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Bjarki Bragason
Iceland University of the Arts
Iceland
Bjarki Bragason (1983) studied fine art at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Universität der Künste Berlin before completing his graduate studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Bjarki has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has held solo exhibitions in Iceland and abroad since 2006. Solo exhibitions include Threethousand and Nine Years at the Living Art Museum, Past Understandings at the Vienna Museum of Art History, Desire Ruin at the Vienna Museum of Natural History, and The Sea at the Schildt Foundation, Tammisaari, Finland. Group exhibitions include Kingdom: flora, fauna, fable at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Imagine the Presentat St. Paul St. Gallery in Auckland New Zealand and Infrastructure of Climate at Human Resources, Los Angeles. Bjarki has curated exhibitions and taken part in artistic research projects in collaboration with artists, architects and earth scientists, among them Infinite Next in collaboration with Anna Líndal and glaciologists from the SVALI collaborative glaciology platform, engaging in field work at the Greenland ice cap. Bjarki was a recent resident of UC Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station’s artist in residency programme, where he conducted research on the history of specific trees within the Sagehen Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His work has been reviewed in publications including the art and climate change series Distance Plan and in Janine Randerson's Weather as a Medium (MIT Press 2018). Bjarki ihas been Assistant Professor and BA Programme Director at the fine art department at the Iceland University of the Arts since 2016.