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Johanna Naukkarinen
b.1988

Lives and works in Turku, Finland




Bio

Johanna Naukkarinen (b. 1988, Kuopio) works with the themes that intersect with the history of medicine and the history of art. She uses theories of feminist image research to trace the path from historical images to more contemporary images that portray womanhood. 

Naukkarinen works mainly with photography and digital drawing, but sometimes her works expand to mixed media practices. Naukkarinen graduated as a Bachelor of Culture and Arts from the fine art photography department in Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences and got her Master of Arts degree in media studies department in the University of Turku.  

Her works are represented in the collections of Turku Art Museum, Kuopio Art Museum and Turku City Art Collection. She has had eight solo exhibitions including exhibitions in Photographic Centre Peri, 2024; GalleriA, 2022; Galleria Huuto, 2020 and Turku Art Museum Studio, 2016.




Studies

2018 Master of Arts, University of Turku, Media studies

2016 Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Arts Academy at Turku University of Applied Sciences, 
Fine Art Photography

2015 01/15-05/15 National College of Art and Design (Erasmus exchange), Dublin, Media Art


Solo Exhibitions

2024 Anatomical Venus, Valokuvakeskus Peri, Turku

2022 Anatomical Venus, GalleriA, Kuopio

2022 Anatomical Venus, Galleria Rajatila, Tampere

2021 Anatomical Venus, Yö Galleria, Helsinki 

2020 Museum of Hysteria, Kouta-galleria, Kouvola 

2020 Museum of Hysteria, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki

2019 Meet Augustine, B-galleria, Turku

2016 Suuri Hysteria, Turku Art Museum Studio, Turku

2011 FourSomes, Bar Kuka, Turku


Collection exhibitions

2024 Seam – Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio

2018–2020 Four elements, Turku Art Museum, Turku


Selected Group Exhibitions and Festivals

2025 Morbus, Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki (up-coming)

2021 The 97th Annual Exhibition of the Turku Artist´s Association, Kunsthalle Turku

2021 Blind Spots pilot, Hansakortteli, Turku

2021 New Performance Turku (with Tiia Kasurinen), Turku

2020 Winter Salon 2020, The Exhibition of the Turku Artist's Association, Kunsthalle Turku, Turku

2020 Wiurilan kesä: Tie jonka valitsin, Wiurilan Manor, Halikko

2019 The 95th Annual Exhibition of the Turku Artist’s Assosiation, Kunsthalle Turku, Turku

2019 Everything is Important - Art Exhibition by Recover Laboratory, Helsinki

2018 Recover Laboratory: Underneath // Art & Circus Labyrinth, Helsinki
2018 Peri @ Forum Kortteli, Forum Kortteli, Turku

2017 Art Future / Future Revolution Mini-biennale, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga

2017 Out of Line, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala

2015 D Light Open Gallery, D-light Studios, Dublin

2015 Spectrum, NCAD Gallery, Dublin

2015 Ctrl + Alt + Delish, Backloft, Dublin

2015 20 000 HUF, Galleri Zepra, Karjaa


Public Artworks

2024 Peitto: Philodendron gloriosum and Peitto: Beaucarnea recurvata, Tyks Compass Hospital, Turku


Works in Collections

Kuopio Art Museum
Turku Art Museum
Turku City Art Collection
Private Collections


Works in Publications

2023 Maria Gainza: Schwarzlicht (2023), a cover for a novel published by Wagenbach

2022 Maria Gainza: Portrait of an Unknown Lady (2022), a cover for a novel published by VINTAGE at Penguin Random House

2019 Swarm Mag, Prague based art oriented online publication

2019 Joy of Looking the 3rd

2019 Funny Looking Dog Quarterly Issue 3: Fall, Chicago based literary magazine

2019 B-ZINE 2-7/19, publication by B-galleria

2018 Turku Art Museum - book

2016 Sukupuolentutkimus – Genusforskning magazine 4/2016, Featured Artist

2015 Turun Ylioppilaslehti 7/2015

2014 Feature Shoot, Polaroid Group Show, online feature 30/07/2014

2013 a book of lies : väritettyjä totuuksia, VOry & MUSTA TAIDE / Aalto PHOTO Books


Awards

2019 Winner of FotoRoom's #FotoRoomOPEN Vasli Souza edition, single image category


Grants

2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Southwest Finland), working grant

2024 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant

2023 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, working grant

2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant

2022 Turku cultural board, working grant

2021 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant

2020 Alfred Kordelin Foundation, working grant

2020 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, corona grant

2020 Turku Art Society, corona grant

2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Southwest Finland), working grant
 
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, mobility grant to Studio Faire residency

2019 Turku cultural board, working grant


Residencies

2024 Casa Finlandese ateljeehouse by The Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, Grassina, Italy

2019 Studio Faire, Nérac, France


Associations

Association of Photographic Artists
Kuvasto
Photographic centre Peri
Turku Artist’s Assosiation


Positions of Responsibility

2019/11– Chairman of Photographic Centre Peri

2024 Member of the board, Kunsthalle Turku Association

2018–2019 Member of the board, Photographic Centre Peri

2018–2019 Member of artistic working group of Kunsthalle Turku


Selected mentions in Media

2022 Yle Radio Suomi Kuopio, radio interview about an exhibition, 29.9.2022

2022 Taide-lehti, 4/2022, Nähtyjä -column

2021 Turun Sanomat, 13.12.2021, interview about documentary photography - Valokuvataiteilija näkee, että sosiaalisen median kuvapaljous pakottaa ammattilaiset ottamaan kuvia, jotka erottuvat massasta

2020 Kouvolan Sanomat, 30.6.2020, interview about exhibition - Nainen saattoi saada hysteriadiagnoosin tottelemattomuuden, laihuuden tai opiskeluhalujen vuoksi – Kouvolassa avautuvassa Hysteriamuseossa selviää, mitä yhteistä on sadan vuoden takaisilla potilaskuvilla ja nykypäivän muotiposeerauksilla

2020 Helsingin Sanomat, 17.1.2020, exhibition recommendation - Nämä näyttelyt kannattaa käydä katsomassa viikonloppuna: lastenhoitaja Vivian Maierin omakuvia ja fantastisia ruumisarkkuja

2020 Ny Tid, 13.1.2020, exhibition review - Konstkollen. Ambivalenser – kön, kirurgi och relationer
2019 Turun Sanomat, 16.8.2019, interview as a photography course teacher - Kuvien katsomista, valon tarkkailua ja halu oppia – Näistä aineksista syntyy hyvä kuva

2016 Turun Sanomat, 1.4.2016, interview about graduation exhibition - Hysterian kuvien jäljillä

2011 Turun Sanomat, interview about exhibition - Filmikuvaaminen luo jännitystä


Other selected artistic experience

Freelance Photographer since 2013

2021- Teacher of Documentary Photography course and creative photography course, Aurala, Turku

2019 Teacher of Järjestelmäkamera tutuksi, DSLR course, Turku Art Museum, Turku

2017– Teacher of Järkkäri Haltuun! - DSLR course, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki

2016–2017 Photographer at IPIP - In Public In Particular, An International co-operation project of participatory situation based art, cofinanced by the Creative Europe Programme 

2016-2017 Teacher of Digital Photography, Tuas Open University of Applied Sciences, Salo

2014 Internship as an assistant in Arteles Residency