Born in 1970. Lives and works in Helsinki.
Education
2003 Master of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki, FI
(now Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture)
2000 Bachelor of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki, FI
1999 – 2000 Hochschule der Künste Berlin, DE
1999 Master of Law, University of Helsinki, FI
Selected solo exhibitions2023 Immediate Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2021 Posing Time, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, FI
2021 Sky & Forest, Schlassgaart, Clervaux, LU
2020 Waterlilies, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2020 Time Is No Longer Round, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2018 Forêts Imaginaires, Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire, FR
2018 Forests, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2016 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2014 Gallery Taik Persons, Berlin, DE
2014 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2012 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2012 FotoFocus, DAAP Galleries, Cincinnaty, US
2012 Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, DK
2011 Gallery EffeArte, Milan, IT
2010 Institut Finlandais, Paris, FR
2009 Pro Arte Foundation, St Petersburg, RU
2009 Spiral – Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, JP
2009 EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI
2006 Galerie Anhava, Project room, Helsinki, FI
2006 Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, FI
2006 Galerie Anhava, Project room, Helsinki, FI
2006 Haninge Konsthall, CH
2005 Otto Dix-Haus, Gera, DE
2004 Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, FI
2004 Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, SE
2004 Galerie SPHN, Berlin, DE
2003 Galerie Anhava, Project room, Helsinki, FI
2002 Bogeyman and other works, Gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki, FI
1999 Picture of Power, Finnish National Archive, Helsinki, FI
1997 Visitor, Gallery Zebra, Karjaa FI
Selected group exhibitions and events
2024 Water and Life, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2024 Blue : The Pursuit of The Heavenly Colour, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2024 Human / Nature, Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World, Fotografiska, New York, US
2023 Caspar David Friedrich. Art for a New Age. Hamburger Kunsthalle, DE
2023 a touch of playfulness, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, DE
2023 Refractive Landscapes, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2023 A Veneer of Happiness, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2023 In Bloom, Fotografiska, Stockholm, SE
2022 Morning Coffee on the Roof of a Town, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, FI
2022 In the Sky Unlike a Bird, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2022 Eye on Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2021 New Perspectives Through Photography – 25 Years of The Helsinki School, Taidehalli Helsinki, FI
2021 Nordic Light, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2020 The Helsinki School - The Nature of Being, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE
2020 Fresh Breeze from The North, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, DE
2019 Histórias de Rostos: Variações Belting, Beraro Museum, Lisbon, PT
2019 ARCO, Gallery Taik Persons, Madrid, ES
2019 London Art Fair, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2018 PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Miami, FL, US
2018 Paris Photo, Gallery Taik Persons, Paris, FR
2018 CHART, Gallery Taik Persons, Copenhagen, DK
2018 ARCO, Gallery Taik Persons, Madrid, ES
2017 Real Celebration, Rovaniemi Art Museum, FI
2017 Me: Self-portraits Through Time, Kunsthalle Helsinki, FI
2017 Five Finnish Photographers, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2017 Landskrona Foto Festival, SE
2017 Market Artfair, Gallery Taik Persons, Stockholm, SE
2016 The Dream of Flying, Brandts, Odense, DK
2015 Skywards, Museum Sinclair-House, Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe, DE
2014 ”Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
2014 The Aipad Photography Show with Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, US
2013 Fotográfica Bogota 2013, Bogota, CO
2012 Light | Wood, Chile Design Biennale, Santiago de Chile, CL
2012 The 7th Wave – Wihuri and Visual Art, Taidehalli, Helsinki, FI
2011 In Motion – I Rörelse, Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö, SE
2011 Hyvinkää Art Museum, FI
2011 Fiskars Ruukki, FI
2011 Forest, Serlachius Art Museum Gösta, Mänttä, FI
2011 Waters – vesiä – amanz!, Kuopio Art Museum, FI
2010 Solitude, international video art exhibition, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, EE
2010 It´s a Set Up, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Helsinki, FI
2010 Nordic Art Triennal 2010, Eskildstuna Art Museum, SE
2010 Close to Nature, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, DE
2009 Finlandia 200 –Finnish Portraiture 1809-2009, Meilahti Art Museum, FI
2009 Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
2009 Art Basel, Art Unlimited, CH
2008 Artic Hysteria Onscreen, MoMA, New York, US
2008 Galerie les filles du calvaire, Brussels, BE
2008 An Lanntair Arts Center, Outer Hebrides, UK
2008 Crac Alsace, ”Maan asema / La position de la Terre”, Altkirch, FR
2008 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, ”Frauen Portäts”, Lübeck, DE
2008 Ecole des Beaux Arts, ”The Helsinki School – La nouvelle photographie finlandaise”, Paris, FR
2007 Galerie les filles du calvaire, Pariisi, FR
2007 Centre photographique d´ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, FR
2007 Kuntsi Museum for Modern Art, Vaasa FI
2007 Helsinki School, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, NO
2006 Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Helsinki, FI
2006 Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, SE
2006 Helsinki School, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
2006 XI Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, FI
2006 Brussels Art Fair, One man show with Galerie Anhava, BE
2005 ISE cultural foundation, New York, USA
2005 "Timebandits”, Råhuset, Copenhagen, DK
2005 Unheimlich Jung, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, DE
2005 Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, DE
2005 Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, FI
2005 Location One, New York, USA
2005 White box, New York, USA
2005 Helsinki School, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
2004 Bror Hjurths Hus, SE
2004 Galerie Roellin | duerr, St Gallen, CH
2004 Art Basel, Art Unlimited with the project 46664, SW
2004 30 by Taik, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2004 Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, DK
2004 moi suomi - Das Finnische Film- und Kulturfestival, Berlin, DE
2004 Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie Rouen, FR
2003 46664 -Concert, Cap Town, ZA
2003 Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI
2003 Galerie Nathalie Parienté, Paris, FR
2003 USINE COROT, Marseille, FR
2003 Meeting Place, a touring exhibition, Sweden, Norway, FI
2003 Meeting Place, a touring exhibition Lithuania, Latvia, EE
2003 The 108th Annual Exhibition of Finnish Artists NUORET, Taidehalli, Helsinki, FI
2002 Masters of Arts, The Finnish museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2002 Photography and Video at the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, FI
2000 (SIC), CuLTUREN, Västerås, CH
1999 Spaces, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
Publications2020 Santeri Tuori, Time Is No Longer Round, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2020
2009 Santeri Tuori, Forest, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2006 Santeri Tuori, Posing Time, Kerber Verlag, 2006
2004 Santeri Tuori, Karlotta (Still #1-19), Galerie Anhava 2004
2004 Santeri Tuori, Photography and video 1998-2003, Galerie Anhava 2004
2001 Vallan kuva – valokuva kontrollipolitiikan välineenä (Pictures of Power, Musta Taide and The Finnish Museum of Photography
Works in collectionsEMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The Finnish Museum of Photography
Frac Haute Normandie France
Helsinki University
Malmö Art Museum
Brandts Klædefabrik: Museet for Fotokunst
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
The Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection
Jenny and Antti Wihuri Art Foundation Collection
Wäino Aaltonen Art Museum
International private collections
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