HARRI KALLIO
studio@harrikallio.com · +1 (917) 975-3139 · www.harrikallio.com
Finnish/American, born in Salla, Finland, 1970
CURRENT WORK
Ongoing series developed under the practice methodology Earth process imaging, established 2007.
2026– Infinity Clock, Sky Edition
2024– Shape of Infinity
2024– Biomorphic Alphabet: 108 Zeros and 108 Ones
2025–2026 A Grammar of Unknowing, Nightmare Before Tuesday
2020– World of Disappearing, The Collective Memory of Wild Things
2014– / 2026 D(L)iminal Man, Photography-Based Biological Imaging Portraits (video, 2026)
2014– Non-Geometric Observer
1999–2007 / 2026 A Question of Butterflyness (portraits 1999–2007; sculpture 2026)
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, Photography. University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland.
1999 BFA, Photography. University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland.
1998 Exchange, School of Art, Publishing and Music. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford,
England.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece.
2007 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
2006 Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY.
FotoFest 2006: Harri Kallio: The Dodo Bird and Mauritius Island. Houston, TX.
2005 Obiettivo Uomo Ambiente 2005, Biennial, 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. Seoul, Daegu EXCO, and Gyeongju HICO, South Korea.
2011 Reconstructing the Animal, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
2010 The Museum of Unnatural History, ClampArt, New York, NY.
2009 Hot Fun in the Summertime, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY.
Northeastern Environmental Art Exhibition. Northeastern, Wellesley, Tufts, and Boston
Universities.
Interface: Nature, NURTUREart Gallery, New York, NY.
Scream Gallery, London, UK.
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY.
Kuusamo Nature, Kuusamo, Finland.
2008 Triennale di Milano, Premio Pezza Award, Milan, Italy.
2007 Green Art Festival 2007. Seoul; Donggang River Photography Festival, Gangwon-do;
ChangWon City, Gyeongnam; JeonJu City, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea.
Ingenuity, Photography and Engineering 1846–2006, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium.
Ingenuity, Photography and Engineering 1846–2006, Calouste Gulbenkian
Aperture Gallery, New York, NY.
Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, NV.
Natural World Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Art & Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
2006 FotoFest 2006, Houston, TX.
Why Look at Animals, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
Ecotopia, International Center of Photography (ICP) Triennial, New York, NY.
FotoFinlandia Exhibition, Victor Barsokevits Center, Kuopio, Finland.
FotoFinlandia Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland.
2005 Obiettivo Uomo Ambiente 2005, Biennial, 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, Finland.
LECTURES, RESIDENCIES & EVENTS
2016 Lecture, Rare Bird: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art, Berman Museum.
2009 Selected participant, George Eastman House 60th Anniversary LX Portfolio.
2007 Residency, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut — origin of the earth process
imaging methodology.
Lectures, Green Art Festival 2007, Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea.
2006 Lecture, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
Lecture, Department of Photography, Parsons School of Design, at Aperture Foundation,
New York, NY.
Featured, Thalassa (paleontological mysteries episode), French television.
2005 Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.
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 European Publishers’ Award for Photography.
2003 BFF Promotion Award.
MONOGRAPH
2004 The Dodo and Mauritius Island, Imaginary Encounters. Dewi Lewis Publishing (UK).
Simultaneous editions: Actes Sud (France), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores
(Spain), Peliti Associati (Italy), Apeiron (Greece). Winner, 2004 European Publishers’
Award for Photography.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC — George Eastman House Sixtieth
Anniversary Portfolio (2011).
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
Middlebury College Museum, Middlebury, VT.
Aperture Gallery, New York, NY.
Fotografia Contemporanea di Cinisello Balsamo, Italy.
Rubin Collection, El Paso, TX.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2008 Falter Magazine, UK, no. 2; DPI Magazine, Taiwan.
2007 Photography and Engineering 1846–2006, exhibition catalogue, Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon.
The New Yorker, January 22, 2007.
2006 The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times
(ICP Ecotopia reviews).
Harper’s Magazine, December 2006.
Aperture Magazine, May 2006.
Universum Magazin, Austria.
FotoFest 2006 catalogue; ICP 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, no. 540.
Helsingin Sanomat, FotoFinlandia feature, February 10.
2005 Le Monde 2, no. 48, January 2005, “Fantaisie ornithologique, le Dodo oiseau dada.”
2004 El País Semanal, no. 1467, “El pájaro resucitado.”
2003 The 15th BFF Promotion Award catalogue.
Finnish Photography 2003, Musta Taide, Helsinki.