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CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of birth 10.7.1978, Oulu, Northern Finland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    The Great Escape, Imatra Museum of Art, Imatra, Finland
2024    The Great Escape, Real Deal Yläkerta, Oulu, Finland
2023    The Great Escape, Reykjavík Museum of Photography, Reykjavík, Iceland
2022    The Great Escape, Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland
2021    Safewords, Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, Finland
2021    Safewords, Harmaja Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2019    The Great Escape, Hyvinkää Museum of Art, Hyvinkää, Finland
2019    The Great Escape, Finlayson Art Area, Tampere, Finland
2019    Odd Familiar, Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
2018    Butterfly Effect, Mustasaari Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2018    The Great Escape, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, Finland
2017    Butterfly Effect, Oulu Zoological Museum, Finland
2017    Odd Familiar, Mustasaari Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2017    Odd Familiar, ARTag Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2016    Personal Landscape, Gallery Myötätuuli, Raahe, Finland
2016    Poetry of Breathing, Mustasaari Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2016    Personal Landscape, Palazzo Baronale, Calcata, Italy
2015    Personal Landscape, ARTag Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2015    Teoksia, Mustasaari Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2015    Odd Familiar, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2014    Personal Landscape, Gallery Berner, Turku, Finland
2014    Personal Landscape, Studio Art Centers International Gallery, Florence, Italy
2013    Personal Landscape, Mustasaari Gallery, gallery opening and Personal Landscape book launch, Oulu, Finland
2013    Personal Landscape, Finnland-Institut, Berlin, Germany
2013    120 km/h, Oulu Regional Museum of Art, Finland
2012    Nordisk Landscape, Never Grow Old, Oulu, Finland
2011    Personal Landscape, Harmaja Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2011    Moths, Kellari Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2009    120 km/h, Arthouse Nahkuri, Kärsämäki, Finland
2009    Gravity, Oulu railway station tunnel, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2009    120 km/h, Gallery Sinne, Helsinki, Finland
2008    120 km/h, Old Town Hall Gallery, Turku, Finland
2008    120 km/h, Black Island Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2008    120 km/h, Katve Gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland
2008    120 km/h, Rantagalleria, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
2005    Kuvia, Kummigalleria, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Überhund – the Fascinating Dogs in Art, Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
2024    Horizon, Lapua Art Museum, Finland
2023    Überhund – the Facinating Dogs of Art, Mikkeli Museum of Art, Finland
2023    Mitäs täällä tapahtuu?, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2023    Überhund – the Facinating Dogs of Art, Jyväskylä Museum of Art, Finland
2023    Näkökulmia, curated from the Tampere Art Museum’s collection, Gallery Vivi, Tampere, Finland
2023    Überhund – the Facinating Dogs of Art, Kouvola Museum of Art, Finland
2022    Überhund – the Facinating Dogs of Art, Salo Museum of Art, Finland
2022    Play With Me, Real Deal, Oulu, Finland
2022    Hérna, The Icelandic Photography Festival, Korpúlfsstaðir, reykjavik, Islanti
2021    Shapes of Living | Living Earth, Art Site Fest, Heritage Lab, Torino, Italy
2021    アーティストの置き土産, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2021    On the Air, Kerava Museum of Art, Kerava, Finland
2021    Nature Trip, Nastola Summer Exhibition, Nastola, Finland
2021    Kerättyjä kertomuksia, Cultural Centre Poleeni, Finland
2020    Fields of Finland in Colour, Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, Finland
2020    50–inch Cinema Project, Oped Space, Tokyo, Japan
2019    The Picture Book, Nastola Summer Exhibition, Nastola, Finland
2019    Klimakunst 2019 – nordiske udtryk, Rebildcentret, Skørping, Denmark
2019    Growth and Loss – Hair in Contemporary Art, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2018    Summer Living Room, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
2018    Roadmap, Mänttä Art Festival, Pekilo, Mänttä, Finland
2018    Then/Now – Perspectives On Memory, Vyborg Castle Gallery, Vyborg, Russia
2017    Then/Now – Perspectives On Memory, Rosphoto State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017    Vielä hetki lapsena, Heinola Art Museum, Heinola, Finland
2016    Läsnä, Art Center Haihara, Tampere, Finland
2016    The Snowball Effect 3, Kemi Art Museum, Finland
2016    Works on Paper, DLUL Gallery, Ljublana, Slovenia
2014    Keep Your Tail Up! – Greetings from Cats and Dogs, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2014    The Snowball Effect – The North Finland Biennial, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2014    Artisti Per Vico Piave, Palazzo della Provincia di Matera, Italy
2013    City of Dreams, Mänttä Art Festival, Pekilo, Mänttä, Finland
2013    Magic and Dreams, Centre d’art Dominique Lang et Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg
2013    Narrow and Wide, IX Gallery, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2012    Earth/Body/Mind, Kathmandu International Art Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal
2012    PolArt2K – 21st century Nordic political art exhibition, Kemi Art Museum, Finland
2012    The Snowball Effect – The North Finland Biennal, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2012    Syystä, Art Museum Oskar Jauhiainen, Kiiminki, Finland
2012    Our Second Nature, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2011    Strange Ways, 65°N Group, Gallery Myötätuuli, Raahe, Finland
2011    From Forest, Art Center Haihara, Tampere, Finland
2011    OTS exchange exhibition, Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland
2010    Strange Ways, 65°N Group, Kanneltalo Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2010    Oulu Artists´Association NOW, Valve Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2010    Arctic Heat, Finnland-Institut, Berlin, Germany
2010    Horizon, Art Museum Oskar Jauhiainen, Kiiminki, Finland
2010    Art on Speed, The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA
2010    Rajoilla, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2010    New members of The Oulu Artists’ Association, Valve Gallery, Oulu, Finland
2009    The 114th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists ”Youth 2009”, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2009    Street Galleries, Eerikinkatu, Helsinki, Finland
2009    Season of Frost, jubilee year of Finnish photography, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland
2009    Northern Life, Medium Art Center, Beijing, China
2008    Live Herring, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
2007    Fusion, Oulu City Library – Regional Central Library, Finland

