Tiina Johanna Pyykkinen

Tiina Pyykkinen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Her recent artistic work has focused on the themes of embodied mind, body memory and temporality. In Pyykkinen's paintings, these themes are expressed as events and interactive situations, where the visual experience of the works is shaped by the overall impression created by the surface of the painting, the viewer, and the environment. She is currently collaborating with a biolaboratory at Kask University in Belgium. This international art and science collaboration explores how ecological, laboratory-produced structural dyes can be applied to artistic work.

Pyykkinen’s residency occurs in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.