Katja Tukiainen
Visual artist, Doctor of Fine Arts, Do-gooder
Specialized in:
Narrative painting, all shades of femininity from poetic rosa to anarchic neon pink.
Why do you create:
To raise questions and create interdependence.
What random things are inspiring for you at the moment:
I am inspired by the experience of universal connection and the realization that singularity is only a human illusion. Yoga and buddism, which both I have practiced for 25 years now are inspiring me along the best thing that has ever happened to me, being a mother. Now when our baby is grown-up we artist parents are inspired by collaborations.
Bio
Visual artist and painter, Katja Tukiainen was born in 1969 in Pori, Finland. She started to draw and paint autofictional girls during her teenage years at 80’s, started to study art year 1990 and when she returned from her painting studies in Venice year 1995 she had changed her palette to pink. Katja uses her pink color scale from anarchic neon pink to sensitive rose, to express all aspects of humanity. Tukiainen has combined experimental comics and narrative painting since the beginning of her artistic expression, and her shakedown of the tradition was enthusiastic and even avantgardistic in the Finnish field of visual art of 1990’s. In the mid of 1990’s she studied painting at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia),
graduated in 1996 with the Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and year 2009 with Master of Fine Arts from Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, where she continued directly to the doctorate of fine arts and defended her artistic doctoral thesis called ”The Girl Army –Narrative painting in space” in the spring of 2022. Tukiainen has held several solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group exhibitions and published artist's monographs and comic books in Finland and abroad. Her exhibitions and painting installations have been exhibited in both galleries and museums. Her works are included in several public and private art collections.