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VISUAL ART STUDIES
• Master of Fine Arts, 2000, department of media arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
• MFA degree new media studies, Medialab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, experimental film, video, photography, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
• BFA degree fine art studies, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
RELATED STUDIES
Media Scriptwriting, Radio- & television Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Communications, psychology, sociology and anthropology studies, University of Maine, ME, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 • Gallery Jangva, Helsinki, Finland, Ghosts of Gesture
2012 • Gallery Å, Turku, Finland, Orange Morning Paper River, 16 mm experimental film Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2009 • Cable Gallery, Happiness, videos, short films and photographs, Helsinki, Finland
2009 • Gallery Kajava, Archeology of Image, photographs, Helsinki, Finland
2007 • Laterna Magica Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Work Makes Me ____ ? film
2005 • Aarni Gallery, Camera di morte – pace – felicità, photographs, Espoo, Finland
2005 • Lasipalatsi Gallery, Aquí la eternidad empieza, photographs, Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2002 • Porvoo Kunsthalle, Forest Room with Sarianna Metsähuone, digital photo collages, Porvoo, Finland.
2002 • Muu Gallery, Forest Room with Sarianna Metsähuone, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2001 • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Takaikkuna, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2000 • Taidesalonki Gallery, Imaginary Portraits of Real People, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland MFA exhibition review (Finnish)
1999 • Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Imagining Bodies Embodying Images, photo collages, Helsinki, Finland
1992 • Diego Rivera Gallery, Corpus Callosum, photographs & installation, San Francisco, CA, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FILM FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS (selected)
2022 • ALPHABET Art Centre, The d/i/light Memorial, Shoah Film Collection 100 artists commemorate the victims of Holocaust
Jan 27–March 31. Known Named Identified - experimental short film
27 January – International Holocaust Commemoration Day - cinema
2020 • New Media Festival Retrospective, various locations, December 2019 – December 2020
2019 • ULTRAcinema Experimental & Found Footage Film Festival Oaxaca, Mexico. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2019 • The Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Cuzco, Peru. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2019 • The Buddha International Film Festival, National Film Archive of India, India. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
Award winner, Best Editing Award
2019 • Media Art Exhibition, new Central Library Oodi, Helsinki Artists' Association, Finland. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2017 • Diego Rivera Gallery: Le Salon de Diego, San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA. RoaM video
2016 • Artists To Look Out For Program with Ghosts of Gesture photography series, Starry Night Programs, USA
2016 • The Compiler Screenings, Stadtkino Basel, White Frame & Muu Co-operation, Basel, Switzerland. Love Me video
The Compiler Screenings program
2016 • MUU Gala featuring front-line Finnish video artists, Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki, Finland. New Love Me video
2016 • Black Box Gallery. Color Burst: Contemporary Photography Exhibition. Portland, OR, USA. Ghosts of Gesture series
2016 • Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, Shoah Film Collection / artvideoKOELN, In the Name of Truth:
Time, Peace & Humanity exhibition, April-May. CA, USA. Known Named Identified video work
2015 • Museo Laboratorio d’Arte contemporanea MLAC, representative of Finland, Photography exhibition of
28 photographers from 28 EU countries EuroArtPhoto, Rome, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture series
2015 • 25th Anniversary Exhibitition of The Finnish Artists' Studio Foundation, Vallila Artist House,
Gallery Kajava, Helsinki, Finland. Umbra Umbella video
2015 • Nordic Film Fest, Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy. Known Named Identified; Transition Process & RoaM videos
2014 • MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, screening, Open Museum Open City exhibition, Rome, Italy
Known Named Identified & Transition Process videos
2014 • Palazzo Stelline, representative of Finland, Photography exhibition of 28 photographers from 28 EU countries
EuroArtPhoto, Milan, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture series
2014 • Shoah Film Collection, A Virtual Memorial Foundation. Cologne, Germany. Known Named Identified video
2014 • Sardinia Film Festival - 9th edition, Official International Selection, juried, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture video
2013 • Image Contre Nature Festival, International festival of experimental video, juried, Marseille, France
Transition Process video
2013 • Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival 2013, juried, USA. Transition Process video
2013 • 16th International Traverse Vidéo Festival, juried, Toulouse, France. Transition Process video
2013 • Sardinia Film Festival - 8th edition, Official International Selection, juried, Italy. Transition Process video
2013 • Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival, juried, Illinois, USA. Transition Process video
2013 • Urbanarium, The Espaco Cultural Sérgio Porto & the Entre Project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. RoaM video
2012 • Flirting Flowing Ripping Roaring - Video Art in Finland, Presentation Dec 11, 2012
Curating & presenting a Finnish video art program,
Madatac04 International Video Art Festival, Centro Centro at Palacio Cibeles, Madrid, Spain.
