KirsiMarja Metsähuone Sarianna Metsähuone

KirsiMarja Metsähuone kirsimarja@kuva.fi ART EDUCATION 1997 – 00 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, Master of Fine Arts 2000, department of time and media arts 1996 – 98 University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, New media studies at the Medialab 1989 – 92 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA, Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992, experimental film major, photography minor 1988 – 89 Otis Art Institute (of Parsons School of Design), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Design, drawing and sculpture SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2001 • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Takaikkuna space, ‘Escape Body Required’, digital photo collages, Helsinki, Finland 2000 •Taidesalonki Gallery, ‘Imaginary portraits of real people’ , digital photo collages, MFA exhibition, Helsinki, Finland 1999 • Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Imagining Bodies Embodying Images’ exhibition, Helsinki, Finland 1992 • Diego Rivera Gallery at S.F.A.I, ‘Corpus Callosum’ photo-installation exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2002 • MUU Gallery, Forest Room’, joint exhibition with S. Metsähuone, Helsinki, Finland • Porvoo Kunsthalle, ‘Forest Room’, joint exhibition with S. Metsähuone, Porvoo, Finland 2001 • MUU Gallery, ‘Digitage’ exhibition, Helsinki, Finland 1998 • ISEA98, Illness & Its Representation, joint web-based project, Manchester, UK • MUUMedia’98 Festival's Mediateek, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland • Hyvinkää Art Museum, ‘Taju98’ summer exhibition, Finland 1997 • Beijing International Computer Arts Exhibition'97, Beijing, China • MAP ’97 Project, ‘IdEntities’ media art exhibition, Into Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 1996 • Somar Gallery, ‘Kaleidoscope Reborn’ exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA • The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, exhibition, Stanford, CA, USA 1995 • Bayfront Gallery, ‘Kaleidoscope’ exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA • Woman Made Gallery, ‘Life Cycles of Women’ exhibition, Chicago, IL, USA 1994 • Camerawork Gallery, 20th anniversary exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA • Anchorage Museum of History & Art, ‘A World of Maps’ exhibition, Alaska, USA 94-95 • Sebastopol Center for the Arts, ‘Metamorphosis’ exhibition, CA, USA 1991 • Eye Gallery, photo exhibition, San Francisco, CA, USA FILM FESTIVALS 1993 • MUUMedia’93 Video & Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland 1992 • Cinematheque, film show on San Francisco Bay Area TV, CA, USA • UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, film festival, Berkeley, CA, USA REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS (selected) 2002 • Uusimaa, April 25, In the midst of a forest in Kunsthalle, photographs and digital photo collages, Finland • Borgå Bladet, April 13, Feelings of being outside bring together two sisters in joint exhibition, Finland • Uusimaa, April 13, Metsähuone sisters search for identity with photographs, Finland 2001 • Women's Studies magazine, issue 3/01, featured female artist, Finland • Iisalmen Sanomat, June 25, KirsiMarja Metsähuone's digital photo collages make us slow down, Finland • Helsingin Sanomat, June 14, Digital photo collages with surface and content, Finland • City-lehti, June, Body images at Kiasma, Finland • Helsingin Sanomat, April 26, Attempting to escape one's own camera, Finland 2000 • Savon Sanomat, June, The digital archtype of human being, Finland • Helsingin Sanomat, May 18, The art of time and space blooms, Finland 1997 • Art Space in Information Times catalogue, Beijing, China • Helsingin Sanomat, Brandname blooms, bodies out of nowhere, Finland • Kuva, 4/97, IdEntities issue, Finland 1996 • (DETAIL) Art Journal, March issue, cover & interview, Calif., USA 1991 • The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 29, competition winners, Calif., USA GRANTS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES (selected) 2002 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland 2000 • Grant from the Oskar Öflund Foundation, Finland 1999 • Grant from the Niilo Helander Foundation, Finland 1998 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland • Grant from Art´s Council of Uusimaa, Finland 1997 • Grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finland • Artist-in-Residence, Pompeu Fabra University & Kronos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain 1996 • 1st prize, (DETAIL) Art Journal contest, CA, USA 1991 • 2nd prize, San Francisco Bay Guardian photo contest, CA, USA UPCOMING 2002 Artist-in-Residence, Finland - Mexico Cultural Exchange, Oaxaca, Mexico