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Ulla Jokisalo – CV

Born 1955 in Kannus, FI.
Lives and works in Helsinki, FI.

Education
1977-1983 University of Art and Design, Helsinki

Academic experience
1984- University of Art and Design, Helsinki
2002-04 Professor, Department of Visual Culture, University of Arts and Design, Helsinki

Curatorial and Professional experience
1998-99 The curator of The Third Finnish Photography Triennial What is real, Helsinki Kunstahalle, Helsinki, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, catalogue published.
1991 For Private Use, tv-film (with art historian Arja Elovirta and tv-producer Tarja Strandén), YLE 1.
1987 The Essential Vocabulary, tv-film about the work of Ulla Jokisalo (with tv-producer Tarja Strandén), YLE 1, catalogue published.

Future Solo Exhibitions
2011 Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland (also a Monograph)

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2006 Regression works, Synart Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2006 The World imaginable, The State Museum of History of St. Petersburg, RU
2005 An Open book, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2002 NaDiff Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2001 The Memory of My Images, the Years 1980-2000; retrospective show, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
1997 Silhouettes, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
1997 Victor Barsokevitch Photographic Centre, Kuopio, FI
1993 Cutting; retrospective show, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, FI
1992 ANIMAlis, The Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, FI
1992 Puberty, Rantagalleria, Oulu, FI
1989 Private Fantasies, Photographic Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki, FI
1986 Essence, Photographic Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki, FI
1986 Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, FI
1985 Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, FI
1984 The Essential Vocabulary, Photographic Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki, FI
1984 Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, FI
1983 On loneliness, on that which separates us and from which memory creates a
shared experience, on us, Photographic Gallery Finnfoto, Helsinki, FI

