Kaarina Kaikkonen Kymintie 16, 00560 Helsinki FINLAND, tel/fax 358 9 791899, e-mail: kaarina_kaikkonen@hotmail.com www.artists.fi/sculptors/kaikkonenkaarina studies Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 78-83 solo exhibitions include: 2007 And It Was Empty, Universtity Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, USA 2006 Across the Deep, ,Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida,USA 2006 Kaarina Kaikkonen, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland 2006 Kaarina Kaikkonen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2006 Reaching Far, Rochester Cathedral, United Kingdom 2006 The Presence of Absence, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, USA 2005 Kaarina Kaikkonen, Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland 2005 Queen of Night, Gallery Artina, Finland 2005 And It Was Empty, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden 2005 Birds, Galleri Orton, Helsinki, Finland 2003 Too Far from Home , Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden 2003 Beyond Reach, Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom 2003 Like a Bird of Passage, Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland 2002 Wohin, Rastatt Schloss, Rastatt, Germany 2001 From Generation to Generation, Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland 2001 And The Wind Blows Over You, Helsinki Art Hall Studio, Helsinki, Finland 2000 Way, Helsinki Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland 2000 Kaarina Kaikkonen, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland 2000 And the Wind Blows Over You, Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland 1999 The Sea was Empty, Maison de l´Art Actuel des Chartreux, Bryssel, 1998 Towards, Galleri III, Oslo, Norge 1998 Did I Reach a Harbour? Gallery Artina, Helsinki, Finland 1995 Hope, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland 1995 Shadow Sun, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Ounasjoki Rovaniemi, Finland 1994 Room, Museum for Contemporary Art in Tampere, Tampere, Finland 1994 And the Wind Blows Over You, Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland 1993 We, Who We Cannot Find, Kivipankki Museum in Jämsä, Jämsä, Finland 1992 And The Wind Blows Over You, Gallery Sculptor , Helsinki, Finland 1991 Kaarina Kaikkonen, Heinola Art Museum, Heinola, Finland 1991 Advantage, Savonlinna Art Museum, Savonlinna, Finland 1990 Mouths Open, Fiinish Gallery for Paper Art, Kuusankoski, Finland 1989 Forgotten Promise, Lieksa Park, Lieksa, Finland 1988 A Concession Already Made, Amer Gallery, Helsinki group exhibitions include: 2006 20/20, Chelsea Galleria, Miami, Florida, USA 2006 Echigo-Tsumari triennial, Nigata, Japan 2006 Influenced Identity, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida,USA 2006 Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art Museum, Finland 2006 Mänttä Art Festival , Mänttä, Finland 2006 Påskeudstillingen i Tistrup, Vestjylland Art Museum, Tistrup,Denmark 2005 Fogelfrei, Stadt Paradies, Darmstadt, Germany 2005 Omniart , Art Basel-Miami, Miami, USA 2005 Une certaine Finland, atelier340muzeum, Bryssel,Belgium 2005 Den Gyldne, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2004 Omniart, Art Basel-Miami, Miami, USA 2004 Umedalen Skulptur Umeå, Sweden 2004 Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Holland 2004 Den Gyldne , Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2004 Postcards from Cuba, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norge 2004 Sound and Fury, Iisalmi Art Hall, Iisalmi, Finland 2003 8th Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Center for Contemporary Art,Havana,Cuba 2003 Loud and proud, Anttolanhovi, Mikkeli, Finland 2003 Night Train, Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 2002 In & Out , Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland 2001 In Via, Flemish Ministry, Brussels, Belgium 2001 Turpahöylä-Metamorphoses in Sculpture, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland 2001 The Spirit of The Forest, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 2001 New Paper Art, Crafts Council, London, England 2001 Art in Savo - Savo in Art,Lapinlahti