Bjarki Bragason

Bjarki Bragason (b. 1983, Iceland) is a visual artist, researcher, Associate Professor and Dean of the Fine Art Department at the Iceland University of the Arts. His practice explores the relationship between human and geological timescales, examining how environmental, social and political transformations become inscribed in landscapes and material culture. Working across installation, sculpture, photography and long-term site-based research, he develops interdisciplinary methodologies in dialogue with geology, archaeology and biology.
His current research centres on 3009 Years, an ongoing project initiated in 2009 around his grandparents’ garden in Reykjavík. Once a carefully designed post-war landscape, the site gradually transformed through abandonment before its demolition in 2024. Bragason places the site in dialogue with landscapes shaped by glaciation, deep geological time and climate change, considering the entanglement of personal history with planetary processes.
3009 Years has been presented internationally, and works from the project are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Iceland and the ASÍ Art Museum. A retrospective publication commissioned by the ASÍ Art Museum will be published in 2026.
Bragason studied at the Iceland University of the Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Art History Vienna, the Museum of Natural History Vienna, Reykjavík Art Museum, the National Gallery of Iceland and Human Resources Los Angeles, and has been discussed in publications including The Weather as a Medium: Towards a Meteorological Art (MIT Press, 2018).