Education
2006 Master of Art (Photography), University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH)
         (now Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture)
2004 Study Exchange, Die Hochschule für Buchkunst und Grafik, Leipzig
2001 Bachelor of Art, Department of Photography, Academy of Performing Arts, FAMU, Prague
1997 Induction Workshop in Cinematography, National Film and TV School, London
1996 Studies of Cinematography and Film Theory, FAMU, Prague
1994 Studies of Forestry at the University of Helsinki
2021 Looking Back with Closed Eyes, Persons Projects, Berlin,DE
2019 Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, FI
2014 The Place of No Roads, Musée de la Photographie André Villers, FR
2013 Office Rage, Gallery Singular, Pula, HR
2013 Distorted Shadows, Breadfield, Malmö, SE
2012 Vidas y Lugares, Matadero Madrid, ES
2011 The Place of No Roads, Artothèque de Caen, Les Borealis, FR
2011 Dreams and Awakenings, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2010 The Place of No Roads, FotoMuseum, Antwerp, BE
2010 Im Dobbelpack, Kunsthalle Erfurt, together with Walter Bergmoser, DE
2010 The Place of No Roads, Momentum Galerie, Vienna, AT
2009 Exhausted Illusion, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, FR
2009 The Place of No Roads, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2009 Civil Courage, Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Helsinki, FI
2009 The Place of No Roads, Finsk-norsk kulturinstitutt, Oslo, NO
2009 Ingen mans land, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2008 Ballad of a Troubled Dream, Point of View Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Civil Courage (Nos réalités), Le Quartier, Quimper, FR
2008 True Story, Maerz Galerie, Leipzig, DE
2007 Looking at Life, Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm, SE
2007 Sisätiloja, G.A.Serlachius museum, Mänttä, FI
2007 Näytös, Korjaamo, Helsinki, FI
2007 Reality in the Making, Peter Lav Photo Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2007 Natura Morte, Pole Image, Rouen, FR
2007 Reality in the Making, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin, DE
2007 Synart Art Gallery, Frankfurt, DE
2005 Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2005 Reality in the Making, Honkahovi, Mänttä, FI
2004 Movies, Bautzner 69, Dresden, DE
2004 Cold Frame, Leonardi V-Idea, Genova, together with Sampsa Virkajärvi, IT
2003 The World As We Know It, Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus, Oulu, FI
2003 Uncompleted Buildings, Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki, FI
2002 Interaction, Photography Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2002 Movies, Tampere International Short Film Festival, Tampere, FI
2000 Carelians in Juupajoki, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, FI

Group exhibitions (selected)
2020 The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2012 Tosi kyseessä / Reality Bites, Kiasma, Helsinki, FI
2012 Remove Me, Artothèque de Caen, FR
2012 Regards photographiques Finlandais sur la nature, Abbaye de Jumièges, FR
2012 Wir sind die Anderen, Art Foyer, DZ Bank, Frankfurt, DE
2011 Humble, Silent and Unexplainable, Galeria Virgilio, Sao Paulo, BR
2010 Feest der herkenning! Internationaal realisme, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
2010 Fake&Real, Galerie Schütte, Essen, DE
2010 Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, DE
2009 F-stop 2009, Leipzig, DE
2009 Honkahovi, Mänttä, FI
2009 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm,SE 
2008 CLINIC, Griesmar&Tamer, Paris, FR
2008 Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, FI
2008 Maan asema / La position de la Terre, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, FR
2008 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2008 Dark, Korjaamo, Helsinki, FI
2007 French Diary, Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus, Oulu, FI
2007 Toden ja unelmien välissä, Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, FI
2007 Photo Finish, Stenersens Museum, Oslo, NO
2006 What’s Up North, Rantagalleria, Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus, Oulu, FI
2006 What is Photography, Borås Konstmuseum, SE
2006 Museum!Museum!, Oulu Art Museum, FI
2006 Dialog, Langhans Galerie, Prague, CZ
2006 Fermente, Maerz Galerie, Leipzig, DE
2006 Alone Together (POC), Gallerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, NL
2006 Nu Nordisk Fotografi, (10 finalists), Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, SE
2006 Masters of Art, UIAH, Helsinki, FI
2006 Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, DE
2006 Pointers, Contemporary finnish photographers, Galerie Nei Liicht, LU; Studio Marangoni, Florence, IT
2006 Fotofinlandia, (10 finalists), Sanomatalo, Helsinki and VB-valokuvakeskus, Kuopio, FI
2006 Nyförvärv och en och annan favorit, Gävle Konstcentrum, SE
2005 Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit, Stadtmuseum Ratingen and Stadtmuseum Bergkamen, DE
2005 Berlin Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, DE
2005 Personligt - Photographs from The Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2005 4th Generation, PPS Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2005 The Helsinki School - A New Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2005 Finnish Versions - The Helsinki School, CFF Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, SE
2005 Stockholm Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, Berlin, DE
2004 Working Situation, Bautzner 69, Dresden, DE
2004 Berlin Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, DE
2004 POC in town, Gallery Kudlek, Forum fur Fotografie, Cologne, DE
2004 Fantastic Realism, Konstihoone, Tallinn, EE
2004 The World As We Know It, Prospekto gallery, Vilnius, LT
2004 Quand la photo fait son cinema, Pole Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, FR
2004 Stockholm Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, SE
2003 Quand la photo fait son cinema, Galerie Nathalie Pariente, Paris, FR
2003 Berlin Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, DE
2003 OPEN 2003, Venezia, IT
2003 60° - 43°, Marseille, FR
2003 Stockholm Art Fair, Gallery TAIK, SE
2002 Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, SE
2001 The Final Show of BA-studies, FAMU, Novometska Radnice, Prague, CZ
2001 Alkuperä, Koskenjalan galleria, Juupajoki, FI
1999 Swimming Pool, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, CZ
1998 Särkyneen sydämen hotelli, Porin Taidemuseo, FI
1998 Kuoret, galleria Leonardo, Tampere, FI
Grants and Awards
2013 FRAME
2013-15 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2012 National Council for Photographic Art, grant for photographic books
         National Council for Photographic Art
2011 Suomen Taideyhdistys, William Thuring Price
         National Council for Photographic Art
2010 Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, artist of SWEDARP 2009/10
         National Council for Photographic Art
2009 Finnish Cultural Foundation
         National Council for Photographic Art
2008 Konstnärsnämnden, Sweden
         Finnish Fine Art Academy Foundation
         The City of Stockholm
         National Council for Photographic Art, grant for photographic books
         National Council for Photographic Art
         National Council for Photographic Art
2007 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2006 Finnish Fine Art Academy Foundation
         Finnish Art Foundation, grant for young artists
         Sleipnir-travel grant, NIFCA
         Public Lending Right Grant, Arts Council of Finland
2005 Sleipnir-travel grant, NIFCA
         Arts Council of Finland, grant for photographic books
         Finnish Cultural Foundation
         Town of Mänttä
         National Council for Photographic Art
2004 Arts Council of Finland, travel grant
2003 Sleipnir-travel grant, NIFCA
         National Council for Photographic Art
2002 Kordelin foundation
         Sleipnir-travel grant, NIFCA
         Art Council of Pirkanmaa
2001 Town of Mänttä

Residencies
2013 Pula, Croatia, Singular
2009 New York, the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
2004 Rouen, POC / Pole Image Haut Normandie

Memberships
Union of Artist Photographers in Finland
Piece of Cake (POC), European project for contemporary imagery, (www.pocproject.com)

DZ Bank, DEThe Art Museum of Oulu, FI
Uppsala Art Museum, SE
Private collections in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy and USA.