Herdill is a Reykjavík based visual artist born in 1999. 

She graduated fram Iceland University of the Arts in 2023.

 

She mainly works in classic figurative, renaissance-esque oil painting with focus on technique and strong references to art history. 

 

Her work tends to be dreamy, vulnerable, challenging and emotional. She uses painting, especially the self-portrait, as a tool to delve into herself and communicate what she finds to the audience, inviting them to mirror themselves in her. The works tell stories from her life, mixed with references and symbols from the history of culture and art, creating a tension between the present and timelessness, the highly personal and the common human experience, expression and the unspoken.

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Works on this website are for sale unless otherwise stated. ​

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Exhibitions:

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2026:

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Show your face, Bushy Pony, Berlin, Germany, group

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2025:

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FRAGMENTS, asylum studios, Suffolk, England, solo

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​Í fangi þínu má ég vera þung, má ég vera lítil, SIND Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland, solo

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2024:

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​Á bláþræði, portfolio gallerí, Reykjavík, solo

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2023:

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​Díalógur, IÐNÓ, Reykjavík, group

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WHITEBOX, FLÆÐI, Reykjavík, group

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Rafall // Dynamo, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, Hafnarhús, Reykjavík, group

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​Díalógur, IÐNÓ, Reykjavík, group

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2022:

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Samsýning, Portfolio gallerí, Reykjavík, group

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Jólagestir gallerí Port, Gallerí Port, Reykjavík, group

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PRIMAVERA, Naflinn, Reykjavík, solo

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Staging nothing, Listaháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík, group

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Mostra, Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milano, group

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2021:

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No drama, Ægisgata 7, Reykjavík, group

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Dauðahjal, FLÆÐI, Reykjavík, solo

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HOLY FOKK, Núllið Gallerý, Reykjavík, solo

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Fokking skriðþungi, Listaháskóli Íslands, Reykjavík, group

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2020:

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Grand opening @ Open, Grandi, Reykjavík, Iceland, group

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​2019

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Syndug en ósynd, Bustarfell, Vopnafjörður, Iceland, Solo

 

Ég sá þær með eigin augum, Gallerí Gubb, Reykjavík, Iceland, Solo

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Lokasýning útskriftarnema, Smiðjan, Breiðholt, Reykjavík, Iceland, group

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Bland í poka, Gallerí Gubb, Reykjavík, Iceland, group

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Nær en ekki of nálægt, Gallerí Gubb, Reykjavík, Iceland, Solo

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2017

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Myndlistaskólinn á Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland, Group

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2016

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Kaktus, Akureyri, Iceland, group

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Grants:

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2025

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Muggur, dvalarsjóður myndlistarmanna, for a residency in Asylum Studios in England.

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2021

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Students Innovation fund, for the project:

Myndræn miðlun um umhverfismál fyrir ung börn,

Herdill, amongst two other students, Eyþór Andri Sváfnisson and Eva Baldursdóttir, wrote and illustrated the childrens' book "Mjálmar" which was published by Stundin in November 2021.