Education
1978 Master of Arts, University of Art & Design Helsinki
(now Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture)

Solo exhibitions (selected)2019 Icy Prospects, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2018 Of Light and Shadow, Arendt House, Luxembourg, LU
2018 Memorandum of Loss, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2017 Surfaces and Scenes Beyond, Konsthallen, Konsthall, Luleå, SE
2016 Shade into Shade, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2015 Surfaces and Scenes Beyond, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2013 Museum Meditations, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2012 Telling Time, Maerzgalerie, Leipzig, DE (together with Sebastian Schrader)
2012 Sixteen Steps to Paradise, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2011 Shadows and Reflections, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2011 Sixteen Steps to Paradise, Kunstallianz1, Berlin, DE
2011 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2010 EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI
2010 Icy Prospects, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, FR
2010 Gallery Orton, Helsinki, FI
2009 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2009 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2009 Paris Photo, Galerie Anhava, Paris, FR
2009 Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø, NO
2008 Galleri Flach+Thulin, Stockholm, SE
2008 Icy Prospects, Photology Gallery, Milan, IT
2007 Scala Mata Gallery, Venice, IT
2007 Arctische Archiv, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, DE
2007 Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin, DE
2006 Étandues glaciales, Institut Finlandais, Paris, FR
2006 Icy Prospects, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2004 Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin, DE
2004 Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, FI
2004 Gallery Flach, Stockholm, SE
2002 Photogallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2002 Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, NO
2002 Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Center for Photographic Art, Portland, Oregon, USA
2001 Museet for fotokunst/Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
2000 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2000 Siida-Sámi Museum, Inari, FI
1999 Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, BE
1998 Impressions Gallery, York, UK
1998 Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
1996 Galerie Minima Peliti, Rome, IT
1996 Gallery G, Helsinki, FI
1995 Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, FR
1995 Galerie Braggiotti, Amsterdam, NL
1995 Fotogalleriet, Oslo, NO
1995 Galerie Photo du Theatre de l´Agora, Evry, FR1994 Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK
1994 Konstens Hus, Luleå, S
1994 Institut Finlandais, Paris, FR
1993 Galerie Suzel Berna, Paris, FR
1993 Centre de Développement Culturel, Tarbes, FR
1993 Galleri Index, Stockholm, SE
1992 Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
1991 Galerie Krivy, Nice, FR

