Sigurður Sævar Magnúsarson

Sigurður Sævar Magnúsarson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1997. He started as a child creating sculptures in the garden of his home in Reykjavík from wood, but over time the works developed into two-dimensional works such as drawings and paintings. In 2011 Sigurður had his first solo exhibition in Reykjavík at the age of thirteen where he showed paintings.

This was followed by more exhibitions, both group exhibitions and solo exhibitions around Iceland, including large exhibitions in several well-known buildings in Reykjavík, such as a solo exhibition in Harpa opera house (2017). In the corridors of Kringlan, Reykjavík’s largest shopping mall (2017) and in the Pearl in Öskjuhlíð (2016) along with other smaller exhibitions.

In the years 2013-2017 he studied fine arts at Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti, Reykjavík, but moved to the Netherlands in 2019 to start studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (KABK) and graduated from there in the summer of 2023.

“Creating has been my calling for as long as I can remember. And the inspiration has therefore come from many places all those years, but working with my environment and its context and position has followed me for a long time, where the architecture and the landscape often appears in my works because the landscape from my home country Iceland is an unlimited source of ideas from mountains to stones.

Lately, I have made my own life as the subject of my works, where I capture my experience of being a young man trying to find my way in life as an artist, where the boundaries between the real and the unreal become blurred, almost as I have become an actor on a theater stage. Where the topic is friendship, love, sadness, freedom, success and more. Where I capture moments of life in a painting, almost as if I am documenting a performance with paintings.”