Erna Mist (b. 1998 in Reykjavík) is a painter and columnist who paints on canvas and writes for magazines. Despite her young age, Erna’s works have been exhibited in London, Milan and Reykjavík and are sold to seventeen countries on three continents. Erna lives in both Reykjavík and London, but aims to graduate from The Slade School of Fine Art in the spring of 2023. Næturveröld is her first solo exhibition in Iceland.
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“Paintings are places where the gravity of reality is disconnected and the divisions between sleep and wakefulness, dream and reality, me and you – disappear.” – Erna Mist