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OUTI PIESKI
born 1973,
lives and works in Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), Finland

EDUCATION
1994-2000                 M.F.A, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Helsinki

1992-1994                 North Carelia Polytechnic, the Department of Visual Arts, Joensuu
1992                           High school graduation, High school of Fine Arts, Helsinki

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024      Outi Pieski solo exhibition, Tate St Ives
2023      Ládjogahpira rematriašuvdna—Máhccat eatni lusa, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar/Inari, Finland
2022      Summer exhibition – Sápmi Stories, with Biret and Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
2022     Selected Works, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad, Norway
2022     Ládjogahpir rematriašuvdna—Máhccat eatni lusa/ Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir—   Return to Máttaráhkká, Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm
2021      Beavvit – Rising Together, Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo
2021      47 Most Wanted Foremothers, 12 Star Gallery, London
2020      47 Most Wanted Foremothers, in collaboration with Eeva-Kristiina Nylander, Sámi Culture Centre Sajos, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
2019      Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2019      A Greater Miracle of Perception, with Miracle Workers Collective, Finnish Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale

2019      Čuolmmadit, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2018      Čuolmmadit, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2017      Falling Shawls, one year installation at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
2015      Ássojuvvon báiki – Inhabited Land, Härjedalens Kulturcentrum, Lillhärdal, Sweden
2014      Mimicry, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London         
2014      Ássojuvvon báiki – Inhabited Land, Gallery Korjaamo, Helsinki
2010      Áhku´s Medicine Pine, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2010      Áhku´s Medicine Pine, Luleå Kulturens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
2009      Kaisa in a Lake Giisajärvi, Forum Box, with Pauliina Turakka Purhonen, Helsinki
2008      Bird Singing Tree, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
2007      Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2003      Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
2002      Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023-24 The Land Has a Mind to Speak- Sámi Horizons, MARKK, Hamburg
2023     Gibca- Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
2023     Speaking Back -Davi muitalusaid dekoloniseren/Decolonizing Nordic Narratives, Kunsthaus Hamburg

2022     Navigating North, Kiasma, Helsinki
2022     YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
2022     Arctic Amazon – Networks of Global Indigeneity, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
2022      A gathering with love, curated by Zip­pora El­ders, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen Amsterdam
2022     rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
2022     Nordic Lights Festival, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2021      Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2021     Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2021      Jaskatvuođa maŋŋá: Sexy Sápmi – Breaking the Silence, Davvi álbmogiid guovddaš – Center of Northern People, Riddu Riđđu Festival, Gáivuotna (Kåfjold), Norway
2021     Wiping the Ice-Cream Off your Face  – 30 years of activity of the Artists’     Association of Lapland, Galleria Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland 

2020      Around the Corner, the Wind’s Joik, Sven Harry´s konstmuseum, Stockholm
2019      40 jagi – Ávvočájahus / Anniversary exhibition, Alta kunstforening, Norway
2019      Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
2019      Duddjot, Institut Finlandais, Paris
2019      Human Era, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä

2019      Nordic Impressions, Scandinavia House, New York
2019      Histories. Three generations of Sámi artists, Queen Sonja Art Stable, Oslo
2018      Landscape of the Future, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki
2018      Nordic Impressions, Phillips Collection Museum, Washington
2018      Northern Exposure, Nordic Museum, Seattle
2018      Áigemátki – Time Travel, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2017      Greetings from Suomi, Fiskars, Finland
2017      Staro Riga light festival, Riga
2017      Lux Helsinki light festival, Helsinki Cathedral Chapel, Helsinki

