Jónína Guðnadóttir
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Distinctions
  • Principal teacher of ceramics at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts when the ceramic department was established

  • Has received Icelandic State Grants for Artists

  • Has been a member of the committee of exhibitions of
    the Association of Icelandic Artists as well as a member of the Board

  • First president of the Society of Icelandic Ceramic Artists 1981–1984

  • Member of Gallery Grjót during its existence 1983–1989

  • Head of the Icelandic Section of the Nordic Arts Association 1986–1990

  • President of the Nordic Arts Association 1990–1993

  • Representative of the Union of Icelandic Visual Arts on the Committee for Icelandic State Grants for Artists in 1984

  • Secretary of the Board of the Reykjavik Association of Sculptors since 2000.

  • In 2006: Commisioned to set up three pieces of land art, called Vortex I, II and III, after having won the first prize in a competition among selected artists for land art in the area around the Kárahnjúkar hydroelectric power plant in the highlands of Eastern Iceland. Estimated to be finished in 2009.

  • In 2007: Honorary Artist in Residence in Hafnarfjördur