ARTISTIC CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2018 MA in photography, Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Hki, FI

2014 BA in photography, Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Tku, FI

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

​2019 WINNER of the International Photography Culture Exhibition Datong, CN

2019 Shortlisted for the Burn Magazine's Emerging  Photographer Fund, US

2019 Shortlisted for the Foam Talent, Fotomuseum Amsterdam, NL

2019 Finalist for the Grand Prix Tokyo International Photo Competition, JP

2018 WINNER of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2018, Unseen Amsterdam, NL

2018 Finalist for the Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Łódź, PL

​2018 Finalist for the Grand Prix du Jury Photographie, Festival de Hyères, FR

2017 WINNER Lens Culture Emerging Talent Award, NL

2017 WINNER of the Majaoja-Prize / BACKLIGHT '17, FI

2017 Shortlisted for the Photo London Artproof Award, UK

2016 Shortlisted for the Vienna Contemporary Artproof Award, AT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 ‘Human Interest Stories', Forum Box, Helsinki, FI

2021 ‘Mining Your Business', Persons Project, Berlin, DE

2021 ‘Honest Acts', Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, FI

2020 ‘Nature Like Capital', Gallery Nykyaika, Tampere, FI

2019 ‘All Those Hectares and Other Stories From the Nature', Invitation Exhibition, Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, FI

2019 ‘100 Hectares of Understanding', Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT

2018 ‘Nature Like Capital' – sculptures , Gallery Mältinranta, Tampere, FI

2018 ‘100 Hectares of Understanding', Guernsey Photo Festival, Guernsey, FI

2016 ‘100 Hectares of Understanding', The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Fi

2014 ‘Tapiola – The First Act', Galleria Titanik, Turku, FI

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2023 ‘Horizonte Zingst, Panzerhalle, Zingst, DE

2023 ‘Human and Environment', Ulsan International Photofestival, Ulsan, KR

2023 ‘Review the Landscape', IMMIX Galerie, Paris, FR

2022 ‘Identity', Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki, FI

2021 ‘Whose Nature?', Culture Centre Paukku, Lapua, FI

2021 ‘New Perspectives Through Photography', Taidehalli/Arthalle, Helsinki, Fi

2021 ‘Whose Nature?', Northern Photography Centre, Oulu, Fi​

2021 CHART, Represented by Persons Project, Copenhagen, DK

2021 ‘Whose Nature?', Turku Art Hall, Turku, FI

2021 ‘Nature Trip'-Summer Exhibition, Nastola, FI

2021 ‘1868 I 2021 I 2068', Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, FI

2021 ‘Whose Nature?', Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, F

2020 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Halmetoja, Helsinki, FI

2020 ‘Nurture, Nature', Galerie David Behning , Düsseldorf, DE

2020 ‘A Fresh Freeze From the North!', Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, DE

2020 ‘It's Not the Same River, It's Not the Same People', Gallery Uusikuva, Kotka, FI

2019 T3 Photo Festival, 72 Gallery, Tokio, JP

2019 ‘Power of Image', International Photography Culture Exhibition, Datong, CN

2019 ‘Post Homo Sapiens' GETXO Photo Festival, Getxo, ES

2019 T3 Photo Festival / PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, IE 

2019 ‘Paradise Lost', Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, NL

2019 T3 Photo Festival, The UPI Gallery, New York, US

2019 Art Fair Finland, Cable Factory, Helsinki, FI

2019 FESTIVAL CIRCULATION(S), Centquatre, Paris, FR

2019 T3 Photo Festival / Wonder Foto Days, Taipei, TW

2019 ‘Forever/Now', Format Festival, Derby, UK

2019 ‘Staging (in) Nature', Dipolio Gallery, Espoo, FI

2018 ‘Forest. Enter. Exit', MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE

2018 ‘Considering Finland', Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Rhein, DE

2018 PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv, IL

2018 OFF_Festival, Bratislava, SK

2018 ‘Splash', Festival Potentiale, Feldkirch , AT

2018 ING Unseen Talent Award Exhibition, Unseen Amsterdam, NL

2018 ‘Testlab: Duration', The Space of Free Arts, Helsinki, FI

2018 ‘New Territory', Denver Art Museum, US

2018 ‘Human / Nature', Fotofestiwal Łódź, Łódź, PL

2018 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR

2018 Festival de Hyères, Villa Noailles, Hyères FR

2018 Lens Culture Emerging Talent's, Klompching Gallery, New York, US

2017 Majaoja-prize Finalist, Northern Photography Centre, Oulu, FI

2017 Paris Photo, represented by Gallery Taik Persons, Paris, FR

2017 ARTISSIMA, represented by Gallery Taik Persons, Torino, IT

2017 ‘Independence Through the Lenses', The Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, LT

