Born 1981 in Helsinki, lives and works in Helsinki.

Education
2011 University of Art and Design Helsinki
(now Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Archtecture), MA
2004 Arts Academy/Turku Polytechnic, BA

Solo Exhibitions
2020 Gardener's House - Photographs, Gardener’s House at Laukko Manor, Vesilhati, FI
2019 Ancient Forest and Moon Bath, together with Eeva Peura, Finnish Institute in Stockholm, SE
2017 'Sisters of Persephone' Leica Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2017 Galleria Ama, Helsinki, FI
2017 Über das Sichtbare, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, DE
2016 the light of other days, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2014 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2014 Turku Art Museum, Studio, Turku, FI
2013 abc – art berlin contemporary, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2013 Viime vuodet / Recent years, Gallery Ama, Helsinki, FI
2013 Diaphane, La grange, Montreuil-sur-Bréche, FR
2012 Kamaraden, Stockholm, SE
2012 She resembles, Gallery Photology, Milan, IT
2011 Barbara Gross Galerie, München, DE
2011 Chapter V, VB-Photographic Centre, Kuopio, FI
2011 Beings are silent, Gallery TH13, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Bern, CH
2010 Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, FI
2010 Finnish Institute in Stockholm, SE
2010 Chapter IV, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2010 Gallery Ama, Helsinki, FI
2010 Young Artist of the Year 2010, Tampere Art museum, FI
2008 Inner Yard / Sisäpiha – Korjaamo Gallery, Helsinki, FI
2008 Gallery Kapriisi, Kuopio, FI
2005 Lasitalo/Glasshouse, Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, FI
2004 Taimet/Seedlings, Peri Center of Photography, Turku, FI
2004 Northern Photographic Centre, Kummigallery, Oulu, FI

