Education
1987~1990
Tokyo Glass Art Institute, postgraduate program, Kawasaki Japan
1992~1994
Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass Dept. MA, London England
Working experience
1997~2017
University of Art and Design Helsinki / Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Faculties.
2010~2011
Invited Professor
Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design
Budapest Hungary
2013 September
Invited artist & lecturer
Rochester Institute of Technology,
College of Image Science and Technology, NY USA
2017 October
Invited Professor
Wroclaw Academy of Arts, Glass dept, Wroclaw Poland
Selected Exhibition
90S
1996
Group exhibition “TAKE OFF”, Gallery Forsblom, Helsinki Finland
Solo exhibition “ECHO OF UNDERSTANDING AND
MISUNDERSTANDING”, Gould, London England
1997
The Young Glass Exhibition, Danish glass museum, Ebeltoft Denmark.
Exhibition “GLASS FROM FINLAND”, Contemporary Art Centre,
Utrecht Netherlands
1998
Group Exhibition, Gallery ETT, Stockholm Sweden
1999
Group Exhibition, Gallery ETT, Stockholm Sweden
2000-2010
2000
Solo exhibition, “Fragments of reality”, The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki, Finland.
Exhibition “Finnish Glass Lives 4” The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimaki, Finland.
Exhibition “Dialogue” The Danish glass museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Tour exhibition “Nordic glass 2000” Copenhagen, Denmark and 5 other Nordic countries
2001
Tour exhibition “Finlandia - Vanguardia en Vidrio” FundaciónCentroNacional del Vidrio, La Granjassa SergoviaSpain
The international exhibition of glass Kanazawa, selected artist, Kanazawa Japan
2002
Exhibition “Liiketila” Arabia Ceramics Factory centre, Helsinki Finland
Exhibition “Emerging Artists from Europe” Glass art society,
International conference 2002, Amsterdam Netherlands
Tour exhibition “Finlandia - Vanguardia en Vidrio”
Museo do vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal Franz Mayer Museum Mexico
Helsinki light festival ”Wall X” installation, Helsinki Finland
2003
Group exhibition “LANDSCAPE, GLASS FROM FINLAND AND
SPAIN”, Espaividre Gallery, Barcelona Spain
Exhibition “Finnish glass art and design” Ellenshus gallery, Berlin Germany
2004
International competition of glass Kanazawa, selected artist, Kanazawa Japan
Exhibition “Works in Bardibukk 2004”, Kaposbar Hungary
Solo exhibition “Infinity”, The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki Finland
Exhibition “Vetri nel mondo oggi”, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice Italy
2005
Global art glass triennial, Borgholm Sweden
Exhibition “Finnish glass lives” Riihimäki Finland
2006
L’art du verre Finlandais, Nancy FranceCoburg prize, selected artist, Coburg Germany
Solo exhibition, Latvian glass centre, Riga Latvia
International glass symposium “RONA” & Exhibition
“Unknown forms” Lednické Rovne, Slovakia
Exhibition Glass voice, Latvian applied art museum, Riga Latvia
2007
Exhibition “Kolme= San”, Jarvenpää Talo, Jarvenpää Finland
Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art Istanbul, Turkey
International glass symposium in Lviv, Lviv Ukraine
Exhibition “Finnish glass” National museum, Wroclaw Poland
2008
Exhibition “Finnish glass art & design”
Industrial Museum, Düsseldorf Germany
Glasmuseum Hentrich, museum kunst palast Dortmund Germany
2009
Exhibition “Finnish glass art” MUDAM, Luxembourg
