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