Saemundur Thor Helgason is an Icelandic artist based between Reykjavik and Amsterdam. Helgason works across different mediums of culture, including film, finance, fashion and mass media. Turning the contemporary onto itself, his work aims to influence the public imagination, serving as an active agent in society. In 2025 he established ‘SB foundation’ in Amsterdam providing interest-free loans. In 2022 he completed his artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘DRIP’, Y Gallery, Kópavogur, Iceland (2026); ‘Police Infestation', Bologna CC, Amsterdam (2025); ‘Interest-free loans’, de Appel, Amsterdam (2025); ‘Why is Iceland so Poor?’, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2024); ‘Solar Plexus Pressure Belt™ G2 - ELKO’, Sequences X, Reykjavik, Iceland (2021); Vapour Products℠, 3ge3 Project, Shanghai, China (2021); ‘Solar Plexus Pressure Belt™’, Unit 110, New York, United States (2018); ‘Fellowship of Citizens’, arebyte gallery, London (2018); ‘ÁVÖXTUN % | Rate of Return’, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2016).

Recent group exhibitions include ´Dialogai´, Medūza gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania (2024); ´Mutating Rights and Emerging Challenges of Living Bodies´, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, Denmark (2023); ‘Metaloop - Relentless Dreams’, IFS, Changsha, China (2022); ‘Object of Desire’, ICA, Singapore (2019); ‘A guiding dog for blind dog’, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic (2018); ‘SuperFetish S/S’, Goethe Institut, Beijing, China (2016); ‘Not in the Berlin Biennale’, 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); ‘CO-WORKERS – Network as Artist’, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2015); ‘Vanity Fair | Demo Mode’, Project Native Informant, London (2015).