Harri Kallio is an American/Finnish photography and sculpture artist, originally from Finland (b.1970). He has been living and working in New York City since 2001. Harri Kallio received an MFA from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, in 2002.
Since 2000 Kallio has had six solo exhibitions and numerous group showings. His work has been featured at the Aperture Gallery, George Eastman House exhibition “Why Look at Animals” (2006), the International Center of Photography’s “Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of photography and Video”, FotoFest 2006, Houston, Texas, Columbus Museum of Art (2007) and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC (2006). His first monograph “The Dodo and Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters” was published in 2004 and won the The European Publisher’s Award for Photography. His work was also included in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, “Photography and Engineering 1846-2006” exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal and Bozar, Brussels, Belgium.The recent exhibitions including Kallio’s work; “Rare Bird: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art”, Berman Museum and Whatcom museum Bellingham, WA, titled “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity”.
His work has appeared in numerous international magazines and publications including the New York times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Aperture Magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, Citizen K, Le Monde2, El Pais Semanal (Spain), Universum Magazin (Austria), DPI Magazine (Taiwan), Falter Magazine (UK), “Photography”, (South Korea).
Kallio is the recipient of numerous grants including Finnish Arts Council and Finnish Cultural Foundation grants and the FotoFinlandia Prize Helsinki, Finland (2006). In 2007 he was awarded the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Residency.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS
2018 cat. Whatcom Museum, “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity”, Barbara Matilsky
2009 George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, 60th anniversary in 2009 with a deluxe portfolio (with Edward Burtynsky, John Divola, Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Richard Misrach, Abelardo Morell, Lori Nix, Erwin Olaf, Martin Parr, John Pfahl, and Alex Webb. )
2008 DPI Magazine, Taiwan, Falter Magazine, UK (issue no.2)
2007 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, “Photography and Engineering 1846-2006”
“Letter from Mauritius: Digging for Dodos: the Quest to Find New Specimens”, The New Yorker, January 22, 2007, Photofile Magazine, Australian Centre for Photography, Issue 79, Summer 2007,”Representation vs Reinvention-On 2nd Triennial Exhibition held by ICP”; Chinese Photography Magazine, February 2007,Ateneum Finnish National gallery, “Eläinten aika” Catalogue (2007)
2006 New York times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times (ICP “Ecotopia” reviews)
Harper’s Magazine, Dec 2006
“Harri Kallio: Through the Looking-Glass Backwards”; Carlo McCormick: Aperture; Summer 2006
Universum Magazin, (Austria)
FotoFest 2006, Catalogue, ICP, International Center of Photography “Ecotopia” , Catalogue
Slate “Artist of the month”, February 2006
“Image” ,The Magazine of George Eastman House, summer 2006
Time Out, New York February 2-8 issue NO: 540
Helsingin Sanomat, Foto Finlandia feature, February 10th
2005 Le Monde2 #48, January-05 “Fantasie ornitologique, le Dodo oseau dada”
2004 EL PAIS SEMANAL, Numero 1.467,”El pajaro resucitado”
2003 The 15th BFF promotion award catalogue
Finnish Photography 2003, Musta Taide, Helsinki
Monograph “The Dodo and Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters”, Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK), 2004
