Born 1966 in Pello, Finland
Lives and works in Helsinki and Berlin
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EDUCATION

1984-1989
School of the Finnish Fine Arts Academy, Helsinki, Finland


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2009
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2008
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland

2005
Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland

2004
Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland

2002
Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland

2001
The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland

1999
Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland

1997
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland

1995
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1994
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland

1992
Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany

1991
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland

1990
Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
EMMA, Esboo, Finland

2013
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2011
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Fiskars village, Finland

2009
ArtHelsinki 009 / Gallery Kalhama & Piipo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
Flash! - Light and Movement, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Kumu Art Museum, Talinn, Estonia
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Centre International d´Art Contemporain, Carros, France

2008
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Carnegie Art Award: Haine Onstad Kunstcenter, Höviksudden/Oslo, Norway; Den Frie Udstilling Copenhagen, Denmark; Listasafn Kopavogs, Kopavogur/Reykjavik, Iceland; Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden, Royal College of Art, London, UK; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2007
Carnegie Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Taiteilijatiloja, Jugend-sali, Helsinki, Finland
Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Turun taidemuseo, Turku; Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2006
Suspended E-motion, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

2005
Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Heino, Stockholm, Sweden
X Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Purnu 2005, Orivesi, Finland

2004
Le Triage, Nanterre, France
The Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland

2003
Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland

2002
Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden

2001
Eesti Kunstimuuseumi, Tallinn, Estonia
Suomen taiteen III triennaali, Göteborg
Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden & Helsingin taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland

2000
Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
100 VR-makasiini, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Kari Kenetti, Berlin, Germany

1999
Carnegie Art Award, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland; Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Icela
Musées de Strassbourg, Strassbourg, France
Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Kari Kenetti, Frankfurt, Germany

1998
Carnegie Art Award, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden; Sophienholm
Copenhagen, Denmark; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Stockholm Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Tukholma

1997
Galleri Wynick / Tuck, Toronto, Canada
Restaurant Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
Konstens hus, Luleå, Sweden
Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland

1996
Karlskrona Konsthall, Karlskrona, Sweden; Västerås
Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden;
Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, Sweden; Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Konst I hemmiljö The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland

1995
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka; Fukuyama Museum of Art,
Japan; Turun taidemuseo, Turku, Finland
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1994
Östergötland Country Museum, Lindköping, Sweden; Oulu City Art useum, Oulu, Finland; Örebro länsmuseum, Örebro, Sweden; Landskrona konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden; Museum for Contemporary art, Warsaw, Poland; Museum for Contemporary art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nordisk Önskemuseum, Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden
Galleri F 15 Alby, Moss, Norway
Tourch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The Azabu Museum for Arts and Crafts, Tokio, Japan

1993
Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany
XLV La Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy
The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm;
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary, Art, Helsinki, Finland

1992
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland
Finlandi Dá -92, Stockholm, Sweden
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Germany

1991
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Stedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Stadgalerie im
Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Latvija, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia;
Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

1990
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

1989
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland



PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2011
Folkhälsoinstitutet, Solna, Sweden

2010
M In Us, Vasakronan, Stockholm, Sweden

1999
Expose #43-46, Finnish Embassy, Berlin, Germany

1998
Expose, Vuosaari metro station, Helsinki, Finland


COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi, Finland
The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
The City of Espoo, Finland
The City of Tampere, Finland
The National Public Art Council, Sweden
Swanljung Collection, Finland
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
The Finnish State Art Collection

Grants

2009
Fine Arts Association of Finland, William Thuring Prize

1998
Carnegie Art Awards, Scholarship to a young artist

1996
Young Art Finland Prize