Grants, awards, artist residencies:
2007	The National Workshops for arts and Crafts, Copenhagen, Denmark - Lithography workshop residency, two months
	Gammel Have art residence, Fyn, Denmark - Three-month residency
2006	Printmaking on the Edge. -     Book on 40 international contemporary printmakers by Richard Noyce
2005	The Scandinavian Foundation in Rome, Circolo Scandinavo, Rome, Italy - Two- month residency
2003	Boston University, Boston, USA -Visiting artist: installation “Euphony” created especially for the Southern Graphics Conference and Gallery 808, Boston University
2002	The Icelandic public art fund - to research the origin of paper and print in Iceland
	The University of Utah, Logan, Utah, USA - Visiting artist
1999 – 2002	The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA - Visiting artist
2000	Art in public building/ spaces - The County offices of Hafnarfjördur, Iceland
1989 –2000	The government of Iceland: - Artist Stipend; 3 months in 1989 /91/94, 1 year 1995, 6 months in 2000
1997/1998	Fulbright Visiting Scholar, U.S.A. Residency and guest artist at: - University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado - University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska - LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., California - The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles, California   - Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, California  In addition visits to: - The Armand Hamer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, California - The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, - Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California   - The Getty, Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California   - Magnolia Editions, San Francisco, California
1996	IUFM, (Teachers training University), Lés Boréales de Normandie, Caen, France  -Visiting artists and lecturer: -"Icelandic Art and culture"
1996/1989	Cité International des Arts, Kjarvalsstofa, Paris, France: - Two-month residency (l989) and one month residency (l996)
1992	The Nordic Art Centre in Sveaborg, Finland:   - Three-month residency
	The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA - Visiting artist /lecturer: “Icelandic Culture and the artworks of Valgerdur Hauksdottir”
1989	Graphica Norvegica symposium, Stavanger, Norway Invitational print workshop and exhibition,
1988	Graphica Creativa symposium, Jÿväskyla, Finland Invitational print workshop and symposium