SANNA KANNISTO

Master of Arts / photography, University for Art and Desgin Helsinki

studies photography at Turku school of Art and Communication

Ministry of Education, Oskar Öflund Foundation, FRAME, Greta
and William Lehtinen Foundation

Fine Arts Society of Finland
Arts Council of Finland
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (Frame)

Alfred Kordelin Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (Frame)
field expedition Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

City of Paris
Finnish Fund for Art Exchange
field expedition Costa Rica

Hasselblad Foundation
Ministry of Education
Finnish Cultural Foundation

Finnish Fund for Art Exchange (Frame)
Arts Council of Finland

field expedition French Guiana and Brazil

CLOSE OBSERVER - New Photographs, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris

Observations, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Contempory Art Centre, Bignan, France
Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Le centre photographige d'Ile-de-France CPIF, together with
Ilkka Halso, France
Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris, France

Togonon Gallery, San Francisco
act of flying, Georg Kargl BOX Vienna
Korjaamo gallery Helsinki

Private Collection, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Berlin
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norwegen
Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris, France
Yours Gallery Warsaw, Polen
Gallery F-Station, Photomonth in Krakow, Polen
Jackson Fine Art Atlanta

Private Collection, Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris (cat.)

MinäSinäMe Finnish Institute Paris (cat.)
Finnish Institute Madrid
Hippolyte Photographic Gallery Helsinki (cat.)

CuLTUR, Västerås Sweden
Victor Barsokevitsch Photographic Centre Kuopio / Finland
Northern Photographic Centre Ranta galleria Oulu / Finland

Gallery of the Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki (cat.)
Hyvinkää Art Museum / Finnland

Strange Travelers, curated by Mark Dion, Tanya Bonakdar gallery, New York
Waldbild, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany
Art on Speed, Ulrich Museum of Art, Kansas
Repeat All, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela

elles@centrepompidou, women artists in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision, Riga City Exhibition Hall, Riga
KURS. The Tree, Fuglsang Museum, Toreby, Danmark
Les nuits d'été, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris
Nature in a Kit, Mudac, Lausanne
Contemporary art in Finland and Sweden, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden
Urban story, Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki
Repeat All, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo
FotoRio-Short List/The Dream Machine, Niterói Museum of contemporary art, Rio de Janeiro
Arctic hysteria Onscreen, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
PhotoEspana, Descubrimientos PHE Madrid
Får ej övertäckas, Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden
Nature en Kit, MUDAC Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne
Impact09, National Gallery of Denmark, Nikolaj Contemporary and Den Frie, Copenhagen

Struggle for life, Eres Stiftung, Munich
Five variations on the finiteness of human vision, Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade Création-destruction, Musée Zadkine, Paris, Frankreich (cat.)
Observing Time, Beast, Nature, Kunstverein Hildesheim
Real. Photography from the collection of the DZ BANK, Städel, Frankfurt
Le centre photographique d'Ile-de-France (CPIF), France
Repeat All, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brasil
Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France

Bird Watching in Harlem, Haarlem, Netherlands
Elusive Subjects, Togonon gallery, San Francisco, USA
Obsesiones Golfas, videoarte contemporánea, Madrid, Spain
Garten Eden - der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle Emden (cat.)
Forschen und Erfinden - Die Recherche mit Bildern in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Fotomuseum Wintherthur (cat.)
Self-Timer, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
Eläinten aika - Age of the Animal, Ateneum Art Museum Helsinki (cat.)
Grey matters - photography is thinking, Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki (cat.)
Repeat All, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile
The Helsinki School, Art Foyer DZ Bank Frankfurt/Main
Photo Finnish - The Helsinki School, Stenersen Art Museum Oslo
Togonon Gallery San Francisco
Repeat All, La Casa de la Cultura Buenos Aires

Self-Timer, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon 2006 - The Belgrad Biennial (cat.)
3 photographes finlandais, Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris
Focus Finland, KBB Barcelona
Repeat All, Aux Ateliers Mécaniques de Vevey, Switzerland
Vidifestival06 - The International Festival of Videoart of Valencia
Art et Science: Nature Objective, Galerie de la maison de la culture de Nevers / France
Vad är fotografi? The Helsinki School, Borås Art Museum, Sweden
Streams of Story, Glasgow Festival of Contemporary Visual Art - Tramway Gallery
The Faraway Nearby, White Box New York
Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel (cat.)
Presence, Wäinö Aaltonen Art Museum Turku, Finland

Cinema Capacete - loop // not video, nor cinema, neither television, Florianópolis / Brazil
Trophées, Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris
The Helsinki School - A New Approach, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Paris Photo, Gallery Van Zoetendaal and Gallery Taik, Carrousel du Louvre
To be continued, Helsinki Photography Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki (cat.)
To Look or to See, the Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki
Personally, Kulturhuset Stockholm (cat.)
Á Table(s), Art Center Charnarande, France (cat.)
Kallankukka ja muita terälehtiä, Hippolyte Photographic Gallery Helsinki
Elina Brotherus invite sur La Cimaise, FRAC Haute-Normandie

PhotoFesta 2004 Maputo, Mozambique
The world of Objects, Tampere Art Museum (cat.)
Festival de photograhie nature er paysage 2004, La Gacilly
Photography Biennale Conches, France
30 by Taik, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Arpenteuses, Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris
The World of Objects, Kunsthalle Helsinki (cat.)

Au bord du lac...de Paris à Zürich, Erlenbach-Zurich
Fünf Positionen Finnischer Fotographie, Kunstverein Schwerte
Nuoret 2003, Kunsthalle Helsinki (cat.)
Selfportrait, Galerie La Ferronnerie Paris

Photography and Video, Sara Hilden Art Museum Tampere (cat.)
Iquitos-Helsinki.com, Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris
Masters of Arts, the Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki (cat.)

Northwawe, Overview of video art in the Nordic Countries, Guerini, Milano 2009.
foam - International Photography Magazine, Nr. 19, Amsterdam, June 2009.

Konzept, Fotografie, REAL - Aus der Sammlung der DZ BANK, Ostfildern 2008.
Photo Art, Photography in the 21st Century, Aperture, New York 2008.
Photo Art, The New World of Photography, Thames and Hudson, London 2008.

Garden Eden, Cologne 2007.
Photo Art, Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, Cologne 2007.
Research and Invention, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland 2007.
The Helsinki School - New Photography by TaiK, Ostfildern 2007.

Helsinki Photography Festival 2005, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki 2005.
Selbstauslöser, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2005.
The Helsinki School, Ostfildern 2005.

Private Collection, Sanna Kannisto and Galerie La Ferronnerie, Helsinki 2004.

Finnish Photography, in: Musta taide 1/2003, Helsinki 2003.

Fantasies, Sara Hildén Art Museum and Finnish Museum of Photography, Tampere 2002.
MinäSinäMe (MoiToiNous) parcours photographique finlandais, Finnish Embassy, Cultural Section and Finnish Institute in Paris, Paris 2002.
Snake in Heliconia (Käärme Heliconiassa), photographs 1997-2001, Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö (WSOY), Helsinki 2002.

Photo.doc Documents of documentary photography, in: Musta taide 1/2000, Helsinki 2000.