Anna Guðjónsdóttir‘s artistic practice is deeply rooted in painting and nature. Growing up partly inThingvellir National Park, studying nature in field trips, visiting Natural History museums, as well as a deep knowledge of the tradition of landscape painting has shaped her art. In her exhibitions she often makes the exhibition space a part of the work, thereby creating a special place, that for Guðjónsdóttir, is a place of origin. She is interested in how we define ourselves in relation to nature and how we can be more aware of our own history and our collective memory.

She uses the vitrine as a viewfinder and as a symbol for knowledge and a means of understanding the context of nature and culture. In her exhibition Hollow Sky Hidden Ocean, Anna Guðjónsdóttir uses this element in  new works that are created on site. She has also brought with her from Hamburg paintings and drawings both recent and older ones.

Since 2022 Guðjónsdóttir has been a fellow of a group of international scientists working on the topic of volcanoes, climate and history, which has resulted in scientific papers as well as two exhibitions, her solo exhibition Curiosity unbound in Bielefeld, Germany (2023) and the group show Magma Rising in the Heong Gallery, Cambridge University, UK (2025). Gudjónsdóttir’s contribution to the show in the Heong
Gallery was a 5 x 7 meter mural. (see: https://magmarising.org )

Anna Guðjónsdóttir was born in Reykjavík and was raised in Vogahverfið and in Thingvellir National Park. She studied at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts and at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany, where she graduated in the nineties. 

Anna has received numerous awards for her work, both in Iceland and abroad, such as the Edwin Scharff Prize from Hamburg 2007 and in 1999 the Edstrandska Stiftelsen Art Award in Sweden. She exhibits internationally, for example; Palais de Tokyo, Paris 1998 and 2025 in the Falckenberg collection, Deichtorhallen in Hamburg 2025. 

Her exhibition „pars pro toto“ in Hafnarhúsið (2019) was nominated for the Icelandic Art Award.

She currently lives and works in Hamburg.