Alfa Rós Pétursdóttir is an Icelandic artist who works with materials, texture, and color to create depth and emotional connection. Colors shape the mood of her works, reflecting emotions, nature, and memories. Through material, texture, and color, she explores the creation of a warm, visual, and emotional experience.

Carissa Baktay is a multi-media sculptor, designer and craftsperson. As an experienced glass maker she has earned degrees from Alberta University of the Arts, attended the Rhode Island School of Design with scholarship, and received her Masters’ from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Using traditional hand work, experimental technologies and materials combined with time honoured glass making methods, she has been invited to work in studios in Bulgaria, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Portugal. Recently her work has been recognised with multiple grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, SÍM, KÍM, and the Icelandic Design Fund. Her multifaceted body of craft based works have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including most recently in multiple museums in Iceland and Denmark. 

Carissa Baktays’ process based practice is deeply connected to material and femininity, and through reimagining materials she transforms their presence, presenting a new poetic material understanding that borders art, craft and design. Ironic and playful, these mixed material sculptures come to life through intuitive process and intimate performative acts. 

Diljá Þorvaldsdóttir (she/her) works at intersection between painting, beadwork and textile to explore tension between abstraction and personal experience. 

Diljá graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from The Iceland University of the Arts in 2021. She has shown within Iceland and internationally and received a travel grant from the Iceland Arts. Most recently, she was awarded a full fellowship to attend the Vermont Studio Center in 2025. 

Diljá lives in downtown Reykjavik with her partner Sadie Cook. She and Sadie currently run Gallery Kannski.scription

The shell company specializes in high-end luxury silk printing on expensive premium paper, celebrating the nation’s most distinguished festive occasions. The company emphasizes transparency, image-building, and sustainability as a means of influencing society, and continually works to maintain the asset accumulation of its investors and community entities.

Rósmarý Hjartardóttir graduated as a graphic designer from the Iceland University of the Arts (IUA) in the spring of 2024. During her studies, she spent a semester studying motion design at Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA) in Lithuania. In her final year at IUA, she researched the intersection of graphic design and printmaking, both through her B.A. thesis and her graduation project. She explored how the process of printmaking itself impacts the final outcome in a myriad of unpredictable ways. She now applies this knowledge in both her graphic design and printmaking practice by fostering creativity and experimentation within the process itself. Rósmary works at an ad agency and is a board member at the Icelandic Printmaking association as a secretary. She held her first solo exhibition Elska Feitt at Núllið Gallerý during DesignMarch 2025.

Sadie Cook (B. 1997, they/them) makes work that sits between photography and installation. They have been published and shown nationally and internationally, including participation in the show “States” at Gerðarsafn Museum of Art and a solo exhibition at Hafarnús Iceland Museum of Art as part of an artist duo Jo Pawlowska. Sadie graduated from Yale School of art in 2021, where they were awarded the prestigious Suddler Award for Excellence, received a Fulbrigh to Iceland, and has been a guest critic at Yale, Harvard, and NYU.

Sadie lives in Reykjavik with their partner Diljá. Sadie runs Gallery Kannski and is a board member at Nýlistasafnið

Tristan Elísabet Birta (b. 1991) is a performance and visual artist from Iceland. In 2023 they were nominated for the Icelandic Art Prize (category Motivational Award) for their exhibition Mythbust at Kling og Bang. Elísabet Birta's work reflects on perceptions of femininity and humanity within the contextual framework of humankind’s relationships with other species and notions of our common qualities. They take a performative approach, incorporating their body and drawing on personal experiences for material. They work in a variety of mediums, with a main focus on performance and film, considering the symbolic nature of filmmaking within a historical narrative as well as the mixing of genres and familiar tropes.