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Born 1982 in Helsinki, Finland.

Education
2010 Master of Arts, Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture
2008 Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences

2023 Untitled Women, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, FI
2022 Untitled Women, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2022 Woman. With more than 1,000 illustrations in black-and-white and seven colour plates, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, FI
2017 Helsinki School - The Younger Generation. Shoot Gallery, Oslo, NO (Together with Anna Reivilä)    
2016 Galleria Ama, Helsinki, FI
2016 In Their Own Voice, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2016 Un problème féminin, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2015 Magnetic Sleep, Photographic Center Peri, Turku, FI
2013 To remember – The Enigma of Memory, 2902 Gallery, Singapore (Together with Tristan Cai)
2012 The Latest Knowledge, Forum Box, Helsinki, FI
2011 A Room of One’s Own, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI (Together with Hannele Rantala)
2011 Ciphers, Galleria, Turku, FI
2010 To remember, Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, FI
2009-2010 Ciphers, Korjaamo Studio, Helsinki, FI
2009 Ciphers, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, FI
2007 To remember, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2006 Perfect, untouched, blank, Kuldjala tower/Finnish Institute in Estonia, Tallinn, ETGroup Exhibitions (selected)
2025 Women in Progress, Burg Vischering, Lüdinghausen, DE
2024 The Helsinki School—Out of the Depths of Photography, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE 
2024 Images Falling From the Sky, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, PL   
2024 In the Now: Gender And Nation In Europe. Selection From The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y, US
2023 Portraiture as Social Commentary, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2021 In the Now: Gender And Nation In Europe. Selection From The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., US
2021 New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 years of the Helsinki School, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
2021 Inconsistent Ways of Seeing, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2019 Human + Landscape. Colección Kells. PHotoESPAÑA 2019, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, ES
2018 Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2017 Circulation(s). Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Le CENTQUATRE-Paris, Paris, FR
2017 Art and Life. From the hopeful affinity between art and medicine to the National Socialist crimes, Center for Persecuted Arts in Kunstmuseum Solingen, DE
2017 Summer Breeze, Shoot Gallery, Oslo, NO    
2017 Five Finnish Photographers, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2016 Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, FR
2016 Medicine in Art, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, PL
2015 Arcub Cultural Centre of Bucharest/Microtopia, Bucharest, RO
2015 Valokuvagalleria Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2013 Greatest of all is Love?, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, FI
2013 Museum of Instability, Helsinki University Museum, Helsinki, FI
2012 What a Party!, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, FI
2011 A Female View, Fotoraum, Vienna, AT
2011 Touching Dreams – Helsinki School vol. III, Det Nationale Fotomuseum,Copenhagen, DK
2011 Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2010 Instructions for Initial Conditions, Drift Station Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, US
2010 Erosion Biennale, Klaipeda Exhibition Hall, Klaipeda, LT
2010 Helsinki School – Photography and Video NOW, Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, FI
2009-2010 Young Artists, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI
2009 Helsinki School – New Art Photography from Finland, Loft Project ETAGI, St.Petersburg, RU
2009 Wonderful dreadful life, South-Karelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta, FI
2009 Rose Boréal – Photographies de l’école d’Helsinki. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, FR
2008 Rose Boréal – Photographies de l’école d’Helsinki, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
2007 The Helsinki School, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2007 Photo Finnish – The Helsinki School, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, NO
2006 Vad är fotografi? The Helsinki School,  Borås Artmuseum, Borås, SE
2006 Nousu – Rising, Photographic Center Nykyaika, Tampere, FI
2005 Gallery TaiK, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, DE
2005 Die vierte Generation, PPS Galerie, Hamburg, DE
2005 Finnish Versions – The Helsinki School, Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, SE
2005 Gallery TaiK, Art Fair, Sollentuna, SE
2005 Artists 2005. 110th exhibition of Finnish artists, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI

Publications (selected)
2016 ”La actualidad, en 10 obras de ARCO." El Mundo, 25.2.2016
2015 Muistin valokuvaaja pohtii nyt lääketieteen ja psykiatrian historiaa.” Turun Sanomat 22.8.2015
2015 ”Kvinnor, psykiatri och medicin.” Svenska YLE, 28.8.2015.
2014 Helsinki School Vol. 5. Hatje Cantz, DE
2011 The Helsinki School. A Female View. Hatje Cantz, DE
2009 Milja Laurila: 355 memories. Musta Taide, Helsinki, FI
2009 The Helsinki School. Young Photography by TaiK. Hatje Cantz, DE
2007 The Helsinki School. New Photography by TaiK. Hatje Cantz, DE

Grants
Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Arts Council of Finland
Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region
Central Association of Finnish Photographic Organizations
Fine Arts Society of Finland
Finnish Cultural Foundation, regional fund of Uusimaa
FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
Kone Foundation

Works in Collections
Apotekets konstförening, SE
Fine Arts Society of Finland, FI
Finnish Museum of Photography, FI
Helsinki Art Museum, FI
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US
Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, FI
State Art Collection, FI
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, FI
Private collections in Australia, Belgium, Finland, Germany, and Norway