Ilai Lehto ^{Emerging artist}

Artist's country of origin: Finland

Education 2018– Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture department 2016–2018 Aalto University, Master of Arts, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art 2012–2016 Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Arts 2009–2012 Ikaalinen College of Crafts and Design, Visual Artesan Studies Abroad 2014–2015 Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Erasmus+-exchange 2014 Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, INTAC collaboration 2011 Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Burgos, Comenius-exchange Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 Male market, Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Lahti 2017 Man of his word, NODE Gallery, Helsinki 2017 Man should be brave, Hirvitalo – Pispala Contemporary Art Center, Tampere 2017 Internal solarium, Gallery RÄNNI, Oulu 2014 Reasonable Growth, Sointu Gallery, Joensuu 2014 Pixelives, Ikuinen Gallery, Tampere 2014 Swine Women and Bad Dreams, Culture House Telakka, Tampere Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 The END, Galleria Taidebunkkeri, Imatra 2019 Kuvan Kevät 2019: MFA Degree Show of the Academy of Fine Arts, Project Room, Helsinki 2019 Hukkaperi: Perin hukassa, Hirvitalo – Pispala Contemporary Art Center, Tampere 2018 Aromata, Kuudes haisti -festival, Vuotalo, Helsinki 2018 Flowers, Hair, Anaesthesia of the Heart, MAA-tila, Helsinki 2018 A Home Named Krimi, Art Center Krimi, Imatra 2017 Feast on Art 2017: Rhythm, Rajatila Gallery, Tampere 2017 Walk the Line, beta SPACE, Espoo 2017 Lux In, Light festival Lux Helsinki 2017, Merikaapelihalli, Cable Factory, Helsinki 2016 Soon it is the time, Ars Auttoinen Summer Exhibition 2016, Auttoinen 2016 All is Well, TAMK Visual Arts Graduates’ Exhibition, Art Center Mältinranta, Tampere 2015 Reality Television Goes Art, Gallery Rajatila, Tampere 2015 Here, Elsewhere, Pirkanmaa Triennale, Soma Gallery, Tampere 2015 INTAC: Revolution, Contact Photography Festival, Open Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2015 INTAC: Revolution, Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan 2015 Sinergia, Galeria da ESAP, Porto, Portugal 2014 INTAC: Revolution, OFF_FESTIVAL, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia 2014 INTAC: Simulation, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China 2014 INTAC: Spotlight, Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere 2014 Me/ a Myth, Katko Gallery, Tampere 2013 so happy / so sad, Katko Gallery, Tampere 2013 Kekri, Hirvitalo – Pispala Contemporary Art Center, Tampere 2013 K12, Ikuinen Gallery, Tampere Grants 2019 Greta ja Alfred Runeberg Foundation 2018 Työväen Opintorahasto 2018 Aalto Arts grant for MA thesis 2016 Auno and Mauri Riuttu Foundation 2015 Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation – for Reality Television Goes Art Positions & Memberships 2018– Founding member of artist collective Hukkaperi 2016 Editor in chief, All is Well – TAMK Visual Arts graduates’ exhibition 2013–2015 Member of International Art Collaborations