CURRICULUM VITAE
current and UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
The Sidelines, solo exhibition (dates TBC), May 2024
Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
Group exhibition on pop-nostalgia, curated by Athanasía Aarniosuo, (name and dates TBC), December 2024
Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
Solo exhibition (name and dates TBC), June 2025
VMPR (Valgemetsa project space), Estonia
Collaborative exhibition with Emma Peura (name and dates TBC), September 2025
Galleria Gjutars, Vantaa, Finland
Solo exhibitions
2023
Chance Meetings, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2022
Silkkiuikku, Street Art Vantaa, Hakunila resident centre, Vantaa, Finland
Ode to Oleander, EKTÓS Art Space, Athens, Greece
Kävellä ja kaatua, Gallery Theodor, Loviisa, Finland
2020
Beautiful People, artist of the month exhibition, Grafoteekki, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Helsinki, Finland
Peijas Hospital Gallery, Vantaa, Finland
2019
After Wave, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
Island Identities, Myymälä2 process space, Helsinki, Finland
Drifting, ASFA BBQ, book store O Meteoritis, Athens, Greece
On Some Faraway Beach, Café Bar 9, Helsinki, Finland
2018
The Ship Song, Galleria Rantakasarmi, Helsinki, Finland
The Big Ship, Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti, Finland
2014
Ungravity Kiosk (with Hannah Harkes), Ptarmigan Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2012
Ώρες ώρες δε σε καταλαβαίνω, KINITIRAS Studio Artistic Residency Centre, Athens, Greece
Print exhibition, Ravintola Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi, Finland
2011
I Still Can See an Outside World, AllaPrima Museum, Saksala ArtRadius, Haukivuori, Finland
2010
The Greatest Show on Earth, SparkBox Studio, Picton, Ontario, Canada
Dot to dot: Exquisite Corpse II (with Alexander Storey Gordon), Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
World Destroyer, Peltoniemi Made-to-order, Aberdeen, Scotland
World Destroyer, degree show, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
Exquisite Corpse – A publishing house (with Alexander Storey Gordon), Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2009
Matkalla / Sisters Are Forever, Simpele library gallery, Simpele, Finland
Selected group exhibitions & EVENTS
2023
Sarja/Kuva/Taide, group exhibition organised by Helsinki Comics Festival, Om’Pu galleria, Helsinki, Finland
TEOS 2023, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland
2022
Identity, group exhibition organised by Finnish Spirit, Lapinlahden Lähde, Helsinki, Finland
Talven taikaa, group exhibition featuring members of Vantaa Artists’ Association, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
TEOS 2022, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Comics Festival 2022
Konstrundan
Night in Athens, group exhibition curated by Mary Cox and Panayiotis Voulgaris, FokiaNou Art Space, Athens, Greece
2021
TEOS 2021, annual exhibition and sales event of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Suvilahti Kattilahalli and online, Helsinki, Finland
Myyrmäki Street Art Triennial 2021, Street Art Vantaa, Finland
Sarastus, Galleria K, Vantaa, Finland
Sometimes I go places, ViCCA production online exhibition
2020
Pori Biennale 2020 – Not to Sing Like a City Bird Sings, online exhibition with printed catalogue
Issue 04 of Quarantzine – Gaada’s online, open zine of art made in self-isolation
AVOINNA – ÖPPEN – OPEN, Galleria G, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Helsinki, Finland
Issue 03 of Quarantzine – Gaada’s online, open zine of art made in self-isolation
Teos 2020, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2019
Interspecies Liminalities, group exhibition, The Harald Herlin Learning Centre, Espoo, Finland
KANAKORIANTERI – KORIANDERWOK – CHICKEN CORIANDER, group exhibition, Café Bar 9, Helsinki, Finland
Femidistro, Helsinki Comics Festival, Finland
Design Delivered, Helsinki Design Week, Finland
Teos 2019, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2018
Teos 2018, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2017
The Semiannual Six eli eka tuottis, Rupla, Helsinki, Finland
2016
Summer Prints, Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland
Teos 2016, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2014
Directly on the Wall, MUU Kaapeli, Helsinki, Finland
Teos 2014, annual exhibition of the Association of Finnish Printmakers, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2011
It’s OK, they live here! Supermarket Maxima, Nida, Lithuania