Group Exhibitons (selected)
2009 Ecology of Emotions, XIV Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI
2009 Finlandia 200, Finnish Portraiture 1809-2009, Helsinki City Art Museum, FI
2009 Works, Deeds, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2009 The Artist´s Kalevala, Ateneum Art Museum, The National Gallery of Finland, FI
2009 A Stich in Time (with Leena Saraste), Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI
2008 Helsinki by Night, Gallery Taik, Berlin, DE
2007 Paris Photo, Art Fair, Paris, FR
2007 Our Land! Photographs from Finland, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2007 To Look or to see, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2007 Emma, Museum of Modern Art Espoo, FI
2007 Reflections, The Photography Centre of Mikkeli, FI
2006 Paris Photo, Central Exhibition Pays Nordiques a L´Honneur, Paris, FR
2006 Black and white metaphor, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FR
2006 The Helsinki School - A new Approach, Hotel de Ville de Bruxelles, Brüssels, BE; Borås Art Museum, Borås, SE
2005 The Helsinki School - A new Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2005 The Helsinki School, Photography by Taik, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2005 Fractures of life, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, FI
2005 To look or to see, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2004 Love me or leave me, The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, FI
2004 30 by Taik, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2004 Finnish Contemporary Photography, Roellin/Duerr galerie, St. Gallen, CH
2003 New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, SE
2003 iD, Platform, Vaasa, SE
2003 Laps Suomen, Tikanojan taidekoti, Vaasa; Salo Art Museum, FI
2003 Finlands Institutet (with Aino Kannisto), Stockholm, SE
2002 Mutter, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
2002 Almost perfect, Jugendsali, Helsinki; Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, FI
2002 Vapaa kappale, Jukka Male Museum, Helsinki, FI
2001 Familienbild, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
2001 Voltti, The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, FI
2001 The Art Weeks in Mänttä, Mänttä, FI
2000 The Human Body as an Expression of the Subconscious, Tokyo, JP
2000 Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, JP
2000 Dein Wille geschehe...Das Bild des Vaters in Zeitgenössischer Kunst und Wissenschaft, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
2000 Pohjoinen postmodernismi, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, FI
1999 Auf der Suche nach der Zeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, DE
1999 In Visible Light, Photographic Art Museum, Helsinki, DE
1999 The Home District, The Photography Centre of Mikkeli, Mikkeli, FI
1998 The Second Finnish Art Trienniale, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
1998 The Nude and the Masked, Images of Woman in Finnish Art, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
1998 Fins Huis (with Stefan Bremer), Antwerpen, BE
1997 Above/Below, the Surface, The Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, FI
1997 Dark Side, Kari Kenetti Gallery, Helsinki, FI
1997 The Drum and the Camera, The Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo, FI
1997 Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, DE
1996 Borealis 7 - Desire, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, NO; Gallery F 15, Moss, NO; Göteborg Art Museum/Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, SE
1996 Above/Below, the Surface, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen MUHKA, Antwerpen, BE
1996 Momentum, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
1996 Divers Memories, The Pielinen Museum, Lieksa, FI
1996 Vents du Nord, N.C.E. la gallerie, Paris, FR
1996 Bosnia-Herzegovina Art Museum, Sarajevo, BIH
1995 The Script, The Second Finnish Photography Triennial, Helsinki Kunstahalle, Helsinki, FI
1995 Borealis 7 - Desire, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FI; Louisiana - The Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, DK
1995 Postfem, Female Photographers Post Art Exhibition, Helsinki Post Museum, Helsinki, FI
1995 Vents du Nord, Le Mois de la Photographie, Talant, FI
1995 Floating forks, The Centre fo Creative Photography, Jyväskylä, FI
1994 ART=ACT, Galleria dell credito Valtellinase, Milan, IT
1994 Le cruxifié Artic, Institut Finlandaise, Paris, FR
1994 Album, Private photographs from Finland and Sweden, Turku, FI
1993 ART=ACT, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
1993 A Woman´s Laughter II, Vapauden aukio, Helsinki, FI
1992 Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, AT
1992 The Touch, Villa Roma, Turku, FI
1992 Postmoral, The First Finnish Photography Triennial, Helsinki, FI
1992 Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
1992 A Woman´s Laughter, Vapauden aukio, Helsinki, FI
1991 The Speaking Eye, Otso Gallery, Espoo, FI
1991 ZET, Rotuaari, Oulu, FI
1990 La Photographie et la Philosophie, Institut Finlandaise, Paris, FR
1989 Colour, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Okra Gallery, Vantaa, FI
1989 The Photography Centre of Mikkeli (with Armi Laukia), Mikkeli, FI
1989 13 Most, Moscow; Krasnogvarsk, Kiov, Kazan, Harkov, Talinn, EST
1989 Photographers look at themselves, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, DK
1988 Questioning Europe, Reinterpretations within Photography, Holland-America Line Terminal, Rotterdam, BE
1988 Utopia and Memory, Taidesalonki Bellárte, Turku, FI; Gallery Uusikuva, Kotka, FI; Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, FI; Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, FI; Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, FI
1988 Muu, The Muu Society´s Exhibition, Artis´s Union Gallery, Helsinki, FI
1988 Kilo III Finale (with MOX Mäkelä), Kilo, Espoo, FI
1987 Künstlerische Fotografie in Skandinavien heute, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, DE
1987 13- New Finnish Photography Art, Otso Gallery, Espoo, FI
1987 Contemporary Finnish Photography, Ganser Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA
1986 Zeitgenössische Photographen, Nikon-Galerie, Vienna, AT
1986 Where - Finnish Photographic Art in 1842-1986, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI
1985 Nordisk Fotokunst, Odense, DK
1985 Woman´s Energies (with Kari Paajanen), Jugendsali, Helsinki, FI
1984 Varrella virran, Pori Art Museum, Pori, FI
1984 26 - The First Group Exhibition of Female Photographers in Finland, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, FI; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, FI; Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL; Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, FI; Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, FI

Publications
2005 Fort-da, Portfolio with ten pigment ink prints and two appended sheets, issue of twenty numbered and signed copies, Musta Taide
2001 Monograph Ulla Jokisalo, The Memory of My Images, the Years 1980-2000, Musta Taide
1998 The Bond (with author Anja Snellman), WSOY
1983 All by the Border, silkscreen print publication (with Taneli Eskola)

Awards
2004-09 Art Professorship of the State
2002 The Finnish Culture Fund Prize
2001 The State Art Prize
1985 Finnish Cultural Union Award
1984 State Art Prize
1983 University of Art and Design scolarship

Collections
Alvar Aalto Museum
Bibliotheque Henri Vincenot
Espoo City
Hasselblad Foundation
Helsinki City Art Museum
The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA
Pori Art Museum
KOURI Collection
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Swanljung Collection
The Saastamoinen Collection
The Finnish Museum of Photography
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tampere; The Finnish State
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum
The Oulu Art Museum
Private Collections in Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Finland
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CV in printable format
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