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Eeva Lietonen
eevalietonen@gmail.com
IG: eevalietonen

Eeva Lietonen (b. 1987) is Helsinki based artist. She is working in the expanded field of painting; mainly self-made oil paint on canvas and fresco technique. She is interested in how observations on the characteristics of different materials bring out the matter’s own agency and its aspirations. Her paintings are full yet unstable ensembles. In her art she introduces parts from fictional universes. Mind is capable of travelling elsewhere and it can create places. Lietonen arranges these parts and places into undefined forms moving from structured to disarray by combining, dissolving, covering, exposing and finding alternative solutions.

Education:
2022-2024 Master of Fine Arts, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department
2018-2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department
2016- Bachelor of Arts, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art, Art Education
2014-2015 Orivesi College of Art
2013-2014 JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Music Pedagogy
2009-2011 Musician, Jyväskylä educational consortium
2005-2009 Metal Artisan, Jyväskylä educational consortium

Upcoming Exhibitions:
2024 Vitamix Group Exhibition, Pesula Gallery, Helsinki
2025 Solo Exhibition, TM Gallery, Helsinki

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 Papier Volume 2, Delphian Gallery, Helsinki
2023 Contemporary Art from the North, Carl Hansen & Son, Hamburg
2023 Kuvan Kevät, MFA degree exhibition, Kuva/Tila Gallery, Helsinki
2023 About Being, Gallery Snow, Berlin
2022 Identity, Lapinlahden lähde, Helsinki
2022 Harvest, Open Greenhouse, Helsinki
2022 Phase 1, Zuostant, Berlin
2022 Together, Marcy Home Exhibition, Helsinki
2021 BFA degree exhibition, Kuva/Tila Gallery, Helsinki
2021 This isn’t even my final form, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki
2021 A Playful Approach, Marcy Home Exhibition, Helsinki
2020 O Worm Supreme, One year long art exhibition in a forest, TUO TUO, Joutsa
2020 Vastahankaan, Nastola old town hall, Nastola
2020 Can You Hear Me? No, But Can You See Me? Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt
2020 Jazz Factory, Online Publication
2019 Mä laitan tän tähän/I’ll Put This Here, Cable Factory D5 Gallery, Helsinki
2019 Freedom To Roam, Art Exhibition in Kruunuvuori Forest, Helsinki
2019 Löytöjä Kellarista, Discoveries From the Cellar vol. 6, Galleria Gellaria, Mänttä
2019 Kevätpörriäinen/Spring Bee, Helsinki
2019 Everything is Important, Meilahti Shelter, Helsinki
2018 Ystävyydestä/About Friendship, Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä
2018 Shark Tank, NODE Gallery, Helsinki

Solo Exhibitions:
2022 SWIRL, Kalasatama Paja Gallery, Helsinki
2021 Karhisaari, Kosminen Gallery, Helsinki
2017 Tilatutkielmia/Space Study, Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä

Works in Collections:
The Fund of Päivi and Paavo Lipponen Collection, Kiasma, Helsinki
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
Finnish Art Society, Art Lottery 2023
Private Collections

Grants:
2023 Young Artist Grant, Finnish Art Society
2023 Anita Snellman Foundation Stipend
2021 Arts Promote Center, Working grant
2020 The Paulo Foundation, Working grant

Memberships
Finnish Painters’ Union
Helsinki Artist’s Assosiation

Selected Press / Catalogue
Ny Tid, Portfolio, 1 / 2021 p. 24-25

Residencies
2022 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki Residency in Berlin