Born 1969 in Scotland (UK)
Lives and works in Tampere (FI)

Education

1991 – 1993

• Master of Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art. Scotland, UK.

1988 – 1991

• Bachelor of Art (honours) , Fine art Photography,Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK.

Forthcoming exhibitions and projects :

• Max Estrella, Madrid (ES)
• Cave Allegories, Saint Eustache Cathedral, Paris
• Cave Allegories, Almudena Cathedral, Madrid
• Immaterial/Re-material: A brief History of Computing Art, UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)

Solo Exhibitions

2020

• Garden of Light, Bernier / Eliades, Athens (GR)

2019

• Freeport, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (USA)
• Storslagen videokunst, poesi og musikk pa Operataket, Oslo Opera House, Norway (NO)
• The Tyranny of Language, HDM gallery, London (GB)

2018

• The Nature of Love, Centre d’art Les pénitents Noirs, Aubagne (FR)
• Charles Sandison: Anima Mundi, Galerie Tanit, Munich (DE)
• Universitas, Tampere University, Tampere (FI)

2017

• in regards to the fact, Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE)
• G12 Kuopio, Finland (FI)
• Language is Dead ( façade projection) Helsinki Art Museum (FI)
• Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere (FI)

2016

• Now / Here, Himmelblau Printmaking Finland, Tampere (FI)
• Good and Evil, Yes and No, Wrong and Right, Galerie Tanit, Beirut (LB)

2015

• Axis Mundi, Mudo, Musée de l’Oise , Beauvas (FR)
• Joki, Kouvola Art Museum (FI)
• The Mirror Room, The Bourse, Brussels (BE)

2014

• Athens Festival 2014, Athens (GR)
• Festival of Demetria, Thessaloniki (GR)
• Charles Sandison: Signs of Life, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FI)
• Nymphéas blu, Basel Kunstmuseum (CH)

2013

• The Terrestrial Echo of Solar Storms, The Grande Manege, Moscow (RU)
• Frames of Reference, Galerie Bernier Eliades, Athens (GR)
• Nymphéas blu, Chapelle de la Maison de l’Architecture, Paris (FR)

2012

• Baronian_Francey, Brussels (BE)
  
• Nature Morte, Galerie Max Estrella, Madrid (ES)

2011

• Ars Fennica Award, Hameenlinna Art Museum (FI)
  
• Ihmisparca, ( With Teija - Tuula Ahola), Tampere Cathedral (FI)
  
• Handwork, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FI)
  
• Body text, Yvon Lambert, New York (US)
  
• Sub Rosa, (public work), Turki City Library (FI)
  
• Age, Love, Hope and Despair ,Corcoran Gallery of art, Scotland (UK)

2010

• Figurehead, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, (US)
  
• The River, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (FR)
  
• Writing with light, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (FR)
• Palazzo Spada, Rome. Façade projection (IT)

2009

• Embrace ! , Denver Art Museum, Colorado, (US)
• Turun vanha kirjasto, (FI)
• Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (FR)
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, (US)

2008

• Proclamación Solemne, (façade projection) Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
  
• Jose Saramago, Instituto Tomie Ohtake. São Paulo, (BR)
  
• Sinuhe, Atenium Art Museum, Helsinki, (FI)
  
• Systema Naturae (Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit), Kulturhuset, Stockholm (SE)
  
• Correspondances: Sandison ‐ Monet, Musée d’Orsay Art contemporain, Paris (FR)
  
• Jose Saramago, Palácio Nacional de Ajuda. Lisbon (PT)

2007

• Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)
  
• Conversation Sandison / Monet, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, (FR)

2006

• Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, (US)
• Bonn City Art Museum, (DE)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, (FI)
• Koldo, San Sebastian Museum of Contemporary Art, (ES)
• Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva (CH)

2005

• Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem-Zedelgem, (BE)
• Galerie Baronian_Francey, Brussels, (BE)
• Galerie Bernier/Eliades, Athens, (GR)
• Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, (US)
• Ardnt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
• Cornerhouse, Manchester, (UK)
• Éigse Carlow Arts Festival, (IE)

2004

• Loop04, Barcelona, (ES)
  
• Tampere Nykytaiteenmuseo, Galerie Anhava (project space), Helsinki (FI)
• Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Köln, (DE)
  
