Contemporary Artists
Around 1960 the Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth moved to Iceland. His engagement with the Icelandic art scene was of great importance in introducing movements such as conceptual art, Fluxus, happenings, body art, life art and social sculpture, which since have formed a basis for Icelandic Contemporary Art.
- Sigurdís Harpa Arnarsdóttir (born 1964)
- Heimir Björgúlfsson (born 1975)
- Gabríela Fridriksdóttir (born 1971)
- Kristján Guðmundsson
- Ragnar Kjartansson
- Erla Silfá Þorgrímsdóttir
- Ólöf Nordal
- Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940)
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