Curriculum Vitae
Nanna Susi
Born 1967
Lives and works in Helsinki and Rome
Studies
1997 MA, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Nordplus student, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990-94 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1988-90 Kankaanpää Institute of Art, Kankaanpää, Finland
1987-88 The Orivesi College of Arts, Orivesi, Finland
Private exhibitions
2024 The Garden Enchantment, Saarijärvi Museum, Saarijärvi, Finland
2024 All the Colours of the World – Toutes les couleurs du monde, Institut finlandais, Paris, France
2024, Roof Over Happiness, Gallery Pictor, Nummela, Finland
2023 Good Moments / Belli Momenti, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2022-2023 The Paintress and Furious Love, Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland
2022 Seascapes, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Filippa and I at the Picnic’s Afterparty, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2021 On an Eternal Picnic with Johan Richard, Villa Danielson-Kalmari, Vääksy, Finland
2020 French balconies, Full Moons and Mountains, Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland
2020 Asetelmia – Nature Morte – Still Lifes, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2020 nanna susi – kylässä Hangossa! på besök i Hangö! Hanko, Finland
2020 Moments Include Eternity, Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi, Rovaniemi, Finland
2019 Enchantment, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Atelier Project, MACRO ASILO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2019 Two Journeys, Joensuu Art Museum Onni, Joensuu, Finland
2019 In The Moods, Nanna Susi retrospective exhibition, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2018 little paradise, nanna susi studio, Helsinki, Finland
2018-2019 In The Moods, Nanna Susi retrospective exhibition, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
2018 Between Dark and Rise, Xian Art Museum, Xian, China
2018 Leaking Vase, Tang Bo Art Museum, Xian, China
2017 I Am Thousands Years Old, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Soul Weaving, Finlayson Art Area, Tampere, Finland
2017 Makasiini Contemporary Studio, Turku, Finland
2015 Hei Hetket!, Gumbostrand, Sipoo, Finland
2014 Friday Flowers – Auran Galleria, Turku, Finland
2014 La Venaria Reale, Torino, Italia
2013 Nine Lives And The Foyers – Korjaamo Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Underneath the Eyes – HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2011 Galleria Ama, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2007 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2006 Museo Salvini, Cocguio Trevisago, Lombardia, Italy
2005 Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2004 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland
2003 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Galerie Forsblom, Studio, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2001 Institut Finlandais, Paris, France
2001 Romberg Arte Contemporaneo, Latina, Italy
2000 Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Tampere Young Artist of the Year 2000, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2000 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland
1999 Marazzani Visconti Terzi Arte, Piacenza, Italy
1998 Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland
1996 Galleria Artina, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Galleria Pintura, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, Finland
1995 Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Selected group exhibitions
2023-2024 Dreams and Visions – New collection of the Nelimarkka Foundation, Halosenniemi Museum, Tuusula, Finland
2023 Wihuri on Tour, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2019 “How are them doing now?”, Pinxinmäki, Sysmä, Finland
2019 Blue and Red Art Project I & II: Nanna Susi and Canal Cheong Jagerroos, a documentary short film by P.J.Piippo, Joensuu Art Museum Onni, Joensuu, Finland
2018 Blue and Red Art Project II: Nanna Susi and Canal Cheong Jagerroos, a documentary short film by P.J.Piippo, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2018 Blue and Red Art Project II: Nanna Susi and Canal Cheong Jagerroos, a documentary short film by P.J.Piippo, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
2018-2019 Goldilocks and Other Stories from Own Collections, Tampere Art museum, Tampere, Finland
2018 Aseman Taidelaituri, 1.6.-15.8.2018, Punkaharju
