SigurdurGudmundsson began his artistic activity in the 1960s.
He is making projects as documented and undocumented performances, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, installations and even musical compositions.His work can be divided into two periods. The photographic period until 1980 that brought his work all over the world through numerous international museums exhibitions and collections. After 1980 he started to do more sculptures, which also have been displayed in most of the European countries, in America and in China.

SigurdurGudmundsson is one of Iceland’s most international artists. Within the last twenty years he has mainly been living and working in China.
Major solo exhibitions include shows at the Baltic, Gateshead (2003), Malmö Konsthall (1992), Kunsthallezu Kiel (1993) and several shows at the National Gallery of Iceland and Reykjavik Art Museum. Many of Sigurdur’s works are in the collections of museums throughout Europe and he has made a number of public sculptures located in the Nordic Countries and Central Europe.

Gudmundsson’s idiosyncratic work is difficult to separate from the energetic and witty artist himself. His art has been based on a non-hierarchical flow between photoworks, sculptures, performances and ´visual poems´. The photoworks
from the seventies depict human existence in a humorous and pointed
way as part of nature. Throughout his diverse and prolific career,
Gudmundsson has undauntedly applied new methods and ideas but always
in his unaffected and personal approach, for example working with a
hypnotist in his performances to reevaluate his own work as an art
novice. Sigurdur has also published three novels.