Kari Soinio
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Finnish, born 1962
Projects/Portfolios
Introduction
Images from recent projects Private Hero, Domesticated Hero, City of Ghosts, The Beautiful City, and an ongoing project Under the Bridges.
Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Station Independent Projects, New York, NY, United States
Storefront Bushwick, New York, NY, United States
From Landscape to Place, Kari Soinio and Leena-Maija Rossi, Maahenki, Helsinki, 2009
Artist Statement
Kari Soinio´s work concentrates on two main themes, sense and representation of landscape and place on one hand and corporeality, sexuality and male identity on the other. Soinio has experimented extensively with problematics of perception and representation in out of focus images both in his landscape work and in auto-portraiture-based work on male body.
Kari Soinio is a Bronx, New York, based artist working mainly with photography. He received his BA from the Lahti Polytechnic in his native Finland and his MFA from University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He also has studied at the International Center of Photograpy in New York.
He has recently exhibited at Station Independent Projects (2015 & 2013) and Storefront Bushwick (2013) in NY, Heino Gallery (2012) and Korjaamo Gallery (2011) in Helsinki, at the Northern Photographic Center in Oulu (2011) and at several galleries and museums in Finland. He has participated in numerous shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. His monograph From Landscape to Place was published in 2009 in conjunction with a show at Heino Gallery and a mid-career retrospective at Kerava Art Museum. His show at the Institut Finlandais in Paris was part of Mois de la Photo in 2010 and received significant attention from the French art press. His work has been shown in the US and in Europe at Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield England; NGBK gallery, Berlin; Arthouse, Sofia, Bulgaria; Ludvig Museum, Budapest; Signe Vad galleri, Copenhagen; Peer Gallery, New York; Gallery Papatzikou - Photobiennale Thessaloniki, Greece; Ingrid Hansen Gallery, Washington, DC; Municipality of Neapolis Gallery, Thessaloniki; and Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland. Soinio's work has appeared in NY Arts Magazine, Connaissance des Arts, l'Humanite, Réponses Photo, Art Actuel, La Tribune, Next Level and in numerous books, newspapers and TV programs in Finland.
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