OUTI PIESKI
born 1973, lives and works in Ohcejohka (Utsjoki), Finland
EDUCATION
1994-2000 M.F.A, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Helsinki
1992-1994 North Carelia Polytechnic, the Department of Visual Arts, Joensuu
1992 High school graduation, High school of Fine Arts, Helsinki
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Outi Pieski solo exhibition, Tate St Ives
2023 Ládjogahpira rematriašuvdna—Máhccat eatni lusa, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar/Inari, Finland
2022 Summer exhibition – Sápmi Stories, with Biret and Gáddjá Haarla Pieski, Nordic House in the Faroe Islands
2022 Selected Works, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Galleri Nord-Norge, Harstad, Norway
2022 Ládjogahpir rematriašuvdna—Máhccat eatni lusa/ Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir— Return to Máttaráhkká, Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm
2021 Beavvit – Rising Together, Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Norwegian Sculptors Society, Oslo
2021 47 Most Wanted Foremothers, 12 Star Gallery, London
2020 47 Most Wanted Foremothers, in collaboration with Eeva-Kristiina Nylander, Sámi Culture Centre Sajos, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
2019 Rematriation of a Ládjogahpir – Return to Máttaráhkká, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2019 A Greater Miracle of Perception, with Miracle Workers Collective, Finnish Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale
2019 Čuolmmadit, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2018 Čuolmmadit, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2017 Falling Shawls, one year installation at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
2015 Ássojuvvon báiki – Inhabited Land, Härjedalens Kulturcentrum, Lillhärdal, Sweden
2014 Mimicry, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
2014 Ássojuvvon báiki – Inhabited Land, Gallery Korjaamo, Helsinki
2010 Áhku´s Medicine Pine, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2010 Áhku´s Medicine Pine, Luleå Kulturens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
2009 Kaisa in a Lake Giisajärvi, Forum Box, with Pauliina Turakka Purhonen, Helsinki
2008 Bird Singing Tree, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
2007 Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2003 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki
2002 Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-24 The Land Has a Mind to Speak- Sámi Horizons, MARKK, Hamburg
2023 Gibca- Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
2023 Speaking Back -Davi muitalusaid dekoloniseren/Decolonizing Nordic Narratives, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2022 Navigating North, Kiasma, Helsinki
2022 YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
2022 Arctic Amazon – Networks of Global Indigeneity, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
2022 A gathering with love, curated by Zippora Elders, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen Amsterdam
2022 rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
2022 Nordic Lights Festival, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2021 Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2021 Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2021 Jaskatvuođa maŋŋá: Sexy Sápmi – Breaking the Silence, Davvi álbmogiid guovddaš – Center of Northern People, Riddu Riđđu Festival, Gáivuotna (Kåfjold), Norway
2021 Wiping the Ice-Cream Off your Face – 30 years of activity of the Artists’ Association of Lapland, Galleria Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2020 Around the Corner, the Wind’s Joik, Sven Harry´s konstmuseum, Stockholm
2019 40 jagi – Ávvočájahus / Anniversary exhibition, Alta kunstforening, Norway
2019 Strangers in Town, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
2019 Duddjot, Institut Finlandais, Paris
2019 Human Era, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä
2019 Nordic Impressions, Scandinavia House, New York
2019 Histories. Three generations of Sámi artists, Queen Sonja Art Stable, Oslo
2018 Landscape of the Future, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki
2018 Nordic Impressions, Phillips Collection Museum, Washington
2018 Northern Exposure, Nordic Museum, Seattle
2018 Áigemátki – Time Travel, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2017 Greetings from Suomi, Fiskars, Finland
2017 Staro Riga light festival, Riga
2017 Lux Helsinki light festival, Helsinki Cathedral Chapel, Helsinki
