Vignir Jóhannsson 

Har været professionel kunstner fra han bliv færdig med sin uddannelse fra Rhode Island School of Design (MFA from RISD) i USA. Han har primært arbejdet ud fra ekspressionistisk udtryk i mange forskellige materialer.
 
I sin karriere har han holdt mange soloudstillinger, lavet scenografier for TV og films ,produceret kunst i glas og deltaget i store glasudstillinger rund i verden.
 
Malerier har været den røde tråd i Vignirs udtryk gennem tiden med forskellige temer og stilarter alt fra ulta expressioniske  til det minimalistiske. Vidder og teoretiske konsepter er det han har interesseret sig mest for. Abstrakt teorier om bevegelsen af selve tiden, blandet med menneskelige relationer og instinktive fysiske reaktioner på følelser.
 
I sine skulpturer og installationer har han primært fokuseret på linjer, forme og lysfald sammen med refleksioner af lys og farver. Samme koncepter er gennemgående i hans senografier og udstillingsprojekter.
 
Vignir er født og opvokset i en mindre fiskerby på Island hvor fra han fik sine store visuelle  indtryk af naturen, havet og de store forandringer i vejret.
Det har sat sit præg på hvordan hans forskellige oplevelser overføres til kunstværker i forskellige materialer og platforme 
 
Efter han bliv færdig med BA uddannelsen fra Kunstakademiet på Island (Myndlista og handídaskoli Islands) i 1978 flyttede han til USA og tog på Rhode Island School Of Design in Providence RI in 1981. Derefter boede han nogen år i Brooklyn NY og senere i ganske mange år i Santa Fe New Mexico. Tilbage til Island flyttede han så i 1995 og var i hjemlandet til han så flyttede til Danmark i 2011 hvor han bor nu.
 
Foruden at være aktiv som proffesionel kunstner har vignir brugt tid gennem hele sin karriere til at deltage i bestyrelses arbejde til glæde for kunst og kultur i norden. Eksempelvis formand for The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists  og Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Former NIFCA in Finland), 
 
Vignir har en liste over udstillinger, der strækker sig over flere kontinenter og årtier, der er mere end 100 forskellige udstillinger . Ved ønske om komplet og opdateret CV, kontakt kunstneren.

 

Has been a professional artist since he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA from RISD) in the USA. He has primarily worked with expressionist expression in many different materials.

In his career, he has held many solo exhibitions, made senographies for TV and films, produced art in glass and participated in large glass exhibitions around the world.

Paintings have been the common thread in Vignir’s expression throughout time with different themes and styles ranging from the ultra-expressionistic to the minimalistic. Landscapes and theoretical concepts are what he has been most interested in. Abstract theories about the movement of time itself mixed with human relationships and instinctive physical reactions to emotions.

In his sculptures and installations, he has primarily focused on lines, shapes and light fall together with reflections of light and colors. The same concepts are consistent in his scenography (for television and theater) and exhibition projects.

Vignir was born and raised in a small fishing village in Iceland where he got his great visual impressions of nature, the sea and the great changes in the weather. This has left its mark on how his different experiences are transferred to artworks in different materials and platforms

After he finished his BA education from the Academy of Fine Arts in Iceland (Myndlista and Handídaskoli Islands) in 1978, he moved to the USA and attended the Rhode Island School Of Design in Providence RI in 1981. After graduating he lived for a few years in Brooklyn NY and later for quite a few years in Santa Fe New Mexico. He then moved back to Iceland in 1995 and was in his home country until he moved to Denmark in 2011 where he lives now.

Besides being aktive as an artist all his life Vignir has been aktive in several artists and cultural assosiations s.a. chairman for The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists  and Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Former NIFCA in Finland), Nordik kunstnersenter Dalsaasen, Myndstef and The Public Sites Art Fund of Iceland.

Vignir has al long CV of more than 100 exebitions reaching across many dacades and continents of the world. If you would like to see a complete and up to date CV, please contact the artist.