Since Sigurður Ámundason graduated with a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at the Icelandic Academy of Arts in 2012 he has held several solo shows, participated in numerous group shows and performed countless performances. He has also written and directed his own play that was nominated for Play of the Year at Gríman, the Icelandic national theatre award, in 2023. In 2021 he was nominated for the Motivation Prize at Iceland Art Awards.

Sigurður uses whatever medium necessary to get his feelings, ideas and world views across. His main medium though is drawing, which he for instance uses to explore contemporary existence, the history of painting and drawing as well as his main theme: communication, and humanities lack of it. Sigurður’s series of homespun nonsensical logos is perhaps the most obvious example of this main theme.

His work are often large scale, epic and grandiose and depict dramatic scenarios like a burning sword, a metropolis being swallowed by ocean tsunamis or melting faces crying and screaming but the subject matter is more often than not casual life, trivial and petty errors, and frictions in mundane conversations that can nonetheless lead to a sort of self-destruction that is all too familiar in modern western life.