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Þorgerður has organised and contributed to various exhibitions, festivals, projects and publications since graduating from the BA department of Fine Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts in 2009. She received Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in 2013 and graduated with a Diploma from the Department of Arts Education at the IUA in 2020. From 2014 - 2018 she was the director of The Living Art Museum (NÝLÓ) in Reykjavík. Amongst her independent projects is the biannual exhibition Staðir / Places, in the Westfjords, Iceland.

In her practice she considers various objects and phenomena that are connected to our understanding of and relation to the natural world. Her recent work is centred around different manifestations of the Anthropocene with focus on future artifacts and heritage. Þorgerður is part of the research project Relics of Nature, an Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North, hosted at the Archaeology Department at the University of Oslo.