annu@annuvertanen.com Education

Annu Vertanen ______CV September 2011
Education
Kankaanpää Art School 1983, Lahti Polytechnic 2000, Uiah, Helsinki 2005-
Recent one and two person exhibitions
2011 Gallery Orton, Helsinki
2010 Hengittävä Kosketus (Breathing Touch), City Art Gallery, Helsinki
2009 The Day of Absence, Gallery Academia, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 The Indeterminate Edge with Karen Kunc, Ruffin Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
2008 Blind Spot, Gallery Harmonia, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2008 Blind Spot, Gallery Aarni, WeeGee, Espoo, Finland
Annu Vertanen, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2005
2005 Annu Vertanen, Gallery Tarusto, Savonlinna, Finland
2004 Wallpaper Experiences, Art Gallery Husa, Tampere, Finland
2004 Annu Vertanen and Johanna Pihlajamaa, Gallery Harmaja, Oulu, Finland
2003 Annu Vertanen, Galleria Joella, Turku, Finland
2002 Project My House, Art Center Retretti/Himmelblau, Finland
2002 Annu Vertanen: Woodcut prints, Frans Macereel Centrum, Belgium
2001 It is not the rose, Varkaus Art Museum, Finland
2000 Index, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Flower Power, Gallery Becker, Jyväskylä, Finland (with Riitta Uusitalo)
2000
Address:
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55400 Imatra
Finland
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Woodcuts from serie My House, Dansøgade 4 Udstillning, Bövlingbjerg, Denmark
Selected group exhibitions
2011 Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland, IPCNY, New York, Usa
2011 Prints in Himmelblau/Retretti, Punkaharja, Finland
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2010 Japanese Wave – New Shores Paul Furneux, Annu Vertanen, Fusako Yoshikawa, Northern print Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England (invitation)
2010 Hot Plate, PhoenixBrighton Gallery, England (invitation)
2010 Kantri & Urbaani, Gallery Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland
2009 Eight Journeys on Paper, Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland (invitation)
2009 The Masters of Graphic Art, Drawing and Graphic Biennial, Györ, Hungary (invitation)
Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia (invitation)
2009
2009 New World, collaborative print project, Gallery Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland
2009 Belgrade Encounters, Gallery Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland
2009 Between Substance and Memory, (Tompuri, Vertanen, Weckman) Kuopio Art Museum
2008-09 Nahes Ufer Fernes Ufer, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Saksa (curated by Ritva Röminger)
2008 Edmonton Print 2008, Edmonton, Canada (invitation)
2008 icon@brave, Gallery Manes, Praque, Czech Republic (curated by Mika Karhu)
2008 Winter Seminar, Art Hall, Jyvaskyla, Finland

3x2 Vertanen Dolven Ahonen Hoy Heilimo Ruta,South Carelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
2006
Elämän värit – Els colors de la vida, Centro Cultural la Mercè. Girona. Spain (curated by Heli
2007
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2007 Five Rooms, Helsinki Art Hall
2007 Space! Imatra and Kouvola Art Museums
2006 Contemporary Finnish Woodcuts, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2006 Mirror of the Wood, Salo Art Museum, Finland (curated by Karen Kunck)
2006 Decades of Print, Lahti Art Brewery, Finland
2005 Anthologie der Kunst, ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 The Land of Wandering, Exquisite History Volume One, The Off Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville,
Virginia, USA
2005 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VIII INT. Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Art, Györ, Hungary (invitation)
2005 Mirror of the Wood, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington, Carleton College Art Gallery,
Nortfield, Minnesota,
Finnish- American Heritage Center Gallery, Hancock, Minnesota, Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of
Wisconsin and Emily David Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Ohio, USA (curated by
Karen Kunck)
2005 Graphica Creativa’05, Jyväskylä, Finland
2005 The 26th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (curated by Breda Skrjanec)
2005 Ecumenicalism of Arts, Pihatto, Lappeenranta, Finland
2005 Woodcut and Linocut in Finland, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia (invitation)
2004 Seoul_Space, International biennial, Seoul, Korea
2004 Laureat Exhibition, The Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Mirror of the Wood, A Century of Woodcut Print in Finland, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of
Lincoln, USA (curated by Karen Kunck)
2004 Anthology of Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berliini and ZKM, Karlsruhe
2004 Artist in a Picture, Kiasma, Helsinki
2004 International Flavors, Mason Gross Galeries, Rutgers Center of Innovative Print and Paper, New
Brunswic, USA (curated by Lynne Allen)
2004 Delight of Woodcuts, Inari Krohn, Tuukka Peltonen, Johanna Pihlajamaa, Annu Vertanen, Gallery
Allinna, Riihimäki, Finland
2003 Sensory Experience, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and 214 DeWATERS
ART CENTER, Flint, Michigan, USA (curated by Karen Kunck, travelling)
2003 Postspace, Oulu Art Museum, Finland (curated by Mika Karhu)
2003 Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia (invitation)
2003 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VII Int. Biennial of Drawing and Graphics, Györ, Hungary (invitation)
2003 Nature and Human Nature, Purnu exhibition, Orivesi, Finland (curated by Hannu Castren)
2002 New Definitions in Printmaking, University of Wyoming Art Museum, USA (curated by Dean Dass)
2001 The Fluttering Ways, Inter Kontakt Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic (invitation)
2001 Europrint, Falutriennialen, Falun, Sweden (invitation)
2001 Mutating Image, Tallinn Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 Top 7, South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
2001 Nature and Human Nature, Art Week Mänttä, Finland (curated by Hannu Castren)
2001 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VI Int. Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Györ, Hungary (invitation)
2001 Salon Internacional, Biennial de San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001 Graphica Borea, Prints in Finland 1895-2001, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Kaliningrad Biennial of the Baltic Sea Countries, Russia (curated by Melec Mazici)

