J O R M A   P U R A N E N Born 1951 Lives and works in Helsinki   STUDIES   1973-1978 University of Art & Design, Helsinki   ACADEMIC TEACHING   1978- University of Art & Design, Helsinki 1996-98 Professor, University of Art & Design, Helsinki   SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS   2009 Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø, Norway Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 2008 Galleri Flach + Thulin, Stockholm Photology, Milan 2007 Arktisches Archiv, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin Icy Prospects, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin Shadows and reflections, Harewood House, Leeds 2006 Étandues glaciales, Institut Finlandais, Paris Icy Prospects, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki 2004 Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland Gallery Flach, Stockholm 2002 Photogallery Hippolyte, Helsinki Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, N Blue Sky Gallery/Oregon Center for Photographic Art, Portland, Oregon, USA 2001 Museet for fotokunst/Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark 2000 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Siida-Sámi Museum, Inari, Finland 1999 Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium 1998 Impressions Gallery, York, UK Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK 1996 Galerie Minima Peliti, Roma Gallery G, Helsinki 1995 Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, F Galerie Braggiotti, Amsterdam, NL Fotogalleriet, Oslo, N Galerie Photo du Theatre de l´Agora, Evry, F Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK; Picture House Gallery, Leicester, UK; 1994 Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK Konstens Hus, Luleå, S Institut Finlandais, Paris, F 1993 Galerie Suzel Berna, Paris, F Centre de Développement Culturel, Tarbes, F; Galleri Index, Stockholm, S 1992 Photogallery Hippolyte, Helsinki 1991 Galerie Krivy, Nice, F   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS   2008 La Photographie finlandaise, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France Continuum, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland Fabricating Images from History, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China Trip to the Country, Kumu Art Museum,Tallinn Getroffen, Otto Dix und die Kunst des Porträts, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 2007 Into the Landscape, Norwegean Museum of Photography, Hjorten, Norway Our Land! Photographs from Finland, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki Silver & Oil, Hoopers Gallery, London The Helsinki School of Photography, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London Helsinki School-Finnish Photo, Stenersen Museum, Oslo 2006 Breaking the Ice, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Zone Attive s.r.l. Fotografia, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome Finlandia e l´identita del Nord, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Roma Un tableau peut en cacher un autre, MNHA Musée National d´histoire et d´art, Luxembourg Ghosts in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Helsinki School, Borås Artmuseum, Borås, Sweden Dialogue-The Helsinki School, Langhans Galerie, Prague The Helsinki School-Finnish Photography from 21th century, Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels To Look or to See-in search of meanings in photography, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki 2005 Helsinki School - A New Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Photology, Milano, Italy Boundary Crossings, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada Vaikea yhtälö, Rauma Art Museum, Finland Personligt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2004 Momentum-Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway On Loan, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden 30 by Taik, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki River Deep Mountain High, National Touring Exhibitions, Norway Carnegie Art Award, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Victoria Miro Warehouse, London; Helsinki Kunsthall, Helsinki New Realities, Fotomuseum, Reykjavik, Iceland 2003 New Realities, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden Dominated by Water, Vantaa City Art Museum, Vantaa , Finland Verarbeitete Fotografie, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin Fünf Positionen finnischer Fotografie, Kunstvererin Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus Finnland, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim; Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg; Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel; Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus; Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland; Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland Carnegie Art Award, Royal Art Academy, Stockholm Designing the Quietness, Ozone Living Design Center, Tokyo; Copper Smithy, Fiskars, Finland 2002 Nouvelle photographie finlandaise, Café-Crème/Photographie Contamporaine, Luxembourg Mare Balticum, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen The Politics of Place, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden; Edsvik Konst. Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Kuvitelmia/Fantasies, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland Correlations, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria; Fotoforum West, Innsbrück, Austria Faces and Figures, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA Pohjoiseen ja etelään, Purnu Art Center, Orivesi, Finland 2001 Strange Reality, Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin Landshapes-Records of Action, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, USA Faces and Figures, Scandinavian House, New York Nordic Art 2001, Röda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden Fotographia Metafisica, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland Lost Homelands, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada Finsk Foto, Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo; Copenhagen The Fatherland and the Mother Tongue, Oulu Art Museum, Finland 2000 Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London Une Histoire Finlandaise, La Galerie Photo, Montpellier, France Three Beginning Roads in Finnish Contemporary Photography, Kari Kenetti Gallery, Helsinki 1999 Landshapes, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA; The von Leibig