IIU SUSIRAJA
Born 1975 | Lives and works in Turku, Finland
EDUCATION
2018 Master of Fine Arts, Time and Space, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts | Helsinki, Finland
2012 Artist, photography | Turku University of Applied Sciences Art Academy
2005 Bachelor of Arts, textiles | EVTEK University of Applied Sciences
1996 Artisan (painter) | Vantaa College of Arts and Design
1994 Construction painting | Hervanta vocational school
AWARDS | GRANTS
2019 – 23 National council for the Visual Arts, Artist working grant | Finland
2019 William Thuring main price | Finland
2018 Alfred Kordelin Foundation | Finland
2016 National council for the Audiovisual Arts, Artist grant | Finland
2016 National council for the Visual Arts, project grant | Finland
2015 National council for the Visual Arts, project grant | Finland
2012 National council of Photographic Art, project grant | Finland
2002 Seoul metropolitan of Art, Third place | South Korea
COLLECTIONS
Adam Lindemann Collection | USA University of Chicago | USA Finnish National Gallery | Finland
The Finnish Museum of Photography | Finland Gothenburg Museum of Art | Sweden
Heino Art foundation | Finland Helsinki City Art Museum | Finland
Museum of contemporary art Kiasma | Finland OMM museum | Turkey
Päivi and Paavo Lipponen Collection | Finland Rubell Family Collection | USA
Saastamoinen foundation | Finland Stavanger Museum | Norway Timo Miettinen Collection
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum | Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A style called a dead fish | Moma PS1, New York, NY, USA
2023 Hot stuff | Nino Mier Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022 Object | MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Turku, Finland
Women’s work | Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020 Dalmatian | Ramiken gallery, New York NY, USA
Dry Joy | SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
2019 Kadell Willborn gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Dry Joy | KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2018 What am I? | Ghebaly gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017 of Object and me | PS2 Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Happy hour | VB Photographic Centre, Kuopio, Finland
2016 What am I? | Ramiken crucible, New York, USA
Be boring Be happy | Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö, Sweden
Voin hyvin, kiitos | Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland
Tunteiden niksi-pirkka | Hå gamle Prestegard, Nærbø, Norway
2015 Liika kiltteys ei kannata | Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere, Finland
Tunteiden niksi-pirkka | Kluuvi gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Beautiful error | Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden
Perfect everyday life | Gallery Berner, Turku, Finland
2012 Tuhmaa pullaa ja muita taiteellisia pelastuksia | Å Gallery, Turku, Finland
2011 Taide löytyy jääkaapista | Alkovi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Arjen tyylipuhdas suoritus | The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Kohtuuttomuus katseessasi | Lasipalatsi Film and Media centre, Helsinki, Finland
Hansa Shopping Center, Turku, Finland
2008 Paljas | B-gallery, Turku, Finland
2007 Hylkäys | Nunes Art gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2006 Hand-made-Horror | Art gallery Piirto, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Häirikkökarhut | Lasipalatsi Film and Media centre, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GR OUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Snakes in the Grass | New Child Gallery, Belgium
2022 Untitled Miami with MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY | Miami FL, USA
Why Can’t We Live Together | Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany Cake show | The Pit, Palm Springs, CA, USA
2021 Untitled Art | MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Miami FL, USA
On the level or the man who fell out of bed | Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Extra tough: Woman of the north | Anchorage Museum AK, USA
Welche Stimmung fandest du dort vor? | Gallery Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany 2020 Touch | EMMA, Helsinki, Finland
Paranoid Crucible | Ramiken Gallery, New York NY, USA
2019 FROM THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF DAY | MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Turku, Finland
She stares back | Kendall College of Arts and Design, Michigan, USA Considering Finland | Port25 Mannheim, Germany
2018 Portraits at Home | Harbourfront centre, Toronto, Canada Hardcore Erotic Art | Ramiken crucible, New York, USA (project space) | Meredith Rosen gallery, New York, USA STILL HUMAN | Rubell family collection, Miami, USA
10 From the north | Flow Festival of Photography Circulation(s) | Centquatre-paris, Paris, France
Martin Kippenberger and Iiu Susiraja | Ramiken Gallery, New York, USA STILL HUMAN | Rubell family collection, Miami, USA
EAT ME | Trapholt museum, Kolding, Denmark
Bodybuilding | Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
2017 DIVE | Stavanger Museum, Stavanger, Norway
Inverness | Flow Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland Greetings from SUOMI | Fiskars, Finland
Omakuva ajassa | Taidehalli Museum, Turku, Finland
Minän teatteri | Ars Nova & Aboa Vetus museum, Turku, Finland Identity | Konsthallen MEKEN, Smedjebacken, Sweden Attempting ideal | Gallery Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany Photography the Female | Mumbai, India
2016 Love of the real | Punkt O – Galleri F15 & Momentum, Moss, Norway Asetelma –elämä lautasella | Sinebrychoff Art museum, Helsinki, Finland Irritierend heiter | Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany The Limits of Control | Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, New York, USA
Gestos Hacia uno Mismo | Tenerife espacio de las Artes, tenerife, Canary Islands
2015 No Bad Days | Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Frame stories | Organ Vida Festival Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Survival Kit 7 | Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
2014 POTRETTI | Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Heponauta | Hyvinkää Art museum, Hyvinkää, Finland Yksin | Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Adidasmies ja voimanainen | Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
2013 Kiasma Hits | Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Princess | Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Annual Exhibition of the Union of Finnish Art Associations | Hyvinkään Art Museum, Hyvinkää, Finland The 88th Annual Exhibition of the Turku Artists’ Association | Köysiratagalleria, Turku, Finland
Alice in Wonderland | ECCO, Centre of contemporary Art, Cadiz, Spain Tunne | Oulu museum of Art, Oulu, Finland
Voies off Festival | Arles, France
SNAP! Picturalis Party | Petit Bain, Paris, France
Tätä tietä! – This Way! | Jukka Male museum, Helsinki, Finland
En kirjoita mitään tarinaa | Photographic Center Peri, Turku, Finland
2011 2000&11 omakuvaa | The Finnish museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland Piilossa | Köysiratagalleria, Turku, Finland
Re-exposure | Pàlffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2000&11 omakuvaa | Photographic Center Peri, Turku, Finland Mahtavat näkymät – Looking Forward | Gallery OyOy, Lahti, Finland MediaPyhät -Tissit | Gallery Rajatila, Tampere, Helsinki
Mahtavat näkymät – Looking Forward | Jukka Male Museum, Helsinki, Finland Alice in Wonderland | LOGOMO, Turku, Finland
2010 ARTISTS 2010 – The 115th annual exhibition of Finnish artists | Artcenter Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
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