Thy Eternal Summer video
2012 • Madatac04 Video Art Festival, Competitive Official International Section, juried, Madrid, Spain
Transition Process video
2012 • VideoBardo IV International Videopoetry Festival "for the Earth", juried, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RoaM video
2012 • TR1-Kunsthalle, Photographic Centre Nykyaika 30th Anniversary Exhibition, juried, Tampere, Finland
RoaM video
2012 • Sardinia Film Festival, Official International Selection, juried, Sardinia, Italy. RoaM video
2012 • Gallery Katariina with Finnish National Gallery Ateneum Art Museum celebrating Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck's
150th anniversary, Helsinki Artists' Association's exhibition, Helsinki, Finland. Photos from the series Ghosts of Gesture
2012 • BBC LiveLive Project, juried, Great Britain. RoaM video
2012 • Cinesonika International Film and Video Festival, juried, Vancouver, Canada
Orange Morning Paper River, 16 mm film
2012 • Obiettivi Obiettività, Fotografiche Associazione Culturale, Photo Exhibition, juried, Rome, Italy
Photographs from the series Ghosts of Gesture/ Il Movimento Fantasma
2011 • Madatac03 Video Art Festival, Competitive Official International Section, juried, Cineteca, Madrid, Spain. RoaM video
2011 • Helsinki Short Film Festival, Experimental film category, juried, Helsinki, Finland. RoaM video
2011 • Spazi Aperti 2011, Accademia di Romania, Aesthetics Experience, juried, Rome, Italy. RoaM video &
Thy Eternal Summer video
2010 • Finland-Mexico 2010 Exhibition, National Archive, photographs, juried, Helsinki, Finland
2010-11 • Counter-Power, Street Gallery, photographs, juried, Helsinki, Finland
2010 • Supermarket 2010, media art, 10 Muu artist association's media artists, juried, Stockholm, Sweden.
Thy Eternal Summer video
2008 • Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Reflections, juried, Vaasa, Finland. Mirror Me video
2008 • 113th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, juried, Vaasa, Finland.
You Can't Eat That! video
2008 • Altered Esthetics Gallery, Bitter Fruits: A Study of Woman As Object In Art, photo collages, juried,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
2008 • Laterna Magica Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. You Can't Eat That! video
2007 • Short & Documentary Film Festival Kettupäivät, juried, Helsinki, Finland. You Can't Eat That! video
2004 • Rantakasarmi Gallery, Nordic Art Association in Finland, national exhibition, photographs, juried,
Helsinki, Finland
2001 • MUU Gallery, Digitage, photo collages, (curator-artist), Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
1998 • International Symposium on Electronic Arts ISEA98/Terror, web project: Illness&
its Representation, collaboration L.Diaz & H.Holm, Manchester, Great Britain
1998 • Hyvinkää Art Museum, Taju summer exhibition, web collaboration with T.Mäki & J.Nousiainen,
Hyvinkää, Finland
1998 • MuuMedia’98 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Mediatheque, collaborative web project:
Body=Home?, Helsinki, Finland
1997 • Beijing International Computer Arts Exhibition'97, juried, collages, Beijing, China
1997 • Into Gallery, MAP'97, IdEntities media art exhibition, multimedia installation Body=Home?, juried,
Helsinki, Finland
1996 • Somar Gallery, Kaleidoscope Reborn, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1996 • The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, exhibition, photo collages,
juried, CA, USA
1995 • Bayfront Gallery, Kaleidoscope, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1995 • Woman Made Gallery, Life Cycles of Women, photo collages, juried, Chicago, IL, USA
1994-95 • Anchorage Museum of History & Art, A World of Maps, collages, juried, Alaska, USA
1994 • SF Camerawork Gallery, 20th anniversary exhibition, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994 • The Shooting Gallery, Visual Aid Benefit, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994 • Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Metamorphosis, photo collages, juried, CA, USA