• RoomX, Kiasma, Helsinki, (FI)
• Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, (FI)
• Lisson Gallery, Lisson New Space, (UK)
• Galerie Frank, Paris, (FR)
• Centre d’art Contemporain Georges Pompidou, Cajarc (FR)
• Lieu d’art Contemporain, Sigean, (FR)

2003

• Sketch, London (UK)

2002

• Galerie Baronian_Francey, Brussels (BE)
• Artcurial, Hôtel Marcel Dassault, Champs-Elysées, Paris (site specific project) (FR)
• Galerie Frank, Paris, (FR)
• La Criée centre d’art contemporain, (FR)
• Galerie Kari Kenetti, project space, Helsinki, (FI)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020

• The Lighthouse, Fondation Boghossian - Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)
• Oblique Strategies I & II, galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris (FR)
• The Order of Time, HdM Gallery, Beijing (CN)
• Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin (DE)

2019

• Coexistence, Kiasma, Helsinki (FI)
• Shared dreams, Works from the Heino Art Foundation collection, Oulu Museum of Art, Finland (FI)
• Dialogues, Gallery Xippas, Paris (FR)
• Silo, Collection Billaratn, Marines (FR)
• Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens (GR)
• FACES. A dialogue between the Es Baluard Collection and the BEEP Electronic Art Collection, Es Baluard, Palma (ES)
• Collectionneur au XXIe Siècle, Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)

2018

• Tamarindo Arts Foundation, Costa Rica
• Coding the World, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
• Festival Luz y Vanguardias, Salamanca (ES)
• Humans, Miniartexil, Como (IT)
• Mutations/Créations 2, coder le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
• Beyond Borders, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels (BE)

2017

• Private Choices, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels(BE)
• IconoMania, MAIF Social Club, Paris (FR)
• TransARTation, ShoeFactory, Norwich, (UK)
• TransARTation, Byre Theatre, St Andrews (UK)
• Language Works, Free Word Center, London (UK)
• Nature Morte? Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FI)
• Zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit. Licht in der finnischen Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel (DE)

2016

• Stations, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (DE)
• From here to eternity, Maison Particulière, Brussels (BE)
• Reproductibilitat, Museu d’art modern I contemporani de Palma (ES)
• Next Stop, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (FR)

2015

• H250 , Zaha Hadid Opera House, Guangzhou (CN)
• Here to There, CIRCA gallery, Johannesburg (ZA)
• H250, Lincoln Center, New York (USA)
• By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (USA)
• Infinitas, New Manege in Moscow (RU)
• Pair(s), La Maison Particulière, Brussels (BE)

2014

• Jardins de Bagatelle II, Galerie Tanit, Munich (DE)
• What is the smell of an exhibition?, Laboral - Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES)
• Datascape – Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (ES)

2013

• Play - Stars Of Media Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Sign, Symbol, Image, Egeran Galeri, Istanbul (TR)
• Datascape, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (TR)
• Inner Journeys - Maison Particulière, Brussels (BE)

2012

• Mirages d’Orient Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
  
• Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Norman Foster & Carlos Carcas), Italy
  
• Expanded Drawing, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. Spain
  
• Nereden Nereye / From Where to Where, Galeri Manâ, Istanbul
  
• El Hilo de Ariadna: Lectores/Navegantes, Matadero, Madrid
  
• Migration, CASSydney, Australia
  
• Formes brèves. Autres, 25 Frac Lorraine. Metz, France
  
• Museo De Arte Contemporanea De Vigo, Spain
  
• Cave Allegories, Taidekeskus Retretti, Finland
  
• Kollaasi - Collage, Hyvinkään taidemuseo, Finland

2011

• New Works (with Jacob Hashimoto, Ola Kolehmainen, Ea Vasko, Niko
  Luoma and Kaarina Kaikkonen) Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FI)
  
• Blink! Light, Sound and the moving image, Denver Art Museum, (US)
  
• Paradise Istanbul Modern, (TR)
  
• Monanism, The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Tasmania, (AU)

2010

• Palazzo Spada, Rome. Façade projection (IT)
  
• Odyssey of Light, Galerie Messine. Paris (FR)
  
• Systematic, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
  
• Esprit es-tu là?galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (FR)
  