2023 Refractive Landscapes, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2022 Mythos Wald, Das Flustern der Blatter, Kunsthalle Emden, DE
2022 Spaces of Uncertainty, Taidehalli, Helskinki, FI
2022 Eye on Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2021 New Perspectives through Photography – 25 Years of the Helsinki School, Taidehalli Helsinki, FI
2021 Nordic Light, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2020 A Fresh Breeze from the North, Kunsthalle St Annen, Lübeck, DE
2019 Moonlight, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, SE
2019 Prima Vista, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2018 On Disappearance and Appearance, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, DE
2017 London Art Fair, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2016 PULSE, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2016 CHART Art Fair, Gallery Taik Persons, Copenhagen, DK
2016 ARCO, Gallery Taik Persons, Madrid, ES
2015 Art15, Maerzgalerie, London, UK
2015 8 Exposures – New Views on Tapio Wirkkala, Ateneum, Helsinki, FI
2015 Face to Face, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
2015 Faces Now – European Portrait Photography since 1990, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
2014 Jorma Puranen - Higashikawa Photography Award Exhibition, Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, JP
2014 Baroque, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2014 Photography into Art. The Hannula & Hinkka Collection, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, FI
2013 Seduced by Art; Photography Past and Present, CaixaForum Barcelona; CaixaForum Madrid, ES
2013 Paisajes del Norte, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, CO
2013 Farbe-Form-Fotografie-Fläche, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt Am Main, DE
2012 Seduced by Art; Photography Past and Present, National Gallery, London, UK
2012 The New Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print, London, UK
2012 Art Fair 2012, London, UK
2012 Polar Positions, Sami Artist Center, Karasjok, NO
2012 Mindscapes, Central for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
2012 I am not interested in Reality, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin, DE
2011 Within/Beyond the Frontier, The Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, GR
2011 Jubiläum, Kunsthalle Emden, DE
2011 The Magic of Lapland, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2011 Landscape Experiences, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, FI
2010 Ars Fennica, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, FI
2010 Daegu Photo Festival, KR
2010 A World Within The World, Anteprima, Mostra d´Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
2009 Carnegie Art Award, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2009 Revisiting Landscape & Still Life, Bafa Foto, Geneva, CH
2009 Taide kantaa, Järvenpää Art Museum, FI
2009 Homework, Lahti Art Museum, FI
2009 Being A Part, Sami Artist Center, Karasjok, NO
2008 La photographie finlandaise, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, FR
2008 Continuum, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, FI
2008 Fabricating Images from History, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, CH
2008 Trip to the Country, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, EE
2007 Getroffen, Otto Dix und die Kunst des Porträts, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
2007 Boundary Crossings, Akseli-Gallen Kallela Museum, Espoo, FI
2007 Portraiture, Harewood House, Leeds, UK
2007 Into the Landscape, Preus Museum-Norwegean Museum of Photography, Hjorten, NO
2007 Our Land! Photographs from Finland, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2007 Silver & Oil, Hoopers Gallery, London, UK
2007 The Helsinki School of Photography, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2007 Stenersen Museum, Oslo, NO
2006 Breaking the Ice, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
2006 Zone Attive s.r.l. Fotografia, Festival Internazionale di Roma, IT
2006 Finlandia e l´identita del Nord, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome, IT
2006 Un tableau peut en cacher un autre, MNHA Musée National d´histoire et d´art, Luxembourg, LU
2006 Ghosts in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
2006 Helsinki School, Borås Artmuseum, Borås, SE
2006 Dialogue-The Helsinki School, Langhans Galerie, Prague, CZ
2006 The Helsinki School-Finnish Photography from 21th century, Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, BE
2006 To Look or to See-in search of meanings in photography, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2005 Helsinki School – A New Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Photology, Milan, IT
