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PREVIOUS SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland (with Teija Immonen)
2023 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, Finland (with Teija Immonen)
2023 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2022 Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland (with Teija Immonen)
2020 Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Galleria Arthur, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Galleria Joella, Turku (with Teija Immonen)
2017 Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Galleria Uusi Kipinä Kulma, Lahti, Finland
2015 Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Gallery Joella, Turku, Finland
2012 Tampere Maja, Tartu, Estland
2012 Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Gallery Saskia, Tampere, Finland (with Juha Holopainen)
2011 Kassu Halonen Art House, Manamansalo, Vaala, Finland
2010 The Finnish Institute in Estonia, Tartu (Invitation Exhibition), Estland
2008 Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Gallery Joella, Turku, Finland
2006 Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo, Finland (with Vappu Johansson)
2006 Windy Thoughts, Galleria Katariina, Helsinki

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 URBANA HORTUS, Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland
2024 Winter Collection, Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2024 Project Babel, An International Collaborative Project, Gallery Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland
2023 GET BACK (Carina Fihn, Karo Akpokiere, Taina Kokkonen) Kunstraum3, Berlin, Germany
2023, 2024  Summer Collection, Gallery Bronda, Helsinki, Finland
2022 Fata Morgana – Finnish Woodcut Artists Society, Varikkogalleria, Seinäjoki, Finland
2022 Art Tube 1, Kadriorg Gallery, Tallinn, Estland
2020 Grafiktriennal XVI, Nordic Contemporary Print Triennial, Galleri Sander, Norrköping, Trelleborgs Museum, Kulturens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
2020 Five Rooms, Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland
2017  XIX International Print Biennial Varna, City Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2017 Tenacious Light, Johansson, Kokkonen, Pihlajamaa, Gallery Kajaste, Oulu, Finland
2016 The Fifth Element, Mältinranta Art Center, Tampere, Finland
2016 Mysterious Forest, Art and Book Gallery Kyoto Paradise, Kyoto, Japan
2016 8th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2016, Douro, Portugal
2016 Line and Colour, Arabia Printmakers, Espoo Culture Center Gallery, Espoo, Finland
2016 5000m2, Old Theatre House, Lappeenranta, Finland
2015 Far-Near, Woodblock Prints, Mediacenter Lume Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2015 2nd Global Print 2015, Alijò, Portugal
2015 Melange II, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin, Germany
2014 7th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2014, Museu de Lamego, Lamego,
Portugal
2014 Miniprint Finland 2014, International Miniprint Triennial, Hyvinkää Art Museum,
Finland
2013 Arabia Printmakers 15 Years, Jetty Barracks Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Global Print 2013, Alijó, Portugal
2012 BELA-Biennal of European and Latin American Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2010 XV Mänttä Art Festival, Pekilo, Mänttä, Finland
2008 ”Belgrade encounters”, Exhibition of prints created in IV International Printmaking
Workshop, Galleria Academia, Belgrad, Serbia
2007 Printmakers in Oljemark, Galerie Oljemark, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Miniprint Finland, 6th International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
2006 75 Printmakers, The 75th Anniversary Exhibition of The Association of Finnish
Printmakers, Gallery G, Helsinki
2003 Painoväriä ja pigmenttiä/Druckfarbe und Pigment, Kajaani Art Museum
(Group Exhibition with Vappu Johansson and Marianne Wirries), Kajaani, Finland
2005 Arabia Printmakers, Varkaus Art Museum, Varkaus, Finland
2001 Miniprint Finland, 4th International Miniprint Triennial, Lahti Art Museum, Finland
1994 Grafinnova 94, 6th International Triennale of Prints and Drawings, Vaasa, Finland

COLLECTIONS
State Art Collection (Finland), Parliament of Finland, City of Kajaani (Finland), Helsinki Art Museum (Finland), Bank of Finland, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Nordic
Investment Bank, City of Jyväskylä (Finland), Tampere Maja, Tarto (Eastonia).

SELECTED PRIZES, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Finnish Cultural Foundation, 1-Year Grant for Visual Artists 2014, 2018
Public Display Grant for Visual Artists 2008, 2015, 2022
State of Finland, 1-Year Grant for Artists 2007
Pépinières Européennes Pour Jeunes Artistes-Scholarship, Berlin, Germany 1997
“Kick-Start”, The Printmaking Exhibition for Young Finnish Artists; Honour Mention,
Galleria Mino, Lohja, Finland 1993