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Education:
Kankaanpää
Art School 1983
Lahti Polytechnic 2000
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2005 -
Recent
one-person exhibitions:
2005 Annu Vertanen, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Wallpaper Experiences, Art Gallery Husa, Tampere, Finland
2003 Annu Vertanen, Galleria Joella, Turku, Finland
2002 Annu Vertanen: Woodcut prints, Frans Macereel Centrum, Belgium
2001 It is not the rose, Varkaus Art Museum, Finland
2000 Index, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Woodcuts from serie My House, Dansøgade 4 Udstillning, Bövlingbjerg,
Denmark
Selected group exhibitions:
2007 3x2 Vertanen Dolven Ahonen Hoy Heilimo Ruta,South Carelian Art Museum,
Lappeenranta, Finland
2007 Beograd Encounters, Galleria Academia, Beograd, Serbia
2007 Els Colors de la Vida, La Merce Culture Centre, Girona, Spain
2007 Space!, Kouvola and Imatra Art Museums, Finland
2007 Five Rooms, Helsinki Art Hall
2006 Contemporary Finnish Woodcuts, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2005 Anthologie der Kunst, ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 The Land of Wandering, Exquisite History Volume One, The Off Grounds
Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2005 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VIII INT. Biennial of Drawing and Graphic
Art, Györ, Hungary
2005 Mirror of the Wood, Travelling exhibition in Seattle, Washington, Nortfield
and Hancock Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio, USA
2005 Graphica Creativa’05, Jyväskylä, Finland
2005 The 26th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005 Woodcut and Linocut in Finland, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia
2004 Seoul_Space, International biennial, Seoul, Korea
2004 Laureat Exhibition, The Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Artist in a Picture, Kiasma, Helsinki
2004 International Flavors, Mason Gross Galeries, Rutgers Center of Innovative
Print and Paper, New Brunswic, USA
2003 Sensory Experience, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
USA
2002 New Definitions in Printmaking, University of Wyoming Art Museum, USA
2001 The Fluttering Ways, Inter Kontakt Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic
2001 Europrint, Falutriennialen, Falun, Sweden
2001 Mutating Image, Tallinn Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 Salon Internacional, Biennial de San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001 Graphica Borea, Prints in Finland 1895-2001, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki,
Finland
Works
found in public collections
In Finland:
The Finnish State Collection; The Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma) Helsinki;
The Parliament Collection; The Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä; Helsinki
City Art Museum; Wihuri Corporation at Rovaniemi Art Museum; Lahti Art Museum;
Kuopio Art Museum; South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta; Imatra Art Museum;
Oulu Art Museum; Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art
Abroad:
Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden; University of Alberta Museum,
Canada; Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, USA;
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA;Grafikens
Hus, Mariefred, Sweden; National Museum in Gdansk Poland; National Museum
in Banska Bystrica Slovakia; International Center of Graphic Arts Ljubljana,
Slovenia; Prague National Gallery The Czech Republic; The Municipal Museum
of Art, Györ, Hungary; Vesterås konstmuseum, Sweden
Private and corporate collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany,
Italy, USA and Japan
Distinctions:
Finnish Cultural Foundation 2007, award
The Art Committee of Kymi Province 1-year grant 2006
Finnish Cultural Foundation 2005, award
Alfred Kordelin Trust 2004, award
Prize of the Hungarian Graphic Artists' Society and of the Foundation for
Hungarian Graphic Art, Györ, Hungary 2003
Inter Kontakt Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic, II prize
Kaliningrad Biennale of the Baltic Sea Countries, Russia, prize
The State of Finland 5-year grant 1999
ELFA Grant, Grafikens Hus, Sweden 1999
Stina Krooks Stiftelse, Finland, 1997, award
Intergrafia’97, Katowice, Poland, prize
Finnish Cultural Foundation 1996, award
Sasakawa Foudation 1996, award
Anita Snellmann Foundation 1996, award
Award from the Anna Nordlander Museum, Sweden 1995
The Art Committee of Kymi Province 3-year grant 1995
Kracov Triennale, 1994 Poland, prize
Scholarship from the Finnish Fine Arts Association 1993
Alfred Kordelin Trust 1992, award
Award from The Art Committee of Kymi Province 1992
12th International Woodcut Triennial, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Grand Prize
1991
The State of Finland 1-year grant 1992
Art Award of the City of Imatra 1991
Intergrafia’ 91, Katowice, Poland, Grand Prize
Nordisk kunst ‘91, Århus, Denmark, II prize
Sapporo Biennale, 1991 Japan purchase prize
The Art Committee of Kymi Province 1-year grant 1988
Visiting
lecturer and academic functions:
Visiting lecturer in Fine Art Academy, Helsinki, Finland 2006
Visiting teacher and lecturer in University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
2006, 2007
Visiting artist and lecturer in Art Academy of Iceland, Reykjavik 2004
Visiting artist and lecturer in University of Virginia, USA, 2002
Visiting artist in University of Wyoming, USA, 2002
Workshop for printmaking artists in Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium 2002
Visiting lecturer in Lahti Polytechnics, Lahti, Finland 1996, 2000, 2005,
2006, 2007
Visiting lecturer in South Carelian Polytechnic, Fine Art Dept., Imatra, Finland,
since 1986
Visiting lecturer in Joensuu Polytechnics, Joensuu, Finland 1995
Other
professional activities:
Member of Exhibition committee of Finnish Printmakers Association 1999-2002
Head of a jury of an annual exhibition of Finnish Artists Association, 2000
Member of State of Finland Arts Council 2000-2003, 2003-2006
Curator for ”Traces, Imprints and Tales – Japanese contemporary
art draws from tradition” with Jan Kaila for Kerava Art Museum, Kerava
and Galleries G and Hippolyte, Helsinki, organised by Finnish Artists Association,
2002
Member of a jury, “Grafiktriennal XII Stockholm 2003”, 2002
Presentation:”Homely Patterns, Sublime Space” in MAPC printmaking conference, University of Wyoming 2002
Presentation in Digital
Surface Conference at Tate Britain 27th–28th June 2003:
“Annu Vertanen: Vision Beata; space between visible and invisible”