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Education:
University of art and design Helsinki, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn and Gerlesborgsskolan Bohuslän, Sweden
Memberships:
Artists's association MUU, Espoo Artists Guild
Upcoming:
2026 Haa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2026 Art Center Antares, Kouvola, Finland
Selected solo shows:
2022 Palsa-museum, Getsemane, Kittilä, Finland
2022 'Artist of the month', Gallery Aarni, Espoo, Finland
2021 Särestöniemi-museum, Kittilä
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, 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
Works in public spaces
Maria Academy Helsinki
Karhusuo library, Espoo
Works in collections
Schio county, Italy
Helsingin Saskia ry
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.
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. 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).