2018 Group Exhibition: “Transizioni e Passaggi”, 23.3.-26.3.2018 Spazio Cerere, Rome, Italy
2017 Group Exhibition: “Berliner Liste” / Fair For Contemporary Art / Himmelblau, Berlin, Germany
2017 Group Exhibition: “Art Goes Logomo” / Makasiini Contemporary, Logomo, Turku, Finland
2016 Group exhibition: Pyhäniemi, Hollola / Lahti, Finland
2016 Group exhibition Mikko Hallikainen, Nanna Susi, Katja Tukiainen, Galleria G12, Kuopio, Finland
2015 Dark Days, Bright Nights, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
2014—2015 Häntä pystyyn, Tail Up! Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
2014—2015 Hullu metsä, Crazy Forest! Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2012 Collection Extravaganza from Edelfelt to Kasitonni, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
2011 Art Helsinki Contemporary Art Fair 2011, Helsinki, Finland (Galleria Ama)
2011 Dimanche en Rose, Institut Finlandais, Paris, France
2011 Pyhäniemi Mansion Summer Exhibition, Hollola, Finland
2010 Art Copenhagen 2010 – the Nordic Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark (Galleria Ama)
2009 The Artists’ Kalevala, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2008 All Colors, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Konstmässan 2007 (Galleria Ama) Sollentuna, Tukholma, Ruotsi – Stockholm Art Fair 2007, Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Art Copenhagen 2006 – the Nordic Art Fair (Galleria Ama) Copenhagen, Denmark
2004 Gardens of Paradise, Helsinki Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Finlanded, d’AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Ciampino, Ciampino, Italy
2004 Landscape Now, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland
2003 Villa Piccolomini, Centro Dionysia, Rome, Italy
2003 50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Hokkarikukkia – Works from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection at Rovaniemi Art Museum; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku, Finland
2001 Four Artists in Kerava, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
2001 Finnish Today..! Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001 Time in Mazzano, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Pyhäniemi Mansion Summer Exhibition, Hollola, Finland
2001 Galleria Pio Monti, Rome, Italy
2001 Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
2000 Spazio Off – Torino Biennial, Torino, Italy
2000 Spazio Off – Romberg Arte Contemporaneo, Latina, Italy
1999 Indoors–Outdoors, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
1999 Paloja / Pieces, Bukowski-Hörhammer, Helsinki, Finland
1999 Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
1999 Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e dell’Mediterraneo, Rome, Italy
1999 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
1999 7th International Biennial of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
1998 Workshop of visual arts presentation, Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Works in Collections
Vantaa Art Museum Artsi
Finnish National Gallery
Steven and Kathy Guttman Collection, New York
Gautreaux Collection, Kansas City
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Lahti Art Museum MALVA
Salo Art Museum
Tampere Art Museum
Huitti & Ranta-Huitti, Finland
Ursa Astronomical Association, Helsinki
Nelimarkka Foundation
Paulo Foundation
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
Rovaniemi Art Museum Korundi
Niemistö Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum
Pyynikinlinna, Tampere
Stora Enso Oyj
Altia Oyj
Sitra
Paolo Foundation
Kone Foundation
Duodecim Collection
Academy of Fine Arts
Oy Valitut Palat – Reader’s Digest Ab
Finnish Embassy in Egypt, Cairo
Finnish Embassy in Paris, France
Salmela Arts Centre
Hammarström Puhakka Partners
Vääksy Secondary School, Asikkala
Villa Danielson-Kalmari, Municipality of Asikkala
Awards
2000 Young Artist of the Year, Tampere
2005 The Beato Angelico Prize, Rome
2014 Golden Helsinki Medal, Helsinki
Memberships
Finnish Painters’ Union
Public works
2023 Portrait of Vantaa mayor emerita Ritva Viljanen, Vantaa City Hall, Vantaa, Finland
2016 The oil painting “Nature Trip” (Luontoretki), located on the outside wall of the kindergarten in Hämeenlinna (Liivuoren päiväkoti / Liivuori Kindergarten), Finland
1998 The paintings Clinic I and Clinic II in the Meilahti Hospital’s Oncological Department, Helsinki, Finland
1998 The altar painting in St Andrea Church in Rekola, Vantaa, Finland