2017 I Craft, I Travel Light, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø; Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš/Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2017 Sámi Dáiddamusea, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromso, Norway
2017 Puku, kieli, suku, mieli, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2016 Obsidian Gaze, Center of Northern Peoples, Manndalen, Norway
2016 Art Ii Biennale – Poetics of the Material, Environmental Art Park in Ii, Finland
2016 Change Makers, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Canada
2015 Sámi Contemporary, Felleshus, Berlin
2015 Sámi Contemporary, Kungsbacka konsthall, Sweden
2015 How to Read in the Dark?, Grimmuseum, Berliini; Tartu kunstimaja, Estonia; Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
2014 Hetkinen, Mänttä Art Weeks, Finland
2014 Top of the World, Sami Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway
2014 The Snowball Effect 2, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2014 Northern ´Souls, Space Station Sixty-Five, London
2014 Sámi Contemporary, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok), Norway; Sámi Contemporary, Norbottens Museum, Luleå, Sweden; Sámi Contemporary, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2013 Regards sur L’art Contemporain de Finlande, Chateau de Saint Auvent, Limoges, France
2013 Sakahán – International Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
2013 Totta vai leikkiä 2, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2012 Snow Ball Effect – North Finland Biennial, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2012 I see, Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Aaargh! – 10 years later, Jätkäsaari warehouse, Helsinki
2012 Barked! – Contemporary birch, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
2011 The Magic of Lappland, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
2011 The Great Outside, Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2011 Middle of Nowhere, Rauma Artmuseum, Finland
2010 Ausgrabungen des Alltags, Pieski, Braun& Raito, Finland-Institut in Deutschland, Berlin
2010 Triennial of Finnish Art, TR1 Arthall, Tampere, Finland
2009 Lappi Artists´ Union 20 year jubileum, Rovaniemi Art museum, Finland
2009 Calling Home, Quartair, Haag, Netherlands
2008 Ausflug zum Saftsee, Pieski, Braun & Raito, Westwerk, Hamburg
2007 Kollaasi, Oulu Art Museum, Finland
2006- 2008 In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun – Saami and Inuit Art 2000-2005, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Winnipeg Manitoba; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan; Yokon Arts centre, Whitehouse Yukon Territory, Canada
2006 Äidin taju, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland
2004 Pieski, Lehtonen Braun and Raito, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki
2004 Garden of Paradise, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
2004 Common Land – Contemporary art and art handicraft of Arctic Nations, W. Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2003 Common Land – Contemporary art and art handicraft of Arctic Nations, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar(Inari); Gallen-Kallela Museum of Espoo, Finland
2001 Mental Impression, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
2000 Det Fluktuerende Maleri, Biennial South 2000, Sorlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand, Sweden
2000 Triennial of Finnish Art, Helsinki Art Hall
2000 Report of Journey, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
1999 Girjin Govvan – Sámi Art, Sámi Museum Siida, Aanaar (Inari), Finland
1999 Girjin Govvan – Sámi Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
1999 Polvi-Generation, exhibition of the graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki Art Hall
1996 Comment, exhibition for young artists, WG house, Espoo, Finland
1995 Exhibition for young artists, Helsinki Art Hall
IN COLLABORATION
2023 Arctic/Amazon – Networks of Global Indigeneity, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/Can (Guhte gullá)
2023 Abundance, the 45th Tendenser Biennial, Galleri F15, Norway (Guhte gullá)
2022 Arctic Amazon, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (Guhte gullá)
2022 Árran 360°, San Servolo, Venice Film Festival program / The Sámi Pavilion at 59 La Biennale di Venezia (Guhte gullá)
2022 Landscapes of Belonging, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Guhte gullá)
