Born 1970 in Helsinki. Lives and works in Helsinki.

Education
2003 University of Art and Design Helsinki
(now Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Archtecture), FI
1998 SMFA / The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, US
1995 New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, US

Solo exhibitions
2024 Adagissimo, PUNCTUM Gallery, Tallinn, EE
2022 Faith is a Blindspot of Permanence, Cube Oodi, Helsinki
2021 For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2021 One of Many Epilogues, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
2018 Down the Impassible Rivers, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
2018 Content is a Glimpse of Something, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2018 Proximity, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, US
2017 Rhythm, Direction and Weight, Atlas Gallery, London, UK
2016 A Depth Immaculate, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, FI
2015 Plane Adaption, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2015 Temporal Matter, Atlas Gallery, London, UK
2014 Solids- Trilogy, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
2013 No Debris, No Ruin, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2013 Finnish Frame of Mind, with Arno Minkkinen, Gallery Valerie Bach, Brussels, BE
2013 And Time Is No Longer An Obstacle, Gallery Bryce Wolkowitz, New York, US
2012 Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska (studio), Salzburg, AT
2012 ABC Berlin, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2010 Equations, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2009 Every Now Is a New Past, Gallery Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, FI
2007 Flatland, Gallery Haus Schneider / Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, DE
2007 Valley of Dying Stars, (with Gabriella Basch & Jukka Korkeila),
Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, SE
2006 One, individual, unconditional, irrelative, range of perception, future me,
Gallery 14-1, Stuttgart, DE
2005 Passage of Information, Gallery Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, DE
2004 New works, Gallery Uusitalo, Helsinki, FI
2004 Sights, Riihimäki Art Museum, Riihimäki, FI
2004 Sights, Gallery Häme, Lahti, FI
2003 Memory Sights, Gallery SPHN, Berlin, FI
1999 2 Kaksi, Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki, FI
1996 Square Notes, Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki, FI

Selected group exhibitions
2024 Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, V&A South Kensington, London, UK
2024 Constellations, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2023 The Borders, Marc Minjauw Gallery, Brussels, BE
2023 a touch of playfulness, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, DE
2023 The Helsinki School Perspective, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2023 The Borders, MOB-Art Studio, Luxemburg, LUX
2022 A Line Has Time in it, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2021 New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 years of the Helsinki School, Taidehalli, Helsinki, FI
2020 A Kiss Given by Time to Light, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2019 ARCO Madrid, Gallery Taik Persons, Madrid, ES
2018 Paris Photo, Gallery Taik Persons, Paris, FR
2018 The Armory Show, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, US
2018 Vienna Contemporary, Gallery Taik Persons, Vienna, AT
2018 CHART, Copenhagen, Gallery Taik Persons, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Arco Madrid, Gallery Taik Persons, Madrid, ES
2018 Killing Me Softly, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, DE
2018 Cape Town Art Fair, Galerie Pascal Jenssens, Cape Town, SA
2017 Abstract!, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2017 Finland at 100, Abecita Konst Museum, Borås, SE
2017 Foto View: Finland, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, SE
2017 Samlung Haupt (Berlin)/ 30 Siberlinge – Kunst&Gelb, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, DE
2017 Dreamaholic: The Miettinen Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE
2016 Soiree Graphique No9 Norden, KOMET, Bern, CH
2016 Summer exhibition, Taidekeskus Taarasti, Nastola, FI
2016 Deck Voyage, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, TK
2015 "I plunge into black holes and emerge intact", Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2014 Celebrated, Atlas Gallery, London, UK
2013 ISCP Fall Open Studios, Brooklyn New York, US
2013 Now and Then; The first five countries of the ECB’s exhibition series,
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2013 Money, Money, Money, Kunstforum, Halle.
2013 Joachim Bandau, Niko Luoma, David Shapiro, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 WeldeKunstpreises for Photography in 2013, Short list exhibition,
Volksbank Kur- und Rheinpfalz, Speyer, FI
2013 New Wave Finland, Scandinavia House, New York, US
2012 Helsinki Abstrakt, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
2011 Sights Unseen, Gallery Bryce Wolkowitz, New York, US
2011 Helsinki School, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich, CH
2011 Inauguration show, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, FI
2010 Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, KR
2010 Polku, Honkahovi Taidekeskus, Mänttä, FI
2010 Seven Approaches, Gallery Bryce Wolkowitz, New York, US
2008 Entre chien et loup, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Tapiola, FI
2008 Fresh Paintings, Gallery 14-1, Stuttgart, DE
2008 Image and After, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
2008 Helsinki by night, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2007 Photo Finnish, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, NO
2006 Nordic Cut, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, HR
2006 Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, Borås, SE
2006 Dialog, Helsinki School, Langhans Galerie, Prague, CZ
2006 On the road, Gallery Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, DE
2006 The Helsinki School, Finnish photography from the 21st century, Hotel de Ville, Brussels, BE
2005 Helsinki School, Photology, Milan, IT
2005 The Helsinki School, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2005 Contemporary Nordic Sculpture 1980 – 2005, Wanås, Knislinge, SE
2005 Personally / The Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2005 European Art in the Southwest Bend, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2004 30 by taik, the Helsinki School, Finnish Museum of Photogarphy, Helsinki, FI
M. Gaal, O. Kolehmainen, N. Luoma, Gallery 14-1, Stuttgart, DE
2004 Quand la photo fait son cinema, Gallerie Photo du Pole Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, FR
2003 Quand la photo fait son cinema, Gallerie Nathalie Pariente, Paris, FR
2003 Quand la photo fait son cinema, Usine corort, Marseiles, FR
2003 Keep on the asphalt, site specific works in Sarejevo, Tirana, Athens, Helsinki
(N. Luoma, R. Sakkinen, K. Tukiainen)
2003 Rodeo, Koe tila, Helsinki, FI
1999 International Fine Art Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, US
1999 Tenth National Exhibition, Viridian Artists Inc., New York, US
1999 Fine Art Competition, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ, US
1998 The Naked and the Nude, Gallery One, Boston MA, US
1998 Salon Autonomee, Gallery O.N.I., Boston, MA, US
1998 New Directions ´98, Barrett Art Center, NY, US
1997 New Directions ´97, Barret House Galleries, NY, US
1997 The Short Film Show, White Elephant Gallery, Boston, MA, US
1996 Flesh Works, New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, US

