Osmo Rauhala is one of the pioneers of the current international movement in Finnish contemporary art. In late 1980’s he moved to New York and made his Master Degree in art over there 1990. Since that he has had over 60 solo-exhibitions including 18 one-man museum shows in Europe , North- and South America.
In addition to pursuing an international career in art, Rauhala continues to run his farm in Finland, specialising on organic production. He feels it necessary to carry on the genetic memory he has for the place. His family has lived there for centuries. After working in his studio in New York Rauhala returns to Finland every spring for planting season.
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- Studies
1998– New York University, U.S.A. School of Education
1988–90 School of Visual Arts, Graduate Program (M.F.A.), New York, U.S.A.
1982–87 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
1981–82 Free Art School, Helsinki - Public Collections
Finnish Nature Center Haltia
Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Espoo Finland
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Grand Canal Court, New York City
Hallisch-Frankisches Museum, Germany
Ratingen Stadtmuseum, Germany
Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
Miniatuur Museum, Amsterdam
The Finnish National Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Readers’ Digest, U.S.A.
Citibank, New York
The European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Nokia Corporation, Finland
Akzo Nobel, the Netherlands
nv Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, the Netherlands
Helsinki City Art Museum
Tampere Art Museum, Finland
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Waino Aaltonen Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Hameenlinna Art Museum, Finland
Lahti Art Museum, Finland
Oulu Art Museum, Finland
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
Kouvola Art Museum, Finland
Imatra Art Museum, Finland
Renlund Art Museum, Kokkola, Finland
The City of Tampere
The City of Espoo
The City of Vantaa
The City of Valkeakoski
The City of Nokia
The City of Ylojarvi
Central Association of Finnish Farmers, Helsinki
Kuhmo Concert Hall
Paulo Collection, Helsinki
Bank of Finland
Okobank, Helsinki, New York
Merita-Nordbanken, Helsinki
TSOP, Tampere
Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Helsinki
Handelsbanken, Sweden
Aamulehti Corporation, Tampere
Pohjola Corporation, Helsinki
Sampo Corporation, Turku
Leonia Ltd, Helsinki
Altia Group Ltd, Helsinki
The Finnish Forest Industries, Helsinki
The Lutheran Congregations of Tampere
Nokia Congregation - Memberships and Awards
The Society of Finnish Artists
The Society of Artists in Tampere
The Artists’ Association of Nokia
The Alfred Kordelin Foundation
The Paulo Foundation
The Finnish Cultural Foundation
The American Scandinavian Society, New York
The Young Artist of the Year 1992, Finland
The Grant for the Arts, State of Finland, 1993, 1999-2001
- Solo Exhibitions
2021–2022
“Remember to Forget Everything”, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku2019–2020
“Forms of Order”, The Art Museum of City of Kouvola2017
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland2016
”Game Theory”, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA2015
”The Secret of the Forest”, TR1, Tampere Finland2013–2014
“The Game of Life”, Finnish Nature Center Haltia, Espoo, Finland (permanent installation)2012
“The Book of Life”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art – Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland2011
“Print”, Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere, Finland2010
Exhibition of Osmo Rauhala and Kuutti Lavonen about the paintings in ST. Olaf Church, National Museum of Finland2009
“The Origin of Understanding”, MAM – Museum Arte Moderne, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2008
“The Birth of Consciousness”, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Canada2007
“Birth of Evolution”, Washington, USA
“Before the Horizon was Broken”, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands2006
“Form of Order”, Centre of Contemporary Art, ICPNA, Lima, Peru
“The Birth of Evolution”, Embassy of Finland, Washington D.C., USA
Eeva Pinomaa Gallery, Hanko, Finland2005
“System Complexity”, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA2004
“The Evolution of Mind”, Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennispalatsi, Finland
“The Lost Paradise”, Millesgarden Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
“All that we see”, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki. Finland
“Inner Circle”, Kemi Art Museum, Finland2003
“The Sound of Light”, Retretti Art Centre, Finland
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Galerie Pimm van der Donk, Hamburg, Germany2002
