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Born in Tohmajärvi, Finland. Lives and works in London.
education:
2019-2026 PhD by project in Fine Art, SoAH, RCA
2020 PGCert in Creative Education (& FHEA), UCA
2011 MA photography (Distinction), London College of Communication, UAL
2004 BA(Hons) photography, London College of Communication, UAL
solo exhibitions:
2022 Talk Me Tender, The Finnish Institutes’ commission (with Bang Geul Han)
2019 CFEVA, Philadelphia (with Bang Geul Han)
2019 MAA-tila Gallery, Helsinki
2017 Rehearsal Space, Forum Box, Helsinki
2016 Closer Yet, Galerie Pangée, Montreal (with Bang Geul Han)
2016 Close To You, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki
2015 Signs of the Times, Triangle Arts Association, New York
2015 Nature Trail, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu
2014 (Mal)Function, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art Project Space, Seyðisfjörður
2014 Nature Trail, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku
2014 Attempts, Suomesta-Gallery, Berlin
2014 Nature Trail, Gallery Huuto Jätkäsaari, Helsinki
2012 Attempts, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal
2012 Wood on trees, Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki
2011 Contemporary Anthropology, Gallery Rajatila, Tampere
2010 Contemporary Anthropology, Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti
2010 Contemporary Anthropology, Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki
selected group exhibitions:
2025 RCA Research Biennale, Hangar Space, London
2025 Here We Are - As We Are, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
2024 CHASMA, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
2023 Hopscotch, Copeland Gallery, London
2023 Collectible, Brussels (with Studio La Succulente)
2022 Talk Me Tender, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2022 Elastic Alliances, Galleria Hanaholmen, Helsinki
2022 Kone Foundation Kulttuuripolku, Mynämäki
2022 Unruly Encounters, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2022 India Club #6 Space Race, London (with Specular Assembly)
2020 Touch Me, online exhibition
2020 2084, Dyson Gallery, RCA, London
2019 Material Gestures, The Deptford Old Police Station, London
2019 India Club – Matter, with Specular Assembly, India Club, London
2019 Waterloo Sunset, The Feminist Library, London
2018 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Studio Frontiera, Palermo
2018 India Club – Friction, with Specular Assembly, India Club, London
2017 Turning Point, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
2017 India Club – Independence, with Specular Assembly, India Club, London
2016 Where Does Poetry Nest?, Gallery Emil, Tampere
2016 Queens International, Queens Museum, New York
2016 India Club – Utopia, with Specular Assembly, India Club, London
2016 26 Caledonian Road, Geddes Gallery, London
2015 Barfotastigen, outdoor sculpture exhibition, Korppoo
2015 India Club, with Specular Assembly, India Club, London
2014 Photography as Installation, Oxford House, London
2014 Kilometre of Sculpture, outdoor sculpture exhibition, Rakvere
2014 Object, outdoor sculpture exhibition, Espoo Kunstahalle, Espoo
2014 On Landscape#1, Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects, London
2013 W-CA Photography Open, The City Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester
2013 Original Face, Beomeo Art Street Gallery, Daegu
2013 20th Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2013 Format 13 Exposure, Format Festival, Derby
2013 Brooklyn/Montreal, A.I.R gallery, New York
2013 Future Map 12, Lethaby Gallery, London
2013 360º, Saari Manor, Mietoinen
2013 Observatory III, Töölönlahti, Helsinki
2013 Observatory II, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York
2012 Present remains, TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere
2012 Montreal/Brooklyn, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal
2012 FreshFaced+WildEyed, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2012 Observatory I, Rue Saint-Urbain & Boulevard de Maisonneuve, Montreal
2012 Cultivation/Field, Reading
2011 YOUNG ARTISTS 2011, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2011 Sommet Génération d’idées, Palais des Congrès, Montreal
2011 MAP11, London College of Communication, London
2011 Soyons realistes, croyons en l’impossible, Galerie Les Territoires, Montreal
residencies, awards:
2020 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, one month
2017 Finalist for the Below Zero Art Prize, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
2017 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, one month
2015-2016 HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki, four months
2015 Triangle Arts Association, New York, three months
2015 Kone Foundation Saari group residence with Lintutorni collective, two weeks
2015 Mustarinda residency, Hyrynsalmi, one month
2014 Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Iceland, two months
2014 Matera, Italy, Arts Promotion Centre Finland residency, one month
2014 Suomesta-Gallery, Berlin, one month
2014 Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects, London, one month
2013 Finnish Society of Bioart, Field_Notes-Deep-Time residency, Kilpisjärvi, 1 week
2013 Kone Foundation Saari residence, two months
selected publications and presentations:
2025 ‘On Space Junk’, performative presentation at RCA Research Biennale Symposium
2024 ‘On Space Junk’, performative presentation at Art & the Critical Medical Humanities: Confabulations X Health and Care at the RCA, Royal College of Art, London
2023 Body Research Day, presentation of PhD work, University for the Creative Arts
2022 I care by…Research Communiques: RCA School of Arts and Humanities publication, text and images in publication.
2022 Elastic Alliances, panel, Gallery Hanaholmen, Helsinki
2021 Democratic Practices in the Creative University, UCA Cantebury
2019 Polyphonic Texts and Toolkit, Night Schoolers Publication, co-editor and text contribution.
2019 Space and Belonging, conference presentation, UCA Farnham 2019 Female Gaze and Photography: Problematics in Feminist Context, Reading the Enemies Research Workshop, Mayday Rooms, London
2019 Site-Specific Art in a Changing City (with Specular Assembly). Invited by the National Trust and the India Club, London
2018 Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms, poster presentation, Middlesex University
2016 Night Schoolers presentation at study day with Jacques Rancière, HIAP, Helsinki
2016 In conversation with curator Katie Lenanton, Frame Finland
2016 Artist talk with Will Jennings, Utopia talks, Somerset House, London
2016 Collaborative Practice panel, Portsmouth University
2016 GAM #5, discussion curated by Alessandro Facente, HIAP, Helsinki
2015 In conversation with Meir Gal, Triangle Arts association, New York
2014 Notes on Various Stones, an essay in Extending Leylines: a collaborative book of new writing about leylines, landscape, communication and family, ed. Will Jennings, UK
2014 Off the Earth conference, Plymouth University, Plymouth
2014 Photography as installation panel discussion, Oxford House, London
2014 In conversation with Elizabeth McTernan, Suomesta Gallery, Berlin
2014 On Landscape#1 panel discussion, Guest Projects, London
2013 Field_Notes – Deep Time symposium, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
teaching:
2019- Senior Lecturer, UCA (on research sabbatical 2025)
2022- Associate Lecturer (professional and collaborative practice) across MA Art and Design courses, Coventry University
2017- 2019 Associate Lecturer, across MA and BA Art and Design courses, University of Bedfordshire
2018-2019 Associate Lecturer, BA Photography, Coventry University
+ Visiting lecturing / workshops:
Royal College of Art, London College of Communication, University of East London, Parsons (New York), Art School MAA (Helsinki)
funding:
Work has been generously supported by the following organisations and funding bodies:
Kone Foundation, The Finnish Institutes, The Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Paulo Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Finnish Art Society, City of Helsinki Cultural Office, HIAP, Triangle Arts Association, Arts Council of England.