Demonstration and exhibition glass art society conference,
Corning Museum, New York USA
2010
Exhibition “Finnish glass lives” Riihimäki Finland
Exhibition “Glass voice” Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga Latvia
Exhibition “25 years anniversary” Ebeltoft glass museum, Ebeltoft Denmark
2010-2019
2011
International Glass Symposium Nobý Bor Czech Republic
European glass exhibition Wroclaw railway station gallery, Wroclaw Poland
2012
Exhibition “11th International Glass Symposium IGS”,
Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Prague Czech Republic
2013
Exhibition “Abandoned house” gallery Makslas Banka, Riga Latvia
Exhibition “glass art” gallery Levant art, Shanghai China
2014
Art Beijing 2015, art fair, Beijing China
2016
Glass symposium Lviv, Lviv Ukraine
Tianyuan International Glass Art Festival "Glass and Ice", Hebei, China
2017
Ningbo international glass conference, Ningbo, China
Vediet' vidiet´, mal'ovat' (sklo ako plátno), gallery Medium, Bratislava Slovakia
To know, To see, To paint (Glass as a Canvas)
2018
Solo exhibition, Art project " My archaeology", Shanghai glass museum, Shanghai China
2019
Solo exhibition, Art project “Pink Copycat” video & photography installation. Gallery M space, Shanghai China
Group exhibition, Objekti 5, Espoo Finland
International symposium Lviv, Lviv Ukraine
Art project, "Please see me", Shanghai China
Awards
Honourable mention, Hakone Art Forest, Hakone Japan 1991
The OSARCA-PRIZE, Royal College of Art, London England 1994
Suomen kulttuurirahasto, Project Helsinki, Finland 2003
Honourable degree, Ukrainian Ministry of Education
Academy of Arts, Ukraine 2016
Permanent Collection
The Finnish glass museum, Riihimäki Finland
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft Denmark.
Susan and Martin Gould, Philadelphia, private collections in the USA
Private collections in Asian, Europe and USA
Kaj Franck square, Arabianranta, public installation, Helsinki Finland
National Museum of Art Lviv, Lviv Ukraine
Decorative Art Museum of Prague, Prague Czech Republic
Shanghai glass museum, Shanghai China
Green wave glass museum, Ningbo China
Publication
Helsingin Sanomat article” Nordic glass 2000”,
New Glass international magazine “New Trend in Finnish Glass
Design and Glass art” Germany, Fall 2003
Häme Sanomat & local newspapers, “Solo exhibition” fall 2004”
Form magazine, article, Sweden, summer 2005
Glass review, interview and article, Czech Republic, fall 2005
Slovak 2 TV, Slovakia, glass symposium, interview, summer 2006
New Glass international magazine, interview & article/written
by Dan Kline, Germany, fall
Finn Cargo magazine, interview & article, Finland, Sept 2009
Modern living magazine interview & article Japan, fall 2010
Magyar Nemzet, Hungarian major newspaper, interview, Hungary September 2010
Glass, international magazine, Urban glass, interview & article,
NY USA, fall, 2013
Rūjienas vēstis, newspaper, Luijena Latvia, Summer 2014
Shanghai Daily, newspaper, Winter 2014
Chinese business news, newspaper ----
Migrate to China, magazine VOL 32 -----
Media现场, shanghai Dec 2018
CAFA art info, Beijing, Feb 2019
CHAO culture, Shanghai, March 2019
International lectures and workshops 2000~
Lecturing subject:
-Glass art and design
-European universities and glass design education
-My art project
-Glass & transparent material as a part of a design tool.
