Hrafnhildur Arnardottir aka Shoplifter

Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir aka ‘Shoplifter’ was born in Iceland , she is currently based in New York.

1994 - 1996 MFA School of Visual Arts. New York, USA

1989 - 1993 BFA Icelandic College of Art and Crafts. Painting department. Reykjavík, Iceland

Selected Shows and Projects (Solo and Group)

2011

HonnunarMars

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Icelandic Museum of Design and Applied Arts, , Iceland

Curator for the Nordic Fashion Biennial 2011

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Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, USA

The Nordic Textile Award

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Boras Textile Museum, Boras, Sweden

Performance collaboration with Nico Muhly

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Galapagos Art Space, New York, USA

2010

Postermat

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The Hole Gallery, New York, USA

Bowery Lane

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Charles Bank Gallery, New York, USA

Collective Noun

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Faggionato Fine Art, London, USA

Pseudonym Project

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The Invisible Dog Gallery, New York, USA

Bubble Raft

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Dorsch Gallery, Miami, USA

Crone

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Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA

The Liverpool Biennial

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, Liverpool, UK

The Brucennial 2010

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, New York, USA

2009

Burn

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Trolley Gallery, London, UK

Vanity Disorder

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i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Out of Order

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Edlin Gallery, New York, USA

Crossing the line (window installation)

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Alliance Francaise Art Festival and Collaboration with department store Macy’s 34th street, New York, USA

Evudætur

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Artmuseum, Akureyri, Iceland

Hydra Star

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Artwalk-Hydra School Project 10, Hydra, Greece

2008

Aimez Vous Avec Fervour, (Installation commissioned by MoMA, a.v.a.f. and Shoplifter collaboration)

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Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), (in collaboration with a.v.a.f.)

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Deitch Projects LIC, New York, USA

Písland I, (workshop and residency)

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A. J. Art Foundation, New York, USA

(performance project)

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Deitch Art Parade, New York, USA

Spleen: The Flowers of Evil Still Bloom

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Cueto Projects, New York, USA

ME(N)TAL

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Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens, Greece

ID Lab

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Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Art Whatever

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Hydra School Project 9, Hydra, Greece

PÍsland I (July-August 2008 - workshop and residency)

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A. J. Art Foundation, Opatow, Poland

Manuf(r)actured

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Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, USA

ABC with Love

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Art Metropole, Ontario, Canada

It’s Not Your Fault (group show and performance)

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Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York , USA

HERE: Energies and Shadows, LMCC Swingspace project (group show and performance)

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South Street Seaport, New York, USA

Hair, Skin and Bone, (music and art performance in collaboration with composer Nico Muhly)

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The Kitchen, New York, USA

2007

The Fruit and Flower Deli Show

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Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy

Siamese Rapunzels: The longest live human hair braid in the world (performance)

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Deitch Art Parade, New York, USA

Happy

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Arnhem Mode Bienniale, Arnhem, Netherlands

Become our Egill of Iceland (performance in collaboration with Egill Sæbjörnsson, Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir, David Herbert and Michal Jurewicz)

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Cueto Projects, New York, USA

Ninja by Night

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Dandruff Space at Liborius for Sequences Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

She Was Born to Be My Unicorn

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Amy Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, Iceland

I Like to Watch

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The Canal Chapter, New York, Iceland

Another

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Colette Art Gallery, London, UK

The Perfect Man Show

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White Columns, New York, USA

2006

Invasionistas, Sequences Festival Nada Art Fair, Miami, Legionaires

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Kling og Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Pakkhus Postulanna

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The Reykjavik Art Museum-Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland

The Dance, (Curated by Emma Reeves)

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NIKE Art Project - Shoplifter and Ryan McGinley New York, USA and Milan, International, USA

Kamp K48

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John Connelly Presents, New York, USA

2005

Shroud Series, Return of the Hairy Hunch

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Dandruff Space, New York, USA

Volcana-Icelandic Panorama

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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada

Kamp K48

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

Tívolí

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Museum of Arnes, Hveragerði, Iceland

K-2005

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Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden

2004

Nada Art Fair (a.v.a.f. collaboration)

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Rosa de la Cruz Art Collection, Miami, USA

The Icelandic Puppet Factory (AsFour collaboration)

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Creative Time, New York, USA

Phiiliip New Album

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Deitch Projects, New York, USA

K48 Animal

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Agnes B Homme, New York, USA

Dagskrá

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Public, Paris, France

Textile-Art

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Reykjavík Art Museum-Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland

Works on Paper

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Southfirst Gallery, New York, Iceland

2003

Shrine of my Vanity, part II

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ATM Gallery, New York, USA

The Emotional Orchestra by Marina Rosenfeld (performance)

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Deitch Project, New York, USA

Outlaw Series, a curatorial project by Lisa Kirk

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, New York, USA

The Full Moon Horror (performance by The European Touch of the Ghost Theater)

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Peacock Hill, New York, USA

Magic (vdeo installation, Tilraunaeldhusid/Kitchen Motors)

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Tonic, New York, USA

Woollenmaiden and friends

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The Project, Dublin, Ireland

Now Playing-K48

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D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA

International Artists in support of Ecosystems 3

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Manaus, , Brazil

Ny?ir tímar í íslenskri ljósmyndun/New Times in Icelandic Photography

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Reykjavík Art Museum-Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland

Women 2003

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Billboard Project, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002

Shrine of my Vanity

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Hlemmur.is Gallery, New York, USA

Shoplifter presents The European Touch of the Ghost Theater and The Knitted Aura

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Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA

East of Hollywood- Reaction Shot

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210two Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2001

The Sheer Frost Orchestra by Marina Rosenfeld (performance)

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The Whitney Museum, New York, USA

Three

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Blank (space), New York, USA

Gather and Tell

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Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, USA

Silent Auction and Gala Exhibition

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White Columns, New York, USA

Double Trouble (Art Fag)

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Passerby, New York, USA

2000

Fullveldi/Independence

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Kópavogur Museum-Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland

Posers

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White Columns, New York, Iceland

Inventing Iceland

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Articule Gallery, Montreal, Canada

1999

Myndir á sýningu

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Museum of Egilsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland

Hot spot

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Kulturbahnhof Eller e.V, Dusseldorf, Germany

Human Hair Sculptress (performance)

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Animal-Hairshop, Reykjavík, Iceland

1998

Family

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The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

-30/60+ (group show and performance)

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The Reykjavik Art Museum-Kjarvalsstaðir, Reyjavík, Iceland

Human Hair Sculptress, On the Verge

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Double Pleasure Gallery, New York, USA

Friendly, On the Verge (performance)

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Double Pleasure Gallery, New York, USA

Portraits, Portraits, Mountain Slide (performance)

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Double Pleasure Gallery, New York, USA

Double Trouble, No Fun (group show and performance)

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Double Pleasure Gallery, New York, USA

1997

12 years later, Wrong Place, Right Time (performance)

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Double Pleasure Gallery, New York, USA