b. 10.7.1957
Student Meri Pori High School 1978
Academy of Fine Arts, degree in visual arts, Helsinki 1982-86
Free School of Art, Helsinki 1981-82, 1983-84
Image Jukka Gröndahl / HS.
| 2026 | Forum Box, Helsinki |
| 2023 | Forum Box, Helsinki |
| 2020-2021 | Makasiini Contemporary, Turku |
| 2019 | Forum Box, Helsinki |
| 2017 | Makasiini Contemporary, Turku |
| 2014 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki |
| 2013 | Tsekin suurlähetystö, Helsinki |
| 2012 | Galleria Pictor, Nummela |
| 2012 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki |
| 2011-2012 | Taidekasarmi, Tuusula |
| 2010 | Kaapelin galleria, Helsinki |
| 2009 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki |
| 2007 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki |
| 2007 | Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere |
| 2004 | Forum Box, Helsinki |
| 2003 | Galleria Orton, Helsinki |
| 2003 | Taidesalonki Husa, Tampere |
| 2002 | Galerie Forsblom Studio, Helsinki |
| 2001 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki |
| 1999 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki |
| 1997 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki |
| 1995 | Galleria Titanik, Turku |
| 1994 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki |
| 1992 | Heinäveden monitoimitalo, Heinävesi |
| 1992 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki |
| 1991 | Vuoden Nuori Taiteilija, Tampereen Taidemuseo |
| 1989 | Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki |
| 1988 | Taidemaalariliiton galleria, Helsinki |
| 1987 | Taidemaalariliiton galleria, Helsinki |
| 1986 | Galleria Pro Con, Amsterdam Hollanti |
| 1986 | Galleria Strindberg, Helsinki |
| 2026 | Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2023 | Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2020-2021 | Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland |
| 2019 | Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2017 | Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland |
| 2014 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2013 | Czech Embassy, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2012 | Gallery Pictor, Nummela, Finland |
| 2012 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2011-2012 | Art CentreTuusula, Finland |
| 2010 | Cable Factory Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2009 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2007 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2004 | Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2003 | Gallery Orton, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2003 | Art Salon Husa, Tampere, Finland |
| 2002 | Galerie Forsblom Studio, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1999 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1995 | Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland |
| 1994 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1993 | Heinävesi Community House, Heinävesi, Finland |
| 1992 | Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1991 | Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Museum of Art, Finland |
| 1989 | Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1988 | Gallery of the Finnish Painters`Union, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1987 | Gallery of the Finnish Painters`Union, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1986 | Gallery Pro Con, Amsterdam, Holland |
| 1986 | Gallery Strindberg, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2025-2026 | Holy Nature Pekka Halonen and Modern art, Halosenniemi Manor, Finland |
| 2024-2025 | Dialog, EMMA Museum of Modern Art,2024-2025 |
| 2024 | Maila Talvio salon, Hartola Finland |
| 2024 | ”My Home Somewhere”, Artsi, Vantaa Artmuseum, Finland |
| 2020-2021 | Group exhibition ” Blue Thoughts”, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland |
| 2020 | Forum Box Market, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2020 | ” Once Upon a Time ”, SINKKA Kerava Art Centre, Finland |
| 2020 | ” Funny Things”, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland |
| 2019 | Forum Box Twenty Years Anniversary, Forum Box, Finland |
| 2019 | ” Imagenery Meeting”, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland |
| 2018 | Box Market, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 | ” Ape and Waterfall”, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland |
| 2018 | ” Colours Colours”, Taarasti, Nastola, Finland |
| 2018 | ” Students and Teachers”, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2017 | The Bank of Finland Art collection, The Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2016 | ” With Love” Heino Collection, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2015 | ” Out of Box”, Kuntsi Art Museum, Vaasa, Finland |
| 2014 | The Bank of Finland Art collection, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2014 | Festen, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2014 | Rovaniemi Art Museum Collection, Rovaniemi, Finland |
| 2013 | ” Rainbowfall”, EMMA Espoo Modern Art Museum, Espoo, Finland |
| 2013 | ” Young Artists of the Year”, Gumbostrand, Finland |
| 2011 | Joint Exhibition, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2011 | ” Senselandscape”, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland |
| 2011 | ” Joint Exhibition”, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2010 | ARS FENNICA CANDIDATES, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2010 | Galerie Forsblom Summer Exhibition, Billnäs, Finland |
| 2009 | Forum Box Ten Years Anniversary, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2007 | ” Jazz ”, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2007 | Blue Square, Visavuori, Tarttila, Finland |
