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EXHIBITIONS

Bold = One man exhibition 31
Cursive = group exhibition 65
International 41

• Kadun polte Galleria Rankka, Helsinki 2022
• GO SOMERO GO GO Somero Stone Dairy 2022
• Reaching for the shiny destiny Somero Stone Dairy 2021
• Yeastoceanshadow Somero Stone Dairy 2020
• Birchbaroque Somero Stone Dairy 2019
• LightGlassNest Somero Stone Dairy 2018
• Splice Oulu Art Museum 2017
• PaimioRiver Somero Stone Dairy 2017
• WetGlareConcept Somero Stone Dairy 2016
• SteelBioRakuBird Somero Stone Dairy 2015
• Living In A Hybrid Environment Kunsthall Grenland, Norway 2014
• And Harvesters Salo Art Museum 2014
• WideOpenElk Somero Stone Dairy 2014
• OakClaySpace Somero Stone Dairy 2013
• IceFireChair Somero Stone Dairy 2012
• Under the Big Dipper Somero Stone Dairy 2011
• Pärlor från Skördemän, Finland Institute, Rönnells Antivariat, Gallery G5; Stockholm, Sweden 2010
• GlassWheatRiver Somero Stone Dairy 2010
• After Sauna Art Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki 2010
• Harvesters – once enfant always terrible Pro Artibus, Raasepori; Kuntsi Art Museum, Vaasa 2009
• Ankara Symposion, University of Ankara, Turkey 2008
• Change in Construction Lönnström Art Museum, Pori 2007
• FogDeer Retretti Art Centre 2007
• Suljek Cycle Krasnojarsk Art Hall, Siberia, Russia 2006
• Age of Myanndash - Deer-Elk Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki 2006  
• Harvesters Now Kiskon kivimakasiini 2004
• Leo Ruuskanen and Harvesters Jyväskylä Art Museum; Helsinki Art Hall 2003-2004
• Älgälv Härnösand konsthall, Sweden 2002
• Moosedeer Ars Nova Art Museum, Turku 2002
• Elgbåt – Mooseboat Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway 2002
• Fremde Landschaft Heimat Mannheim, Germany 2001
• Twilight II Reithalle Ingolstadt, Germany 2000
• Minusinsk bear Gallery Bronda, Helsinki 2000
• April Conjunction The Painters´ Gallery, Helsinki 2000
• Kapova and dogs Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki 2000
• Timesite - Aikapaikka Forest Museum Lusto 99
• Twilight Kunstverein Klagenfurt, Austria 98
• Arte Sella, Italy 98
• Festival International de la Peinture Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 98
• Sanart – Art and Environment Ankara, Turkey 97
• Pesov Nos Emlak Bank Gallery, Ankara, Turkey 97
• Kildin Gallery Bronda, Helsinki 96
• Luleå sommarutställning Luleå, Sweden 96
• Turbulent Landscape Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA 96
• Kunst in der Landschaft Prigglitz, Austria 96
• Timescape – Finnish Contemporary Art Kerava Art Museum; Södertälje konsthall, Sweden; Aine Art Museum, Tornio; Bergen Kunstforening, Norway; Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff; Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City; McNeese University Art Gallery, Lake Charles; USA 95-96
• From Ateljee to Museum, Kerava Art Museum 94
• Mandas Gallery Astoria, Helsinki 92
• UNDR – Art and Technology Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 92
• Onega Time Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, USA 91
• Ponoi Keski-Suomen Museo, Jyväskylä 91
• Zalavruga Time Lawrence University Art Gallery, Appleton, USA 90
• New Stone Age Victor Barsokevitsch Center of Photography, Kuopio 88
• White Deer Gallery Bronda, Helsinki 87
• Deertrap Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, USA 87
• Living paintings Institute of Microbiology, Helsinki 85
• Experiment Ö-vik Örnsköldsvik, Sweden 85
• Birdtime Hyvinkää Art Museum; Gallery Bronda, Helsinki; Gallery Uusikuva, Kotka 84-85
• Evening Whispers Darkly Amos Anderson Art Museum 84; American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York; The Swedish Museum, Philadelphia; Slavin Gallery, Washington DC, USA 82-83
• It cannot happen with us Nordic Art Center, Helsinki 82
• Arteder Bilbao, Spain 82
• He does not forget – he only does not want to remember Västerbottens Museum, Umeå, Sweden; Lahti Art Museum; Vanha ylioppilastalo, Helsinki 81- 82
• Evening Whispers Wäinö Aaltonen museum, Turku 82
• State Exhibition 81, 76, 75
• Finnish Portraits Kansas City Art Institute, USA 81
• Rolf Westphal – Antero Kare Arkansas University, Little Rock, USA 81
• River Bank Porvoo Art Hall 79
• Mataristo Sysmä 79
• Edge of Mist Kluuvin galleria, Helsinki 79
• Art Hall 50 years , Helsinki 78
• Child portraits Helsinki City Art Museum 78
• Portraits Karhula library 78
• Finnish Art Zacheta, Warsow; Galleria Awangarda, Wroclaw; Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, Szczecia; Poland 78
• Aktuell Finsk Konst Ystad; Helsingborg; Varberg; Sweden 77-78
• Adhesive Archetypes Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki; Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, Island; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 76-77
• Annual exhibition of Finnish Artists 76
• Exhibition of the Young Art Hall, Helsinki 77, 75, 70
• Harvesters Gallery Cheap Thrills, Helsinki 75
• A Head Museum for the Eighties; Gallery Cheap Thrills, Helsinki; Arkivmuseet, Lund, Sweden; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 74-75
• Line drawings Gallery Cheap Thrills, Helsinki 73
• Fart Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland 73
• An International Cyclopedia of Plans and Occurrences Anderson Gallery, Virginia, USA 73
• Harvesters Vaasa Art Hall 72
• Sculptor Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 70
• Real Lies Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki 70
• Parallel Exhibition for the Young, Helsinki 69

