Korkalo Tuomas

Tuomas Korkalo (b. 1978)
Lives and works in Rovaniemi -
(Rovaniemi – Finlandia)
 
Education
2004-2008 Imatra Art School, Fine Art Department, BA
 
Upcoming Exhibitions
2019 XXIV Mänttä Art festival, Finland
2019 Solo Exhibition, Kemi Art Museum, Kemi, Finland
2019 Solo exhibition Museum of Non-Conformist Art, Pushkinskaya-10, St.Petersburg Russia
 
Exhibitions
2019 Endless Visions, solo exhibition, Galleria Spazio Faro, Rome, Italy
2019 Jaettu ilo group exhibition, Aine Art Museum, Tornio Finland
2019 66 pohjoista ja 25 itäistä group exhibition Mältinranta Art centre, Tampere, Finland
2018 North Wind group exhibition, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2018 Fresh Legs 18 group exhibition, Gallery Heike Arndt, Berlin, Germany
2018 Joint Exhibition with Mari OIkarinen, Promenadi Gallery, Hyvinkää, Finland
2018 14.0 Solo exhibition, Mältinranta Art centre, Tampere Finland
2018 Mutsuki, group exhibition (curator Koji Tada) Gallery Monma & ANNEX, Sapporo, Japan
2017 Arteground Veterans group exhibition Kondase Keskus, Viljandi, Estonia
2017 the Pessoa Files (with Jyrki Siukonen) Mertz Sammonkatu, Tampere, Finland 2017
2017 Maalauksia – Paintings  solo exhibition Krimi Art centre, Imatra Finland
2017 Suomi 100 vuotta, Sininen ja valkoinen yhdessä group exhibition  Aine Art Museum, Tornio Finland
2017 Test tube paintings III Allergiatalo, Helsinki Finland
2016 Test tube Paintings II  Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2016 Test Tube Paintings I Studio Mustanapa, Rovaniemi, Finland
2016 7:th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale Gongju, South Korea
2016 Back to North, Korundi Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
2016 Snowball Effect 3. Biennale  (curator Veikko Halmetoja) Aine Art Museum Tornio, Finland
2015 Past Times Puzzle, Gallery Seinä, Helsinki
2015 Wunderkammer, Gallery Huuto, Jätkä I & II, Helsinki
2015 Particular Time, The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2015 Particular Time, KREIS Gallery, Nürnberg, Germany
2015 How to Read in the Dark? The Anniversary Exhibition of The Artists´ Association of Lapland, Joensuu Art Museum; Tartu Kunstimaja, Estonia; Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
2014 Memorie del Cielo, Galeria L´Imaginaire, Peruvian French Institute, Lima, Peru
2014 Angel of Incidence, Willem II Fabriek, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2014 Encounters - Finnish Contemporary Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum
2013 Spying Nature, YATOO Nature Art House, Wongol, Gongju, South Korea
2012 BELA Biennial of European and Latin American Contemporary Art, Galeria do Palácio, Porto, Portugal
2010 Construction of a Person, Imatra Art Museum
 
Works in Collections
2013 Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi Art Museum
2016 Aine Art Museum Tornio
2015 The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2014 The Museum of Fine Arts of Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2013 YATOO Nature Art House, Gongju, South Korea
2006 City of Rovaniemi
 
Grants and Awards
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, 1-Year Grant
2018 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Project Grant
2017 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Lapland Regional Fund,1-Year Grant
2017 Majaoja Foundation
2016 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, The Arts Council of Lapland, Project Grant
2016 Finnish National Gallery, Art Competition, Onerva Mäki School, Jyväskylä, Finland
2015 Finnish Cultural Foundation, Lapland Regional Fund, ⅓-Year Grant
2014 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, 1-Year Grant
2013, 2015, 2018 FRAME
2012 Finnish Cultural Foundation, ½-Year Grant
2012 Arts Council of Finland, Project Grant
 
Memberships
Artists` Association of Lapland
Finnish Painters´Union
Northern Media Culture Association Magneetti ry
Oranki Art ry
Other Artistic Activity
2001- Curator of Oranki Art Environmental Art workshop and enxhibition
2016 –  Curator KREIS Gallery Nürnberg, Germany (one Finnish show per year)
2012 Curator, Iskusstvo.fi, with Jyrki Poussu & Anita Dunker, The Museum of Fine Arts of Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2011 Curator, Palas Arts Association Annual Exhibition, Lapponica Hall, Rovaniemi
2010 Curator, Ars Kärsämäki
2010 Curator, Rajoilla, Union of Finnish Art Associations, with Kalle Lampela, The Aine Art Museum, Tornio