-Concept of Nordic master program “tableware design industry”
2002
Konstfack, ceramics and glass department, Sweden Lecture
2003
St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russia Lecture
Cumulus conference
2004
Hämmelina Art and Design Institute, ceramics and glass department, Hämmelina Finland Lecture
http://www.hamk.fi/hakijalle/muotoilu/Sivut/default.aspx
Academy of Arts Bratislava, Slovakia Lecture
Glass, industrial design department
2006
Latvian Academy of Art, Latvia Lecture
Glass department
Tokyo glass art institute, Japan Lecture
Glass post-graduate department
2007
Wroclaw Academy of Art, Poland Lecture
Glass, fine art department
http://www.asp.wroc.pl/?lang=en
Cerfav glass institute, France Lecture
Glass art & design postgraduate department
2008
Tokyo Academy of Arts, Japan Lecture
Applied art & Japanese traditional design BA department
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/
Kyoto Seika University, Cumulus conference, Japan Lecture& presentation
http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/
Utatsuyama Craft and Design Institute, Japan Lecture
Institute student & public audience
http://www.utatsu-kogei.gr.jp/data/utatsu.pdf
2009
IKAGlass department, Belgium 10 days workshop
http://www.ikamechelen.be/ika-praktisch/
Estonian Academy of Art, Glass department,Estonia External examiner
http://www.ema.edu.ee/?lang=eng
Tokyo Living Centre Ozone, Tokyo designer’s week, Japan Lecture
Public audience & members
http://www.ozone.co.jp/eng/function/show.html
2010
Musashino Art University, Applied art and design deparment, Japan Lecture
http://www.musabi.ac.jp/english/
International Design Centre Nagoya, Japan Lecture
Public audience
http://www.icsid.org/members/listing/member_list132.htm
2012-2013
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Design dept, Hungary Invited professor
Glass Art Society Conference, Corning Museum, USA Presentation & demo
2013
Anadolu University, Faculty of fine arts, (glass, graphics, sculptures) Turkey 10days workshop
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Ceramics and glass design dept.Halle, Germany External examiner for MA thesis
Rochester Institute of Technology,America craft, design dept. USA Lecture & presentation
https://cias.rit.edu/gallery/american-crafts/undergraduate-glass
2014
Danish Academy of Art, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation Ceramics MA program, Denmark Lecture https://kadk.dk/en
2016
Estonian Academy of art,Estonia 10days workshop
Academy of Arts Prague, Architecture and design, Czech Republic External examiner for the Prague Czech Republic
https://www.umprum.cz/web/en/applied-arts/glass
Tama University of Art and Design, Glass art dept. Japan Lecture
2017
Joint course project ”VIP“ Project leader
-Aalto University school art, design and architecture, design BA
-Wroclaw academy of arts, glass and ceramics BA&MA
-Tokyo Academy of arts, glass MA,
2018
Osaka Academy of art Japan Demo & lecture
https://www.osaka-geidai.ac.jp/geidai/english/index.html
Toyama glass art institute Japan Demo & lecture
https://toyamaglass.ac.jp/index-en.php
2019
Asia Institute of Art & Finance (AIAF) China Lecture
Tokyo academy of arts Japan Lecture
https://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/
Selected academic leading projects
2005
“Light design workshop”
Joint workshop with Latvian Academy of Arts (glass, design department) & Grzinkalns glass factory, Riga Latvia
2007
“Meeting point 2” European glass & education seminar,
presentation “glass as a part of the design tool” Nancy France
2009
“Finnish Drinking Culture” project
presentation and Exhibition, Corning, New York, USA
Glass Art Society Conference, 2nd prize in student competition
2009-10
“Glass Design Update” project
Tour exhibition project with Iittala, the Finnish cultural centre Tokyo, Japan,
Participation in Tokyo Designers week, Exhibition at Design living center OZONE
2010 tour exhibition:
International Design Center Nagoya, Nagoya Japan
Musashino University of arts Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
Design Forum Finland, Helsinki Finland
2011
International workshop and conference “Next 100 years”
Conference: Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture
Workshop: Fiskars LTD, Nuutäjärvi glass factory
2013~ 2014
The nordic master joint program “Glass Design”
Planning director
-Aalto University, School of Art and Design and architecture, Design Department
-The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation; School of Design (DK)
-Linnaeus University, School of Design
2015 March
“Maker X Maker” glass design workshop, London UK
Royal College of Art, School of material,
Ceramics and Glass department & EU project “Glass is tomorrow”
Spatial & product program MA student is invited to participate.
June
“Design to feed the world” student’s competition, Milan Italy
Cumulus Conference
http://cumulusmilan2015.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DfW_CallForExhibits_extended.pdf
Spatial & product program, MA students are applying to the competition.