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Artist-in-Residence

Jarmo Mäkilä

IN STUDIO

Thursday, March 20, 2014 through
Saturday, April 12, 2014

ON EXHIBIT

Thursday, March 20, 2014 through
Saturday, May 24, 2014

PROFILE CIRRICULUM VITAE

Jarmo Mäkilä

The large-scale autobiographical paintings of Jarmo Mäkilä reflect personal childhood memories and the mythology of his native Finland. Scenes of boys playing games are a favorite subject.

Mäkilä’s paintings examine the moment at which childhood ends and innocence begins to falter. The exhibition consists of paintings that illuminate memories and emotions associated with childhood. Women are completely absent from enigmatic scenes that analyze male anxieties in a world with hidden rules. The artist allows boyhood memories to be interpreted through a thick layer of the present in large-scale scenes expressing heavy tension. While Mäkilä’s works are autobiographical, their impact is universal in that they reflect good and evil, as well as oppressive loneliness.
While in residence, Mäkilä will complete a new painting and a series of approximately 14 clay boy sculptures as part of an installation called Lord of the Flies, which he summarizes as, “A bouncing discourse between the past and the present.”
Jarmo Mäkilä lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. His career as a painter began in the politically turbulent 1970s. He studied at the University of Helsinki’s School of Art and Design, and at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts where he later taught for almost six years. Having initially painted working-class subjects, Mäkilä moved his attention to the glossy worlds of consumption and popular culture in the 1980s. Combining media images with mythological motifs, the paintings made Mäkilä one of the foremost postmodern painters in Finland. In the 2000s, Mäkilä turned his gaze upon himself and his personal experiences. His paintings have been widely exhibited in galleries, museums, and art fairs worldwide. In 2002, Mäkilä was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal and in 2011 he was a Carnegie Art Award nominee. His artworks have been collected by all major art museums in Finland, as well as by foundations, institutions, and private collections around the world.

Solo Exhibitions

2013

Market Art fair, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm, Sweden

2012

Pori art museum, Pori, Finland

Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany

2011

Galerie Favardin & De Verneuil, Paris, France

Gallerie Koivulinna, Pukkila, Finland

2010

Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany

Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland

Galerie Michael Schultz, Seoul, South Korea

2009

Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland

Galleria Pictor, Nummela, Finland

2008

Helsinki City art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Galleria Orton, Helsinki, Finland

2007

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2005

Seinäjoki Art Hall, Seinäjoki, Finland

2004

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Galleria Mälkki, Tampere, Finland

Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

2003

Gallery Eve Pinomaa, Hanko, Finland

2002

Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

1999

Varkaus Art Museum, Varkaus, Finland

Pukkila Art house, Pukkila, Finland

1998

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

1995

Cathedral crypt, Helsinki, Finland

1994

Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

1992

Poleeni, Pieksämäki, Finland

Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, USA

1991

Galerie Grafiart, Turku, Finland

1990

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

1982

Galerie of artist union, Moscow, Soviet Union

Modern art museum, Odessa, Soviet Union

Group Exhibitions

2013

Drawing in the flesh, Art Museum of Vantaa, Finland

Sweet n’ Rotten, Kerava Art Museum, Finland

2011 - 2012

Carnagie art award

The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

The Royal Academy of fine arts, Stockholm, Sweden

Amos Anders Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

Biennale Balticum, Art museum of Rauma, Finland

Op-Pop- Post, art museum of Pori, Finland

2011

Isä ja äiti, Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, Finland

Kesä – Sommar – Summer 2011, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Le Mal de Montano, Galerie Favardin & De Verneuil, Paris, France Art and Comics, Art museum of Tuusula, Finland

2007

Time of animals, Finnish National gallery Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

I want to be a dog, art museum of Rauma, Finland

Lönströmin taidemuseo, Rauma, Finland

2003

Popcorn and politics _ Activists of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

2000

Nordic Postmodernism, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

1999-2000

The Painting, Painters Union 70-year anniversary exhibition, Finland

1999

International art, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland

1997

Suomi – kuva, art Villa Wegelius, Ikaalinen, Finland

Smart Show goes to sea, Helsinki - Stockholm

1994

Finnish art Triennial of Helsinki - St Petersburg (Finnish Artists' Association), Finland - Russia

1993

Kaikista lapsuuden huoneista, Oulu City Art Museum, Finland

1992

Art, Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, USA

1991

Galerie Pelin 10-year anniversary exhibition, Helsinki, Finland

Contemporary Finnish Art, St Petersburg, Soviet Union

1990

Valo-kuva, Finnish Printmakers Exhibition, Finland

1989

Synty ja kuolema, Tampere Art Museum, Finland

1988

Kuuntelu, Finnish Painters' Union exhibition, Helsinki, Finland

Finnish contemporary art exhibition, Havana, Cuba

1985

Taiteilijaa tapaamassa, the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts touring, Finland

Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland

1984

"Nordic picture '- touring exhibition, DDR

1981

Young artists, Helsinki, Finland

Finnish contemporary art exhibition, Moscow, Soviet Union Cagnes-sur-Mer, an international painting exhibition, France

1979

Kantaryhmä - Group Exhibition, Tampere, Finland

Finnish Painters' Union 50th anniversary exhibition, Helsinki, Finland

1978

78-realist – exhibition, Helsinki, Finland

1977-78Finsk bild – exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden

1977

Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland