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Jury member Halldór Björn Runólfsson,
Senior lecturer at the Iceland Academy of Fine Arts,
Reykjavik.
Halldór Björn Runólfsson was born
in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1950. He studied art history
at Toulouse University, where he took his Masters degree
in 1979. In 1980-89, he was an art critic for the weekly
magazine Helgarpósturinn, the newspaper Þjóðviljinn
and Iceland's radio. He taught cultural history at the
Iceland College of Drama from 1985 to 1989. In 1986-88,
Runólfsson was one of the directors of Galleri
Svart á hvitu in Reykjavik, and in 1989-92, he
was the director of exhibitions at The
Nordic Arts Centre, Suomenlinna, in Helsinki. Parallel
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with this, he curated numerous exhibitions
in the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe. He has
been teaching contemporary art at the Academy of Art in
Reykjavik, formerly the College of Art and Crafts, since
1992. In 1993, he curated Borealis 6, the Nordic biennial
at the National Gallery in Reykjavik. He has been an art
critic at the daily paper Morgunblaðið since 1996,
and in 2000 he was appointed Iceland editor for the Nordic
art magazine NU. Halldór Björn Runólfsson
has been responsible for several exhibitions and has contributed
articles on art to numerous Icelandic and international
publications since 1992. |