2021 The Same See, Helsinki Biennale (Guhte gullá – Here to Hear by Birit and Katja Haarla, Outi Pieski)
2021 ´Counter Cartographies, Living the Land, Anchorage Museum, Alaska (Rájácummá)
2020 Rájágeassin – Rajanveto, Holmberg, Laiti & Pieski, Jonne Sippola, Häiriköt-päämaja & Jari Tamminen, galleria Sinne, Helsinki (Moratorium Office)
2020 Rájácummá, publication of the community-based art project Rájácummá, author´s edition (Rájácummá)
2020 publication Ládjogahpir – Máttaráhkuid gábagahpir/ The Ládjogahpir – The Foremothers` Hat of Pride, Eeva-Kristiina Harlin & Outi Pieski, publisher Davvi Girji
2018–2020 Moratoriadoaimmahat – Moratorium Office, Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, in collaboration with Ellos Deatnu! movement, community-based self- determination project
2019 Actually the Dead is not Dead, Bergen Assemble, Bergen (Moratorium Office& Rájácummá)
2019 Rájácummá, Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš – Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, Kárášjohka (Karasjok) (Rájácummá)
2019 The Human Era, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä Fin (Moratorium Office)
2019 Matters at Heart, Telemark Kunstsenter, Nor (Moratorium Office & Rájácumma)
2018 Finland 101, Art Museum Artsi, Vantaa, Fin (Moratorium Office)
2018 A revolutionary toolkit, Suohpanterror solo exhibition in Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Moratorium Office)
2017–2018 Rájácummá – Kiss from the Border, Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, environmental and community-based art project in Deatnu river valley
2017 Dola fávttat, live stream happening in Giličoahkin, Pauliina Feodoroff, Baltic Circle Theatre Festival (Rájácummá)
2017-2020 art and research project Ládjogahpir–Máttaráhkuid gábagahpir/ The Ládjogahpir–The Foremothers` Hat of Pride, Eeva-Kristiina Nylander (Harlin) and Outi Pieski
OTHER PROJECTS
2022 co-direction, co-set design, co-costume design, performing in Matriarchy, performance, digital screen installation by Pauliina Feodoroff, The Sámi Pavilion (Nordic Pavilion), 59 La Biennale di Venezia
2021 curating in Mäccmõš, maccâm, máhccan – Homecoming, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki
2017 set design in Autonomiija áiggis – Time of Autonomy, Pauliina Feodoroff, Maryan Abdulkarim, S Nousiainen, Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, Helsinki
2008 co-direction, set design, costume design in Harvat & Valitut, dance and fine art live installation, Zodiak/Hiap, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2005 co-direction, set design, costume design in Harvat & Valitut, dance and fine art live installation, Ritarikatu 7, Helsinki
PUBLIC COMISSIONS
2023 Guovssat – Suojametsä, Lapland Central Hospital
2020 Guovtte biggii – Guektien bïegkese – Two Directions, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, subscriber Public Art Agency Sweden
2015 Spirit of the Valley, Sámi Parliament House of Norway, Kárášjohka (Karasjok) subscriber KORO- Public Art Norway
2012 Eatnu, Eadni, Eana – Stream, Mother, Ground, Sámi Parliament Hall, Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos, Aanaar (Inari), subscriber The Finnish State Art Collection
2010 Sanattomat ilon tuojat, Vesala Community Centre, Ylikiiminkii, subscriber city of Oulu Finland
2007 Solju and Lavvut, Sámi kindergarden, Tromso, subscriber city of Tromso Norway
REPRESENTED
Moderna Museet, National Museum in Norway, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, The Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Stortingets kunstsamling in Norway, Finnish National Gallery, State Art Deposit Collection Finland, Aine Art Museum, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Oulu Art Museum, Sámi Museum Siida, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Collection, The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Sámi Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat Sámi Art Collection, RidduDuottar Museum Collection, SANKS Norway, Senter for nordlige folk – Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš Norway, Vest-Agder fylkeskommune, City of Tromso, City of Luleå, City of Rovaniemi, City of Östersund, YLE Sámi Radio
MEMBERSHIPS
Finnish Painters´ Union, Sámi Artists´Union, Lappi Artists´ Union
AWARDS
2020 Finnish Cultural Foundation Grand Prize
2017 Fine Arts Academy of Finland Award
2016 William Thuring Prize, Finnish Art Society
2015 Ars Fennica Award candidate
2013 Sápmi Awards candidate
2001 Mänttä Art Festival Main Award
1999 Prize for Young Artist, Paulo Foundation