born
1962
in Espoo
studies
MA,
University of Art and Design in Helsinki, 1998
International
Center of Photography, New York, 1991
BA,
Design Institute, Lahti, 1985 - 1989
works in collections
Art
Collections of the State of Finland
The
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Kiasma,
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Espoo
City Art Museum
Helsinki
City Art Museum
Tampere
City Art Museum
Finnish
Society for Arts
Private
collections in Finland and abroad
solo shows
2007 Satama ArtSpace, Helsinki
2007 Ingrid Hansen Gallery,
Washington DC, USA
2006 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2005 HŠme Gallery, Lahti
2004 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2003 Ingrid Hansen Gallery,
Washington DC, USA
2002 Gallery Husa, Tampere
2001 Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
1997 Kluuvi Gallery,
Helsinki
1993 Luukku Gallery, Joensuu
1991 Finnfoto Gallery,
Helsinki
1990 Rantagallery, Oulu
public artwork
2004 "A Beggar boy",
Hiidenkivi school, Helsinki
group shows
2007 "Male Stuff",
Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, land
2007 "Male Stuff", Peri,
Turku
2007 "Locations of
Elsewhere", Peer Gallery, New York
2007 "Male Stuff", Signe
Vad galleri, Copenhagen, Danmark
2006 "Helsinki
International", Korjaamo, Helsinki
2006 "Moving in
Margins", Vantaa Museum of Art
2006 "Just One Peak",
JŠrvenpŠŠ Art Museum, JŠrvenpŠŠ
2006 "Presence", WŠinš
Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku
2005 "Fractures of
Life", Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2005 "To look or to see",
Museum of Photography, Helsinki
2002 "MŠnttŠ art",
MŠnttŠ
2002 "Family", Museum of
Photography, Helsinki
2002 "Popcorn and
Politics", Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1999 "Light",
Museum of Photography
1999 "Identity and
Environment", Ludvig Museum, Budapest
1999 "Nordic
landscape", Salo Art Museum
1998 "Admissions of
Identity", Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1998 "The
Landscape", Nordic photography on landscapes, Turku
1998 "Suviniemi
summit", VŠŠksy
1997 "Landscape«97",
Nordic photography on landscapes, JyvŠskylŠ
1997 "Dislocations,
Northern photography 1997", Rovaniemi Art Museum
1996 "Postmorality
II", Sofia, Bulgaria
1995 "Script", 2.
triennial of Finnish photography , The Art Hall, Helsinki
1995 World congress of
aesthetics, Lahti
1994 "Woman, Man and
Lace", Lšnnstršm Art Museum, Rauma
1994 "Woman, Man and
Lace", Gallery Otso, Espoo
1994 "male
ANXIETY", NGBK in Berlin, Germany
1992 "Postmorality",
1. triennial of photography, The
Art Hall, Helsinki
1992 "12 Male
Photographers", Tenalji von
FersŽn, Helsinki
1991 "Acquisitions 1884
- 1990", Museum of Photography, Helsinki
1989 "FOCUS" -
young finnish photography, Museum of Photography
1989 "New Finnish
Photography" A touring show in Baltic countries, organized by the Museum
of Photography, 1989 - 1991
1990 "Symposium of Male
Identity" University of
Tampere
1989 "Mirror", The
Design Institute Gallery, Lahti
1989 "10
photographers", Poriginal Gallery, Pori
1988 "Nauvo -
Nagu", Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki
1988 "The New
Light", The City Library, Oulu
1987 "mother",
Vanhan Galleria, Helsinki
1987 Ritva Tuomi & Kari
Soinio, Studenthouse Gallery, Helsinki