Teaching and lectures/International
53 institutions/12 countries

• Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland 74 Visual Semiotics
• Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, Island 77 History, Art, Finland
• ABF-Huset, Stockholm, Sweden 77 Symbolic Light
• University of Oslo, Norway 80 Structuralism and Semiotics in Visual
• University of Arkansas, Little Rock USA 81 Symbol and Meaning
• Washington University, Seattle USA 81 Umberto Eco and Contemporary Finland
• Kansas City Art Institute, USA 81 Lecture series: Art, Architecture and Design in Finland
• Columbia University, New York USA 81 Harvesters and Symbols
• University of Texas, Austin USA 81 Public Art and Architecture
• Temple University, Philadelphia USA 82 Lecture series: He does not forget, he just does not want to remember
• Kansas City Art Institute, USA 82 Lecture series: Semiotics of Visual Art
• Haveford University, Philadelphia USA 82 Tractatus and Colour
• American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, USA 82 Forest as only church
• Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey 82 Lecture series: History in Art, Architecture and Design
• National Press Club, Washington DC, USA 82 Symbol and Society
• Washington Club, Washington DC, USA 82 Visual Finland
• Swedish Museum, Philadelphia USA 82 State and Art
• La Salle College, Philadelphia, USA 82 Political Landscape
• Rådhuset, Örnsköldsvi, Sweden 85 Beginning of Life: Microbes
• Northern Arizona University, Flaggstaf, USA 87 Finnish-Ugrian Visual Heritage
• Mount Allison university, Sackville, Canada 87 Lecture series: Bird as a Symbol of the Birth of Life
• Washington Sculptors, Washington DC, USA 87 Contemporary Art and Design in Finland
• Hässelby Slott, Stockholm, Sweden 88 Art Magazines in Finland
• Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 89 Meaning of Time
• Kabli, Estonia 89 Past in Contemporary
• Lawrence University, Appleton, USA 90 Lecture series: Contemporary Scandinavian
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illionois, USA 91 Birdtime
• Hania, Greece 91 Colour as the Baby of Light
• Wichita State University, Wichita, USA 93 Always is a long time
• Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, USA 93 Memory as a starter for contemporary
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Cambridge, USA 93 Bacteria – Indicator of Time
• Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 94 Wittgenstein´s Visual Concepts in Philosophical Investigations
• Umeå Art School, Sweden 94 Wittgenstein and Colour
• University of St. Petersburg, Russia 94 Visual Heritage of Ancient Finland
• Institute of History, Tallin, Estonia 95 Silicons as mold makers
• McNeese University, Lake Charles, USA 96 Contemporary Art in Finland
• Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey97 Workshop and lecture series: Living Materials
• Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Ufa, Bashkortoshtan, Russia 99 Ancient Art in Northern Europe
• Middle East Technical University, Anakara, Turkey 00Backteria, mold and fungus as art makers
• University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales 01 Microbes and chemicals as living surfaces
• Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway 02 Living Art by Chemicals
• University of Industrial Arts, Oslo, Norway 02 Living Art by Microbes
• Kulturfabriken, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden 02 Cource and lecture series: Large Scale Graphics
• University of Umeå, Sweden 02 Stone Age Visuals in Ural and Altai
• Härnösand konsthall, Sweden 02 Microbes as Pigment Producers
• Jämtlands läns museum, Östersund, Sweden 02 Ancient Rock Paintings in Finland
• Center of Prehistory, Niaux, France 04 Cluster of Sites
• Museum of Prehistory, Pech Merle, France 04 Ancient Art in Scandinavia
• University of Moscow, Russia 05 Stone Age Art in Finland
• Academy of Fine Arts, Tallin, Estonia 07 Ancient and Woodcut
• Historical Museum, Tallin, Estonia 07 Lake Onega petroglyphs
• Artists Union, Krasnojarsk, Russia 07 Aspelin
• Ankara University, Turkey 08 Ancient Paintings
• Ankara University, Turkey 10 Ancient reliefs
• Rönnels Antikvariat, Stockholm, Sweden 10 Harvesters

