Loji Höskuldsson

Loji Höskuldsson’s (b. 1987 in Reykjavik, Iceland) practice unfolds through a slow and deliberate engagement with embroidery, where images gradually emerge stitch by stitch on burlap over days and months.

This meditative process allows time for sustained reflection, embedding contemplation directly into the finished works and inviting an intuitive, tactile response from the viewer. He lives and works in Reykjavík and his practice is rooted in craft tradition while addressing contemporary themes through narrative-driven compositions. His works weave together references to local landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday products, and cultural icons from Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland. Balancing intimacy and scale, Höskuldsson’s embroideries offer quietly empathetic observations of shared human experience, suggesting a restrained sense of hope in times of uncertainty.

LOJI HÖSKULDSSON
Born 1987, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lives and works in Reykjavík


EDUCATION

2010

Iceland Academy of The Arts, BFA

2007

Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti, Fine Art, Icelandic matriculation examinatio

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Fortune Teller, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

193 Days in Stockholm, Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

Preservations Season at Kadeau,
Copenhagen, Denmark

 2024

The End of the Road, duo
exhibition with Þorvaldur Jónsson, Listasafn
Samúels Jónssonar, Selárdalur, Iceland

Date in the Park, duo
exhibition with Helga Páley, Icelandic Embassy, Helsinki, Finland

Lost Track, group exhibition with Baldur
Helgason and Claire Paugam, Gallerí Port, Reykjavík, Iceland

2023

What I Gather, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

V1 XX: Twenty Years of V1 Gallery, group exhibition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen,
Denmark

Interior Dialogues, group exhibition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tveir pottar
mjólk / Two Pots of Milk, Alþýðuhúsið, Siglufjörður, Iceland

Við getum talað saman, group exhibition, Gerðasafn Kópavagur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland

Stitches and Threads, group exhibition, The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík,
Iceland

Experiment: Eider and Farmer, group exhibition, Norræna Húsið, Reykjavík, Iceland

Toast, with Karoliina
Hellberg, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland 

2021

Chronicles 3, fair booth, Galerie
Droste, KPM, Berlin, Germany

Sveitin mín / My Countryside, The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum,
Safnasafnið, Iceland

2020

Listþræðir, group exhibition,
Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavík, Iceland

Open Art Gallery,
group exhibition by Platform GÁTT at Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, Finland

 2019

Súper lókal,
Hverfisgallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland

Varðað, with Helga Páley Friðjófsdóttir and Þorvaldur Jónsson, Ásmundarsalur,
Reykjavík, Iceland

Vorboðinn,
Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavík, Iceland

 2018

Á ferð, with Auður Lóa
& Sara Gillies, Harbinger Reykjavík 2018 - Eftir kúnstarinnar reglum, Arion
banki, Reykjavík, Iceland

List án Landamæra, with Kristján Ellert Arason, Listasalur Mosfellsbæjar, Mosfellsbær,
Iceland

Garður meðalmennskunar, Gallerí Port, Reykjavík, Iceland

Norður & Niður, Harpa, Reykjavík, Iceland

2017

Normið er ný framúrstefna, group exhibiton, Gerðasafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, Iceland.

Ymur, group
exhibition, Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, Hjalteyri, Iceland

2016

Solo Exhibition, Safnasafn, Svalbarðsströnd Akureyri, Iceland

2015

Tropicalia, group
exhibition, Eiðistorg, Reykjavík, Iceland

Kyrralíf/Still life, The Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland

 2014

Mucho Grandi,
Hólmaslóð, Reykjavík

Lystisemdir, Efasemdir, Heimsendir, group exhibition, Kling & Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland

 2012

Minning, Listasafn Reykjavíkur-Hafnarhúsið,
Reykjavík, Iceland

Veflausnir, with Arna Óttarsdóttir, Artíma gallerí, Reykjavík, Iceland

2011

Sjónsuða, Verksmiðjan
á Hjalteyri, Hjalteyri, Iceland

The Confected Video Archive of Kling & Bang, DOROTHEA SCHLUETER GALERIE, Hamburg, Germany

2010

Útskriftarsýning (Graduation Exhibition), Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík, Iceland

Hand Traffic In The Box, Skaftfell, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

2009

Vesen, performance, Living
Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

Pasta basta,
Kaffistofa student gallery, Listaháskóli Íslands, Iceland

2008

Í kjallaranum, group exhibition, Ibiza bunker, Reykjavík

2005

Skúhúhúhúlptúr sýning, group exhibition, Gallerý Tukt, Reykjavík