| 2006 | Connecting People, Kiasma & Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway |
| 2006 | Works from the Collection of the City of Turku, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland |
| 2005 | Nordische Landsachft, Gemeinschaftshaus Felleshus der Nordischen Botschaften, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | ”Painted into Air”, Media Lab, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2005 | Purnu, Orivesi, Finland |
| 2004 | Artists`Association of Finland 140 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2004 | Nordische Landscahft, Industriepark Walsrode, Bomlitz, Germany |
| 2003 | ”Gates of Mystisicm,” Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland |
| 2003 | Mältinranta Art Centre 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, with Silja Rantanen, Tampere, Finland |
| 2003 | Old and New Art, Kerava Art Museum, Finland |
| 2003 | Art Salon Husa, Tampere, Finland |
| 2002 | Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | Third Triennal of Finnish Art, Gothenburg Art Museum , Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2001 | ”Hockey Flowers”, Collection of Rovaniemi Art Museum, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | ”The Joy of Painting”, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland |
| 2001 | ”Samples”, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland |
| 2001 | ”The City Awakes”, 650 Year Anniversary Exhibition of the City of Vantaa, Myyrmäki House, Vantaa, Finland |
| 2001 | Studio X, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | ”Under the Christmas Tree,” Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1999 | Inaugural Exhibition, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1998 | Academy of Fine Arts 150 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | ”Site Seeing”, Academic Bookstore and other sites in Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | Pyhäniemi Manor, Hollola, Finland |
| 1997 | Printmaking workshop Himmelblau, Retretti, Savonlinna, Finland |
| 1997 | Flower Paintings, Gallery Artek, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1996 | Ostsee Biennial, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
| 1995 | Downwind 2, Hanko, Finland |
| 1992 | Pyhäniemi Manor, Hollola, Finland |
| 1992 | Finnish Painters Union, Gallery Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1992 | Finnish Painters Union, Kunsthalle Lund, Lund, Sweden |
| 1991 | Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 1991 | Artists of Santtu House, Keuruu Art Museum, Keuruu, Finland |
| 1991 | Tricks, Heinävesi, Finland |
| 1990 | ”Water”, Kunsthalle Helsinki and touring Exhibition in Finland |
| 1990 | ”Rendez-Vous”, Nordic art Centre, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1990 | ”Charcoal on the Wall”, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
| 1989 | Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France |
| 1989 | Finnish Painters Union 60 Year Anniversary Exhibition, , Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland |
| 1989 | ” Weekdays and Sundays”, Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland |
| 1989 | Villa Roma Studios, Turku, Finland |
| 1988 | Gallery Strindberg 60th Year Anniversary Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1988 | ” Five Artists from Helsinki”, Artists Association in Helsinki, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 | ” Five Artists from Helsinki”, Artists Association in Helsinki, Warsaw, Poland |
| 1988 | ” New Finnish Art in Czechoslovakia ”, Artists Association of Finland, Prague and Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 | Ostsee Biennial, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany |
| 1987 | Expohja, Fiskars, Finland |
| 1987 | ” What Can You See ”, touring exhibition in Finland, Finnish National Gallery Helsinki, Kuopio Art Museum, Rovaniemi art Museum, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum Turku |
| 1987 | ”Utblickar”, Smålandsmuseet, Växsjö, Sweden |
| 1985 | Young Nordic Culture Festival, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1985 | Joint Exhibition, Gallery of the Finnish Painters Union, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995 | Annual exhibition of the Artists Association of Finland, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
| 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989 | Young Artists Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
| 1982 | Free Art School Today, Pori art Museum, Finland |
Aine Art Museum, Tornio
Collections of Alko Inc., Helsinki
City of Espoo, Espoo
Henna and Pertti Niemistö Collection, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna
Municipality of Heinävesi
Helsinki Parishes
Helsinki Art Museum HAM
Kajaani Art Museum, Kajaani
Kerava Art Museum, Kerava
City of Keuruu
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Oulu Art Museum
Paulo Foundation, Helsinki
Pekka Halonen Collection, Helsinki
Heino Collection, Helsinki
Ari Lahti Collection, Helsinki
Risto Vilhunen Collection, Vantaa
EMMA, Museum of Modern Art, Saastamoinen Foundation, Espoo
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
The Collection of Finnish Bank, Helsinki
Finnish State
Tampere Art Museum
City of Vantaa
Tuusula Municipality
Wihuri Fund, Rovaniemi Art Museum
WSOY Collection, Helsinki
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
Benetton Smallsizeartworks Collection
Municipality Örebro, Sweden
Municipality Jönköping, Sweden
Pehr Gyllenhammar Collection, Sweden
Uppsala Municipality, Sweden
Västernorrlands Län Municipality, Sweden
Works in private collections in Finland and abroad.