Group Exhibitions
2023 The Artists' Island 2023, Harakka Artists’ House on Harakka island, FI
2023 The Helsinki School Perspective, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2023 Bindings / Sidoksia, VB Photography Centre, Kuopio, FI
2022 Notes from a Seamstress' Daughter, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2021 New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 years of the Helsinki School, Taidehalli Helsinki, FI
2021 Nordic Light, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2020 The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2020 Rebooting Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2020 883 Pages – Finnish Photobook Award 2019, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2020 A Fresh Breeze from the North! Images of Nature in the Helsinki School, Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck, DE
2019 Topsy-Turvy, Rovaniemi Art Museum, FI
2019 Growth and Loss – Hair In Contemporary Art, Oulu Museum of Art, Oulu, FI
2019 Sensual Closeness - A home exhibition, curated by Antonia Hamberg, Helsinki, FI
2019 The Collector's Gaze series - Arto Jurttila. With the Eyes of my Mind, Pori Art Museum, FI
2019 An der Nordkante - Mensch in der finnischen Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE
2018 Reflections: From Here to There, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2018 Zu neuen Ufern, Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Sylter Heimatmuseum, Sylt, DE
2018 'People in Focus' Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, FI
2017 'Imaginary Meeting' Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, FI
2017 Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2017 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2016 Fragments, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR
2016 From Heino With Love - Collection exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2016 My Silence, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, FI
2015 Monograph book "Anni Leppälä Young Artists of the Year 2010” at the Photobook Week, Aarhus, DK
2015 Nordic exchange–Inner and Outer Landscapes, Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm, SE
2015 Photo Festival Ghent '80 Days of Summer / Stories of Identity', St Peter's Abbey, Ghent, BE
2015 Nordic exchange–Inner and Outer Landscapes, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, FI
2015 L'Arbre, le bois, la forêt, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, FR
2015 Close to me, Centre médical et pédagogique de Rennes Beaulieu, FR
2014 Inner and Outer Landscapes, Fotografisk Center in Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, DK
2014 Collected North, Gallery X-ist, Istanbul, TR
2014 La femme d’à côté /The woman next door, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR
2013 New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School, Scandinavia House, New York, US
2013 The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Arts, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, FI
2013 Materia, Harakka island, Helsinki, FI
2012 Texture and Sense, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, JP
2012 The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Arts, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI
2012 Les Rencontres d´Arles 2012, Discovery Award, Parc des Ateliers, France, FR
2012 Alice in wonderland, Ecco, Cádiz, ES
2012 Harakka energy, Harakka island, Helsinki, FI
2012 NordLichtBilder, Kunstverein Augsburg, DE
2012 Äärimmäisyyksien yhteinen tekijä, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, FI
2011 Heroines, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, ES
2011 The Helsinki School – A Female View, Foto-Raum, Wien, AT
2011 The Helsinki School – A Female View, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2011 Touching dreams, The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, DK
2011 Helsinki School group exhibition, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich, CH
2011 Parallels, Pori Art Museum, Project Space, Pori, FI
2011 Alice in wonderland, Logomo, Turku, FI
2011 Art works, Deutsche Bank towers, Frankfurt, DE
2010 Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, SO
2010 Highlighted – Contemporary Finnish Photography, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Path – photographs and videos, Honkahovi Art Center, Mänttä, FI
2010 Isn´t everything after all a part of our inner life, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
2010 Red – Collection exhibition, EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI
2010 Purdy Hicks Gallery (with Susanna Majuri), London, UK
2010 Helsinki School – Photography and Video NOW, Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, FI
2010 Helsinki 10, Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger, NO
2010 Seven Approaches, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, US
2009 Tracking Traces – Collection exhibition, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
2009 Internal and External Landscapes, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2009 Les nuages, lá-bas, les merveilleux nuages, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, FR
2009 Au Féminin: Women Photographing Women, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbekian, Paris, FR
2009 On Top of the Iceberg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
2009 Arco 09, International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2009 Under the Circumstances, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, CZ
2008 La Position de la Terre / Maan Asema, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, FR
2008 Under the Circumstances, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, FI
2008 The Art of Humanity, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI
2008 Rose Boréal – Photographies de l’Ecole d’Helsinki, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2008 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, FR
2008 Photographs / Paintings (with Virve Lukka), Gallery Gjutars, Vantaa, FI
2007 Mapping the Unknown, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lybeck, DE
2007 In Search of the Miraculous, Triennial of Finnish Art, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
2007 Gallery Galica (with Jari Silomäki), Milan, IT
2007 The Stenersen Museum. Oslo, NO
2007 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2006 Überall ist Wunderland, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart, DE
2006 Fotografia – Photofestival, Museum Andersen, Rome, IT
2006 5th International Festival of Photography in Łodź, Manufactura, Łodź, PL
2006 Dialog: Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, Borås, SE
2006 Dialog: Helsinki School, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
2006 Dialog: Helsinki School, Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE
2006 Still, APT-studios, London, UK
2006 Absolutely Private, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, JP
2006 Presence, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, FI
2005 Backlight 2005: Untouchable Things, Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, FI
2005 Libris, The Young Photographer of the Year-exhibition, Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, FI
2004 Elämä – Life, VB-Photographic Centre, Kuopio, FI
2004 Neljä – Four, Graduated Students, Taidepanimo, Lahti, FI
2003 Joku päivä – Someday, The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, FI
2001 Kaari – Arc, Gallery Manilla, Turku, FI

Grants and Awards
2017 Visiting artist - program 2017-2018 at the Finnland-Institute, Berlin, DE
2013 Nomination for the Finnish Art Academy Prize
2010 Young Artist of the Year
2005 Backlight Award

Arts Council of Finland
City of Helsinki
Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
The Finnish Cultural Foundation
The Finnish Art Association, Grant for Young Artists
The Central Association of Finnish Photographic Organizations

Works in Collections
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Helsinki City Art Museum
Parliament of Finland
State of Finland
Wihuri Foundation
Paulo Foundation
Heino Collection
The Finnish Art Association
The Finnish Institute in London
Teutloff Collection, Germany
Pentti Kouri Collection
Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth Collection
Deutsche Bank
Hermés Collection


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