About

Kristín

Kristín Ragnars is artist born in Sauðárkrókur Iceland.  Kristín started to draw at a young age and has taken many courses related to drawing and painting.    She did go to art school in Reykjavík and studied pre – art in “Myndlistar- og handíðarskóla Íslands”  1997-1998.  She took a long break when she was raising her kids up, but she did kept on going on courses.  She studied one year in art school in Akureyrar/ Myndlistarskóla Akureyrar too, before it got shut down 2025.  It drove her to take Mastery program in Milan Art Institute 2025- 2026. Which has helped her build her style and career and made her dreams come true, she always wanted to be an artist. Kristín seeks to express what is most beautiful in even little everyday moments in life and lift it up in her art.  Whether it is nature, people or just a little thing or moments we can be grateful for having or living and everybody can relate to.

Kristín’s art is abstract realism.  She mainly work through layers of medium and paint. It contains groundwork of drawing the main object from the photo she use with charcoal or paint, spray paint, collage, acrylic and oils in the last layers.  Underneath each piece is nature in background and newspaper as to relation to time and surroundings, nature, flow of life we all belong to. 

Kristín sometimes do realism art through watercolors, oils or just plain sketches.

Art exhibitions:

Joint exhibitions:

2015 - Litbrigði samfélagsins, group exhibition in Gúttó, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

2016 - Litbrigði samfélagsins, group exhibition in Gúttó, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

2017 - Litbrigði samfélagsins, group exhibition in Gúttó, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

2018 - Litbrigði samfélagsins, group exhibition in Gúttó, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

2020 - Stúlkan og hrafninn, group exhibition in Listakoti Dóru, Vatnsdalshólunum, Iceland.

2021 - Þórdís fyrsti Húnvetningurinn, group exhibition in Listakoti Dóru, Vatnsdalshólunum, Iceland.

2023 - Heima-Home, group art exhibition in Hillebrandtshúsi, Blönduósi, Iceland.

2024 - Vorsýning Myndlistarskólans á Akureyri, held in Deiglan, Akureyri, Iceland.

Art exhibitions:

2016 - Fyrstu sporin mín, held in Miklabæjarkirkja and Kakalaskála in Skagafirði, Iceland.

2019 -Sýn, held in Héraðsskjalasafni Skagfirðinga, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

2026 - Örsýning, held in RH endurskoðun, Sæmundargötu 1, Sauðárkróki, Iceland.

Grants:

2019 - Menningarsjóður Kaupfélags Skagfirðinga

2019 - Uppbyggingasjóður SSNV