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MAIJA TAMMI - exhibitions.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Immortal’s Birthday with Charles Quevillon, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2018 One of them is Human, Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, DE
2017 Hydra, Galleria Huuto, Jätkä 2, Helsinki, Finland White Rabbit Fever, Kana Kawanishi gallery, Tokyo, Japan White Rabbit Fever, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland White Rabbit Fever, Mate?ria, Rome, Italy
2016 White Rabbit Fever, Gallery Lapinlahti, Helsinki, Finland.
2015 Milky Way at VarikkoGalleria, Seinäjoki, Finland. Leftover and Removals at Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Milky Way at Gallery Korjaamo in Helsinki, Finland. Leftover at Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland.
2014 Leftover at GalleriZEBRA in Karjaa, Finland. Leftover at Gallery Uusi Kipinä in Lahti, Finland. Two live-video installations with Aapo Huhta at Our Festival, Järvenpää, Finland. Leftover at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland.
2013 Removals at Galerija Makina, in Pula, Croatia. Bingo at Kaakkois-Suomen Valokuvakeskus at Lappeenranta, Finland.
2012 Bingo at GalleriZEBRA in Karjaa, Finland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Photo 2020, Melbourne, Australia. (February 2021)
2020 #cute. Islands of Bliss?, the NRW-Forum, Du?sseldorf, Germany From Hereon: posthuman, nonhuman, antihuman, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. Real Feelings, he House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland. White Rabbit Fever, Circulation(s), Paris, France. In Real Life, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA.
2019 Coexistence, Kiasma, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland. 'One Picture Manifesto' exhibition with Harri Pälviranta, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland. Valkoinen Pupu, LOOP Festival with the Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Barcelona, Spain One of Them Is a Human, Getxophoto, Bilbao, Spain. One of Them Is a Human, Gibellina Photoroad, Gibellina, Sicily.
2018 John Kobal New Work Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Off Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia True Beauty, Stedelijk Museum, Breda, Netherlands Body Politics, Kana Kawanishi Gallery, Tokyo Japan New Chic, Riga Photomonth, Riga, Latvia
2017 New Voices: Recent Acquisitions from the Light Work Collection,Light Work, Syracuse, New York, USA. Taylor Wessing photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery London, UK POST (2015 - 2017), Der Aa Kerk Nooderlicht Photography Festival NUCLEUS | Imagining Science, Groningen, NL Studioscape (with Mandy Barker), Landskrona Fotofestival in partnership with East Wing, Landskrona, Sweden (Sept 2017) Alix Marie: La Femme Fontaine | Maija Tammi: White Rabbit Fever, Matéria gallery, Rome, Italy
2016 Space, The Griffin Museum of Photography, USA One Clover and a Bee. And Revery at Happylucky no.1, New York, USA. Group presentation, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair and Festival, East Wing Gallery / Dubai, Amsterdam NL Aether - Curated group exhibition / Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Rules, Ascriptions, Kana Kawanishi Photography, Tokyo, Japan. Milky Way at Tokyo International Photography Festival, Tokyo, Japan Photo50, Curated group exhibition, London Art Fair, UK
2015 Curated group exhibition Frame Stories, Lotrš?ak Tower, Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Zagreb, Croatia. Curated group exhibition Next Generation, Valssaamo, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland. Juried group exhibition The Curator at Foley gallery, New York, USA. Group exhibition Space and Sex, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku, Finland.
2014 Curated group exhibition at gallery Tanto Tempo, Kobe, Japan. Crisis? exhibition with collective 11. Hailuoto, Finland.
2013 Juried group exhibition Les Visas de l'ANI 2013 at gallery Bar Floreal in Paris, France. Crisis? exhibition with collective 11 at Vanha Ylioppilastalo, Helsinki, Finland. Finland exhibition with collective 11. Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland. Curated group exhibition Together at Postihalli, Helsinki, Finland.
2012 New York Photo Festival award and exhibition in two categories: documentary series and multimedia, Powerhouse Arena, Dumbo, New York, USA
2011 Finalist and exhibition with series Dwarfdom for OjodePez Award for Human Values, Madrid, Spain. Juried group exhibition Les Visas de l'ANI at gallery Bar Floreal in Paris, France.
2009 Juried group exhibition Friends Forever exhibition at Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2019 Artist Professor 2020–2024, five-year grant and a title, Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
2018 Nominated for the Paul Huf Award, NL Young Artist Award, Finnish Art Society 2017 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize - (3rd prize) John Kobal New Work Award Light Work Artist-In-Residence, Syracuse NY Nominated for the Paul Huf Award, NL
2016 AIRY Artist residency in Yamanashi, Japan. Special mention Photo Folio Review 2016, Rencontres d'Arles, France Nominated for the Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam, NL Artist residency at Mazzano-Romano, Italy. Väinö Tanner Foundation
2015 PDN The Curator Grand Prize Artist residency at Hôtel Chevillon in France for six months, Finnish Cultural Foundation. PDN Photo Annual 2015, winner in Photo Book category.
2014 Selected for 'Review Center Sante Fe 100', New Mexico, USA
2013 Patricia Seppälä Photojournalism Award for Collective 11.
2012 Honorable Mention, Lens Culture International Exposure Awards New York Photo Festival Award in two categories: documentary series and multimedia
2011 Fotofinlandia award Press photographer of the year 2010
VIDEO PERFORMANCES 2020 The 1m3 of the Human Experiment ,with Charles Quevillon, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.
2018 Wigmore Hall (with Pekka Kuusisto, Perttu Haapanen, Suvi Savolainen and Jukka Huitila), London, UK (September 2018) The 1m3 of the Human Experiment, with Charles Quevillon at Our Festival, Tuusula, Finland Concert with Pekka Kuusisto, Perttu Haapanen, Suvi Savolainen and Jukka Huitila at Our Festival, Tuusula, Finland
2017 Video performance Hydra with Maja S.K. Ratkje at Our Festival, Tuusula, FL
2016 Video performance Marcel Was Here and Day 11799 with Pekka Kuusisto at Our Festival, Järvenpää, Finland.
2014 Two live-video installations with Aapo Huhta at Our Festival, Järvenpää, Finland.
EDUCATION
2013–2017 Doctor of Arts, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland.
2006–2010 Master of Social Sciences. University of Tampere, Finland.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Immortal with Ville Tietäväinen, Aalto ARTS Books
2017 White Rabbit Fever, published by Bromide Books Sick Photography. Representations of Sickness in Art Photography with Aalto Arts books.
2014 Book: 'Leftover/Removals' Published by Kehrer Verlag
2015 Maija Tammi: Gallstone in a Gallery. Helsinki Photomedia 2014 publication, Refereed journal, Aalto ARTS Books.
COLLECTIONS 2020 Kiasma, contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland. 2019 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA 2018 Kiasma, contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland. 2018 National Portrait Gallery, UK 2017 Light Work Collection, Syracuse, US 2016 Happylucky no.1 gallery, New York, USA. 2014 GalleriZEBRA gallery, Karjaa, Finland Private collections in Helsinki, London, New York and Taipei.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS 2020 Co-curator with Louise Wolthers, Sara Walker and Melanie Vandenbrouck & Hannu Vanhanen /Space Works exhibition, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland. 2020 Co-curator with Ariane Koek, Lars Willumeit & Hannu Vanhanen for Related Realities, Backlight2020, Tampere Finland 2016 Co-curator with Harri Pälviranta for five-month gallery project Reikä in Helsinki, Finland.