mailto: A gallery, an email address and a printer, Drift Station, Gallery + Performance Space, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
New Collective Unoriginal Show, RSA New Contemporaries 2011, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Cheapart16, Cheapart Gallery, Athens, Greece
Rooms2010, Hotel Lycabettus for Gallery Kappatos, Athens, Greece
Lumberjam, Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen Alternative A4 Exhibition, 26 Collective, The Athenaeum, Aberdeen, Scotland
New Faces, Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, Scotland
9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual 2010, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Studio Press – Artists’ Self-Made Books and Zines, Project Slogan Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition 2010, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2009
Locker 36 Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Alaston Taidehalli / Naked Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition 2009, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2008
X-mas Show 2008, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland
2007
“9” Comics, 7th national (Greek) comics competition, awards exhibition, Athens, Greece
Scottish Printmakers Summer Show, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Bags of Talent, Glasgow Metropolitan College: Fine Art student exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland
Residencies
2022
TUO TUO Kulttuuri Tila & Residency, Joutsa, Finland
2019
Labora print workshop, mini-residency, Tallinn, Estonia
2014
Ptarmigan Project Space, mini-residency, Tallinn, Estonia
2011
Kinitiras Studios, residency program, Athens, Greece
Nida Art Colony, residency program, Nida, Lithuania
Saksala ArtRadius, residency program, Haukivuori, Finland
2010
SparkBox Studio, residency program, Picton, Ontario, Canada
Grants & awards
2023
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland (as part of a working group)
Thesis prize, The Society for Cultural Policy Research
Article grant, GRAFIA
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
2022
Travel grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
City of Helsinki microgrant (as part of a working group)
City of Vantaa stipend for artists
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2021
Project grant, GRAFIA
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Aalto University
2020
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Aalto University
Study grant, GRAFIA
2019
Project grant, GRAFIA
City of Vantaa stipend for artists
2011
Travel grant, FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
Residency grant, AREFS Art and Culture Association
Memberships & collectives
The Association of Finnish Printmakers (Board member 2020–2022, Second vice chair 2021–2022)
Mustekala (Board member and regular contributor)
Oksasenkatu 11 collective (Vice chair of the board)
The Finnish Comics Society (Executive director)
Vantaa Artists’ Association
GRAFIA - Association of Visual Communications Designers in Finland
The Finnish Society for Curators SKY ry
Selected collections
Finnish Art Society
HUS (the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa) collection
Private collections in Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the U.S.
thesis Publications (for full list of published articles, see written)
Aarniosuo, A. ‘Recollections: Heterotopias of Nostalgia.’ Master’s Thesis. Espoo: Aalto University; 2022.
Androutsopoulos, A. ‘Construction of time in pictorial narratives: A sequential reading of John Baldessari’s art.’ BA(Hons) Dissertation. Aberdeen: RGU; 2010.
Androutsopoulos, A. ‘Ville Vallgren ja Edvard Munch pohjoismaisen symbolismin edustajina.’ Master's Thesis, MPhil. Helsinki: Helsinki University; 2005.
Education
2022: MA majoring in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA)
2019–2022: Studies at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland: Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art (ViCCA) Master’s Degree Programme, minoring in Comics Expression
2016: Cultural communications studies, Aalto Open University, Finland
2010: BA (Hons) majoring in Fine Art: Printmaking
2007–2010: Fine Art: Printmaking studies at Aberdeen Gray’s School of Art, Scotland
2007: HNC majoring in Fine Art
2006: NC majoring in Art and Design
2005–2007: Art and design studies at Glasgow Metropolitan College, Scotland
2005: MA majoring in Art History
2004: BA majoring in Art History
1998–2005: Studies at Helsinki University, Finland: English Philology, Aesthetics, Art History, languages