CV
Born 1976, lives and works in Helsinki
EDUCATION
2002 Master of Fine Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2001 The Slade School of Fine Arts, London
1995 The High School diploma, Tampere
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Anomalies, Zetterberg galleria, Helsinki
2018 #Partypopper, Zetterberg galleria, Helsinki
2017 Virtualized Sceneries, Zetterberg gallery, Helsinki
2011 Diallectic Illicid Cell Aid, Joonas Kota / Erkka Nissinen, Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki
2011 Paintings, Gallery Huuto!, Helsinki
2005 Flaw, Gallery Serilla, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Trailers, Helsinki City Art Museums Gallery
2003 Highlight, The Academy of Fine Arts’ gallery
2001 Pretending Is Honest, The Slade School of Fine Arts, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Freedom, Zetterberg gallery, Helsinki
2022 Superficial?, Zetterberg gallery, Helsinki
2021 Pinta, Taidekeskus Purnu, Orivesi
2019 Summer 2019, Zetterberg gallery, Helsinki
2019 ArtUp, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju
2018 Summer 2018, Zetterberg galleria, Helsinki
2018 Paradise is Now, Palm Trees in Art, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
(John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Secundino Hernandes, David Hockney…)
2018 Teachers and Students, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2017 Attempting Ideal, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
2016 Enslaved or Free, gallery Zetterberg, Helsinki
2009 Dialogues Biennale, Manege, St-Petersburg, Russia
2008 Made in Kuvataideakatemia, Kaiku gallery, Helsinki
2006 Serendipity, 1A Space, Hong Kong, China
2006 Songs of Freedom and Love, K2, Izmir, Turkey
2006 Songs of Freedom and Love, Platform Garanti, Istanbul
2004 The Measure of a Man, Helsinki City Art Museum
2002 The Degree Show, The Academy of Fine Arts
2000 Riiko Sakkinen, Bad Milk, The Academy of Fine Arts’ gallery
1998 11 and 33 Influencers, Käytävä!, Helsinki
ART WORKS IN COLLECTION
2018 E.W. Ponkala Foundation
2017 Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki
2016 Miettinen Collection
2008 Deposit. Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma
– Art Collection of Päivi and Paavo Lipponen
2003 The Art Collection of Päivi and Paavo Lipponen
2002 Helsinki City Art Museum
1998 Nelimarkka Foundation
GRANTS
2022 Taike
2021 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2020 Taike
2017 Alfred Kordelin foundation
2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2016 Taike
2010 Majaoja Foundation
2006 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2006 Avek
2005 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2005 Kunststyrelsen, Denmark
2004 Frame-Fund
1998 Nelimarkka Foundation
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Metamodernin äärellä: “Connecting the Dots”, Sam Inkinen, Synteesi
2019 #JOONASKOTA, Dr. Sam Inkinen
2018 Paradise is Now: Palm Trees in Art, Hatje Cantz, Norman Rosenthal
2017 Helsinki Art Guide: Worlds colliding in Joonas Kotas Virtualized Sceneries
2008 Made in Kuvataideakatemia, exhibition katalogue
2006 Serendipity, exhibition katalogue
2005 Joonas Kota. Strategies of Seduction – Self-image under presssure.