2017      I Craft, I Travel Light, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø; Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš/Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2017      Sámi Dáiddamusea, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromso, Norway
2017      Puku, kieli, suku, mieli, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2016      Obsidian Gaze, Center of Northern Peoples, Manndalen, Norway
2016      Art Ii Biennale – Poetics of the Material, Environmental Art Park in Ii, Finland
2016      Change Makers, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada
2015      Sámi Contemporary, Felleshus, Berlin
2015      Sámi Contemporary, Kungsbacka konsthall, Sweden
2015      How to Read in the Dark?, Grimmuseum, Berliini; Tartu kunstimaja, Estonia; Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
2014      Hetkinen, Mänttä Art Weeks, Finland
2014      Top of the World, Sami Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2014      The Snowball Effect 2, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2014      Northern ´Souls, Space Station Sixty-Five, London
2014      Sámi Contemporary, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), NorwaySámi Contemporary, Norbottens Museum, Luleå, SwedenSámi Contemporary, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2013      Regards sur L’art Contemporain de Finlande, Chateau de Saint Auvent, Limoges, France
2013      Sakahán – International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2013      Totta vai leikkiä 2, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2012      Snow Ball Effect – North Finland Biennial, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2012      I see, Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden
2012      Aaargh! – 10 years later, Jätkäsaari warehouse, Helsinki
2012      Barked! – Contemporary birch, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
2011      The Magic of Lappland, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
2011      The Great Outside, Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2011      Middle of Nowhere, Rauma Artmuseum, Finland
2010      Ausgrabungen des Alltags, Pieski, Braun& Raito, Finland-Institut in Deutschland, Berlin
2010      Triennial of Finnish Art, TR1 Arthall, Tampere, Finland
2009      Lappi Artists´ Union 20 year jubileum, Rovaniemi Art museum, Finland
2009      Calling Home, Quartair, Haag, Netherlands
2008      Ausflug zum Saftsee, Pieski, Braun & Raito, Westwerk, Hamburg
2007      Kollaasi, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2006- 2008 In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun – Saami and Inuit Art 2000-2005, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Winnipeg Manitoba; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan; Yokon Arts centre, Whitehouse Yukon Territory, Canada
2006      Äidin taju, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2004       Pieski, Lehtonen Braun and Raito, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki
2004      Garden of Paradise, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2004      Common Land – Contemporary art and art handicraft of Arctic Nations, W. Aaltonen   Museum, Turku, Finland
2003      Common Land – Contemporary art and art handicraft of Arctic Nations, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar(Inari); Gallen-Kallela Museum of Espoo, Finland                                                   
2001      Mental Impression, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2000      Det Fluktuerende Maleri, Biennial South 2000, Sorlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand, Sweden                                                                         
2000      Triennial of Finnish Art, Helsinki Art Hall
2000      Report of Journey, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
1999      Girjin Govvan – Sámi Art, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
1999      Girjin Govvan – Sámi Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
1999      Polvi-Generation, exhibition of the graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Art Hall
1996      Comment, exhibition for young artists, WG house, Espoo, Finland
1995      Exhibition for young artists, Helsinki Art Hall

IN COLLABORATION
2023     Arctic/Amazon – Networks of Global Indigeneity, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/Can (Guhte gullá)
2023    Abundance, the 45th Tendenser Biennial, Galleri F15, Norway (Guhte gullá)
2022     Arctic Amazon, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (Guhte gullá)
2022     Árran 360°, San Servolo, Venice Film Festival program / The Sámi Pavilion at 59 La Biennale di Venezia  (Guhte gullá)
2022      Landscapes of Belonging, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Guhte gullá)
2021     The Same See, Helsinki Biennale (Guhte gullá – Here to Hear by Birit and Katja Haarla, Outi Pieski)
2021     ´Counter Cartographies, Living the Land, Anchorage Museum, Alaska (Rájácummá)
2020      Rájágeassin – Rajanveto, Holmberg, Laiti & Pieski, Jonne Sippola, Häiriköt-päämaja & Jari Tamminen, galleria Sinne, Helsinki (Moratorium Office)
2020      Rájácummá, publication of the community-based art project Rájácummá, author´s edition (Rájácummá)
2020      publication Ládjogahpir – Máttaráhkuid gábagahpir/ The Ládjogahpir – The Foremothers` Hat of Pride, Eeva-Kristiina Harlin & Outi Pieski, publisher Davvi Girji
2018–2020  Moratoriadoaimmahat – Moratorium Office, Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, in collaboration with Ellos Deatnu! movement, community-based self- determination project

