IslANDs - Painterly Experiments & Exploded Sculptures

Symposiums on Gudjon´s art and architecture have been held at
Suny Collage, Westchester, NY, The Scandinavian Art Foundation,
NY, The Reykjavik Art Museum and he was selected to be one
of the honorary opening speakers as an acclaimed sculptor at
SCALE - a gathering of sculptors; an international symposium on
sculpture and the environment held in 2012 in San Antonio, Texas
at the invitation of National Endovement for the Arts. USA. In
the fall of 2013 Gudjon was invited to give a talk at the National
Museum of Art in Beijing.
Public documentary films on his explosive art works have been
made in Reykjavik by Thorfinnur Gudnason in 2000 (GUDJON)
and by Walley films, in Texas, in 2012 (DySTOPic ProgressiONs).
Suyojan Film in New-Delhi recently completed a documentary on
his then recent art and architectural endeavors in India (GOlden
SectiONs).
Gudjon has upcoming art and architectural exhibits in India,
Europe and the USA. In January 2015 Gudjon was invited, for
the first time in the history of the institution, to exhibit in all the
main galleries (5000 sq. m.) of the prestigious Lalit Kala Academy,
The National Academy of Arts, New Delhi in the celebration of
the 60th anniversary of the institution. Consequently, he has
been selected to represent his native country, Iceland, at the
prestigious India Art Triennial, New Delhi.
Three new publications on his recent art and design work will be
published in conjunction with a travelling exhibit launching at
Habitat Art Center, New Delhi in 2018, named “GOldens IslANDs.”
Contributing writers are the world-known curator and
scenographer Rajeev Sethi, senior editor of Art in America dr.
Richard Vine, who will also the curator for the exhibit, the
acclaimed Indian poet Ashok Vajapeyji, NY architectural critic Iair
Rosenkranz, architectural prof. Livio G. Dimitru, Romanian poet
Doina Uregrau, Italian photographer Sebastioan Cortes, Icelandic
philosopher Jón Proppé , antrhopologist dr. K.K: Chakravarti
former chairman LK Academy and the Texan artist and Blue
Star´s former museum executive director, Bill Fitzgibbons as well
as Henry Meyric Huges, Honorary president of the International
Association of Art Critics.
As a practicing artist and architect Gudjon, has over the years
received e.g. the following grants, awards and recognitions: Cité
Internationale des Arts, France; Italian Ministry of Culture; The
Finnish-Icelandic Society; The American Information Service,
Iceland; The Icelandic Ministry of Culture; The Icelandic Artists’
Fund; The Sasakawa Foundation, Japan (two times); The Fulbright
Foundation, Iceland; The National Research Fund, Iceland; The
Scandinavian-American Foundation (travel grant), New York;
Nordisk Kunstcentrum, Finland; Sleipnir, The Nordic Ministerial
Fund, Denmark; SPRON - Cultural Fund, Iceland; The Municipal
Cultural Fund, Iceland; ILS Technological Advance Fund; Margret
Björgólfsdottir Cultural Fund; Muggur Travel Fund; Muggur
Resident Fund; CIA -Center For Icelandic Arts project grant;
Myndstef project grant; The National Endowment for the Arts,
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