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
SELECTED MIXED SHOWS
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1978, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
Bankside Gallery, London. Biannual Exhibitions of RWS and RE since 1980
Mall Galleries, London. NEAC since 1992
Grafica Atlantica, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, 1987
Islensk Grafik, Aarhus, Denmark, 1989
Premio Internazionale Biella per L'Incisione, Italy, 1990, 1995
Islensk myndlist a leid um Nordurlond, Listasafn ASI, Reykjavik, 1990
Nordisk Aquarell. Goeteborg Konstmuseum, Sweden, 1992
Cambridge Contemporary Art, from 1993 - 2004
Lubljana Biennale, Lubljana, Slovenia, 1993
South African Association of Arts, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria, 1996
4th Biennale of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1996
4th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamaliers, France, 1998
Association for Visual Arts, Metropolitan Life Art Gallery, Cape Town, 1997
Pretoria University, Arts Department, 1998
Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, from 1995 - 2004
Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, 1999 -2004
Gallery Fold, Reykjavik, 1997 - 2004
Exhibition of Prrints, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 2005
Gorstella Gallery,Chester,2006
Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds, 2008
ING Discerning Eye exhibition, 2008, 2009. Invited artist.
SOLO SHOWS
Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1982, 1986
Chenile Gallery, London, 1983
Drian Gallery, 1984
Gallery 10, London, 1984, 1987, 1992
The Gallery Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1986
Church Street Gallery, Saffron Walden, 1987
The Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham, 1989
The Gallery Nyhofn, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1990
Cambridge Contemporary Art, 1994
CCA Galleries, Oxford and Farnham, 1995
Café Palette, Pretoria Art Museum, 1996
Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland, 1996
The Gallery Borg, Reykjavik, 1991, 1996
Swakopmund Art Association, Nammibia, 1997
Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Issoire, France, 2000
Reykjavik Cathedral, to celebrate the World City of Culture, 2002
Billedeverkstedet, Brovst, Denmark, 1997, 2002
Gerdarsafarn, Listasafn Kopavogs, Iceland, 2002
Cambridge Contemporary Art, 2002
Sala Mengolero, Rojales(Alicante), Spain, 2003
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, 2004
Cambridge Contemporary Art, 2005
Galleria Sant'Angelo, Biella, Italy, 2006
Gallery Turpentine, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2008
Cambridge Contemporary Art, 2009
The Contemporary Art Gallery, Reykjavik 2010
'Wondrous Happenings', Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, 2019
'The Good Gathering', Castle Gallery, Inverness, 2019
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