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Born in 1974 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

Education
2002 Master of Art (Photography), University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
        (now Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture)
1997 Turku school of Art and Communication, Department of Photography

Solo exhibitions (selected)
2020 Sense of Wonder, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2019 Observing eye, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, FI
2019 Finnish Aalto, Busan Museum of Art, KR
2019 Fieldwork, Centro de la Imagen, Lima, PE
2019 Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, FI
2018 Wanderer, Observer and Conveyor, Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2018 A Song System, Metronom Gallery, Modena, IT
2017 White Space, Nonostante Marras, part of PhotoVogue Festival, Milan, IT
2015 Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, FI
2015 Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, FR
2013 Far, Fabbrica Arte Rimini, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Rimini, IT
2012 Fieldwork, Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, FR
2012 Close Observer, Metronom Gallery, Bologna, IT
2012 Close Observer, Gallery Taik, Berlin, DE
2011 Fieldwork, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, SKMU, Kristiansand, NO
2011 Fieldwork, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, FI
2010 Close Observer, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, FR
2008 Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Contemporary Art Centre, Bignan, FR
2008 Le centre photographique d’Ile-de-France CPIF, together with Ilkka Halso, FR
2008 Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, FR
2008 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2008 Korjaamo Culture Factory, Gallery 1 & 2, Helsinki, FR
2007 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, AT
2006 Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA
2006 Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, FR
2006 Yours Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2006 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, DE2021 Due North!, La Gacilly Photo Festival 2021, La Gacilly, FR
2021 Whose Nature?, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, FI
2021 Exploring Nature, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse, DK
2020 The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2020 Illusionary Observation, Museum of Photography Braunschweig, DE
2020 A Fresh Breeze from the North, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, DE2018 NATURE AS A PLAYGROUND, The Museum of Photography Seoul, KR
2017 The Von Wright Brothers, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2017 Systema Naturae, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, NO
2017 Herbarium, Fotografiskcenter Copenhagen, DK
2017 Kuusi, Lachenmann Art, Konstanz, DE
2017 Human/Nature, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, FI
2017 You want Truth or Beauty, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, DE
2017 Le Jardin potager, Musée de l’image, Epinal, FR
2017 Antologia, Metronom gallery, Modena, IT
2017 Lehmä pitää viedä jäälle, jotta se tanssii, Samuelis Baumgarte and the Ratskeller, Bielefeld, DE
2016 Paradise Lost, Kunsthalle and Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, DE
2016 Unseen Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Photomed, Hôtel des Arts, Centre d’art contemporain, Toulon, FR
2016 Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2016, Museum Of Modern Art Tbilisi/ MOMATbilisi, GE
2016 Longing for Landscape – Landscape Photography, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, DE
2016 Les Explorateurs, Parc de Clères, Clères, FR
2015 Fotografia Contemporanea dall’Europa nord-occidentale, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, IT
2014 Collective Collection, volet 2, BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR
2014 Summer Selections – De Buck Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2014 What´s Life Anyway?, Tromso Kunstforening, Tromsø, NO
2014 Asombrosas afinidades, PHE2014, Fundación Antonio Saura. Casa Zavala, Cuenza, ES
2014 Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, NO
2014 Photography into Art. The Hannula & Hinkka Collection, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, FI
2014 Le bestiaire des photographes, Centre culturel Henri-Desbals, Toulouse, FR
2013 ARTE Vidéo Night 5/ screening, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2013 Drôles d’oiseaux, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, FR
2013 Vermessene Dinge/ Measured things, Eres Stiftung, Munich, DE
2013 Reality Bites,(2 Nov. 2012 – 14 April 2013) Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
2013 Spécimens, Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, FR
2013 The Near and the Distant - Photography and Space, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, DE
