Úlfur Karlsson

Name

Úlfur Karlsson

Birthday

13. October 1988

Biography

Education

Valand, Academy of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3 year BA program, graduating in spring 2012.
Art Acedmy of Vilnius, 2011, one term exchange student
Fotohögskolan Gothenburg, summer course, 2010
The Art Collage of Akureyri, Iceland, 1 year preparatory studies 2008-9
Graduated from The Icelandic Film School 2008

Films

Snus, Experimental Film Screening, Haga Bion, Gothenburg. 2010
A kind of Alaska  shortfilm,screened in Laugarásbíó, Reykjavik 2008 and Glimz TV  Sweden,
Doublestory, screened in Reykjavík, 2007
The New York Film Festival, screening of the short film Pirovat in 2003.

Exhibitions

The Reykjanes Art Museum November 2017
Riga Art Fair, October 2017
Art Riga Happy Art Gallery,  October 2017
Vienna Contemporary Art Fair September 2017
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami in Nov.Dec. 2016, Galeri Ernst Hilger
By Proxy, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna 2016
Implant, Wind and Weather Window Gallery 2016
We are not afraid, Listasafn Reykjavíkur Hafnarhúsi, D-sal, 2015
Nýmálað/Wet Paint, Listasafn Reykjavíkur 2015
Farþeginn, Sláturhúsinu, Egilsstöðum, 2015
TURNINTENSIVE, TAKT KUNSTRAUM, Berlin, 2014
Sýningarsalur SÍM The Natives are Restless Tonight (The Artists Associations Gallery), June, 2014.
A HARD DAYS NIGHT  The ASI Art Gallery, 2014
ÓNÁTTÚRA/Unnature, Edinborgarhúsið, Slunkaríki, Ísafirði, 2013
Open Air Exhibition, Reykjavík Center, Reykjavik Art festival 2013
Why Art Now? Open Show Studio, Athens, 2012
Bachelorette Rose Ceremony, Kungsports Ave., Gothenburg, 2012
Galleri SK, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2012
Spring exhibition, Rotor2, Gothenburg, 2010
Raw, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg, 2010
Pilgrims I, 12 Tónar, music store and music production, Photography, Reykjavík, 2008
Pilgrims, Mál og Menning, bookstore, Photography, Reykjavík, 2008

Other

SÍM, Artist Residency Berlin, September, 2016
Icelandic  Art Center Travel Grant, 2014 http://icelandicartcenter.is/people/artists/ulfur-karlsson/
TAKT Artists Residency, Berlin June 2014
Nes, Artist Residency, June, 2013
The RIFF SUMMER FILM INSTITUTE a Fiction Screenwriting and Doc Development Workshop in SKAGAFJORDUR ICELAND May 2013 with Baltasar Kormákur and others.
Artist studios in Berlin and Denmark June and August 2012
Artists Residency, Berlin 2014
Artists Residency, Berlin 2016
Artist Residency, Vilaarchangel, Valencia, September 2017