Sami Photography

CV

Sami Parkkinen (b. 1974)
tel / +358 50 379 3579
e-mail: sami.parkkinen@rajaproduction.fi
Portfolio:www.samiparkkinen.com

Coming exhibitions 2017

HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL
6.5 - 9.7.2017 Museum of Sydney, Sydney Australia

NORTHERN PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE
4.8 - 3.9.2017 Oulu, Finland

BACKLIGHT PHOTO FESTIVAL
8.9 -29.10.2017 Tampere art Museum, Finland

GALLERIA HEINO
5.8. - 3.9..2017 Helsinki, Finland

MEKEN
17.6. - 20.8..2017 Smedjebacken, Sweden

ZWISCEN LICH UND DUNKELHEIT
11.1 - 25.2.2017 Malmö, Sweden

GALLERI VASLI SOUZA
20.1 - 25.2.2017 Malmö, Sweden

FINLAND INSTITUT
3.11. 2016 - 19.1.2017 Berlin, Germany

Selected exhibitions 2016-2009

CIRCULATIONS
2016 Centquatre, Paris, France

GALLERIA HEINO
2016 Helsinki, Finland

KASVU / GROWTH
2016 Fiskars, Finland

NEW NARRATIVE AND READER
2015 Salo art Museum, Finland (group exhibition)

NEW NARRATIVE AND READER
2015 Bury art Museum, England (group exhibition)

PORTRAIT NOW 2015
2015 The Museum of National History, Denmark

TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE 2014
2015 Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, England (groub exhibition)

TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE 2014
National Portrait gallery, London, England

THE FACE
2014 Samara state art museum, Russia (group exhibition)

NATURE AND MORE
2014 Rostock kunsthalle, Germany (group exhibition)

DREAMS OF SOMETHING BETTER
2013 Anna Akhmatova museum, St Petersburg, Russia

DREAMS OF SOMETHING BETTER
2012 Taidehalli / Kusthalle, Helsinki Finland

PARADISE 2010
Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki Finland
Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
Northern photography center, Oulu Finland
Manezh St Petersburg, Russia

PLATFORM 09
2009 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Memberships /

Union of Artist Photographers Finland

Grants /

2017 Art Counsil Finland

2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2015 Art counsil Finland
2012 Art counsil Finland
2011 Patricia Seppälä Foundation
2010 Art counsil Finland
2009 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2008 Art counsil Finland, North Carelia
2006 Finnish Cultural Foundation
2006 Art counsil Finland, North Carelia
2006 Patricia Seppälä Foundation

Documentary Films/

RAI RAI!
Direction Sami Parkkinen and Jaakko Kilpiäinen
(YLE2 documentary project 2007)

Kotiteollisuus DVD 2005
(DVD EMMA award 2006)

Works in collections/

Finnish national collections, Finnish Museum of Photography, Serlachius Museum collections,

Heino collections, Joensuu Art Museum, Private collections