2012 State of the Art – New Contemporary Photography, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, DE; catalogue
2012 Festival of Photography, Knokke-Heist, BE2012 Sammen/Together, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, NO
2012 Äärimmäisyyksien yhteinen tekijä, WAM, Turku, FI; catalogue
2012 Finders Keepers, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI; catalogue
2011 A Female View. Part 2-aus der Helsinki School, Foto Raum, Wien, AT
2011 Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2011 Beautiful Vagabonds, Yancey Richarson Gallery, USA
2011 Prague Biennale, The romantic construct, CZ; catalogue
2011 8th Mercosul Biennial, Essays on Geopoetics, Porto Alegre, FR; catalogue
2010 Strange Travelers, Tanya Bonakdar gallery, curated by Mark Dion, NY, USA
2010 Wald, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, DE; catalogue
2010 Repeat All, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, VE
2010 Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2009 The Tree, Fuglsang Art Museum, Island of Lolland, DK
2009 Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision, Riga Art Space, LV
2009 Arctic hysteria Onscreen, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU
2009 PhotoEspana, Descubrimientos PHE Madrid, ES
2009 Får ej övertäckas, Eskilstuna Art Museum, SE; catalogue
2009 Nature en Kit, MUDAC Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, CH
2009 Struggle for life, Eres Stiftung, München, DE
2008 Other florae, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, BR
2008 Video short list : Machines à rêver/ Dream machine, Passage de Retz, Paris, FR; catalogue
2008 REAL, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE; catalogue
2008 Observing beast, time, evolution, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE; catalogue
2008 Arctic hysteria Onscreen, Museum of Modern Art Moma, NY, USA
2008 Cinéma et videos d’artistes, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
2008 Five variations on the finiteness of human vision, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, RS
2008 Tapis, coussins et videos, 36th La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle, FR
2007 Research and Invention, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH; catalogue
2007 Bird Watching in Harlem, De Vishal exposition space, Haarlem, NL
2007 Garden Eden –The Garden in Art since 1900, Kunsthalle Emden, DE; catalogue
2007 Self-timer, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, RO
2007 Age of the Animal, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; catalogue
2007 Grey matters – photography is thinking, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI; catalogue
2007 Repeat All, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, CL
2007 Photo Finnish – The Helsinki School, Stenersen Art Museum, NO
2007 Repeat All, La Casa de la Cultura, Buenos Aires, AR
2006 Self-timer, Nikolaj Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2006 Art, Life & Confusion, the Belgrade Biennial, RS; catalogue
2006 Streams of Story, Glasgow Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Tramway Gallery, UK
2006 The Faraway Nearby, White Box, NY, USA
2006 Focus Finland, KBB Barcelona, ES
2006 Self-timer/ Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE; catalogue
2006 Presence, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, FI
2006 Vad är fotografi? The Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, SE

Publications (selected)
2014 22 Ways, On Artistic Thinking in Finnish Contemporary Art, Parvs Publishing, Helsinki, FI
         The Helsinki School, From the Past to the Future, Vol 5, Hatje Cantz
2012 State of The Art Photography, Feymedia and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, DE
2011 Fieldwork, monograph, Aperture Foundation, NY, USA
         The Helsinki School, Vol. 4, A Female View, Hatje Cantz, DE
2009 Foam Magazine #19, 2009, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, NL
         Northwawe, Overview of video art in the Nordic Countries, Guerini, Milan, IT
2008 Photo Art: The New World of Photography, Thames and Hudson
         Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century, Aperture
         REAL, From the collecton of DZ-BanK, Städel Museum and Hatje Cantz, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2007 Research and Invention, catalogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
         Photo Art: Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, DE
         Garden Eden, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, DE
         The Helsinki School, Hatje Cantz, DE
2005 Selbstauslöser –catalogue, Kunsthalle Fridericianum
         Framework, The finnish art review, issue 4/ Dec.2005
         Helsinki Photography Festival 2005, catalogue, Gallery Hippolyte, 2005
         The Helsinki School, Hatje Cantz, DE

Private collections Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, USA, Austria, and Switzerland.