ONERVA UTRIAINEN

For Finnish photographer Onerva Utriainen’s life has most recently seen her bestraddling the cities of Melbourne and Helsinki. Her exhibition history has taken her from Helsinki to Sarajevo, Rotterdam and Florence. Utriainen explores texture, light and distance, all of which are subjective and subject to our perception.

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1994
Diploma in Photography

1992-94
Istituto internazionale dell’arte Lorenzo dei Medici,
Florence, Italy

Trusteeships

2011
Board Member Jouko Lehtola Photography Foundation

2004
Executive Board Member Emil Aaltonen Museum Tampere Finland

1994
Board Member Raimo Utriainen Art Foundation

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
My New Horizons Anita Traverso Gallery Melbourne

2002
Losses Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki
IPC-Galleri, Winter Festival, Sarajevo

2000
Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki

1998
Oulu City Art Museum

1997
Laterna Magica, Helsinki

1994
Bar Alighieri, Florence, solo exhibition

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Restaurant Oasis, Helsinki

2002
Art Goes Kapakka Restaurant Motti -Helsinki festival

1999
Salon d’art, Rotterdam, with Visa Norros

1994
Finnish photographs from Africa 1890-1990 Old customs house, Helsinki; Galleri Zebra, Karjaa; VB Photographic Centre, Kuopio

2002
Artur, TV -2

1998
Another Life for Junk, publication and exhibition
photographs. Pyynikinlinna, Tampere -98; Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki -98; Oulu City Art Museum -98; Aland Art Museum -00

1996-97
Oran – Textiles from Western India; publication and exhibition photos. Pyynikinlinna, Tampere -96, Museum
of Industrial Design, Helsinki -97; Oulu City Art Museum
-97

1994
Musta taide photomagazine 5/1994, Finnish photographs from Africa 1890-1990 pages 32, 56


1993-94
Savi – Clay, the tradition of pottery and architecture
in West-Africa; publication and exhibition photographs Pyynikinlinna, Tampere -93

Access Partners Ltd. Finland
Finnish State Art Collection
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Finland
Fremantle Foundation, Italy
Oulu City Art Museum, Finland

$2,000 - $5,000

Pastoral Passages (Current until 7 July 2012)
My New Horizons (4 - 28 March 2009)