Eva
Ísleifs
Eva Ísleifs b. 1982 lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland and Athens, Greece. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Art Academy of Iceland 2008 and with a Master's degree in Sculpture from Edinburgh College of Art 2010.
Her work has been showed in Europe, Canada and Scandinavia. Recent exhibition are Looking for Proxies at Gallery Port Iceland 2019, Dialectic Bubble Ltd Ink Corporation 2019 Scotland, The Wheel 2018, Sculpture Association of Reykjavik, Noway Different at A - DASH in Athens 2017, Embody Museum of Gerður Helgadóttir in Kóparvogur Iceland 2018, The thing is at Skaftfell 2017 and Sculpture Sculpture Museum of Gerður Helgadóttir Iceland 2016.
Eva works on numerous exhibition project in collaboration with others, she co-founded the project Staðir / Places Biennale in the West of Iceland with Þ.Olafsdottur, curating HEAD to HEAD an bilateral project between Iceland and Greece, curated the Exhibition of Lost Artworks in Museum in Akranes 2014 and Beyond Human Impulses in Athens and Reykjavik 2018. It´s the Media Not You! With R. McMahon and K. Inga Jónsd. Hjördísard 2019.
In 2016 she opened A - DASH, exhibition space and artist studios in Athens where she has curated short and long term projects as well as hosting international artists in the space with N. Niederhauser and Z. Hatzyiannaki.