SANNI SEPPO

Artist Photographer

born 1960

tel  09-587 2328 ja 0500-185 609

e-mail: sanni.seppo@kolumbus.fi    www.puidenkansa.net

STUDIES

1993 Master of Arts University of Art and Design Helsinki

SELECTED  SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000 Mexican Pictures, Online Gallery Ama (www.amagallery.net )

1999–2000 On the Edge of the Precipice, Helsinki, Turku, Vantaa, Hämeenlinna

1992–1999 My Africa - the Rise and Fall of Racism, Helsinki, Mikkeli, Turku, Joensuu, Kotka,

Iisalmi and Tarto, Estonia                                          

                

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Tree People, Awagami Paper Factory Gallery, Tokushima, Japan

2009 Tree People, Galérie Domu fotografie do Zemplínskeho múzea v Michalovciach Slovakia

2008 Tree Peopl, House of Photography,  Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

2008 Lyrical Garden, Mikkelin Valokuvakeskus

2008 Stromy a lidé,  House of Art, Opava and Bartolomeus Church Gallery, Czech Republic; R.K & S.S

2008 Stromy a ludia, KrajskÈ m˙zeum v Presov and StredoslovenskÈ m˙zeum, Bansk· Bystrica, Slovakia;

        Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo

2007-2008 Face to face with the Landscape,  The Finnish Stone Center, Juuka, Finland

2007 My country! Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki. Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland

2007 City Gardeners, Cinema Hvezda, Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic. Aero, Prague, Czech Republic

2006 SISU, Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic

2006 Green Art, Salo Art Museum, Finland

2006 ITE –in spirit, Kunstahalle Helsinki, Finland. Lapinlahti Art Museum, Finland

2006 From last to first 2005-2006, CAP-house, Kobe, Japan

2005 Tree People, Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Härnosand and Skogsmuseet

        Lycksele Sverige

2004  Both Sides, CAP-house, Kobe, Japan

2004-2006 Facing East, Impressions Gallery, York. Art Institute at Bournemouth. Gallery and Lighthouse

        Wolverhampton, England and Dick institute, Killmarnock, Scotland. Tullie House museum & Art Gallery,

        England

2003-2004  People in the Eastern Border Country, Imatra Art Museum, Finland. Dom Photographie, Poprad and

        Miesto Venue, Slovakia. Prague house of Photography, Czech Republic.

2002  Summer night dreams, Tikanoja Art House, Finland

2002  Landscapes, Heinola Art Museum, Finland 

2002  Environments, Mänttä Art Festival, Finland

1999  Polymer Photogravures, Online Gallery Ama (www.amagallery.net)

1999  Kalevala 150 Years Exhibition, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Helsinki, Finland. Nordens Hus, Reykjavik, Iceland.

1997-2001 Puiden kansa (Tree People)  Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Art Museum of South Karelia, Seinäjoki Art

        Hall, Finnish Forest Museum, Kajaani Art Museum, Rovaniemi Art Museum,

        Kuopio Cultural History Museum Joensuu Art Museum, Wendi Museum, Halikko, Suomenlinna,

        Siida, Inari.  Saarijärvi Art Museum, Finland.

1994  World of the Heart, (Helsinki, Karjaa, Kuopio) 

1992  Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki

1991  Iisalmen kamera, (Iisalmi Camera) Iisalmi  

1985  Iceberg 2, Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki 

1984  Frog Jump,  Helsinki

1983  Art in Space, Joensuu 

PUBLICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA ARTWORKS

2007 End of the Rainbow, documentary shortfilm,  Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo

2006 Tree People / Das Wolk Der Bäume, new editions by Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo

2000 Tree People -multivision, Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo, Production of Helsinki Cultural Capital 

        Foundation, Finnish Museum of Photography

2000 Searching for the Forest (Metsää etsimässä)  multimedia artwork, Ritva Kovalainen & Sanni Seppo,

        Production of Maaseudun Sivistysliitto, Carbon Sink Partnership and Sanni Seppo

1999 On the Edge of the Precipice (Jyrkänteen reunalla), Like

1997 Tree People (Puiden kansa), a book about the mythical and spiritual meaning of trees and forests, by Ritva

        Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo (Carbon Sink Partnership & Pohjoinen)

1992  Dreams and the Daily Life, (Unelmat ja ruosteinen arki) group project (Tammi)

1989  Artejuela 

PUBLIC WORKS

2007 Birches, ITE- medical Center (R. Kovalainen and S. Seppo)

2001 Tree of Happiness, Relief in Mets‰talo, University of Helsinki (R. Kovalainen and S. Seppo)

2004 Cabines on trees, Joensuu Training School (R. Kovalainen and S. Seppo)

COLLECTIONS

Collections of the State of Finland

Collections of the Parliament of Finland

Espoo Art Museum, Finland

Finnish Forest Museum, Punkaharju, Finland

The National Gallery of Forest and Wood, France

The Union of Rural Education and Culture, Finland

PRIZES

Environmental Action Award, 2006

Suomi (Finland) Prize, Finnish state award for artists, 1997

The Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award, 1997 (Tree People)