1993 • MuuMedia’93 Festival, juried, Helsinki, Finland, Even Song video
1992 • Cinematheque, film show on TV, juried, CA, USA. Equilibrium (Pia Desideria) film
1992 • UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, film festival, juried, Berkeley, CA, USA
Equilibrium (Pia Desideria) film
1991 • Eye Gallery, photo exhibition, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
• Shoah Film Collection, A Virtual Memorial Foundation - International Center for
Commemorative Interventions, Cologne, Germany
• Teosto - Finnish Composers' Copyright Society, Helsinki, Finland
• Private collections in Finland and United States
GRANTS, PRIZES, AWARDS (selected)
2019 • Best Editing Award for Orange Morning Paper River film, The Buddha International Film Festival,
National Film Archive, India
2015 • Grant from Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2014 • Grant from Helsinki City Cultural Committee, Finland
2012 • Frame grant for presenting a Finnish Video Art Program at Madatac festival, Madrid, Spain
2012 • Väinö Tanner Foundation stipend, Finland
2012 • Visual Artists grant from the Arts Council of Finland, Finland
2012 • Grant from The Promotion Centre for Visual Arts Visek, Finland
2011 • Arts Council of Finland, grants for exhibitions in Rome 2011 & 2012
2011 • Grant from Helsinki City Cultural Committee, Finland
2011 • Grant from Niilo Helander Foundation, Finland
2010 • Visual Artists grant from the Arts Council of Finland, Finland
2009 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2009 • Grant from The Promotion Centre for Visual Arts Visek, Finland
2007 • Kettupäivät Short & Documentary Film Festival, 2nd place, honorary mention, Finland
2002 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2000 • Grant from the Oskar Öflund Foundation, Finland
1999 • Grant from Niilo Helander Foundation, Finland
1998 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
1998 • Grant from Art´s Council of Uusimaa, Finland
1997 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
1996 • 1st prize, “(DETAIL)” Art Journal contest, CA, USA
1991 • 2nd prize, “San Francisco Bay Guardian” photo contest, CA, USA
1990 • Filmverkstan film project grant, funding and post-production, Stocholm, Sweden
REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2016 • Artists To Look Out For Catalog, Volume 3 by Starry Night Program. Ghosts of Gesture photography series
2012 • Demokraatti newspaper, December 4, See it differently - Spectacular photography in Tampere, Finland
2012 • Turun Sanomat newspaper, March 10, Image and Language within a Stream of Consciousness, Finland
2012 • Cult24, March 9, Exhibition Review: KirsiMarja Metsähuone's Exhibition at Å Gallery, Finland
2011 • Radio Civetta, June 6, Inaugurazione del festival annuale "Spazi aperti", Rome, Italy
2011 • Corriere della Sera, June 2, Spazi Aperti per i giovani artisti, Rome, Italy
2011 • Spazi Aperti 2011, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Italy
2005 • Radio Vega Rapido, May 19, Images of death, peace & happiness at Aarni Gallery, Finland
2005 • Taide-lehti (The Art Magazine), 1/2005, Passed away but present, Finland
2005 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, January 20, Cemetery like a collage, Finland
2004 • Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper, October 24, Many-sided exhibition at Rantakasarmi gallery, Finland
2002 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, August 29, The Metsähuones' use photographs to portray
rooms in forests (metsähuone = forestroom), Finland
2002 • Uusimaa newspaper, April 25, In the midst of a forest in Kunsthalle, photographs and digital photo
collages, Finland
2002 • Borgå Bladet newspaper, April 13, Feelings of being outsiders bring together two sisters in
joint exhibition, Finland
2002 • Uusimaa newspaper, April 13, Metsähuone sisters search for identity with photographs, Finland
2001 • Naistutkimus (Women's Studies magazine), issue 3/01, featured artist, Finland
2001 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, June 14, Digital photo collages with surface and content, Finland
