Silja Selonen

NAME: Silja Selonen (She)
20.10.1965, Finland
LOCATION: Lieto, Finland

BIO:
To be part of life and the flow - to be suns ashes and their glow.

Nature is my home, a resource of materials and food, and an inspiration for my art. I see the equality and unity of all beings in this curving and chaotic world of time and space. Nothing else - and it is all.

WORK:
I often use egg tempera, natural glues, clay, and earthy pigments in my paintings. With sketchy, still exact brushstrokes, I seek those warm or cold shades of light in shadows and reflections. I sculpt with a brush and colours, seeing the world more as geometrical forms and resonating masses than even and steady. You can find expressive naturalism and posthumanism in my art. Often, they are a mixture of realism and abstraction, because I think of the world as one. We experience reality through our senses, which can not reveal the abstract world of quanta and quarks.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
I graduated with an MA in Art and Media from Aalto University in 2025. I did my BA in Visual Arts at the Arts Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences in 2009. I have also taken courses in various fields of art and science. My expertise is painting, but I have also made public art in the fie...

ART STUDIES

2025 MA, Art and Media
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
2009 BA, Visual Artist,
Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland

OTHER / ART, SCIENCE
2019 The University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland /
Space-Time-Arts, SoundArt
2018-2019 University of Turku, Finland/
Astrobiology 1, Biochemistry labwork
2019 Aalto University, Finland / Bioart
2018 Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany /
Microplastic workshop
2015 Accademia del Giglio, Florence, Italy / Fresco painting
2010 Art Academy of Turku, Finland/ Public art
2002 Pekka Halonen Academy, Repin Institute, Finland / Portrait painting
2001 Valamo Monastery, Finland: Fresco painting

Selected Solo Exhibitions in Finland
2025 HAA-gallery, Helsinki
Gallery WW, Juupajoki
2024 Church- gallery, Littoinen
2022 Gallery Joella, Turku
2019 Kanneltalo, Helsinki
Auran Galleria, Turku
2018 Salo Art Museum, Salo
Teijon Masuuni -gallery, Teijo
2017 Studio Mältinranta, Tampere
2015 Yrjö Liipola Art Museum, Koski TL
Gallery Seinä, Helsinki
2014 Brinkkala Gallery,Turku
GalleryKapriisi, Tampere
2012 Forssa Museum, Forssa
2010 Gallery Å, Turku

Selected Group Exhibitions in Finland
2025 Manor Kuusisto, Kaarina
2024 Gumbostrand Konst&Form, Sipoo
2023 Fimbul Konstvägen, environmental art, Turku
2022 Manor Kuusisto, Kaarina
2020 Turku Castle, Sculptors jubilee -exhibition, Turku
2019 Suomenlinna, Flash2-light biennale, Helsinki
Vanhalinna museo, bioart, Lieto
Artfair - Suomi 19, Helsinki
2018 Gumbostrand Konst&Form, Sipoo
2017 Finlandia Hall, Shift 2017, Helsinki
2016 Wiurilan Manor, Salo
2014 Gallery Kipinä, Lahti
Yrjö Liipola Art Museum, Koski TL
2010 Ars Nova Art Museum, Jöötti ry Jubilee, Turku

Selected Group Exhibitions abroad
2017 - SciArt Centre, New York
2017 - ArtBox Basel, Switzerland
2015 - Ga...