CV
Education
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Tallinn and Gerlesborgsskolan Bohuslän, Sweden
Current memberships & honorary posts
Artists' association MUU, Espoo Artists Guild
2026 Membership selection committee, Artists' Association MUU
Upcoming
2026 Haa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2026 Art Center Antares, Kouvola, Finland
2026 Residency: Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall, UK
Selected solo shows
2022 Palsa-museum, Getsemane, Kittilä, Finland
2022 'Artist of the month', Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland
2021 Särestöniemi-museum, Kittilä
2018 Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany
2017 Gallery Kellokas, Ylläs, Finland
2015 Culture center Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland
Selected group shows
2025 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
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, France
2021 Keuruu art museum, Finland
2021 Emil Cedercreutz museum, Harjavalta, Finland
2020 Hulabhaig Gallery, Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
2019 Espoo culture center, Espoo, Finland
2019 Heinola Art museum, Finland
2019 Biennale Di Carta IV, Palazzo Fogazzarro, Schio, Italy
Works in public spaces (Finland)
Kittilä town hall, Kittilä
Karhusuo library, Espoo
Maria Academy, Helsinki
Works in collections
Schio county, Italy
City of Kittilä, Finland
Helsingin Saskia ry, Finland
Private collections
Collaborations with various musicians such as Serpent Ascending (I, Voidhanger), Kiira (Astral Temple), Radien, Aeldaborn, Akolyytti (Dark Omens production), publications and publishers such as HEX magazine, Dark Mountain project, Siltala publishing.
Residencies
2015 Kauko Sorjonen fund residency, Enontekiö, Finland
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 a multi disciplinary Finnish artist focusing on analog techniques. Thematically her works are often inspired by folklore, western esotericism, art history and environmental collapse.
Pitkänen is known for her highly detailed and carefully assembled paper collages. 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 resides in Southern Finland. She is a member of the Artists' Association MUU and Espoo Artists Guild. Pitkänen's works have been exhibited in KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Särestöniemi - Museum and Palsa - Museum in Finnish Lapland, as well as in Italy, France, Sweden, Germany and the UK. Her works have been used in various publications in ten different countries.
Pitkänen has also done the calligraphy for the late Kalervo Palsa's first English language translation of Memoirs of a Pensioner ("Eläkeläinen muistelee"). In 2016 she illustrated the Finnish translation of the Poetic Edda.
Currently Pitkänen works on an analog wet plate photography project in the UK focusing on local myths and folklore.