2001 • Iisalmen Sanomat newspaper, June 25, KirsiMarja Metsähuone's digital photo collages make us
slow down, Finland
2001 • City-lehti newspaper, June, Body images at Kiasma, Finland
2001 • Helsingin Sanomatnewspaper, April 26, Attempting to escape one's own camera, Finland
2000 • Savon Sanomat newspaper, June, The digital archtype of human being, Finland
2000 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, May 18, The art of time and space blooms, Finland
1997 • Art Space in Information Times exhibition catalogue, Beijing, China
1997 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, October 7, Brand name blooms, bodies out of nowhere, Finland
1997 • Kuva magazine, 4/97, IdEntities issue, Finland
1996 • (DETAIL) Art Journal, March issue, cover & interview, Calif., USA
1995 • Channel 4 Kron, Nov 21, tv news: Kaleidoscope, San Francisco, USA
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (selected)
2018 Finnish Institute in Athens, Athens, Greece
2016 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2014 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2012 Väinö Tanner Foundation's Artist-in-residence, Mazzano Romano, Italy
2011 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2010 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2009 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2007 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Florence, Italy
2006 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2005 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Athens, Greece
2005 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Florence, Italy
2004 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2003 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2002 Finland - Mexico Cultural Exchange, Oaxaca, Mexico
1997-98 Institut Universitari de l'Audiovisual - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
1990 Filmverkstan film project, post-production studio, Stockholm, Sweden
POSITIONS OF TRUST
2012– Artists' Association of Finland representative member (Union of Artist Photographers representative)
2011-17 Finland - Mexico Cultural Exchange Board (representing Artists' Association of Finland), chair 2013 - 2017
2006-16 Artists' Association of Finland representative member (MUU representative)
2007-10 MUU Board (Finnish interdisciplinary artist association)
ARTISTS' UNION MEMBERSHIPS
1997– • MUU, member organization of Artist's Association of Finland
2005– • Union of Artist Photographers, member organization of Artist's Association of Finland
2009– • Helsinki Artists' Association, Finland
VISUAL ART STUDIES
• Master of Fine Arts, 2000, department of media arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
• MFA degree new media studies, Medialab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, experimental film, video, photography, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
• BFA degree fine art studies, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
RELATED STUDIES
Media Scriptwriting, Radio- & television Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Communications, psychology, sociology and anthropology studies, University of Maine, ME, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 • Gallery Jangva, Helsinki, Finland, Ghosts of Gesture
2012 • Gallery Å, Turku, Finland, Orange Morning Paper River, 16 mm experimental film Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2009 • Cable Gallery, Happiness, videos, short films and photographs, Helsinki, Finland
2009 • Gallery Kajava, Archeology of Image, photographs, Helsinki, Finland
2007 • Laterna Magica Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, Work Makes Me ____ ? film
2005 • Aarni Gallery, Camera di morte – pace – felicità, photographs, Espoo, Finland
2005 • Lasipalatsi Gallery, Aquí la eternidad empieza, photographs, Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2002 • Porvoo Kunsthalle, Forest Room with Sarianna Metsähuone, digital photo collages, Porvoo, Finland.