2019      Actually the Dead is not Dead, Bergen Assemble, Bergen (Moratorium Office& Rájácummá)
2019      Rájácummá, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok) (Rájácummá)    
2019      The Human Era, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä Fin (Moratorium Office)
2019      Matters at Heart, Telemark Kunstsenter, Nor (Moratorium Office & Rájácumma)
2018      Finland 101, Art Museum Artsi, Vantaa, Fin (Moratorium Office)
2018      A revolutionary toolkit, Suohpanterror solo exhibition in Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Moratorium Office)
2017–2018 Rájácummá – Kiss from the Border, Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, environmental and community-based art project in Deatnu river valley

2017      Dola fávttat, live stream happening in Giličoahkin, Pauliina Feodoroff, Baltic Circle Theatre Festival (Rájácummá)
2017-2020 art and research project Ládjogahpir–Máttaráhkuid gábagahpir/ The Ládjogahpir–The Foremothers` Hat of Pride, Eeva-Kristiina Nylander (Harlin) and Outi Pieski

OTHER PROJECTS
2022      co-direction, co-set design, co-costume design, performing in Matriarchy, performance, digital screen installation by Pauliina Feodoroff, The Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Pavilion), 59 La Biennale di Venezia
2021      curating in Mäccmõš, maccâm, máhccan – Homecoming, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki

2017      set design in Autonomiija áiggis – Time of Autonomy, Pauliina Feodoroff, Maryan Abdulkarim, S Nousiainen, Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Helsinki
2008     co-direction, set design, costume design in Harvat & Valitut, dance and fine art live installation, Zodiak/Hiap, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2005     co-direction, set design, costume design in Harvat & Valitut, dance and fine art live installation, Ritarikatu 7, Helsinki

PUBLIC COMISSIONS
2023      Guovssat – Suojametsä, Lapland Central Hospital

2020      Guovtte biggii – Guektien bïegkese – Two Directions, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, subscriber Public Art Agency Sweden
2015      Spirit of the Valley, Sámi Parliament House of Norway, Kárášjohka (Karasjok) subscriber KORO- Public Art Norway
2012      Eatnu, Eadni, Eana – Stream, Mother, Ground, Sámi Parliament Hall, Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos, Aanaar (Inari), subscriber The Finnish State Art Collection
2010      Sanattomat ilon tuojat, Vesala Community Centre, Ylikiiminkii, subscriber city of Oulu Finland
2007      Solju and Lavvut, Sámi kindergarden, Tromso, subscriber city of Tromso Norway

REPRESENTED
Moderna Museet, 
National Museum in Norway, Nordnorsk KunstmuseumThe Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art KiasmaStortingets kunstsamling in Norway, Finnish National Gallery, State Art Deposit Collection Finland, Aine Art MuseumRovaniemi Art Museum, Oulu Art MuseumSámi Museum SiidaJenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation CollectionThe Academy of Fine Arts HelsinkiSámi Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat Sámi Art CollectionRidduDuottar Museum Collection, SANKS Norway, Senter for nordlige folk – Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš Norway, Vest-Agder fylkeskommune, City of Tromso, City of LuleåCity of Rovaniemi, City of Östersund, YLE Sámi Radio

MEMBERSHIPS
Finnish Painters´ Union
Sámi Artists´UnionLappi Artists´ Union

AWARDS
2020      Finnish Cultural Foundation Grand Prize

2017      Fine Arts Academy of Finland Award
2016      William Thuring Prize, Finnish Art Society
2015      Ars Fennica Award candidate
2013      Sápmi Awards candidate
2001      Mänttä Art Festival Main Award
1999      Prize for Young Artist, Paulo Foundation