HARRI KALLIO
Finnish / American, born in Salla, Finland, 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
2008 Thessaloniki biennale, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
2007 Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio USA
2006 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
Foto Fest 2006: Exhibition; “Harri Kallio: The Dodo Bird and Mauritius Island”; Houston, TX
2005 “Obiettivo Uomo Ambiente 2005” Biannual, Viterbo, Italy
2003 Natural History Museum, Helsinki Finland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity”, Whatcom Museum Bellingham, WA
2016 “Rare Bird: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art”, Berman Museum
2015 “World Water Forum 2015”, South Korea- Seoul, Daegu EXCO, Gyeongju HICO.
2011 Hobart, Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, “Reconstructing the Animal”
2010 ClampArt, NYC, “The Museum of Unnatural History”
2009
“Hot Fun in the Summertime”; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Northeastern Environmental Art exhibition, Northeastern, Wellesley, Tufts and Boston Universities
2008
NURTUREart Gallery, NYC, Interface: Nature
Scream Gallery, London, UK
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC
“Kuusamo Nature”, Kuusamo, Finland
The Triennale di Milano, Premio Pezza Award, Milan
2007
Green Art Festival 2007, South Korea, Seoul, Donggang River Photography, Festival-GangWonDo, ChangWon City-GyeongNam, JeonJu City-Jeollabukdo.
Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, “Photography and Engineering 1846-2006”
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, “Photography and Engineering 1846-2006”
Aperture Gallery NYC
“Burning Man Festival”, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
Natural World Museum, Exhibition, San Francisco
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Art & Artifice of Science”.
Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
2006
FotoFest 2006, Houston, Texas, USA
George Eastman House, “Why look at animals”, NY, USA
ICP, International Center of Photography, “Ecotopia”, Triennial, NYC
FotoFinlandia Exhibition, Victor Barsokevits Center, Kuopio, Finland
FotoFinlandia Exhibition, Helsinki Finland
2005
“Obiettivo Uomo Ambiente 2005”, Biennual, Viterbo, Italy
2004
Design Center, Stuttgart, Germany
Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Jena, Germany
2003
“Gruner + Jahr”, Hamburg, Germany
Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki Finland
“Forum für Fotografie und Kunst” Cologne, Germany
2000
Profounders Galleria, Helsinki
LECTURES / RESIDENCIES/ EVENTS
2016
“Rare Bird: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art”, Berman Museum, Lecture
2009
Selected to participate in George Eastman House, 60th anniversary LX portfolio
2007
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Connecticut
Green Art Festival 2007 lectures, Seoul and Kwangu, South Korea
2006
George Eastman House, lecture
Department of Photography at Parsons School of Design, lecture at Aperture Foundation
Featured in French TV Show “Thalassa”, in a series about Paleontological mysteries.
AWARDS / GRANTS
2014
Arts Promotion Center Finland Grant
2008
Arts Council of Finland Grant (also 2004, 2002)
2006
FotoFinlandia Prize Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Cultural Foundation Grant (also 2003, 2002)
2004
The European Publisher’s Award for Photography
2003
BFF Promotion Award 2003
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS
2008
Falter Magazine, UK (issue no.2), DPI Magazine, Taiwan
2007
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, “Photography and Engineering 1846-2006”
New Yorker Jan 22, 2007
2006
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times (ICP “Ecotopia” reviews)
Harper’s Magazine, Dec 2006
Aperture Magazine, May 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
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fotografia Contemporanea of Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
Middlebury College Museum, Vermont
The George Eastman House, Rochester New York
Rubin Collection, El Paso, TX
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Aperture Gallery, NY