SAARA EKSTRÖM

born 1965 in Turku, Finland; lives and works in Turku

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004 Galleria Ama, Turku, Finland
2004 The Last Branch, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Mnemonic, Pori Art Museum, Finland
2002 Mothers of Pearl, Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere, Finland
2001 Flight, Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
2001 Nursery, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finlandv 2001 faith/hope/charity, Art Center Retretti, Punkaharju, Finland
2000 Seascape, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Swedenv 1999 Rosary, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finlandv 1999 Skin in Bloom, Kakelhallen, Mariehamn, Åland
1998 Carnation, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, Sweden
1997 A Rose is Sorrows, Galleria G, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Hanging Gardens, Turku Art Museum, Finland
1996 Bonded, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, AZ, USA
1996 Votives, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USAv 1995 Anatomy of Love, Galleria Titanik, Turku, Finland
1994 Fragments, Gallerie Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Iceland
1994 l'adoration, TML-Galleria, Helsinki, Finland

Selected Curated and Juried Group Exhibitions

2004 Buitenspel, GEM, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, Holland
2004 Love Me Or Leave Me, Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
2004 The Garden of Eden, Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti, Finland
2004 Mänttä Art Festival, Finland
2003 Night Train, Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Ars Fennica, Hämeenlinna and Lappeenranta Art Museums, Finland
2002 Natur, The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
2002 Stand van Zaken, Stroom, The Hague Center for Visual Arts, Neatherlands
2002 Wet dreams, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
2001 Sub Rosa, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark - Södertälje Art Hall, Sweden - Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
2000 Happiness, Union Quartair, The Hague, Neatherlands
2000 At the Edge of the World, touring exhibition in six finnish Art Museums
1998 Tangents, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1998 Sights, Knipnäs, Ekenäs, Finland
1997 Growth, Turku Art Museum, Finland
1996 Art Chicago '96, International Artfair, Chicago Pier, USA
1996 Matrix International '96, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA, USA
1996 Postspace, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma and Otso, Espoo, Finland
1995 Nordic Drawing Triennal, touring exhibition in Sweden and Norway
1995 The Annual Juried Exhibition of Finnish Artists, (also -94 and -93), Helsinki
1995 The Annual Juried Exhibition of Young Artists, (also -94), Helsinki Art Hall
1994 Paradise and Passion, South Karelia Art Museum, Finland
1993 Crime Passionel, Galleri Fabriken, Gothenburg, Sweden

Public Work

Strömberg School, Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, Finland
Tampere Institute of Technology, Finland
Arcada Nova, Helsinki, Finland

Work in Collections

Kiasma/Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden, Amos Anderson Art Museum, State of Finland, Turku and Kaarina Parish, Turun Osuuspankki, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Helsinki City Art Museum, Sampo-Group, State of Sweden, Gothenburg Art Council, Kaarina City, Turku Art Museum, Åbo Akademi, Tampere Art Museum, Northern Arizona University Art Museum

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