CURRICULUM VITAE

 

current and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

The Tide of Forgetting and Remembering, group exhibition on pop-nostalgia, curated by Athanasía Aarniosuo, December 2024
Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland

A Marriage, solo exhibition (dates TBC), June 2025
VMPR (Valgemetsa project space), Estonia

Collaborative exhibition with Emma Peura (name and dates TBC), September 2025
Galleria Gjutars, Vantaa, Finland

Solo exhibitions

2024
The Sidelines, Oksasenkatu 11 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2023
Chance Meetings, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland

2022
Silkkiuikku, Street Art Vantaa, Hakunila resident centre, Vantaa, Finland
Ode to Oleander, EKTÓS Art Space, Athens, Greece
Kävellä ja kaatua, Gallery Theodor, Loviisa, Finland

2020
Beautiful People, artist of the month exhibition, Grafoteekki, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Helsinki, Finland
Peijas Hospital Gallery, Vantaa, Finland

2019
After Wave, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
Island Identities, Myymälä2 process space, Helsinki, Finland
Drifting, ASFA BBQ, book store O Meteoritis, Athens, Greece
On Some Faraway Beach, Café Bar 9, Helsinki, Finland

2018
The Ship Song, Galleria Rantakasarmi, Helsinki, Finland
The Big Ship, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, Finland

2014
Ungravity Kiosk (with Hannah Harkes), Ptarmigan Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia

2012
Ώρες ώρες δε σε καταλαβαίνω, KINITIRAS Studio Artistic Residency Centre, Athens, Greece
Print exhibition, Ravintola Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi, Finland

2011
I Still Can See an Outside World, AllaPrima Museum, Saksala ArtRadius, Haukivuori, Finland

2010
The Greatest Show on Earth, SparkBox Studio, Picton, Ontario, Canada
Dot to dot: Exquisite Corpse II (with Alexander Storey Gordon), Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
World Destroyer, Peltoniemi Made-to-order, Aberdeen, Scotland
World Destroyer, degree show, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
Exquisite Corpse – A publishing house (with Alexander Storey Gordon), Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

2009
Matkalla / Sisters Are Forever, Simpele library gallery, Simpele, Finland

 

Selected group exhibitions & EVENTS

2024
Can you see the sound, can you hear the picture? Music in comics, group exhibition organised by Helsinki Comics Festival, Hima & sali, Helsinki, Finland
TEOS 2024, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Cable Factory and online, Helsinki, Finland

2023
Sarja/Kuva/Taide, group exhibition organised by Helsinki Comics Festival, Om’Pu galleria, Helsinki, Finland
TEOS 2023, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland

2022
Identity, group exhibition organised by Finnish Spirit, Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki, Finland
Talven taikaa, group exhibition featuring members of Vantaa Artists’ Association, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
TEOS 2022, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Comics Festival 2022
Konstrundan
Night in Athens, group exhibition curated by Mary Cox and Panayiotis Voulgaris, FokiaNou Art Space, Athens, Greece

2021
TEOS 2021, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland
Myyrmäki Street Art Triennial 2021, Street Art Vantaa, Finland
Sarastus, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
Sometimes I go places, ViCCA production online exhibition

2020
Pori Biennale 2020 – Not to Sing Like a City Bird Sings, online exhibition with printed catalogue
Issue 04 of Quarantzine – Gaada’s online, open zine of art made in self-isolation
AVOINNA – ÖPPEN – OPEN, Galleria G, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Helsinki, Finland
Issue 03 of Quarantzine – Gaada’s online, open zine of art made in self-isolation
Teos 2020, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland

2019
Interspecies Liminalities, group exhibition, The Harald Herlin Learning Centre, Espoo, Finland
KANAKORIANTERI – KORIANDERWOK – CHICKEN CORIANDER, group exhibition, Café Bar 9, Helsinki, Finland
Femidistro, Helsinki Comics Festival, Finland
Design Delivered, Helsinki Design Week, Finland
Teos 2019, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland

