We’re excited to welcome you to Til Íslands by Emma Geiger, a Duke MFA|EDA alum, starting on June 10. We hope you will join us for the opening reception on June 12, 2026.
An array of student work from our Shifts: New Expressions 2026 exhibition remains on view across our many walls and gallery spaces. Make sure to visit the exhibition of risographs in our Lyndhurst House entryway by recent MFAEDA graduate Mort O’Sullivan. Learn more about the documentary work we champion by exploring our past exhibitions.
Hours
Monday – Thursday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Friday – Sunday: Closed to the public
On View in Our Kreps Gallery:
Til Íslands | On View June 10 – October 2, 2026
About the Exhibition
Til Íslands presents images of dislocation and reconnection with the Icelandic landscape after over a century of separation. In the summer of 2025, Emma Geiger returned to the land left behind by her great-great-grandmother in 1888, documenting the delicate experience of becoming reacquainted with a landscape and people in the midst of dramatic environmental change. Til Íslands features work created at her family’s farm on Lake Apavatn, and at the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd; still and moving images, phytograms of plants, seaweed, and wool, and a quilt naturally dyed with lupine, rhubarb, and lichen each reflect impressions of the Icelandic landscape and identity.
About the Artist
Emma Geiger is an artist, photographer, and musician from Hopkinton, New Hampshire, working with natural materials and analog processes. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Art from Duke University, and a graduate certificate in Visual Storytelling from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. In 2025 she was awarded the Cassilhaus Biannual Travel Fellowship for her documentary project exploring her ancestral connection to Iceland.
Geiger writes and performs music and has released two EPs — Haven (2022) and Reverse Bloom (2024). Across her visual work and music, nostalgia, solitude, and a lifelong relationship with the natural world remain central.
Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, June 12, 4 – 6 p.m. Meet Emma Geiger and enjoy light refreshments.
Duke Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew St.
Durham, NC 27705