Kansas City Art Institute visiting professor 1981 USA

TEACHING FINLAND, 52 institutions

• Tampere School of Art and Communications, rector 1991-92
• Luovi Vocational Center teacher 2003-2010
• Aalto University
• University of Helsinki
• University of Art and Design, Helsinki
• University of the Arts Helsinki
• Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
• Free Art School, Helsinki
• Art School Maa, Helsinki
• University of Tampere
• University of Vaasa
• University of Lapland, Rovaniemi
• University of Jyväskylä
• University of Turku
• University of Joensuu
• Åbo Academy, Turku
• School of Art and Design, Lahti
• Lahti Art School
• Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic, Tornio
• Turku Drawing School
• Adult Institution, Helsinki
• Finnish-Swedish Cultural Institution, Espoo
• Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju
• Forest Museum Lusto, Punkaharju
• Bioart Society of Finland
• Oriveden Opisto, Hartolan Opisto, Riihimäen opisto, Artists´ Association of Helsinki, Someron työväenopisto, Helsinki University Kilpisjärvi Biological Station …

ADMINISTRATION

• Artists Association of Helsinki board member 1974-91, chairman 1988-91
• Publishing House Taide Ltd board member 1987-97
• International Association of Art Critics AICA board member 1988
• New York Foundation, founder and chairman of the board 1989-91
• State Committee for the Education of Communications1991-93
• Bioart Society of Finland, board member 2011-

PUBLICATIONS

• published 152 essays and articles: Taide-magazine; Tiede 2000-magazine; Filmihullu; Valör, Sweden; Bildende Kunst, Germany, Volym, Sweden, Adoranten, Sweden, Kansas City Art Institute Magazine, USA…
• translated 4 books: Johannes Itten: Interaction of Colours, Publishing House Taide Ltd.; Heydon Herrera: Frida Kahlo, Publishing House Otava...
• Moderna Museet -publication, editorial board 1977-82
• Scandinavian Art (Siksi) editor-in-chief 19801
• published 7 books:
• - Hirvipeura – Moosedeer (edit.), Pitkäjärven taide ja kulttuuri 2013
• - Elonkorjaajat – Skördemän -Harvesters (edit), Bluemotion/Salo Art Museum 2011/2012
• - Myanndash – Rock Art in the Ancient Arctic (edit), Arctic Centre 2000
• - Timescape – Finnish Contemporary Art (edit), Atena Publishing House 1995
• - Celebration of Light, Pyrri Art Center 1989
• - Surrealism (edit), Retretti Art Center 1987
• - Adhessiva Arketyper (editor), Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 1977

DIRECTOR/CURATOR

• Art Centre Retretti artistic director 1987-88
• Art Centre Pyrri artistic director 1989-90
• Arttransition – New Media Technologies –board member 1989-90, Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT, USA
• New Stone Age Viktor Barsokevitsch –Center for Photography, Kuopio 1988
• Aleksander Rodchenko 7 Scandinavian museums 1989: Viktor Barsokevitsch Center for Photography and Kuopio Museum; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Helsinki City Art Museum; Oulu Art Museum; Rovaniemi Art Museum; Turku Art Museum
• Timescape – Finnish Contemporary Art 7 museums in Scandinavia and USA 1995-96: Kerava Art Museum; Bergens Kunstforening, Norway; Södertälje Art Hall, Sweden; Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, USA; Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, USA; McNeese University Art Gallery, Lake Charles, USA
• Myanndash – Rock Art in the Ancient Arctic Scandinavian exhibition tour 1995-97, Arktikum, Rovaniemi; Alta Museum, Norway
• Timesite – Environmental Art and Prehistory Forest museum Lusto, Punkaharju 1999
• Tampere School of Art and Communications director 1991-92
• Producer of 13 multimedia productions:
• - Hybrid Swan Kunsthall Grenland, Norway
• - Fish Schooling, Retretti Art Center
• - Fog Deer, Retretti Art Center
• - Awekening Swan, Retretti Art Center
• - Hyaena Dog Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
• - Moosescape, San Francisco Exploratorium USA
• - Battle of Kings, Charlottenborg Art Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
• - Geobir Lynx, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Austria
• - Human Figure, Reithalle, Ingolstadt, Germany
• - Hunting Dogs, Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki
• - Swan, Ars Nova Art Museum, Turku
• - Eagle´s Nest, Kemi Art Museum
• - White Swan, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
• Focus - New Medias in Photography international seminar, director, 1992 Tampere
• National Board of Education curator of new medias 1993
• WSOY - New Media 1998-99, multimedia editor, cd-rom producer: Vuosi CD 2000; @ctive +, Blake&Mortimer
• Wapit Ltd AD 2000
• Bluemotion concept planner 1993-2010
• Smältande monument, tv-program, producer and director, YLE FST 2006, director
• Somero Stone Dairy board member 2010-