| 2018 | Painting ” Colour Horizon”, New Chlldrens Hospital, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2013 | Portrait Seppo Kemppinen, Borenius Oy, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002 | Paintings ” Rose and Roses and Carnation before Lily ”, Oulu Cityhospital, Oulu, Finland |
| 1995 | Sculpture ” Rocky Road Home”, sculpture park at Tuusula Art Centre, Tuusula, Finland |
| 2015 | Four cd covers, TUM records, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2006 | Drawings. ” Oi terve tarhurineito ” . The garden of Aino Sibelius. Julia Donner Multikustannus Oy, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 | Joint exhibition ” COLOURS COLOURS”, HC Berg, Niko Luoma and Markus Konttinen, Taarasti, Nastola, Finland |
| 2018 | Joint exhibition ” Teachers and Students ”, together with Anna Tuori, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | Joint exhibition Paul Osipow, Reijo Viljanen and Iiris Pessa, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1999 | Final degree shows 1999-2010, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 — | Board member Forum Box Co-Operative, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 | – Board member Raimo Utriainen Foundation, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2016-2018 | Head of the Board, National Council for Visual Arts, Display Compensations, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2015 | Board member of the Artsubstance Commitee, New Childrens Hospital, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2013-2020 | Member of the Delegation National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2013 | Vice chairman of the Foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts, helsinki, Finland |
| 2012-2015 | EU council 31 |
| 2011-2016 | Board member of HIAP, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2010-2015 | Board member of the Paulo Foundation, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002- | Board member of Cite Internationale des Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2002-2010 | Board member of the Grants of the Finnish Art Society, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1998 -2001 | Member National Council for Visual Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1995-1998 | Member, Exhibition Commitee, Artists Association of Finland, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1995-1998 | Member, Exhibition Commitee, Finnish Painters Union, Helsinki, Finland |
| Founding member Artists Co-Operative Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland | |
| Member of organisational team Artists Co-Operative Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland | |
| 1997 | Jury Chairman, Comment, National Young Artists Exhibition, WeeGee House, Espoo, Finland |
| 1986 | Jury Member, National Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018- | Part-time teachers, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 | Visiting professor drawing and perception, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2013-2017 | Dean, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2010-2012 | Rector, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997-2009 | Vice-rector, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland |
| 1995-2005 | Lecturer of drawing and perception, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland |
| 1986 | Teacher, Art Course, House of Culture, Helsinki, Finland |
| 1984 | Teacher Nokia Art Festival |
| 1983 | Teacher Nokia Art Festival |
| 2022- | National Council for Visual Arts, Artist Pension, extra partpension |
| 2019 -2021 | The Finnish Culture Foundation, Artist Employment Grant, three years |
| 2004 | Alfred Kordelin Fund,Target Grant |
| 1991-1994 | National Council for Visual Arts, Artist Employment Grant, three years |
| 1986-1987 | National Council for Visual Arts, one year grant |
| 1986 | The Finnish Culture Foundation, Target Grant |
| 2018 | University of Arts in Finland, Academy of Fine Arts, Doctor of Honour, Honoris Causa |
| 2013 | Finnish State, Pro Finlandia Medal, Suomen Leijonan Ritarikunta |
| 1991 | Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland |
| 1984 | Ducat Prize, Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland |
Finnish Artists Association
Artists Association of Helsinki
Forum Box Co-Operative
Finnish Painters Union
| 2012 | Markus Konttinen,” A River, Clouds and the Moon,” Parvs Publishing |
| 2007 | Markus Konttinen, ” Summer Light,- Wandering and Stopping”, Parvs Publishing |
| 2004 | Markus Konttinen, ” Touching and Immersing”, Parvs Publishing |
| 1999 | Markus Konttinen, ” Years 1986-1999”. Markus Konttinen 1999 |
| 1991 | Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum Publishings, Tampere Art Museum |
