Arna G. Valsdóttir b. 1963, graduated 1986 from the graphic department of the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík and from the audio/video department of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL in 1989. She lives and works in Akureyri, north Iceland, but has exhibited widely in Iceland and internationally. Arna is a board member of the A! Performance Festival in Akureyri and the director and host of the Heim Video Art Festival, based in her home, since 2015. Arna teaches at the art department of VMA, the Akureyri Vocational School, and is the artistic director of the upcoming documentary film Dancing Lines.

Video/song installations, based on a singing performance in the exhibition space, are the best-known works of Arna and her solo exhibition “Staðreynd/Local Fact” that opened in the Akureyri Art Museum in 2014 gained her a wide recognition. In that exhibition she exhibited 6 different video/song works created into different locations in the years from 2008 – 2014 and her first video/song installation from 1988. The voices and movements of each work met in the air and a new dialog was created.