Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson was born in 1960 in Akureyri, Iceland and died 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied Icelandic and literary history at the University of Iceland, before he was accepted at the school of handicraft in Reykjavik in 1983. He finished his artistic education in 1989 at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maarstricht in the Netherlands. Since 1982 Thorsteinsson made himself known internationally as a non-traditional sculptor, painter, visual artist and performer at numerous exhibitions and events. He created several literary works for the Icelandic radio and television. Thorsteinsson wrote numerous plays for the theatre which have been staged successfully in his home country and abroad.