Grants, stipends & awards
2014 Arts Council of Finland (1 year grant)
2013 William Thuring Award
2013 ISCP, New York / Alfred Kordelin Foundation (6 month artist-in-residence)
2012 Finnish Cultural Foundation (Uusimaa)
2011 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2011 Art Council of Finland
2011 Frame
2010 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
2010 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2009 Arts Council of Finland (1 year grant)
2008 Arts Council of Finland (½ year grant)
2006 Public display grant for visual artists
2005 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2004 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2003 Finnish Cultural Foundation (Uusimaa)
2001 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2000 University of Art and Design
1999 Merit Award, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ, USA
1997 St. Botolphs Club Foundation
1997 Finlandia Foundation

Memberships
2005- Union of Artist Photographers, FI

Catalogues, publications & press (selected)
2021 For Each Minute, Sixty-Five Seconds, Hatje Cantz, DE
2017 Foto View: Finland, Landskrona Museum
2016 DER GREIF issue 9
2014 Helsinki School Vol. 5., Hatje Cantz, DE
2013 Photo Klassik, IV,2013, p. 50-53, 63
2013 Catchers of Light, The Edge of Vision Revisited: A Discussion with New Voices, http://www.in-terms-of.co/catchers-of-light/
2013 Metanexus Institute / Visual Explorations / http://www.metanexus.net/visual-explorations
2013 Finding Beauty in Decay and Math, The New York Times, March 2, 2013
2013 DLK Collection, Niko Luoma, And Time is No Longer an Obstacle @Wolkowitz http://dlkcollection.blogspot.fi/
2012 Photo District News, December 2012, p. 98-101
2012 Niko Luoma: And Time Is No Longer An Obstacle, Hatje Cantz, 136 pages
2012 Closing Generation Gaps, The New York Times, March 29, 2012
2011 Art.es, No 46, p. 90-91
2011 Polku, Ways Often Wandered, Taidekeskus Honkahovi, p. 66-67
2010 art.es, No 37, p. 67,69
2010 Next Level, No 20, p. 39-44
2010 The Helsinki School, Daegu Photo Biennale 2010, p 78-83
2008 Entre chien et loup, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, p 13, 26-27, 65
2008 Image and After, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, p 77, 80, 86
2007 The Helsinki School, New Photography from Taik, Hatje Cantz, p74-79
2006 The Helsinki school, Photogarphy by Taik, Hatje Cantz, p 63-67
2005 Contemporary Nordic Sculpture 1980-2005, The Wånas foundation, p. 39
2004 Niko Luoma, courtesy Galerie sphn (HERRMANN & WAGNER), DE
2001 Chaos and Communication, p. 33

Works in collections
Aalto University Foundation
Ars Fennica Foundation
AXA Collection
Borusan Collection
Danish National Museum of Photography
ECB Collection
EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Finnish State Art Collection
Helsinki City Art Museum
Hämeenlinna Art Museum
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Kouri Collection
Miettinen Collection
Pyynikinlinna Art Museum
Riihimäki Art Museum
Rovaniemi Art Museum
Saastamoinen Foundation
Swedish State Art Council
The Wharf Collection
U.S. Department of State
Wihuri Foundation
Wanås Foundation

Residencies
2018 ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
2013 ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
2006 SPHN, Berlin
2005 SPHN, Berlin

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