Visual and glass artist |
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1989-95 University of Art and Design, Department of Ceramics and Glass, Helsinki, Finland, MA
1992-93 Sheridan College, School of Craft and Design, Department of Glass, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
1993 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, USA
2011 Täsä/Here, Poriginal Gallery , Pori, Finland
2011 Tässä/Here, Galleria Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki, Finland
2008 Rakas lapsi, (together with Synnöve Dickhoff), Jorvi Hospital, Espoo Finland
1995 Preesens, Galerie Pelin, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Lupiininsiemen ja muita kokemuksia, Cygnaeus Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2010-11 Between tradition and future,Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheungju, South-Korea
2010-11 PYHÄNIEMI 2011, Hollola, Finland
2010-11 2011 FI Collect, LB Contemporary, Helsinki,Finland
2010-11 Arsboretum Winter, Galleria Pirkko-Liisa Topelius / Westers, Kemiönsaari, Finland
2010-11 SKjL 2010, Union of Finnish Art Associations, Järvenpää Art Museum, Finland
2010-11 Artists 2010, Artist’s Association of Finlands 115. exhibition, TR1 Tampere Kunsthalle
2010 Ars Häme’10, Forssa, Finland
2010 Remarkable Glass, 2010 , CAA Gallery, London, UK
2010 Petit-O, Galleria Norsu, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Arjen voima, The Power of Every Day Life, Akseli Gallén-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
2009 OTTO, Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Spain
2009 Fruit Market, 2009, Nuutajärvi
2008 R.ASIA, Kuparipaja, Fiskars, Finland
2008 TAIDE 2008 Art fair, Helsinki Vanha Satama, Finland
2008 OTTO Artists-O introduction exhibition, Vantaa Art Museum
2008 Juuret Sortavalassa, Virkki Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2007 Kolme = (san), with Kazushi Nakada and Anne Raasakka , Järvenpää, Finland
2006 Remix, Kuparipaja, Fiskars, Finland
2006 Laskettu aika, Linnoituksen krouvi, Lappeenranta, Finland
2005 Taidetta armosta, Malmi church, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Hajutatud Valgus III, Eesti Tarbekunsti- ja Disaini Muuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
2004 Vetri. Nel mondo. Oggi, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
2004 Nordic Cools, The National Museum of women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
2003 Hajavaloa II, Suomen lasimuseo, Riihimäki, Finland
2003 Finnish Glass, Glasgalerie Splinter, Berlin, Germany
2002 Hajavaloa, Järvenpää, Finland
2002 Young and Hot - Emerging European Artists, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995, -00, -04 Finnish Glass Lives 3, 4, 5, The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
1997 Stockholm Art Fair, Sollentuna, Sweden
1996 Valo, Design Forum Finland, Helsinki
1995 Miniatyrer, Galleri Glas Ett, Stockholm, Sweden
1995 Nuoret 48, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
1994 51%, Contemporary Craft Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
1994 Baltic Jubilé, Malmö, Sweden
1991 Norsu ja posliinikaupan paluu, Titanik Galleria, Turku
1991 Reaktioita, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
2009 New Finnish Glass Art 2000-2005, Government gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
2008 New Finnish Glass Art 2000-2005, East-Slovakian Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2008 New Finnish Glass Art 2000-2005, “Westfälisches Industriemuseum Glashütte Gernheim”, Gernheim, Saksa
2008 New Finnish Glass Art, Museum of Decorative Art and Design, Riga, Latvia
2007 Fragile from Finland, Finnish Glass from the 21st Century, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007 Muzeum Naradowe we Wroclaw, Poland,
2006 Stichting Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam, Netherlands
2007 pro.KORU II, Täky-gallery, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2008 Galleri Iron Inc. Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 L’art du verre finlandais 2000-2005, Musée du verre Carmaux, France Conseil Général de Meurthe et Moselle, Nancy, France
2003-04 FASZINATION GLAS Tendenzen in der finnischen Glaskunst,several places, Germany
2001-03 Finlandia – Vanguardia en Vidrio, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Germany
2000-02 Nordic Glass 2000, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Norway
1996-97 Finnish Post War Glass, England
ArtHelsinki 2011, Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland
SWAB, Feria Internacional de Arte ContemporáneoBarcelona, Espanja , Galleria Maaret Finnberg
Collect, London, The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects Saatchi Gallery, Galleria Norsu
ArtHelsinki 2010, Messukeskus, Helsinki, Finland
SOFA Chicago 2009
ArtHelsinki 2009, Wanha Satama, Helsinki, Finland
TaideHelsinki 2008, Wanha Satama, Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm Art Fair 1997, Stockholm, Sweden
Tendenser Punkt ø, Moss, Norway 31.3.-24.6.2012
Metamorfoosi Lahden Taidemuseo 15.6.-23.9.2012
The Finnish Glass Museum travelling exhibition 2012-
Art District 798 Beijing, China, Fall 2012
Kesko Oy, Finnish Art Foundation, The Finnish Glass Museum, State Art Collection of Finland
Public art project to Tikkurila new centre ready 2012 and 2013
Public art project Satakieli commissioned to Arabianranta, Finland 2009
Arts Council of Finland 2009, 2010, 2011
Aalto University School of Art and Design, 2010
Certificate of Honour for Environmental Art in 2009 for Näktergalen Satakieli (Nightingale) by Foundation for Environmental Art 2010
The Finnish Glass Museum, Shampagne glass design competition, 2nd prize, 2007
Kesko Oy, Pirkka-scholarship 1995
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, USA 1993
2007, -03 The Finnish Cultural Foundation
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland 1996 , 1992
Several group grantsmemberships
2011- Association of Finnish Sculptors (aspirant member)
2010- The Artist and Visual Artist Copyright Society Kuvasto
1996- Hytti ry
2006- ORNAMO, Artists O
1996- 2007 ORNAMO, Taiko
1996- 2000 Glass Arts Assosiation of Canada
1992-95, -02 American Glass Art Society
Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2011): Pyhäniemen kartanon kesänäyttely 3.7.-14.8. 2011, Taide & Design 4/ 2011, s. 82-87
Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2011): Olavi Lanu, in Pyhäniemi 2011, Pyhäniemen kartano Oy, s. 22-27
Mäkelä, Maarit & Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2011): Crafting Narratives: Using historical context as a reflective tool, Craft Research, volume 2, 06/11
Mäkelä, Maarit & Latva-Somppi, Riikka (2010): Crafting Connections Between Emotions and Materiality, 7th International Conference on Design and Emotion 4.-7.10. 2010. Chicago, Ill., USA
Taidetta julkiseen tilaan , Brinck, Latva-Somppi, Turpeinen, artist catalogue 09/2010 (ed. Outi Turpeinen)