2018
Teos 2018, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland

2017
The Semiannual Six eli eka tuottis, Rupla, Helsinki, Finland

2016
Summer Prints, Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland
Teos 2016, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland

2014
Directly on the Wall, MUU Kaapeli, Helsinki, Finland
Teos 2014, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland

2011
It’s OK, they live here! Supermarket Maxima, Nida, Lithuania
mailto: A gallery, an email address and a printer, Drift Station, Gallery + Performance Space, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
New Collective Unoriginal Show, RSA New Contemporaries 2011, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010
Cheapart16, Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece
Rooms2010, Hotel Lycabettus for Gallery Kappatos, Athens, Greece
Lumberjam, Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen Alternative A4 Exhibition, 26 Collective, The Athenaeum, Aberdeen, Scotland
New Faces, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, Scotland
9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual 2010, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Studio Press – Artists’ Self-Made Books and Zines, Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition 2010, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

2009
Locker 36 Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Alaston Taidehalli / Naked Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition 2009, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

2008
X-mas Show 2008, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland

2007
“9” Comics, 7th national (Greek) comics competition, awards exhibition, Athens, Greece
Scottish Printmakers Summer Show, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Bags of Talent, Glasgow Metropolitan College: Fine Art student exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland

 

Residencies

2022
TUO TUO Kulttuuri Tila & Residency, Joutsa, Finland

2019               
Labora print workshop, mini-residency, Tallinn, Estonia

2014
Ptarmigan Project Space, mini-residency, Tallinn, Estonia

2011
Kinitiras Studios, residency program, Athens, Greece
Nida Art Colony, residency program, Nida, Lithuania
Saksala ArtRadius, residency program, Haukivuori, Finland

2010
SparkBox Studio, residency program, Picton, Ontario, Canada

 

Grants & awards

2023
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland (as part of a working group)
Thesis prize, The Society for Cultural Policy Research
Article grant, GRAFIA
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland

2022
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
City of Helsinki microgrant (as part of a working group)
City of Vantaa stipend for artists
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2021
Project grant, GRAFIA
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Aalto University

2020
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Aalto University
Study grant, GRAFIA

2019
Project grant, GRAFIA
City of Vantaa stipend for artists

2011
Travel grant, FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
Residency grant, AREFS Art and Culture Association

 

Memberships & collectives

  • The Association of Finnish Printmakers (Board member 2020–2022, Second vice chair 2021–2022)

  • Mustekala (Board member and regular contributor)

  • Oksasenkatu 11 collective (Vice chair of the board)

  • The Finnish Comics Society (Executive director)

  • Vantaa Artists’ Association

  • GRAFIA - Association of Visual Communications Designers in Finland

  • The Finnish Society for Curators SKY ry

 

Selected collections

  • Finnish Art Society

  • HUS (the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa) collection

  • Private collections in Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the U.S.

 

thesis Publications (for full list of published articles, see written)

  • Aarniosuo, A. ‘Recollections: Heterotopias of Nostalgia.’ Master’s Thesis. Espoo: Aalto University; 2022.

  • Androutsopoulos, A. ‘Construction of time in pictorial narratives: A sequential reading of John Baldessari’s art.’ BA(Hons) Dissertation. Aberdeen: RGU; 2010.

  • Androutsopoulos, A. ‘Ville Vallgren ja Edvard Munch pohjoismaisen symbolismin edustajina.’ Master's Thesis, MPhil. Helsinki: Helsinki University; 2005.

 

Education

2022: MA majoring in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA)

2019–2022: Studies at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland: Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) Master’s Degree Programme, minoring in Comics Expression

2016: Cultural communications studies, Aalto Open University, Finland

2010: BA (Hons) majoring in Fine Art: Printmaking

2007–2010: Fine Art: Printmaking studies at Aberdeen Gray’s School of Art, Scotland

2007: HNC majoring in Fine Art

2006: NC majoring in Art and Design

2005–2007: Art and design studies at Glasgow Metropolitan College, Scotland

2005: MA majoring in Art History

2004: BA majoring in Art History

1998–2005: Studies at Helsinki University, Finland: English Philology, Aesthetics, Art History, languages