Gun Holmström
born 1964 in Pellinge, Finland, living in Helsinki
Address: Juhannusruusunkuja 3 A 13, 00990 Helsinki, Finland
Phone: +358-(0)40-7596 851, +358-(0)9-6933 338
E-mail: gun@gnuh.net
Portfolio: www.gnuh.net

EDUCATION
2004-06 MA program in Context and Media, Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg University
1990-93 Turku Art Academy (Dep. of Sculpture)
1989-90 Liminka Art School
1983-89 Abo Akademi University (Dep. of Sociology)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Gallery Optica, Montreal, Canada, (upcoming)
2003 Focal Point, Kunsthalle Lophem, Black Box, Belgium;
Focal Point, Turku Art Museum, studio, Finland
2002 Sunday, the Showroom Gallery, London
2001 Video Portraits, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, Sweden
Split, Leena Kuumola Gallery, Helsinki,
1999 A Womb of One's Own, Muu Gallery, Helsinki
1998 Kari Kenetti Gallery, project room, Helsinki
1997 Kakelhallen Gallery, Mariehamn, Aalandia
1996 performings, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
A-Normal, Titanik Gallery, Turku
1994 Just Gallery, Turku

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2004 Parameters of Fear, Muu Gallery, Helsinki
Vision and Mind, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, Oslo
View04, Muu galleria, Helsinki
2003 The Vth International Contemporary Art Exhibition, the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
I virkeligheden, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen
Billboard Project, Copenhagen
2002 Symptomania, Finnish Contemporary Photography, Film, Video & Interactive Art, Kunsthalle Lophem, Brugge, Belgium
Born Again, Muu Gallery, Helsinki
Off Skene, 4th Finnish Photography Triennal, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Platform of Encounters, CAC, Vilnius
Attachment +, Brugge Cultural Capital, Belgium; Swinging Puzzle, The Nordic House, Reykjavik
View, Cable Factory, Helsinki; Family, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Photography and video, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2001 PolarFlex, Aroma Project Space, Berlin
Insider Trading, Hotel Mandeville, London
2000 Alphabets & Outils, Finnish Institute, Paris
Realm of the Senses, International Contemporary Art, Turku, Finland
Nordic Postmodernism, KIASMA Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
1999 Alphabets and Tools, Gallery Artemisia, Chicago, USA
1998 Naked and masked, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Sights, Knipnas hospital, Tammisaari, Finland
Suomi Collect, Quartair Gallery, Den Haag, Holland
1993-1997 Participation in group exhibitions in Finland

VIDEO SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS (selected):
2004 Criss-Cross video program by Nifca, Electric Visions, Russia & Lithuania, Finnish Experimental Film and Video Art, Anthology Film Archives, New York; International Film Festival of Gender & Sexual Plurality, Intia, Pune, Larzish; Finlandssvensk filmmönstring, Vaasa, Finland; Tampere Film Festival 3.-7.3.2004
2003 International Film Festival on Gender & Sexual Plurality, Bombay, India; Kettupäivät, film festival, Helsinki 2003; Electric Visions, St Petersburg, Russia and Bilbao, Espanja; Bambi, ICA, Philadelphia Art Museum, USA; Electric Visions, St Petersburg, Russia; Georges Abstraction Surface, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, VIEW03, Helsinki; Nordicliveart, Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Connected! Tate Modern, London; Finlandia, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; different/diverse, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; MOV, Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden
2001 9e Biennale de I´lmage en Mouvement, Geneve, Switzerland; Kettupaivat, Helsinki; Night Of a Hundred Eyes, Transit Space, London; Project: Film and Video, The Pitville Pump Room, Cheltenham, UK; different / diverse, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice; Vera, documentary film festival, Aalandia
2000 Video Garden, Art's Night, Helsinki; StandArt, video- and performance festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
1999 Backdoor Media 99 (Facades for the Homeless), Estonia, Kapuum, Turku, Finland; Art and Philosophy, Kiasma, Helsinki
1996 Muumediafestival, Kirjakaapeli, Helsinki
1995 Oslo One Night Stand, Nordic Video and Performance Art, Oslo

COLLECTIONS
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki City Art Museum

PUBLIC ART WORKS
Vitamin Power Sunrise, HIV Support Center in Helsinki, Finland (1996)
Caleidoskop, Laajasalo Health and Social Service Center, Helsinki (2002)

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Art Council of Finland (2004-) 5 year grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation (2003) 1 year grant, Stina Krook foundation (2003), AVEK (2002), Art Council of Finland (2001), 1 year grant, Art Council of Finland (2002) VISEK (2001), NIFCA (2000), Finnish Cultural Foundation (2000, 1999), Uudenmaa Art Commission (1998), Helsinki City (1996), Svenska kulturfonden (2004,1996, 1998, 1999 _ year grant), Konstsamfundet (1996, 1998, 2001), Turku City (1994), Alfred Kordelin Foundation (1994), Artist Association of Turku (1994), Wäinö Aaltonen association (1993)

RESIDENCIES
2003 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Master Artist: Gillian Wearing
2002 Delfina Studio Trust, London
2001 NIFCA artist residency, Gothenburg, Sweden