2000 Bridge to the Future, Kracov Triennial, Poland
Collections
In Finland
The Finnish State Collection; The Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma)Helsinki; The Parliament Collection;
The Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä; Helsinki City Art Museum; Wihuri Corporation at Rovaniemi Art Museum;
Lahti Art Museum; Kuopio Art Museum; South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta; Imatra Art Museum; Oulu
Art Museum; Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art; EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Municipalities of
Kotka, Kuusankoski, Parikkala and Valkeala
Abroad
Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden; University of Alberta Museum, Canada; Albertina Museum,
Wienna; Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, USA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-
Lincoln, USA;Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden; National Museum in Gdansk Poland; National Museum in
Banska Bystrica Slovakia; International Center of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia; Prague National Gallery
The Czech Republic; Århus Kunstforening af 1984 Denmark; Landstinget Gävle, Sweden; Skellefteå
Kommun, Sweden; Örebro Landsting, Sweden;Statens konstråd, Sweden; The Municipal Museum of Art, Györ,
Hungary; Vesterås konstmuseum, Sweden; Landstinget Karlstad, Sweden; Elfa Ab, Sweden
private and corporate collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Italy, USA and Japan
Awards, prizes
The Masters of Graphic Art, Drawing and Graphic Biennial, Györ, Hungary 2009 Honorary Mention
Prize of the Hungarian Graphic Artists' Society and of the Foundation for Hungarian Graphic Art, Györ,
Hungary 2003
Inter Kontakt Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic 2001, II prize
Kaliningrad Biennale of the Baltic Sea Countries 2000, Russia, prize
ELFA Grant, Grafikens Hus, Sweden 1999
Stina Krooks Stiftelse, Finland, 1997, award
Intergrafia’97, Katowice, Poland, prize
Sasakawa Foudation 1996, award
Anita Snellmann Foundation 1996, award
Award from the Anna Nordlander Museum, Sweden 1995
Kracov Triennale, 1994 Poland, prize
12th International Woodcut Triennal, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Grand Prize
Intergrafia’ 91, Katowice, Poland, Grand Prize
Nordisk kunst ‘91, Århus, Denmark, II prize
Sapporo Biennale, 1991 Japan purchase prize
Professional activities
Curator for ”Traces, Imprints and Tales – Japanese contemporary art draws from tradition”
together with Jan Kaila for Kerava Art Museum, Kerava and Galleries G and Hippolyte, Helsinki,
organised by Finnish Artists Association, 2002
Curator for Afloat and Underwater exhibition, Lappeenranta , Finland 2008
Curatot for Mänttä Art Week exhibition Terrific Delight (Kauhea Ilo), Mänttä, Finland 2010

Presentation in MAPC printmaking conference, University of Wyoming 2002
Presentation in Digital Surface Conference at Tate Britain 27th–28th June 2003:
“Annu Vertanen: Vision Beata; space between visible and invisible”