2002 • Muu Gallery, Forest Room with Sarianna Metsähuone, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2001 • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Takaikkuna, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland Exhibition review (in Finnish)
2000 • Taidesalonki Gallery, Imaginary Portraits of Real People, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland MFA exhibition review (Finnish)
1999 • Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Imagining Bodies Embodying Images, photo collages, Helsinki, Finland
1992 • Diego Rivera Gallery, Corpus Callosum, photographs & installation, San Francisco, CA, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, FILM FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS (selected)
2022 • ALPHABET Art Centre, The d/i/light Memorial, Shoah Film Collection 100 artists commemorate the victims of Holocaust
Jan 27–March 31. Known Named Identified - experimental short film
27 January – International Holocaust Commemoration Day - cinema
2020 • New Media Festival Retrospective, various locations, December 2019 – December 2020
2019 • ULTRAcinema Experimental & Found Footage Film Festival Oaxaca, Mexico. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2019 • The Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Cuzco, Peru. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2019 • The Buddha International Film Festival, National Film Archive of India, India. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
Award winner, Best Editing Award
2019 • Media Art Exhibition, new Central Library Oodi, Helsinki Artists' Association, Finland. Orange Morning Paper River 16 mm film
2017 • Diego Rivera Gallery: Le Salon de Diego, San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA. RoaM video
2016 • Artists To Look Out For Program with Ghosts of Gesture photography series, Starry Night Programs, USA
2016 • The Compiler Screenings, Stadtkino Basel, White Frame & Muu Co-operation, Basel, Switzerland. Love Me video
The Compiler Screenings program
2016 • MUU Gala featuring front-line Finnish video artists, Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki, Finland. New Love Me video
2016 • Black Box Gallery. Color Burst: Contemporary Photography Exhibition. Portland, OR, USA. Ghosts of Gesture series
2016 • Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, Shoah Film Collection / artvideoKOELN, In the Name of Truth:
Time, Peace & Humanity exhibition, April-May. CA, USA. Known Named Identified video work
2015 • Museo Laboratorio d’Arte contemporanea MLAC, representative of Finland, Photography exhibition of
28 photographers from 28 EU countries EuroArtPhoto, Rome, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture series
2015 • 25th Anniversary Exhibitition of The Finnish Artists' Studio Foundation, Vallila Artist House,
Gallery Kajava, Helsinki, Finland. Umbra Umbella video
2015 • Nordic Film Fest, Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy. Known Named Identified; Transition Process & RoaM videos
2014 • MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, screening, Open Museum Open City exhibition, Rome, Italy
Known Named Identified & Transition Process videos
2014 • Palazzo Stelline, representative of Finland, Photography exhibition of 28 photographers from 28 EU countries
EuroArtPhoto, Milan, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture series
2014 • Shoah Film Collection, A Virtual Memorial Foundation. Cologne, Germany. Known Named Identified video
2014 • Sardinia Film Festival - 9th edition, Official International Selection, juried, Italy. Ghosts of Gesture video
2013 • Image Contre Nature Festival, International festival of experimental video, juried, Marseille, France
Transition Process video
2013 • Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival 2013, juried, USA. Transition Process video
2013 • 16th International Traverse Vidéo Festival, juried, Toulouse, France. Transition Process video
2013 • Sardinia Film Festival - 8th edition, Official International Selection, juried, Italy. Transition Process video
2013 • Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival, juried, Illinois, USA. Transition Process video
2013 • Urbanarium, The Espaco Cultural Sérgio Porto & the Entre Project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. RoaM video
2012 • Flirting Flowing Ripping Roaring - Video Art in Finland, Presentation Dec 11, 2012
Curating & presenting a Finnish video art program,
Madatac04 International Video Art Festival, Centro Centro at Palacio Cibeles, Madrid, Spain.
Thy Eternal Summer video
2012 • Madatac04 Video Art Festival, Competitive Official International Section, juried, Madrid, Spain
Transition Process video
2012 • VideoBardo IV International Videopoetry Festival "for the Earth", juried, Buenos Aires, Argentina
RoaM video
2012 • TR1-Kunsthalle, Photographic Centre Nykyaika 30th Anniversary Exhibition, juried, Tampere, Finland
RoaM video
2012 • Sardinia Film Festival, Official International Selection, juried, Sardinia, Italy. RoaM video
2012 • Gallery Katariina with Finnish National Gallery Ateneum Art Museum celebrating Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck's
150th anniversary, Helsinki Artists' Association's exhibition, Helsinki, Finland. Photos from the series Ghosts of Gesture
2012 • BBC LiveLive Project, juried, Great Britain. RoaM video
2012 • Cinesonika International Film and Video Festival, juried, Vancouver, Canada
Orange Morning Paper River, 16 mm film
2012 • Obiettivi Obiettività, Fotografiche Associazione Culturale, Photo Exhibition, juried, Rome, Italy
Photographs from the series Ghosts of Gesture/ Il Movimento Fantasma
2011 • Madatac03 Video Art Festival, Competitive Official International Section, juried, Cineteca, Madrid, Spain. RoaM video
2011 • Helsinki Short Film Festival, Experimental film category, juried, Helsinki, Finland. RoaM video
2011 • Spazi Aperti 2011, Accademia di Romania, Aesthetics Experience, juried, Rome, Italy. RoaM video &
Thy Eternal Summer video
2010 • Finland-Mexico 2010 Exhibition, National Archive, photographs, juried, Helsinki, Finland
2010-11 • Counter-Power, Street Gallery, photographs, juried, Helsinki, Finland
2010 • Supermarket 2010, media art, 10 Muu artist association's media artists, juried, Stockholm, Sweden.
