthólalón in  Norðurþing 2014
• Norðurþing and Aftur heim granted Tíðir in Bragginn Yst  2014
• Bókmenntasjóður granted  MHR 40 years Anniversary book  
• Eyþing granted  Allt + Eyþing and Norðurþing granted the bookwork Til hennar and the exhibition in Bragginn:  Gegnsæi – til hvers?
• Eyþing granted the exhibitions List í garðinum and Sjálfsmyndir 2009
• Quite a few in the East part of Iceland granted Art in Nature workshop at Eidar and the exhibition: Fljótið og hringurinn 2009
• Framleiðnisjóður Landbúnaðarins and Byggðastofnun supported me for building and running Bragginn as a new and inspiring development in rural Iceland 2002-2003