2005 Boundary Crossings, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2005 Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, CA
2005 Vaikea yhtälö, Rauma Art Museum, FI
2005 Personligt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2004 Momentum-Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, NO
2004 On Loan, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, SE
2004 30 by Taik, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2004 River Deep Mountain High, National Touring Exhibitions, NO
2004 Carnegie Art Award, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kopavogur Art Museum, IS;
         Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Victoria Miro Warehouse, London, UK; Helsinki Kunsthall, Helsinki, FI
2004 New Realities, Fotomuseum, Reykjavik, IS
2003 New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, SE
2003 Dominated by Water, Vantaa City Art Museum, Vantaa, FI
2003 Verarbeitete Fotografie, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin, DE
2003 Fünf Positionen finnischer Fotografie, Kunstvererin Schwerte, Schwerte, DE
2003 Carnegie Art Award, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, SE
2003 Designing the Quietness, Ozone Living Design Center, Tokyo; Copper Smithy, Fiskars, FI
2002 Nouvelle photographie finlandaise, Café-Crème/Photographie Contamporaine, Luxembourg, LU
2002 Mare Balticum, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, DK
2002 Kuvitelmia/Fantasies, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, FI
2002 Correlations, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria; Fotoforum West, Innsbrück, AT
2002 Faces and Figures, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
2002 Pohjoiseen ja etelään, Purnu Art Center, Orivesi, FI
2001 Strange Reality, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin, DE
2001 Landshapes-Records of Action, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, USA
2001 Faces and Figures, Scandinavian House, New York, USA
2001 Nordic Art 2001, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, SE
2001 Fotographia Metafisica, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IR
2001 Lost Homelands, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA
2001 Finsk Foto, Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo, NO
2001 The Fatherland and the Mother Tongue, Oulu Art Museum, FI
2000 Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2000 Une Histoire Finlandaise, La Galerie Photo, Montpellier, FR
2000Three Beginning Roads in Finnish Contemporary Photography, Kari Kenetti Gallery, Helsinki, FI
1999 Landshapes, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA;
         The von Leibig Art Center, Naples, Florida, USA
1999 Lost Homelands, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown; McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, CA
1999 Évocation, Marche Bonsecours, Mois de la Photo á Montreal, CA
1999 Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen Zeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
1999 Nordiskt Foto, Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, SE
1999 Mikä on todellista, 3rd triennial of Photography, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
1998 Cartografs i aventurers, Cultural Centre of the Fundació "la Caixa”, Barcelona; Lleida; Vic, ES
1998 Continental Drift, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1998 Le Violon d´Ingres/Play it again, Royal Concert Hall, Amsterdam, NL
1998 Finnish Art Triennial, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
1998 Under/Exposed, Stockholm Underground, SE
1998 Shadows, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, FI
1997´Le musée photographique´, 19émes Estivales Photographiques du Trégor, Imagerie, Lannion, FR
1997 Du bois des arbres des artistes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Chambéry, FR
1997 Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
1997 Dislocations, Rovaniemi Art Museum, FI
1997 Forest, Kuopio Art Museum, FI
1996 Myth and Landscape, European Cultural Centre, Delphi, GR
1996 Heimat, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, DE
1996 Document, Tampere, FI
1995 Vents du Nord, Cellier de Talant, Talant, FR
1995 Disrupted Borders, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, Ontario, CA
1994 Europe Rediscovered, Turbine Hall/M/S Kronborg, Copenhagen, DK
1994 Jorden, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
1994 Fotodiffusione, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, IT
1994 Balticum Biennale, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, FI
1994 Tulkinta-Interpretation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI

Academic teaching
2019–2020 Mentor of the EIB Institue Artist Development Programme
1996–1998 Professor, University of Art & Design, Helsinki
1978–1996 University of Art & Design, Helsinki

Publications
2009 Icy Prospects, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart, DE
1999 Imaginary Homecoming, Pohjoinen Publications, Oulu, FI
1989 Alpha & Omega, Opus, Helsinki, FI
1986 Maarf Leu´dd-Photographs of the Skolt Lapps, Opus, Helsinki, FI

Selected Bibliography2010 Jan-Erik Lundström, "Jorma Puranen, Reflection, Refraction, Redemption", 
         EIKON International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, Wien, AT
2010 Jari-Pekka Vanhala, "Echoing Images", Next Level Edition 20, London, UK
2009 Rosanna Checchi, "Jorma Puranen", Zoom Photographic Art, Nov-Dec, Milan, IT
2008 Denis Brudna, "Jorma Puranen-Where compasses all go mad", Photonews, 
         Zeitung für Photographie, Nr 2 / 2008, Hamburg, DE
2008 Selva Barni, "Jorma Puranen", Rodeo Magazine Nr. 43, Milan, IT
2007 Mark Peschke, "Jorma Puranen- Icy Prospects", Fotoforum, Fotografie & Präsentation, 
         3/2007, Münster, DE
2006 David Spalding, "Ghosts in the Machine", Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, 
         Volume 33, No. 1, Spring/Summer, San Fransisco, USA
2005 Nikos Papastergiadis, "Flags in the Landscape", in Spatial Aesthetics-Art, Place and the 
         Everyday, Rivers Oram Press, London, Sydney, Chicago, USA
2005 Taneli Eskola, "Boundary Crossings-Temporal Dialogues in Finnish Landscape Photography", 
         Musta Taide, Helsinki, FI
2003 Liz Wells, "Icy Prospects", in Cultures & Settlements, eds. Miles, M & Kirkham, 
         Intellect, Bristol, UK
2003 Ferdinand Protzman, "Landscape, Photographs of Time and Space", 
         National Geographic Books, Washington, USA
2001 Henning Wettendorf, "Jorma Puranen", Katalog, Journal of Photography & Video, 
         Vol 14, Odense, DK
2001 Elizabeth Edwards, "Jorma Puranen-Imaginary Homecoming-A Study in Re-engagement", 
         in Raw Histories-Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Berg, Oxford/New York, USA
1998 Marta Gili, "Cartografs i aventurers: narradors d´històries", Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, ES
1998 Ruth Charity, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator/Jorma Puranen", Portfolio 27, Edinburgh, UK
1998 Nikos Papastergiadias, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator, Continental Drift, Europe"
1998 "Approaching the Millennium", Prestel, Münich/New York
1998 David Brittain, "Lie of the Land", Creative Camera, April/May, London, UK 
1997 La Recherche Photographique 20 – L´Ailleurs, printemps, Paris, FR
1996 Sylvain Maresca, "Essai de comparaison entre les approches photographique et ethnographique" 
         in La Photographie – Un miroir des sciences sociales, L´Harmattan, Paris/Montréal, CA
1996 John Stathatos, "Myth and Landscape", exhibition catalogue, GR
1996 Boris v. Brauchitsch, "Das Schweigen im Walde", exhibition catalogue, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 
         Tübingen, DE
1996 Min-Jung Yang, "Jorma Puranen", The Monthly Photographic Art Magazine, Seoul, KR, 10/1996
1995 Jean-Christian Fleury, "Curtis, Puranen, Lévi-Strauss/Photographie et ethnologie", 
         Photographies Magazine, Avril, Paris, FR 
1995 Elizabeth Edwards, "Imaginary Homecoming / The work of Jorma Puranen", Social Identities/
         Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol.2
1994 Robert Pujade, "La Photographie Comme Science Fabuleuse/ A Propos des Images de Jorma 
         Puranen", Exhibition catalogue, FR
1993 Jean-Christian Fleury, "Jorma Puranen",Photographies Magazine, December, Paris, FR
1993 Sunil Gupta, "Disrupted Borders", Rivers Oram Press, London, UK
1993 Mika Ripatti, "The Stations of the Gaze/ Crossroads of Absolution", Index/ Contemporary 
         Scandinavian Images, Stockholm, SE, 1/1993
1993 Jan-Erik Lundström, "Returning to Saami Country: The Photographic Art of Jorma Puranen", 
         Scandinavian Review, Winter

Prizes
2014 The Overseas Photographer Award
2010 National Prize for Finnish Photography
2005 Pro Finlandia award
1992 PhotoFinlandia Prize
1988 National Prize for Finnish Photography

Works in Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, SE
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, BE
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
Norsk museum for Fotografi-Preus fotomuseum, NO
Bibliothéque nationale, Paris, FR
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, CA
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
Helsinki City Art Museum, FI
EMMA-Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI
Henna and Pertti Niemistö Foundation, FI
Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, FI
Oulu Art Museum, FI
Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, FI
State of Finland
Swedish Arts Council, SE
Etnografisk Museum, Oslo, NO
Vantaa City Art Collection, FI
Espoo City Art Collection, FI
Wihuri collection/The Art Museum of Rovaniemi, FI
Saastamoinen Foundation, FI
Collection Olorvisual, Barcelona, ES
Fundacio Sourige, ES
Artothéque, Grenoble, FR
Deutsche Bank Collection London, UK
DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt, DE
European Investment Bank Institute, Luxembourg, LU
Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf,
Kunsthalle Emden, DE
Sparkasse Osnabrück, DE
Centre de Développent Culturel, Tarbes, FR
Viktor Barsokevitsch Photography Center, Kuopio, FI
Luleå Municipality Art Collection, SE
Rauma Art Museum, FI
Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, FR
Galerie de Theatre de L´Agora, Evry, FR
Collection de Dorint Hôtel, Brussels, BE
Bibliothèque H. Vincenot, Talant, FR
Imagerie, Lannion, FR
Samiske Samlinger, Karasjok, NO

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