Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1944
Ruskin School of Art in Oxford (1965-1967)
COLLECTIONS
Vatican Collection, Rome
Nelson Atkin Museum, Kansas, USA
EEC Buildings, Brussels
Collection of HRH Queen Elizabeth II
Listasafn ASI, Reykjavik
Thjodarbokhladan, Reykjavik
Nordisk Aquarell, Sweden
PUBLICATIONS
Karolina - Lif og List, Jonina Michaelsdottir, Forlagid, Reykjavik, 1993
Painting People, Second Shift, Issue 3, 1994
Master Class with Sister Wendy Beckett, Art Review, July 1994
Sister Wendy Beckett-Meditations on Love, pub. By Dorling Kindersly Press, 1995
Article in the Art Newspaper, October 2002
Article in Akvarellmaleri Historia Och Teknik, by Tulla Grunberger
Och Anders Wallin Pub. ICA Bokforlag Sweden, 2002
The Watercolour Expert. Pub. Royal Watercolour Society 2004
SOLO SHOWS
1982 – Solo Exhibition, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland
1983 – Solo Exhibition, Chenile Gallery, London
1984 – Solo Exhibition, Drian Gallery, London
1984 – Solo Exhibition, Gallery 10, London
1986 – Solo Exhibition, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 – Solo Exhibition, The Gallery Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
1987 – Solo Exhibition, Gallery 10, London
1987 – Solo Exhibition, Church Street Gallery, Saffron Walden
1989 – Solo Exhibition, The Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham
1990 – Solo Exhibition, The Gallery Nyhofn, Reykjavik, Iceland
1991 – Solo Exhibition, The Gallery Borg, Reykjavik, Iceland
1992 – Solo Exhibition, Gallery 10, London
1994 – Solo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
1995 – Solo Exhibition, CCA Galleries, Oxford and Farnham
1996 – Solo Exhibition, Café Palette, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
1996 – Solo Exhibition, Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland
1996 – Solo Exhibition, The Gallery Borg, Reykjavik, Iceland
1997 – Solo Exhibition, Swakopmund Art Association, Namibia
1997 – Solo Exhibition, Billedeverkstedet, Brovst, Denmark
2000 – Solo Exhibition, Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Issoire, France
2002 – Solo Exhibition, Reykjavik Cathedral (World City of Culture), Reykjavik
2002 – Solo Exhibition, Billedeverkstedet, Brovst, Denmark
2002 – Solo Exhibition, Gerdarsafn, Listasafn Kopavogs, Iceland
2002 – Solo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
2003 – Solo Exhibition, Sala Mengolero, Rojales (Alicante), Spain
2004 – Solo Exhibition, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2005 – Solo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
2006 – Solo Exhibition, Galleria Sant’Angelo, Biella, Italy
2008 – Solo Exhibition, Gallery Turpentine, Reykjavik, Iceland
2009 – Solo Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
2010 – Solo Exhibition, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Reykjavik
2019 – Wondrous Happenings, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2019 – The Good Gathering, Castle Gallery, Inverness
SELECTED MIXED SHOWS
1978 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1980 – Biannual Exhibition (RWS/RE), Bankside Gallery, London
1986 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1986 – Biannual Exhibition (RWS/RE), Bankside Gallery, London
1987 – Grafica Atlantica, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik
1989 – Islensk Grafik, Aarhus, Denmark
1990 – Premio Internazionale Biella per L'Incisione, Biella, Italy
1990 – Islensk Myndlist a Leid um Nordurlond, Listasafn ASI, Reykjavik
1992 – Nordisk Aquarell, Goeteborg Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
1992 – NEAC Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1993 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1993 – Ljubljana Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1993 – Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
1995 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995 – Premio Internazionale Biella per L'Incisione, Biella, Italy
1995 – Exhibition, Brandler Galleries, Brentwood
1996 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1996 – South African Association of Arts Exhibition, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
1996 – 4th Biennale of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1997 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997 – Exhibition, Association for Visual Arts, Metropolitan Life Art Gallery, Cape Town
1997 – Exhibition, Gallery Fold, Reykjavik
1998 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1998 – 4th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamaliers, France
1998 – Exhibition, Pretoria University Arts Department, Pretoria
1999 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1999 – Exhibition, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2000 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2001 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 – Exhibition, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge
2004 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2004 – Exhibition, Brandler Galleries, Brentwood
2004 – Exhibition, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2005 – Exhibition of Prints, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2006 – Exhibition, Gorstella Gallery, Chester
2008 – Exhibition, Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds
2008 – ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (Invited Artist), Mall Galleries, London
2009 – ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (Invited Artist), Mall Galleries, London
Awards:
The Dicks and Greenbury Prize, 1989
4th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format , France
In 1990, Karolina received a special award at the Premio Biella Internazionale per L'Incisione in Italy.
The Graphic artist of the Year 2005, Islensk Grafik.
Aberystwyth University School of Art Collection Prize 2012
Memberships:
New English Art Club.
Fully elected member of The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers