ONE PERSONS EXHIBITIONS
2013 Breathing Touch, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki
2012 Transition – New Woodcuts, Gallery G, Helsinki
2011 Annu Vertanen, Gallery Orton, Helsinki
2010 Breathing Touch, Kaupunkitaiteen Galleria, Helsinki
2009 The Day of Absence, Gallery Academia, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 The Indeterminate Edge with Karen Kunc, Ruffin Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
2008 Blind Spot, Gallery Harmonia, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2008 Blind Spot, Gallery Aarni, WeeGee, Espoo, Finland
2005 Annu Vertanen, Gallery G, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Wallpaper Experiences, Art Gallery Husa, Tampere, Finland
2004 Annu Vertanen and Johanna Pihlajamaa, Gallery Harmaja, Oulu, Finland
2003 Annu Vertanen, Galleria Joella, Turku, Finland
2002 Project My House, Art Center Retretti/Himmelblau, 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 Flower Power, Gallery Becker, Jyväskylä, Finland, with Riitta Uusitalo
2000 Woodcuts from serie My House, Dansøgade 4 Udstillning, Bövlingbjerg, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 ”20 Coastal Stations”, Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo – September 2014
2014 ”Feel the ’D”, Re:View Contemporary Gallery, Detroit, USA – September – October 2014
2014 Queen Sonja Print Award NOMINEES 2014-EXHIBITION “COMMENDABLE ” Prins Eugen Waldemarsudde, Stockholm – September 2014 – January 2015
2014 Exquisite History, Volume 3: Visionary Workbook, September 2014, in MAPG 2014 program, Detroit, Michigan
2014 ”Sivulla 13 – itasuomalaista grafiikkaa ”, Imatra Art Museum, Finland
2014 Queen Sonja Print Award NOMINEES 2014-EXHIBITION “COMMENDABLE ”Norwegian Printmakers Galler, Oslo
2014 International Printmakers, Shoal Creek Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013 Visionary Workbook Ex.hi Vol 3, Calvin College Center Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
2013 SIZE MATTERS: Big prints from all around the world, University of Alberta Museum, Canada (curator Jim Corrigan)
2012 International Experimental Engraving Biennial 5, the Mogosoaia Cultural Centre Romania
2012 Four Tales in Print, Kunstverket galleria, Oslo
2012 Through the Light, Haihara Art Center, Tampere Finland (curator Veikko Halmetoja)
2012 Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland, Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Detroit, USA (curator Juliette Kennedy)
2011 Silent Watch: Contemporary Prints from Finland, IPCNY, New York, USA (curator Juliette Kennedy)
2011 Himmelblau/Retretti, Punkaharju
2011 Puberty Finnish Printmakers Association, 80 years Jubilee Exhibition, Salo Art Museum (curator Stefan Bremer)
2010 Japanese Wave – New Shores, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England (with Paul Furneux and Fusako Yoshikawa)
2010 Hot Plate – International Print exhibition, PhoenixBrighton Gallery, Brighton, England (curator Sue Gollifer)
2009 The Masters of Graphic Art, Drawing and Graphic Biennial, Györ, Hungary (invitational)
2009 IV NOVOSIBIRSK GRAPHIC ART BIENNIAL’09, Russia (invitational)
2009 Between Materia and Memory – Tompuri, Vertanen, Weckman, Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
2008-09 Nahes Ufer Fernes Ufer, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Saksa (curator Ritva Röminger)
2008 EPI 2008, Edmonton, Canada , (curator Walter Jule)
2008 icon@brave, Gallery Manes, Praque, Czech Republic (curator Mika Karhu)
2008 Winter Seminar, Markkanen, Peippo, Uusitalo, Vertanen, Art Hall, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2007 3×2 Vertanen Dolven Ahonen Hoy Heilimo Ruta,South Carelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland (invitional)
2007 Five Rooms, Hukkataival, Ilvessalo, Helasvuo, Tompuri, Vertanen, Helsinki Art Hall
2006 Contemporary Finnish Woodcuts, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, USA
2006 Mirror of the Wood, Salo Art Museum, Finland (curator Karen Kunck)
2006 Decades of Print, Lahti Art Brewery, Finland
2005 Anthologie der Kunst, ZKM-Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (curator Jochen Gerz)
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 (invitional)
2005 Mirror of the Wood, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, Washington, Carleton College Art Gallery, Nortfield, Minnesota,
Finnish- American Heritage Center Gallery, Hancock, Minnesota, Edna Carlsten Gallery, University of Wisconsin and Emily David
Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Ohio, USA (curator Karen Kunck)
2005 Graphica Creativa’05, Jyväskylä, Finland
2005 The 26th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia (curator Breda Skrjanec)
2005 Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia (invitional)
2004 Seoul_Space, International biennial, Seoul, Korea
2004 Laureat Exhibition, The Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Mirror of the Wood, A Century of Woodcut Print in Finland, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Lincoln, USA, (curator Karen Kunck)
2004 Anthology of Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berliini and ZKM, Karlsruhe
2004 International Flavors, Mason Gross Galeries, Rutgers Center of Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswic, USA, (curator Lynn Allen)
2004 Delight of Woodcuts, Inari Krohn, Tuukka Peltonen, Johanna Pihlajamaa, Annu Vertanen, Gallery Allinna, Riihimäki, Finland
2003 Sensory Experience, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and 214 DeWATERS ART CENTER, Flint, Michigan, USA (curated by Karen Kunck)
2003 Postspace, Oulu Art Museum, Finland (curator Mika Karhu)
2003 Novosibirsk Biennial, Russia (invited)
2003 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VII Int. Biennial of Drawing and Graphics, Györ, Hungary (invitional)
2003 Nature and Human Nature, Purnu exhibition, Orivesi, Finland (curator Hannu Castren)
2002 New Definitions in Printmaking, University of Wyoming Art Museum, USA (curator Dean Dass)
2002 Sensory Experiences portfolio, Southern Graphics Council Conference, New Orleans, USA
2001 The Fluttering Ways, Inter Kontakt Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic (invited)
2001 Europrint, Falutriennialen, Falun, Sweden (invited)
2001 Mutating Image, Tallinn Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 Top 7, South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland (curator Leena Räty)
2001 Art Week, Mänttä, Finland (curated by Marja Kolu)
2001 The Masters of Graphic Arts, VI Int. Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Györ, Hungary (invitional)
2001 Salon Internacional, Biennial de San Juan, Puerto Rico (curator Alicia Candiani)
2001 Graphica Borea, Prints in Finland 1895-2001, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2000 Kaliningrad Biennial of the Baltic Sea Countries, Russia (curator Melek Mazici)
2000 Bridge to the Future, Kracov Triennial, Poland
COLLECTIONS
in Finland
The Finnish State Collection; The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki; The Parliament Collection; The Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä; Helsinki 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; Modern Art Museum EMMA, Espoo, Municipalities of Espoo, Kotka, Kuusankoski, Parikkala and Valkeala Tampere society
abroad
Albertina Museum, Wienna, Austria; 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; Århus Kunstforening af 1984 Denmark; Landstinget Gävle, Sweden; Skellefteå Kommun, Sweden;Örebro Landsting, Sweden;Statens konstråd, Sweden; The Municipal Museum of Art, Györ, Hungary; Vesterås konstmuseum, Sweden; Landstinget Karlstad, Sweden; Elfa Ab, Sweden, The Norwegian Directorate for Education, Oslo, Norway, private and corporate collections in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Italy, USA and Japan
GRANTS, AWARDS, PRIZES
Prix de Print No 4., Art in Print magazine 2014
Finnish Cultural Foundation 3-year grant 2014
The State of Finland 5-year grant 2008
Finnish Cultural Foundation 1-year grant 2007
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 2001, II prize
Kaliningrad Biennale of the Baltic Sea Countries 2000, 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 Triennal, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Grand Prize
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
PUBLICATIONS
Annu Vertanen: Breathing Touch, Rickhard H. Axsom, Art in Print, March – April 2014
My House. Annu Vertanen’s reflections on her own work. Grapheion, European Review of modern prints, book and paper art, Czech Republic, 1/99
Several Exhibition Catalogues
EDUCATION
Kankaanpää Art School 1980 – 1983, Lahti Polytechnic 1998 – 2000, Aalto University 2005 – 2013
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Artist Group Printmakers Left, projects:
The Land of Wandering, 2006
New World 2009
Visionary Workbook, 2013
Workshop and lectures in Atelje Graff, Montreal, Kanada 2013
Visiting lecturer in Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden 2009 and 2011
Visiting lecturer in University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland since 2006
Visiting lecturer in Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland since 2006
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
Visiting lecturer in Lahti Polytechnics, Lahti, Finland 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006
Visiting lecturer in South Carelian Polytechnic, Fine Art Dept., Imatra, Finland, since 1986
Visiting lecturer in Joensuu Polytechnics, Joensuu, Finland 1995
International workshop for printmaking artists in Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium 2002, 2012
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 a jury, “Grafiktriennal XII Stockholm 2003”, 2002
Member of State of Finland Arts Council 2000-2003, 2003-2006
Curator for There is Languaguage, You May Say exhibiton, Tampere art association, 2012
Curator for Mantta Art Weeks 2010 exhibitionTerrific Delight
Curator for Afloat and Underwater exhibition, Lappeenranta , Finland 2008
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
Presentation 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”