2017 ‘Nucleus, Imagining Science', Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, NL

2017 Vienna Contemporary '17, represented by Gallery Taik Persons, Vienna, AT

2017 CO-OP Thread Count, Unseen Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL

2017 Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Wien, AT

2017 ‘Independence Through the Lenses', Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, HR

2017 Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, FI

2017 ‘Independence Through the Lenses', Galerija Photon, Ljubljana, SI

2017 Herbarium, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, DK

2017 Photo London, represented by Gallery Taik Persons, London, GB​

2017 ‘Independence Through the Lenses', FLUSS, Wolkersdorf, AT

2017 ‘Independence Through the Lenses', Robert Capa Center, Budabest, HU

2017 ‘Marked Sites', represented by Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE

2016 Paris Photo, represented by Gallery Taik Persons, Paris, FR

2016 Vienna Contemporary, Gallery Taik Persons, Vienna, AT

2012 ‘I’m not writing any story', Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, FI

2012 ‘Turku 2011 2000 ja 11 selfportraits', Finnish museum of photography, Helsinki, FI

SCREENINGS

2019 Discovery Awards Projections, Encontros Da Imagem, Braga, PT

2018 Night of Photo Projections, TSHEK Gallery, Vilnius, LT

2018 Voies Off Awards and Voies Off Festival, Arles, FR

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WORKS IN COLLECTIONS      

Finnish State Art Collection, FI

ING Collection, NL

​Collection Villa Noailles, FR

​Private collections, Finland, Italy, Norway, Taiwan

GRANTS

​​2024 Working grant, 12 months, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2022 Working grant, 12 months, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2021 Working grant, 6 months,  Finnish Cultural Foundation, Uusimaa, FI

2020 Corona grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2020 Young Artist's grant, Finnish Art Society, FI

2020 Corona grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2020 Project grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, FI

2020 Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2019 Working grant, 12 months,  Finnish Cultural Foundation, FI

2018 Travel grant, Aalto University, FI

2018 Travel grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI

2017 Project grant, Aalto University, FI

2017 Project grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation, FI

2016 Project grant, Aalto University, FI

2016 Project grant, Patricia Seppälä foundation, FI

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Jaakko Kahilaniemi: ‘100 Hectares of Understanding' , Kehrer Verlag, DE

2019 The Helsinki School, The Nature of Being, Vol.6, Hatje Cantz, DE

2019 Tate: The Photography Ideas Book, Tate/Ilex Books, UK

2019 Niin&Näin philosophical magazine #102, 3/19, FI

2019 Aint–Bad No. 14, US

2019 Festival Circulation(s) 2019 catalogue, FR

2019 Bonding, Intimacy, Relationships, New Worlds – Fotografia Europea catalogue, IT

2019 Forever Now – FORMAT 2019 catalogue, UK

2019 Tiheä Hetki – Photography Yearbook, Photographic Artist’s Association, FI

2018 Considering Finland – catalogue, DE

2018 Fotografi #6, 2018, NO

2018 Der Greif Guest Room: Monica Allende, DE

2018 Unseen Magazine #5, NL

2018 33e Festival International de Photographie à Hyères – catalogue, FR

2018 The Best of Lens Culture, Volume 2

2018 Greenpeace Magazine, DE

2017 Nucleus / Imagining Science, – catalogue, NL

2017 HANT Magazin für Fotografie #10, DE

2017 Moon Man Magazine #1, UK

2017 Visions of Nature – catalogue of Kunst Haus Wien, AT

2017 Landskrona Photo View Finland – catalogue, SV

2017 Backlight '17 – catalogue, FI

2017 Eikon magazine #99, DE

2017 Der Greif #10 Jubilee issue, DE

2017 Das Magazin, Finnland Issue, DE

MEMBERSHIPS

Photographic Artist's Association, FI

Kuvasto, FI​

ARTIST TALKS AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES

​2019 Artist Talk, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, CN

2019–> Voionmaa Institute, Examiner for photography (further qualification), Tampere, FI

2011–> Voionmaa Institute, Visiting lecturer for creative photography, Tampere, FI

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