CV

Education: 

University of art and design Helsinki, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn and Gerlesborgsskolan Bohuslän, Sweden

Upcoming:

2025 Gallery Heino, Helsinki

2026 Särestoniemi-museum

Selected solo exhibitions:

2022 Palsa-museum, Getsemane, Kittilä, Finland

2022 'Artist of the month', Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland

2021 Särestöniemi-museum, Kittilä

2014 Galleri Gerles, Gerlesborg, Sweden

2011 Algutsboda Galleri, Broakulla, Sweden

Selected group exhibitions:

2025 Imatra art museum, Finland

2024 KIASMA museum of Contemporary art Helsinki, Finland

2024 Vilho Lampi museum, Liminka, Finland

2023 Rovaniemi art museum, Finland

2023 Kuopio digital art festival

2022 Galleria 3h+k, Pori, Finland

2022 Gallery Ronga, Tampere, Finland

2022 Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland

2021, 2019 Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland

2021 Atelier de Melusine, La Trimouille, Ranska

2021 Keuruu art museum, Finland

2021 Emil Cedercreutz museum, Harjavalta, Finland

2020 Hulabhaig Gallery, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom

2019 Espoon culture center, Espoo, Finland

2019 Heinola Art museum, Finland

2019 Biennale Di Carta IV, Palazzo Fogazzarro, Schio, Italy

2018 Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany

2017 Gallery Kellokas, Ylläs, Finland

2015 Culture center Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland

2013, 2014 Gerlesborg Konsthallen, Gerlesborg, Sweden

2012 Art Center Honkahovi, Mänttä

Works in public spaces

Maria Academy Helsinki

Karhusuo library, Espoo

Lisäksi teoksia käytetty useissa yhteyksissä kymmenessä eri maassa.

Works in collections

Schio county, Italy

Helsingin Saskia ry

Private collections

Publications:

2025 "Memoirs of a Pensioner: a Grey comedy", Kalervo Palsa's comic, calligraphy

2020 'Ajattelin olevani samurai - Kalervo Palsan matkapäiväkirjat 1986', editing with Maj-Lis Pitkänen, Kauko Sorjonen fund

2017 'The Magical Qualities, Religious Use and Role of the Alder Tree Among the Finno-Ugric Peoples', Viides Askel 

2017 'Unseen Fire II', Viides Askel

2016 'Eddan jumalrunot', illustrations, Viides Askel 

2015 'Argarizim', illustrations, Viides Askel

2015 'Unseen Fire I', Viides Askel

Biography

Veera Kaamos Pitkänen (b.1984) is Finnish artist. 

Pitkänen is known for her highly detailed and carefully assembled analogue paper collage works. Using recycled books and magazines as her materials, she combines imagery of renaissance paintings with contemporary scientific photographs of space, nature, as well as fashion images and pornography. 

Pitkänen creates seamless, esoteric collage worlds in which the impossible and possible collide. Her large scale works consist of hundreds of individually sourced, cut and glued pieces and can take up to a year to complete. 

Pitkänen works and resides in Southern Finland. She is a member of the Artists' Association MUU and Espoo Artists Guild.