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[[File:Ragnar Kjartansson, in his installation at the Migros Museum, 2012 in Zürich.jpg|thumb|Ragnar Kjartansson in his installation, Migros Museum, Zürich, 2012]]
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=== [[The Visitors (installation)|The Visitors]]
 <ref>{{Cite journal|date=2018-01-15|title=The Visitors (installation)|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Visitors_(installation)&oldid=820670925|journal=Wikipedia|language=en}}</ref> ===
'''''The Visitors''''' is a 2012 installation and video art piece created by [[Ragnar Kjartansson (performance artist)|Ragnar Kjartansson]]. Kjartansson named the piece for ''[[The Visitors (ABBA album)|The Visitors]]'', the final album by the Swedish pop band [[ABBA]]. The piece was commissioned by the Migros Museum in Zurich, and was one of the museum's inaugural exhibits. The premiere of the piece marked Kjartansson's fi(contracted; show full)

The End was organized and presented on behalf of the Icelandic Ministry of Culture by the Center for Icelandic Art (CIA.IS) in Reykjavík, Iceland under the commissionership of '''Christian''' Schoen, and was curated by Markús T. Andrésson and Dorothée Kirch.


== Recognition ==
In 2016 Kjartansson was honored as the year’s Reykjavik City Artist. This is an honorary award, given to an artist who is believed to have excelled and made his mark on Icelandic art.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/06/20/reykjavik-city-artist-honored|title=Reykjavík City Artist Honored|last=Hafstað|first=Vala|date=2016-06-20|work=Iceland Review|access-date=2018-01-18|language=en}}</ref>

In addition to this Kjartansson has been the recipient of: 

2015, Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award, Artes Mundi, Cardiff, Wales

2015, Richard Serra Award, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

2015, Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, St. Petersburg, Russia

2011, Malcolm McLaren Award at Performa 11, New York, NY, USA

2008, Nominated for the Icelandic Art Awards, Sjónlist, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland

2006, Listeners Choice Awards, FM957

== Collections ==
Kjartansson’s work is represented in public and private collections including: 

[[21c Museum Hotels|21c Museum]], Louisville, KY, USA

[[Art Institute of Chicago]], Chicago, IL, USA

[[The Broad Art Foundation]], USA

[[Carnegie Museum of Art]], Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Center for Curatorial Studies—Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

[[Cleveland Museum of Art]], Cleveland, OH, USA

[[Dallas Museum of Art]], Dallas, TX, USA

[[Des Moines Art Center]], Des Moines, IA, USA

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

[[Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston]], Boston, MA, USA

Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA

[[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], Washington, DC, USA

[[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art]], Humlebæk, Denmark

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

[[Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth]], Fort Worth, TX, USA

[[Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal|Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal]], Montreal, Canada

[[Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami|Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami]], Miami, FL, USA

[[Museum of Modern Art]], New York, NY, USA

[[Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp|Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst]], Antwerp, Belgium

[[Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie]], Warsaw, Poland

[[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa, Canada

[[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], San Francisco, CA, USA

[[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York, NY, USA

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

== Art Market ==
Ragnar Kjartansson is represented by i8 Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland and [[Luhring Augustine Gallery]] in New York, USA⏎
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== Literature ==
*Ragnar Kjartansson: ''The End'', [[Christian Schoen]] (ed.), Ostfildern (Hatje Cantz) 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-7757-2333-6}}
* ''Icelandic Art Today'', (Ed. by [[Christian Schoen]] and [[Halldór Björn Runólfsson]]), Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2009 {{ISBN|978-3-7757-2295-7}}
*[http://bombmagazine.org/article/7241/ragnar-kjartansson Interview with BOMB magazine.]

==References==
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