EDUCATION

2003–2008    Degree programme in communication at Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland, visual communication
2000–2001    Visuaaliviestinnän Instituutti, Tampere, Finland, apprenticeship training school of professional photography
1998–2000    Vocational school of Northern Ostrobothnia, Oulu, Finland, image processing and digital imaging

MEMBERSHIPS

The Centre for Finnish Media Art
The Union of Artist Photographers in Finland
The Oulu Artists’ Association

CONFIDENTIAL POSTS AND CURATING

Gallerist and curator, Real Deal Yläkerta, 2022– , Oulu, Finland
Gallerist, Black Island Gallery 2013–2019, Oulu, Finland
Northern Photographic Centre, board of directors and exhibition Committee 2005–2013

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Finnish State Art Collection
City of Tampere
Oulu Museum of Art
Aine Art Museum
Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic in Oulu,
Oulu University Hospital (OYS), thirty-five operating rooms and one delivery room
Espoon asunnot, public art in Karakallio Creative
Finnish Institute in Japan
University of Oulu, Zoological Museum
Youkobo Art Space in Japan
Private collections

BOOKS

2024    The Great Escape, Parvs Publishing Company
2013    Personal Landscape, Kerber Verlag
2007    120 km/h, Oulu University of Applied Sciences

RESIDENCES

2019    Majaoja Foundation residence, Helsinki, Finland
2018    Majaoja Foundation residence, Helsinki, Finland
2016    Cité des Arts de Paris, France
2016    Väinö Tanner Foundation artist residence, Mazzano Romano, Italy
2015    Arts Promotion Centre Finland’s artist residence in Berlin, Germany
2015    Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2014    Arts Promotion Centre Finland’s artist residence in Matera, Italy

GRANTS

2024    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Public Display Grant for Visual Artists
2024    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2023    Oulun valistustalorahasto, project grant
2023    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2023    Finnish Cultural Foundation, project grant
2022    Finnish Cultural Foundation, Mobility grant
2022    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, State Grant to Artist for a year 2023
2022    Oulun valistustalorahasto, project grant
2022    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, COVID-19 grant VI
2022    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2021    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, working grant
2021    City of Oulu, project grant
2020    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, COVID-19 grant II
2020    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, COVID-19 grant I
2020    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
2020    City of Oulu, project grant
2018    Alfred Kordelin Foundation, project/working grant
2018    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, working grant
2018    Oulun valistustalorahasto, working grant
2017    Finnish Cultural Foundation, project grant
2016    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Public Display Grant for Visual Artists
2016    Oulun valistustalorahasto, project grant
2016    The VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art, grant for a group City of Oulu, project grant
2015    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Northern Ostrobothnia and Kainuu, one year working grant
2014    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art, project grant Frame Visual Art Finland
2014    Patricia Seppälä foundation, project grant
2013    City of Oulu, project grant
2013    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Grant for cultural exchange
2013    Arts Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art, quality support
2013    Arts Council of Finland, Public Display Grant for Visual Artists
2013    Arts Council of Finland, National Council for Photographic Art, project grant
2012    Arts Council of Finland, National Council for Photographic Art
2012    Year State Grant to Artist
2010    Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2010    Arts Council of Finland,
2010    Public Display Grant for Visual Artists
2010    Arts Council of Oulu province, project grant
2010    City of Oulu, project grant
2009    The Art Society of Finland, Young Artist´s Grant
2009    Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2009    Arts Council of Oulu province, project grant
2008    City of Oulu, 2007 Young Artist’s Grant North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund, project grant