Art Center, Naples, Florida, USA Lost Homelands, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada; McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada Évocation, Marche Bonsecours, Mois de la Photo á Montreal Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen Zeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Nordiskt Foto, Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, Sweden Mikä on todellista, 3rd triennial of Photography, Kunsthalle, Helsinki 1998 Cartografs i aventurers, Cultural Centre of the Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona; Lleida; Vic, Spain Continental Drift, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Le Violon d´Ingres/Play it again, Royal Concert Hall, Amsterdam Finnish Art Triennial, Kunsthalle, Helsinki Under/Exposed, Stockholm Underground, S Shadows, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki 1997 ´Le musée photographique´, 19émes Estivales Photographiques du Trégor, Imagerie, Lannion, France Du bois des arbres des artistes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Chambéry, France Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Dislocations, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland Forest, Kuopio Art Museum, Finland 1996 Myth and Landscape, European Cultural Centre, Delphi, Greece Heimat, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany Document, Tampere, Finland 1995 Art, Resistance and the English Garden, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, F; Galerija Gabrijel, Sarajevo Vents du Nord, Cellier de Talant, Talant, F Disrupted Borders, London Regional Art and Historical Museum, London, Ontario, Canada 1994 Europe Rediscovered, Turbine Hall/M/S Kronborg, Copenhagen, DK Jorden, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Fotodiffusione, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, I Balticum Biennale, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland Tulkinta-Interpretation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Disrupted Borders, Photographers´Gallery, London, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa   COLLECTIONS   Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, F Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, S Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium Moderna Museet, Stockholm, S Museet for Fotokunst/Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK Norsk museum for Fotografi-Preus fotomuseum, N Bibliothéque nationale, Paris, F Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,Helsinki Helsinki City Art Museum Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland Oulu Art Museum, Finland State of Finland Swedish Arts Council Etnografisk Museum, Oslo, N Vantaa City Art Collection, Finland Espoo City Art Collection, Finland Wihuri collection/The Art Museum of Rovaniemi, Finland Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland Artothéque, Grenoble, F Centre de Développement Culturel, Tarbes, F Viktor Barsokevitsch Photography Center, Kuopio, Finland Luleå Municipality Art Collection, Sweden Rauma Art Museum, Finland Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, F Galerie de Theatre de L´Agora, Evry, F Collection de Dorint Hôtel, Bruxelles, B Bibliothèque H. Vincenot, Talant, F Imagerie, Lannion, France Samiske Samlinger, Karasjok, Norway Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Henna and Pertti Niemistö Foundation, Finland Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland Deutsche Bank Collection London DZ Bank Collection   PUBLICATIONS   1999 Imaginary Homecoming, Pohjoinen Publications, Oulu, Finland 1992 Ateneum, The Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki (portfolio) 1989 Alpha & Omega, Opus, Helsinki 1986 Maarf Leu´dd-Photographs of the Skolt Lapps, Opus, Helsinki   PRIZES   2005 Pro Finlandia award 1992 PhotoFinlandia Prize 1988 National Prize for Finnish Photography   SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY   Nikos Papastergiadis, "Flags in the Landscape", in Spatial Aesthetics-Art, Place and the Everyday, Rivers Oram Press 2005, London, Sydney, Chicago Taneli Eskola, "Boundary Crossings-Temporal Dialogues in Finnish Landscape Photography", Musta Taide, 2005, Helsinki Liz Wells, " Icy Prospects", in Cultures & Settlements, eds. Miles, M & Kirkham, N, Intellect, 2003, Bristol Ferdinand Protzman, "Landscape, Photogarphs of Time and Space, National Geographic Books,2003, Washington Henning Wettendorf, "Jorma Puranen", Katalog, Journal of Photography & Video, Vol 14, 2001, Odense, Denmark Elizabeth Edwards, "Jorma Puranen-Imaginary Homecoming-A Study in Re-engagement", in Raw Histories-Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Berg 2001, Oxford/New York Aperture 158; Photography and Time-winter 2000, New York Marta Gili, "Cartografs i aventurers: narradors d´històries", Fundacio"la Caixa", Barcelona, 1998 Ruth Charity, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator/Jorma Puranen", Portfolio 27, Edinburgh 1998 Nikos Papastergiadias, "Curiosus Naturae Spectator, Continental Drift, Europe Approaching the Millennium, Prestel, Münich/New York, 1998 David Brittain, "Lie of the Land", Creative Camera, April/May 1998, London La Recherche Photographique 20 - L´Ailleurs, printemps 1997, Paris Sylvain Maresca, " Essai de comparaison entre les approaches photographique et ethnographique" in La Photographie - Un miroir des sciences sociales, L´Harmattan, Paris/Montréal, 1996 John Stathatos, "Myth and Landscape", exhibition catalogue, 1996 Boris v. Brauchitsch, " Das Schweigen im Walde", exhibition catalogue, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, Germany, 1996 Min-Jung Yang, "Jorma Puranen", The Monthly Photographic Art Magazine, Seoul, South Korea, 10/1996 Jean-Christian Fleury, "Curtis, Puranen, Lévi-Strauss/Photographie et ethnologie", Photographies Magazine, Avril 1995, Paris Elizabeth Edwards, ´Imaginary Homecoming / The work of Jorma Puranen´, Social Identities/Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol.2, 1995 Robert Pujade, " La Photographie Comme Science Fabuleuse/ A Propos des Images de Jorma Puranen" , exhibition cataloque, 1994 Jean-Christian Fleury,"Jorma Puranen",Photographies Magazine, December 1993,Paris Sunil Gupta, "Disrupted Borders", Rivers Oram Press, London 1993 Mika Ripatti, "The Stations of the Gaze/ Crossroads of Absolution", Index/Contemporary Scandinavian Images, Stockholm, 1/1993 Jan-Erik Lundström, " Returning to Saami Country: The Photographic Art of Jorma Puranen", Scandinavian Review, Winter 1993