Thy Eternal Summer video
2008 • Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Reflections, juried, Vaasa, Finland. Mirror Me video
2008 • 113th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, juried, Vaasa, Finland.
You Can't Eat That! video
2008 • Altered Esthetics Gallery, Bitter Fruits: A Study of Woman As Object In Art, photo collages, juried,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
2008 • Laterna Magica Gallery, Helsinki, Finland. You Can't Eat That! video
2007 • Short & Documentary Film Festival Kettupäivät, juried, Helsinki, Finland. You Can't Eat That! video
2004 • Rantakasarmi Gallery, Nordic Art Association in Finland, national exhibition, photographs, juried,
Helsinki, Finland
2001 • MUU Gallery, Digitage, photo collages, (curator-artist), Helsinki, Finland. Exhibition review (in Finnish)
1998 • International Symposium on Electronic Arts ISEA98/Terror, web project: Illness&
its Representation, collaboration L.Diaz & H.Holm, Manchester, Great Britain
1998 • Hyvinkää Art Museum, Taju summer exhibition, web collaboration with T.Mäki & J.Nousiainen,
Hyvinkää, Finland
1998 • MuuMedia’98 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Mediatheque, collaborative web project:
Body=Home?, Helsinki, Finland
1997 • Beijing International Computer Arts Exhibition'97, juried, collages, Beijing, China
1997 • Into Gallery, MAP'97, IdEntities media art exhibition, multimedia installation Body=Home?, juried,
Helsinki, Finland
1996 • Somar Gallery, Kaleidoscope Reborn, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1996 • The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, exhibition, photo collages,
juried, CA, USA
1995 • Bayfront Gallery, Kaleidoscope, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1995 • Woman Made Gallery, Life Cycles of Women, photo collages, juried, Chicago, IL, USA
1994-95 • Anchorage Museum of History & Art, A World of Maps, collages, juried, Alaska, USA
1994 • SF Camerawork Gallery, 20th anniversary exhibition, photo collages, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994 • The Shooting Gallery, Visual Aid Benefit, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994 • Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Metamorphosis, photo collages, juried, CA, USA
1993 • MuuMedia’93 Festival, juried, Helsinki, Finland, Even Song video
1992 • Cinematheque, film show on TV, juried, CA, USA. Equilibrium (Pia Desideria) film
1992 • UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, film festival, juried, Berkeley, CA, USA
Equilibrium (Pia Desideria) film
1991 • Eye Gallery, photo exhibition, juried, San Francisco, CA, USA
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
• Shoah Film Collection, A Virtual Memorial Foundation - International Center for
Commemorative Interventions, Cologne, Germany
• Teosto - Finnish Composers' Copyright Society, Helsinki, Finland
• Private collections in Finland and United States
GRANTS, PRIZES, AWARDS (selected)
2019 • Best Editing Award for Orange Morning Paper River film, The Buddha International Film Festival,
National Film Archive, India
2015 • Grant from Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2014 • Grant from Helsinki City Cultural Committee, Finland
2012 • Frame grant for presenting a Finnish Video Art Program at Madatac festival, Madrid, Spain
2012 • Väinö Tanner Foundation stipend, Finland
2012 • Visual Artists grant from the Arts Council of Finland, Finland
2012 • Grant from The Promotion Centre for Visual Arts Visek, Finland
2011 • Arts Council of Finland, grants for exhibitions in Rome 2011 & 2012
2011 • Grant from Helsinki City Cultural Committee, Finland
2011 • Grant from Niilo Helander Foundation, Finland
2010 • Visual Artists grant from the Arts Council of Finland, Finland
2009 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2009 • Grant from The Promotion Centre for Visual Arts Visek, Finland
2007 • Kettupäivät Short & Documentary Film Festival, 2nd place, honorary mention, Finland
2002 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
2000 • Grant from the Oskar Öflund Foundation, Finland
1999 • Grant from Niilo Helander Foundation, Finland
1998 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
1998 • Grant from Art´s Council of Uusimaa, Finland
1997 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland
1996 • 1st prize, “(DETAIL)” Art Journal contest, CA, USA
1991 • 2nd prize, “San Francisco Bay Guardian” photo contest, CA, USA
1990 • Filmverkstan film project grant, funding and post-production, Stocholm, Sweden
REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2016 • Artists To Look Out For Catalog, Volume 3 by Starry Night Program. Ghosts of Gesture photography series
2012 • Demokraatti newspaper, December 4, See it differently - Spectacular photography in Tampere, Finland
2012 • Turun Sanomat newspaper, March 10, Image and Language within a Stream of Consciousness, Finland
2012 • Cult24, March 9, Exhibition Review: KirsiMarja Metsähuone's Exhibition at Å Gallery, Finland
2011 • Radio Civetta, June 6, Inaugurazione del festival annuale "Spazi aperti", Rome, Italy
2011 • Corriere della Sera, June 2, Spazi Aperti per i giovani artisti, Rome, Italy
2011 • Spazi Aperti 2011, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Italy
2005 • Radio Vega Rapido, May 19, Images of death, peace & happiness at Aarni Gallery, Finland
2005 • Taide-lehti (The Art Magazine), 1/2005, Passed away but present, Finland
2005 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, January 20, Cemetery like a collage, Finland
2004 • Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper, October 24, Many-sided exhibition at Rantakasarmi gallery, Finland
2002 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, August 29, The Metsähuones' use photographs to portray
rooms in forests (metsähuone = forestroom), Finland
2002 • Uusimaa newspaper, April 25, In the midst of a forest in Kunsthalle, photographs and digital photo
collages, Finland
2002 • Borgå Bladet newspaper, April 13, Feelings of being outsiders bring together two sisters in
joint exhibition, Finland
2002 • Uusimaa newspaper, April 13, Metsähuone sisters search for identity with photographs, Finland
2001 • Naistutkimus (Women's Studies magazine), issue 3/01, featured artist, Finland
2001 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, June 14, Digital photo collages with surface and content, Finland
2001 • Iisalmen Sanomat newspaper, June 25, KirsiMarja Metsähuone's digital photo collages make us
slow down, Finland
2001 • City-lehti newspaper, June, Body images at Kiasma, Finland
2001 • Helsingin Sanomatnewspaper, April 26, Attempting to escape one's own camera, Finland
2000 • Savon Sanomat newspaper, June, The digital archtype of human being, Finland
2000 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, May 18, The art of time and space blooms, Finland
1997 • Art Space in Information Times exhibition catalogue, Beijing, China
1997 • Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, October 7, Brand name blooms, bodies out of nowhere, Finland
1997 • Kuva magazine, 4/97, IdEntities issue, Finland
1996 • (DETAIL) Art Journal, March issue, cover & interview, Calif., USA
1995 • Channel 4 Kron, Nov 21, tv news: Kaleidoscope, San Francisco, USA
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (selected)
2018 Finnish Institute in Athens, Athens, Greece
2016 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2014 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2012 Väinö Tanner Foundation's Artist-in-residence, Mazzano Romano, Italy
2011 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2010 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2009 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2007 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Florence, Italy
2006 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2005 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Athens, Greece
2005 Artists' Association of Finland Studio Foundation, Florence, Italy
2004 Research stay, Villa Lante, Finnish Institute in Rome, Italy
2003 Circolo Scandinavo, The Nordic Artists' Residency, Rome, Italy
2002 Finland - Mexico Cultural Exchange, Oaxaca, Mexico
1997-98 Institut Universitari de l'Audiovisual - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
1990 Filmverkstan film project, post-production studio, Stockholm, Sweden
POSITIONS OF TRUST
2012– Artists' Association of Finland representative member (Union of Artist Photographers representative)
2011-17 Finland - Mexico Cultural Exchange Board (representing Artists' Association of Finland), chair 2013 - 2017
2006-16 Artists' Association of Finland representative member (MUU representative)
2007-10 MUU Board (Finnish interdisciplinary artist association)
ARTISTS' UNION MEMBERSHIPS
1997– • MUU, member organization of Artist's Association of Finland
2005– • Union of Artist Photographers, member organization of Artist's Association of Finland
2009– • Helsinki Artists' Association, Finland