EDUCATION
2000 Master of Fine Arts, (Film/Video/Performance), California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA.
1995-1996 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design: one-year Independent Study Program in drawing, printing and sculpture, Jerusalem, Israel.
1995 Universidad Francisco Marroquin: Faculty of Architecture, student exchange, Guatemala City.
1993-1995 University of Applied Arts in Vienna: Master Class of Architecture, Professor Wolf Prix, Coop Himmelblau, Austria.
1992-1993 Freie Kunstwerkstatt: Drawing studies, Professor Hans Seeger, Munich, Germany.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2005-07 Padiglione Italia, Chieti Francavilla al Mare, Naples, Milan,Potenza, Biella, Venice.
2005 Esa jäske Gallery, Sydney, Australia: On the Unseen.
2004 Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, Füssen, Germany: live painting performance in “Touch”.
2002 Crissy Field Park, San Francisco, USA: Hubbub, public installation based on speech recognition technology, collaboration with mathematician Sha Xin Wei.
Westend Open Studios, Munich, Germany: video installation Veil.
2000 California College of Arts And Crafts, San Francisco, USA: Henkäys, large-scale interactive installation, Master of Fine Arts Show.
1999 Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, USA: Veil (16mm, B/W, 3min), Surface (16mm, color, 2min) and Island (16mm, b/W, 3min), juried show.
1993 Kurparkschlössl, Herrsching, Germany.
1992 Ars Nova Botnica, Finland.
1991 Kurparkschlössl, Herrsching, Germany.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2007 New Work, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 Maising, Germany: Veil, environmental installation.
1997 Helsinki Festival, Finland: public installation Hahmot.
St. George Gallery, Port Antonio, Jamaica.
1995 HTC Gallerie, Heidelberg, Germany.
1993 Gallerie der Kunst und Kultur Therapie, Munich.
1992 Gallerie Nimbach, Munich.
Starnberg Medical Center, Germany.
CURRENT COLLABORATIONS
Calligraphic performances with actress and writer Yvonne Hunter.
Installations based on interactive technologies, collaboration with mathematician Prof. Sha Xin Wei.
Video installation with composer Silvia Matheus (San Francisco): Internal-External Maps, Presence-Absence.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2006 Topological Media Lab, Visiting Artist, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2005 , Finnish/Italian cultural exchange grant to study glass art in Murano/Venice, Italy
2001/02 The Finnish Artist Association’s Artist House in Bali, Indonesia.
TEACHING PRACTICE
2000 Teaching assistant, Department for Film, Video and Installation, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA.
Professor of Fine Arts, Oxford University, Excel Student Travel in Oxford, Paris and Florence. |