Tuukka Tammisaari was born 1984 in Lahti and lives and works in Helsinki Finland.
Tammisaari studied (BFA) in Lahti Institute of Fine Arts 2003-2008 and (MFA) Helsinki University of
Art, Academy of Fine Arts in 2014-2017.
He has shown solo exhibitions in Finland, USA, Denmark, Sweden, and Belgium.
Tammisaari has exhibited solo- and group booths in art fairs in Helsinki, Copenhagen and
Rotterdam and participated in several group exhibitions in Europe.
Tammisaari has received several grants from well-established institutions and foundations.
In 2020 Tammisaari received a prestigious William Thuring prize awarded for 9 Finnish
contemporary artists.
He has been granted with residencies in Berlin and New York in 2015 and 2016. Beginning in April
2021, Tammisaari will participate in the Villa Concordia residency and he will work in Bamberg,
Germany for eleven months.
Tammisaari is represented in Finland by Galerie Forsblom, in Denmark by Galleri KANT and in
Belgium by Kristof De Clercq Gallery.
Works of Tammisaari are represented in several highly ambitious private collections worldwide
and his works are also in collections of Museum of Contemporary art Kiasma, County of Uppsala
and Leiden University Medical Center.
STUDIES
2014-2017 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2003-2008 Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Department of Fine Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent
2021 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2021 Galleri KANT, Copenhagen
2020 Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm
2019 Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent
2019 Galleri KANT, Copenhagen
2018 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2017 Galleri KANT, Copenhagen
2016 MAW, New York
2016 Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2015 Private Show, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2014 Kluuvi Gallery (Helsinki Art Museum), Helsinki
2013 Galleria Jangva, Helsinki
2012 Finnish Painters’ Union Gallery, Helsinki
2011 Galleria Saskia, Tampere
2010 Galleria Orton, Helsinki
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2020 Mad Love, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2019 A Take on Paper, Galleri KANT, Copenhagen
2018 Karma, Kristof De Clecrq Gallery, Ghent
2018 20 Years of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2017 Constellations, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2017 The Island Show, Galleri KANT, Fanø
2017 Looking Forward, Torbandena Projects, Trieste
2016 Främmande, Fullersta Gård, Stockholm
2016 Kuvan Kevät MFA Graduation Show, Forum Box, Helsinki
2014 Mikä Pahan Tappaisi,Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
2014 Reality Loop, VEST, Aarhus
2013 Terävät Kädet, Galleria Uusikuva, Kotka
2012 A Circle and the Cannibal, Poriginal, Pori
2007 BFA Graduation Show,Taidepanimo, Lahti and Cable Factory, Helsinki
RESIDENCIES, ART FAIRS, COMMISSIONED WORKS AND PROJECTS
2020 Mural wall painting, Amagerbro, Copenhagen
2019 Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam,
2018 KANT,Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2016 Leimay Cave Residency, New York
2016 Art Helsinki, Helsinki
2016 Designing of Annual Scarf, Samuji, Helsinki
2016 Wall Painting, Samuji, Helsinki
2015 Soundpiece, Flow Festival, Helsinki
2015 Academy of Fine Arts Residency, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Mad Love, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2019 Works on Paper, Kristof De Clercq Gallery/ Galleri KANT, Ghent/Copenhagen
2018 Brask Studio Visits VI, Brask Publications, Copenhagen
2017 Looking Forward, Torbandena Projects, Trieste
2016 Kuvan Kevät catalogue, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2010 Galleria Orton presents No. 9, Galleria Orton, Helsinki
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Alfred Kordelin Foundation
2020 William Thuring Prize, Finnish Art Society
2020 Paulo Foundation
2019 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
2018 Paulo Foundation
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2017 Finnish Art Society Grant for Young Artists
2015 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Uusimaa Regional Fund
2014 Arts Promotion Centre Finland Uusimaa Regional Fund
2014 Paulo Foundation
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Hong Kong, Belgium, Netherlands and USA
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Fritz Schur Collections
Samuji
Brask Collections
Restaurant Grön
Way Restaurant
Leiden University Medical Center, Uppsala County