• Changing the World, Arndt, Berlin (DE)
• De Matisse à Barcelo la collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée de Vence -
  Château de Villeneuve (FR)
• Jouvences, Château d’Ardelay, Ville Les Herbiers, (FR)
• L’océan, visions d’artistes du XIXe au XXIe siècle, Le Bellevue. Biarritz, (FR)

2009

• Nothing is permanent. Albert Baronian, profession : galeriste, La Centrale
  Electrique, Centre Européen d’art Contemporain, Brussels (BE)
  
• Silent Writings, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton. Paris (FR)
  
• Eye: Material Matters, Pallant House Gallery, (UK)
  
• Au pied de la letter, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, (FR)
  
• Art-Living Scene, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NO)

2008

• Speaking Out Loud, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam (NL)
  
• Entre chien et loup – at dusk, Espo Museum of Modern Art, (FI)
  
• Le Grande Tour, Villa Medici, Rome (IT)
  
• Holy Fire, art of the digital age, iMal, Brussels, (BE)
  
• Heartquake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (IL)
  
• Purnu Summer Show, Purnu, (FI)
  
• nes privadas, visiones públicas MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (ES)
  
• Blood on Paper, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK)
  
• Blown Away, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, (US)
  
• El cuerpo (con)sentido: una (re)presentación visual, Centro de Historia de Zaragoza, (ES)
  
• Kesänäyttely, Honkahovi Art Centre. Mänttä, (FI)

2007

• Performa07, The Stephan Weiss Studio. New York, (US)
  
• MAXXI Installazioni, The National Museum for the XXI Century Arts, Rome (IT)
  
• Il faut rendre à Cézanne, Collection Yves Lambert, Avignon, (FR)
  
• Utrecht Manifest 2007, Central Museum Utrecht, (NL)
  
• Noche en Blanco, Madrid, (ES)
  
• Miniartexil, Como,(IT)
  
• The CB Collection, Roppongi, Tokyo, (JP)
  
• Art Protects, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, (FR)
• Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte, (ES)
• Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, (IT)
  
• Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (UK)
  
• Art Protects, Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)
  
• Again: serial practices in contemporary art, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, (US)

2006

• A Tribute to Cézanne, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York (US)
  
• Contos dixitais, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, (ES)
  
• Hyper Design, 6th Shanghai Biennale, (CN)
  
• Extiem, Watou 2006 Poëziezomer, (BE)
  
• Ordering and Seduction, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
• Bonn City Art Museum, (DE)

2005

• ‘Documentary Creations’, Kunstmuseum Luzern, (CH)
• Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem-Zedelgem, (BE)
  
• Corpus Bruges, site specific project, (BE)

2004

• Galerie Ardnt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
• Algorythmic Revolution, ZKM Centre for Art and media, Karlsruhe (DE)
• Villette Numérique, La Vilette, paris (FR)
• Museum Der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, (AT)
• Panorama 5, Le Fresnoy, Lille, (FR)
• Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, (FI)
• Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, (AT)
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)

2003

• Collection Yvon Lambert, November. Avignon, (FR)
• Pirkanmaan 1. Triennaali, Museokeskus Vapriikki, Tampere, (FI)
• The International 3, June 2003, Manchester, (UK)
• Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, (DE)
• Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Lille, (FR)

2002

• New Art, Barcelona, (ES)
• FRAC, Nantes, (FR)
• Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä, (FI)
• Avesta Biennale, (SE)
• Blur, Miami, (US)
• Im Buchstabenfeld. Die Zukunft Der Literatur, Neue Galerie Graz, (AT)
  
• Plateau Of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale, (IT)

2001

• Nuorten Näyttely, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, (FI)

2000

• Pirkanmaan 1. Triennaali, Museokeskus Vapriikki, Tampere, (FI)

1999

• From Near And Far, Haihara Art Centre Tampere, (FI)

1997

• Black Stars, Taidekeskus, Mältinranta, Tampere, (FI)
  
• Fragments For A History Of A European City, Galeria Miejska, Wroclaw, (PL)

1996

• All + Tag, Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, (DE)

1994

• Intermedia Gallery. Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
  
• New Visions International Festival of Film, Video & Media, Glasgow, Scotland (UK)
  
• Museum of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, (UK)

1993

• Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, (UK)
  
• National Review of Live Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, (UK)

1992

• Invisible Cities, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)