HARRI KALLIO BIOGRAPHY
HARRI KALLIO

Born:  Salla,  Finland in 1970

Education:

2002   University of Art and Design, Helsinki Finland. MFA Photography.

1999   University of Art and Design, Helsinki Finland. BFA Photography.

1998   Oxford Brookes University, School of Art, Publishing and Music, Oxford          

           England.

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2010   Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

2009   Fotografia Contemporanea of Cinisello Balsamo, Italy

2008   Thessaloniki biennale, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography,

           Greece

2007   Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

           Donggang River Photography Festival, GangWonDo, South Korea

           ChangWon City, GyeongNam(2008 Ramsar Convention), South Korea

           JeonJu City, Jeollabukdo, South Korea

2006   FotoFest2006: Exhibition; "Harri Kallio: The Dodo Bird and

           Mauritius Island"; Houston, TX

           Imaginary Encounters: The Dodo Bird and Mauritius Island; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

2005   "Obiettivo Uomo Ambiente 2005" Biannual, Viterbo, Italy

2004   Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Jena, Germany

2003   Natural History Museum, Helsinki Finland

 

Group Exhibitions:

2009   "Hot Fun in the Summertime"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

2008   Narrating a Place: Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy

2007   "Elåinten Aika"; Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland

            "Green Art", Seoul, Korea

            "On the Wall: Aperture magazine '05/'06"

             Aperture Gallery, New York, New York

            "Ingenuity - Photography and Engineering 1846-2006"  Calouste

            Gulbenkain Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

            "Ingenuity - Photography and Engineering 1846-2006"   BOZAR Center for            Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

            "The Art and Artifice of Science"; Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

            The Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum Finland

            "Aperture at 55"; The Aperture Gallery, New York, NY

2006   "Ecotopia: ICP's Second Triennial of Photography and Video"

            International Center for Photography, New York, NY

            "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery

           New York, NY

           "Hot Pics '06," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York

           "Why Look at Animals?"; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

           "Photography Triennial"; International Center for Photography,

           New York, NY

 

2004   Design Center, Stuttgart, Germany

2003   "Gruner + Jahr", Hamburg, Germany

            Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki Finland

            "Forum für Fotografie und Kunst"; Cologne, Germany

2000    Profounders Galleria, Helsinki

1999    Galleria Hippolyte, Helsinki

1997    Galleria Atski, Helsinki

1996    Titanic Galleria, Turku, Finland

 

Awards / Grants:

2008   The Riccardo Pezza European Photography Prize

           "Narrating a place" Triennale di Milano,

2006   Fotofinlandia Award

           Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

2004   Finnish Art Council Grant

           The European Publishers Award for Photography

2003   BFF Promotion Award

           Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

2002   Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant

2000   Finnish Art Council Grant

1996   "Images of Europe 1996," European Cultural Foundation Award

 

Publications:

"Harri Kallio: Photography Art Lepidoptera & The Dodo" DPI Magazine,

(Taiwan) Jan 30, 2008

"Imaginary Encounter: Harri Kallio"; Falter Magazine No. 2 (Putrity) 2008

Ateneum Finnish National gallery, "Eläinten aika" Catalogue (2007)

Oiseau Rare: L'Artiste Harri Kallio Provoque le Reveil du Dodo"; Citizin K, Printemps 2007 (France)

"Representation vs Reinvention-On 2nd Triennial Exhibition held by ICP"; Chinese Photography Magazine, February 2007

"Letter from Mauritius: Digging for Dodos: the Quest to Find New Specimens", The New Yorker, January 22, 2007

"Photos of Dodos";  The New Yorker, Online Magazine, January 22 , 2007

Photofile Magazine, Australian Centre for Photography,   Issue 79, Summer 2007

Harper's Magazine, December 2006

"Harri Kallio: Through the Looking-Glass Backwards"; Carol McCormick: Aperture; Summer 2006

"Die Rückkehr der Dodos:  Harri Kallio"; Universum;  No. 3, March 2006 (Austria)

Fotofest; "The Dodo and Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters," 2006

Time Out New York; February 2nd 2006

Art & Antiques, February, 2006

New York Times, Sunday January 29, 2006

Slate; Artist of the Month, February 2006

Le Monde2 #48, January-05

"Fantasie ornitologique, le Dodo oiseau dada"

EL PAIS SEMANAL, Numero 1.467,"El pajaro resucitado" 2004

"The Dodo and Mauritius island, Imaginary Encounters"

The 15th BFF promotion award catalogue, 2003

Finnish Photography 2003, Musta Taide, Helsinki

 

Monograph:

The Dodo and Mauritius Island; Imaginary Encounters : Harri Kallio;

Dewi Lewis Publishing (2004) (hardbound)

International: Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain), Peliti Associati (Italy)

 

Collections:

Fotografia Contemporanea of Cinisello Balsamo, Italy

The George Eastman House, Rochester New York

Rubin Collection , El Paso, TX

The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Natural History Museum, Helsinki Finland

The Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum Finland
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
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