MIIA AUTIO
ABOUT
Miia Autio is a visual artist with a background in documentary photography. She uses photography, video, and text as her primary mediums. Autio's practice is often grounded in visual anthropology and in her more recent works, she has personally taken on the role of interlocutor, seeking interaction around the themes of her artworks. Her works explore the boundary between the visible and the invisible, as well as the impact of images on the construction of different worldviews.
Contact:
miiaaut@gmail.com
+358443740462
CV
Born 1986 in Reisjärvi, Finland
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
STUDIES
2022 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Time & Space Department MFA
2016 Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Fotografie und Medien BA
2015 University of Applied sciences Lahti, Visual communication BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Gallery Hippolyte, Letter 1 / Air, Helsinki FI
2021 Exhibition Laboratory, Dear Anna,, Helsinki FI
2020 Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Wallwork #30, YOUR FACE HERE, Berlin DE
2019 Northern Photographic Centre, YOUR FACE HERE, Oulu FI
2019 Galleria Huuto, YOUR FACE HERE, Helsinki FI
2018 Stadtmuseum Münster, Friedrich-Hundt-Studio, Variation of White, Münster DE
2018 Finnish Museum of photography, collection corner, Variation of White, Helsinki FI
2017 Gallery Uusi Kipinä, I called out for the mountains, I heard them drumming, Lahti FI
2016 Gallery Hippolyte, Variation of White, Helsinki FI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Out of Frame, Centre Géopolis, Bryssel BE
2023 Out of Frame, Galeria Nueva, Madrid ES
2023 Out of Frame, Villa Altieri, Rooma, IT
2023 ETSIN, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki FI
2021 Climate Utopias Festival, Lahti FI
2021 This is not a photo, KUBO/Galerie Mitte, Bremen DE
2021 Kuvan Kevät- MFA degree show, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki FI
2021 Variations of Reality, La Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil FR
2020 Flagge Zeigen, Outdoor exhibition, Storkow DE
2020 Blinde Winkel, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin DE
2019 Encounters – Nordic photography beyond borders, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Reykjavik IS
2019 Encounters – Nordic photography beyond borders, Photographic Center, Copenhagen DK
2019 Über Leben am Land, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna AT
2019 Encounters – Nordic photography beyond borders, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg SE
2018 Photo Kathmandu, Whose and Whom – The Body as a political Landscape, Kathmandu NP
2018 Monroe/Monroe: Female Issues and Photographic Narrative, Shang Ba Art Gallery, Beijing CN
2018 Fotofestiwal, Lodz, PL
2017 Emerging Talents, MACRO Testaccio - Spazio FACTORY, Rome IT
2017 Beijing International Photo Week, China Millenium Monument, Beijing CN
2017 PhEST, Festa internazionale della fotografia, Monopoli IT
2017 Organ Vida-festival, Museum of Contempory Art, Zagreb HR
2017 gute aussichten – young German Photography 2016/2017, Landesmuseum Koblenz, Koblenz DE
2017 FORMAT-Festival, "HABITAT", Derby UK
2017 gute aussichten – young German photography 2016/2017, Deichtorhallen Haus der Photographie, Hamburg DE
2017 HELLERAU Portrait award exhibition, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, DE
2017 Circulation(s), Festival de la jeune photographie européenne, Hors les murs, hôtel Fontfreyde Centre photographique, Clermont-Ferrand FR
2016 gute aussichten – young German photography 2016/2017, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf DE
2016 Lagos Photo Festival, „Rituals and Performance: Inherit Risk“, Lagos NG
2016 Menotrentuno31, Young European photography in Sardinia, „Terramadre homeland", Italian cultural Institute London UK
2016 Menotrentuno31, Young European photography in Sardinia, Museo d'arte contemporanea Masedu, Sassari IT
2016 OFF-Festival, selected work, Muszi Gallery, Budapest HU
2016 Menotrentuno31, Young European photography in Sardinia, „Terramadre homeland“ (Outdoor exhibition) Florinas IT
2016 2016 Athens Photo Festival, „(Mis/Dis)Places“, Benaki Museum, Athens GR
Festival of Political photography, „Homeland“, Finnish Museum of photography, Helsinki FI
2015 OFF-Festival, „Interpret*art“, Bratislava SK
2015 FORMAT-Festival, QUAD, „EVIDENCE“ Derby UK
2014 „Chapter 2 – Confetti for Rostock“, Museum Marta Herford, Herford DE
2013 „Chapter 2“, Kunsthalle, Rostock DE
GRANTS
2023 Kone Foundation (two-years working grant)
2023 Art Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Visual Art (Project grant)
2022 Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation (six-months working grant)
2022 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art (Project grant)
2021 Paulo Foundation (Project grant)
2020 Finnish Cultural Foundation (Residency grant)
2019 Icelandic-Finnish Cultural Foundation (travel grant)
2019 Art Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art (exhibition grant)
2018 Alfred Kordelin Foundation (one-year working grant)
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (travel grant)
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Arts Council of Uusimaa (exhibition grant)
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland (travel grant)
2017 Frame contemporary art Finland (travel grant)
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art (exhibition grant)
2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation (one-year working grant)
2016 Frame contemporary art Finland (travel grant)
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, National Council for Photographic Art (exhibition grant)
2015 Alfred Kordelin Foundation (exhibition grant)
2015 Finnish Cultural Foundation (exhibition grant)
2014 C.V. Åkerlund Foundation (project grant)
AWARDS
2019 LifeFramer, Series Award (shortlisted)
2018 Lucie Foundation Emerging Sholarship (shortlisted)
2017 PhotoTales, Emerging talents (winner)
2017 PHM Women photographers grant (3rd honorable mention)
2017 Lucie Foundation Emerging Sholarship (shortlisted)
2017 CAP Prize (shortlisted)
2017 FORMAT Portfolio Awards, Genesis Imaging Award (winner)
2017 HELLERAU portrait award (finalist)
2016 gute aussichten – young German Photography 2016/2017 (winner)
2016 The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, „Short-Short“ documentary film prize, (shortlisted)
2016 Fotofinlandia (finalist)
2015 FPMagazine, Young Talents of Image (best author in portrait category)
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Helsinki Art Museum
Finnish Museum of Photography
Privat collections in Germany, Poland and Finland
© Miia Autio 2025
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