Georg Óskar

Georg Óskar’s paintings deal with the experience of inhabiting ordinary life. People appear in rooms, conversations and uncertain moments. They are people inside situations, not symbols standing in for a single idea.

Domestic life, memory and social encounters recur. Tenderness can sit beside awkwardness, exhaustion beside humour. A scene may feel familiar and still be hard to name; emotion and identity rarely stay settled for long.

The surface carries that uncertainty. Drawing, erasing, scraping and repainting are ways of thinking through an image. Oil, wax and handmade oil bars meet raw or stitched canvas; forms can be simplified or distorted as the painting changes. An awkward edge or visible correction is often left in place because it belongs to the record of making the work.

Georg Óskar was born in Akureyri in 1985. He spent his first four years in Ierapetra, Crete, before growing up in Iceland. He lives and works in Oslo.

He studied at Akureyri School of Visual Art and Lahti Polytechnic of Fine Arts, and completed an MFA at Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 2016. His exhibitions have taken place in Iceland, Norway and internationally.