Art Museum, Finland 2001 MIELI-kuva Mänttä Art Festival, Finland 2001 Premiére ,Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France 2001 Paper+Finland=Art, Galerie Montcalme, Hull, USA Harbourfront Center, Toronto, Canada Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, USA 2000 Transitions,Malmö Art Museum,Sweden Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany 2000 Qui a plante ces grands arbres?, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France Espace Huit November, Paris, France 2000 Transformations, Natural History Museum in Helsinki, Finland 2000 Paper+Finland=Art, The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Triangle Gallery, Galgary, Canada Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg,USA 1999 Paper Worlds Musee de Pully, Lausanne, Switserland Galerie im Werkstatt Laden, Winterthur, Switserland Aine Art Museum in Tornio, Finland 1999 Paper+Finland=Art, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, USA 1999 Alkumeri, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku, Finland Sky is the Limit Museum for Contemporary Art in Tampere, Finland 1999 Three Women, Lapinlahti Art Museum, Finland 1999 La Nature du Papier Salle des Cordeliers, Annonay, France 1998 Espace Valles, Grenoble, France 1998 Funf Bildhauerinnen aus Finnland, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Germany 1998 Paper+Finland=Art ,American Craft Museum, New York, USA The Chicago Athenaeum at Schaumburg,Chicago, USA 1998 Paper Worlds , Lönnström Art Museum in Rauma, Finland Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland 1997 Ireland and Europe, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Ireland 1997 Echo, Tallinna Art Hall, Estonia 1997 Glass and Light, Museum for Contemporary Art in Tampere, Finland 1997 Fiber , Fiskars Art Center, Fiskars, Finland 1995 Fair Wind, Hanko foreshore , Finland 1995 River, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland 1995 Art Works Work Spaces ,Hyvinkää Art Museum , Finland 1993-94 Nature of Paper, The Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland 1994 Secret Garden, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland 1994 Points of View, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland 1992-93 USA-Finland, Contrasts and Connections, touring exhibition,USA 1993 Finnish Contemporary Art, Mänttä Art Festival, Finland 1993 Paper on Paper, Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland 1992 12 Spaces, Kerava Art Museum, Finland 1991 Set for the Sea, Gallery Titanic, Turku, Finland 1990 A Stolen Kiss, Kotka Fire Station, Kotka, Finland rewards 2004 The Public Prize, Den Haag Sculptuur 2004, Holland 2001 The Prize of Enviromental Art, Finland 2001 Finland Art Reward 1998 II price in the art competition in Espoo, Finland 1996 II price in the art competition in Hyvinkää, Finland 1989 State Art Reward, Finland 1985 Price in Nurnberg Drawing Triennale, Germany 1982 I price in the art competition for Finnish Club, Helsinki, Finland 1979 Iisalmi City Art Reward, Finland State 5-year stipendium 1994-98, 2000-04, 2006-10 Candidate of Ars Fennica Prize 2001 Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant 1999,2005 public works 2006 Children of Light, Savon Voima OY, Kuopio, Finland 2005 And the Wind Blows Over You, Ylöjärvi City Hall, Finland 2005 On the Wing, Heinola School, Heinola, Finland 2004 Towards Sun, Towards Moon, Viikki School, Helsinki, Finland 2004 Song of Songs, Lapinlahti School, Lapinlahti, Finland 2000 Hope, Espoo Congregation House, Finland 1993 Wall, Kivipankki Museum, Jämsä, Finland 1989-93 Ohne Fahrkarte, Central Library in Rikhardinkatu, Helsinki, Finland 1989 The Word as the Sward, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland 1988 Travelled Journey, Hartola Museum, Hartola, Finland collections State of Finland Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art Foundation of Jenny and Antti Wihuri Collection Swanljung Helsinki Art Museum City of Joensuu Kuopio Art Museum Saastamoisen säätiö City of Iisalmi Joensuu Art Museum City of Mikkeli Aine Art Museum City of Pieksämäki Lapinlahti Art Museum Oulu Art Museum Collection Kaisa Blomstedt Collection Thomas Levy Collection Art Nexus