Sigrid Valtingojer

Born: 1935 in Teplitz, Czech Republic, brought up in Germany.

Background & Exhibitions

Education

Educated as commercial designer in Frankfurt am Main.
Settled in Iceland 1961.
Studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, graduated from the Department of Educating Art Teachers in 1977 and graduated from the Department of Graphic Arts in 1979

Selected representations in collections

Icelandic Art Museum
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum
Art Museum ASI, Reykjavik
Art Museum Kopavogur and Hafnarfjördur, Iceland
Nationalgalleriet, Oslo
Alva Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Museum Ludwig, Köln
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Graphische Sammlung, Munchen
Graphische Sammlung Alberta Wien
Bibliothek Nationale Paris
Kunstmuseum, Zurich
Kupferstichkabinett, Basel
Musee Grenoble
Galeria d´Arte Moderne, Bologna
International Center of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Museum National, Warszawi
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moskow
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Portland Art Museum, USA
International collection of the graphic art, Cremona Italy

Experience

Instructor in printmaking at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts 1986 – 2001
Residency at the Studio Cité des Arts, Paris 1989
Residency at the Nordic Art Center in Sveaborg, Finland 1994
Guest artist at the Kyoto-Seika-Academy of Art, Japan 1995
Curator of the 3rd Nordic Triennial of Prints in Iceland in co-operation with the Nordic House in Reykjavik 1998.
Participation at Fine Art Course at International Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria in 2000, 2004 and 2006.
European MA Fine Art Printmaking Course, Winchester School of Art in Barcelona 2001-2002.
Residency at Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojácar, Spain 2005.

Awards and grants

Award at Biennial exhibition of prints in Wakayama, Japan
Grand Prix 1987 at “Premio Internazionale Biella per l´Incisione”,Biella, Italy
Purchase Prize Award at Gilkey Center, Portland Art Museum, USA 1997
Grants of the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Visual artist salary fund 1994 and 2000
Scandinavian Sasakawa Foundation 1994
Visual Art Copyright Association of Iceland 2002

Exhibitions

Selected Group exhibitions
Hanga Annual, Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art,Tokyo 1986
Premio Internazionale Biella per
l´Incisione, Biella, Italy 1987
The 2nd Biennial exhibition of prints in Wakayama, Japan
Nordic Graphic Union NGU-exhibition, Sveaborg, Finland
Graphica Atlantica, Kjarvalsstaðir Reykjavik
Triennial exhibition “Europea dell´Incisione Grado” Italy 1988
“A Selection of Prints”, Artmuseum Lahti, Finland
Internat. Printexhibition Interprint Lvov, Ukraine 1989
The Kochi International Triennial exhibition of prints, Kochi, Japan
“Die Isländer kommen” Icelandic Artists in Köln, Germany 1990
Biennial of Graphic Art Ljubljana, Slovenia 1991
International exhibition of prints at Cultural Centre Art Moderne, Moscow
Osaka Trienniale, International Competition of prints, Osaka, Japan
Off Centre Gallery Bristol, England
The Nordic International Print Triennial Fredrikstad, Norway 1992
World Expo Sevilla, Spain
The Kochi International Triennial exhibition of prints, Kochi,Japan
International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Krakow, Poland 1994
Internat.Triennial ” Colour in Graphic Art”, Nurnberg, Germany
Icelandic Prints in China, The Art Museum of Beijing, China
Osaka Trienniale, Internatinal Competition of prints, Osaka, Japan
“Seven Icelandic Artists” Gallery Plaisiren, Stockholm, Sweden
Troisieme Trienniale Mondiale d´Estampes, Chamalieres, France
Premio Internazionale Biella per l´Incisione, Biella, Italy 1996
The Biennial of Graphic Art, Beograd, Jugoslavia
Internat. print exhibition at Gilkey Center,Portland Art Museum, USA 1997
International Printmaking Cooperatives in Edmonton, Canada
Premio Internazionale Biella
per l´Incisione,Biella,Italy 1999
“Art and the Printing Press, Cremona, Italy 2001
3rd Grafiktriennial Holbæk, Denmark 2004
Portfolio Exhibition „ Impact 4 “ Poznan, Poland 2005
The Nordic House Reykjavík 2009
Grafiska Sällskapet, 100 years Print Anniversary, Stockholm, Sweden 2010

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1981 Nordic House, Reykjavik
1983 Gallery Langbrok, Reykjavik
1986 Gallery Gangskör, Reykjavik
         Galeria Teatru STU, Krakow
1990 Galerie Eglau, Kampen, Sylt
         Gallery II, Reykjavik
1992 Galerie ST. Martinskeller,Adligenswil, Switzerland
FIM Gallery Reykjavik
1993 Art Gallery ASÍ Reykjavik
1994 Konstsalong Ekeby Quarn, Uppsala, Sweden
1996 Gallery Krebsen, Copenhagen 1996
         Gerðarsafn, Art Gallery Kópavogur, Iceland
1997 Gallery Heian, Kyoto
         Gallery Krebsen, Copenhagen
1999 Art Gallery ASÍ, Reykjavik
         Panorama Studio, Barcelona
2002 Jan Fejkiel Gallery, Krakow
2003 Art Gallery ASÍ, Reykjavik
2005 Art Gallery ASÍ, Reykjavik
2008 Start Art Gallery, Reykjavik
2009 InselGalerie Berlin
2010 Art Gallery ASÍ, Reykjavík

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