The Traces of Decade 1992-2002, Tampere Art Museum, Finland
Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki2001
Lance Fung Gallery, New York
The Traces of History, Alma Media, Tampere, Finland2000
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam
Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
Man and Nature, Parkano, Finland
Kuhmo Concert Hall, Finland1999
Hallisch-Frankisches Museum, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Finlandia Hall, Washington, D.C.1998
Lance Fung Gallery, New York1997
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Galerie Polaris, Paris1996
Hameenlinna Art Museum, Finland1995
Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway
Galerie Polaris, Paris
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York1994
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Galerie Albert Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Holland
Finnshuis, Antwerpen, Belgium1993
Galleria Sculptor, Helsinki
Institut Finlandais, Paris1992
Ratingen Stadtmuseum, Germany
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
The Young Artist of the Year, Tampere Art Museum, Finland1990
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
Galleria Mikkola & Rislakki, Helsinki1989
SVA-Gallery, New York
Maltinranta Art Center, Tampere, Finland
- Group exhibitions
2023
“About Art 2023”, Makasiini Contemporary, Logomo, Turku, Finland2020–2021
“Associates”, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland2020
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland2017
Rotterdam Art Fair, The Netherlands
Elga Wimmer Gallery, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, USA
Logomo, Turku, Finland2016
Pyhäniemi Art Center, Finland2015
“The Future is Here Again”, AC Institute, New York, NY
Finlayson Art Area – FAA, Tampere, Finland2014
”White Birch Project”, White Box, New York, USA2013
“XXL”, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
“Happy Flies Kissing Beautiful Face”, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
“One of a Kind”, AC Institute, New York, NY
“One of a Kind”, Unique Artists Books, Owens Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere Finland (permanent collection)2012
“UNBOUND: An Exhibition in Three Chapters”, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
“Tampere Triennal”, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere2011
“One of a Kind”, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA2010
“Nature of the Beast”, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, USA
“Project Birch Forest, The Waste Land”, White Box, New York, NY2009
“Sarastus”, Luopioinen, Finland
“Black Madonna”, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, NY2008
“Nature Interrupted”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA2007
“Art and Mobile”, Contemporary Museum – Baltimore, USA
“Animals”, National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland2006
“Nature Interrupted”, New Bedford Art Museum, New York, USA2005
“Spells of Childhood”, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland2003
“Dreams and Conflicts” The Dictatorship of the Viewer: Venice, The 50th International Art Exhibition/La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Zorzi, Italy
Myth, Yamaguchi Art Museum, Japan
Night Train, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland2002
Is it the end of painting?, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
Myth, Helsinki City Art Museum
Pyhaniemi, Finland
Water, Siuro Powerstation, Finland2001
Wihuri Collection, Taidehalli, Helsinki
Hallisch-Frankisches Museum, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland
Suvi Pinx, Sysma, Finland2000
Hunt, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, Pyhaniemi, Finland1999
Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen Zeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Kalevala 150 Years, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo, Finland
Halonen Museum, Tuusula, Finland
Tampere Art Museum, Finland
Purnu 99, Orivesi, Finland1998
Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Stadtgalerie, Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany
Pyhaniemi, Finland
Europisches Wahrungsinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany1997
Karlsruhe Stadtmuseum, Germany
Retretti, Finland
Lehtinen-Piri-Rauhala-Vaisanen, Karkku, Finland1996
The Right to Hope, Johannesburg, South Africa, Cairo, Egypt1995
Galerie Lahrl, Munchengladbach, Germany
Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Galerie in Taxis Palais, Innsbruck, Austria
Turm Galerie, Klagenfurt, Germany
Landesgewerbeamt, Karlsruhe, Germany
Estradi, Helsinki
Retretti, Finland
Europisches Kulturzentrum, Remagen, Germany
Galerie Welz, Salzburg, Austria
Voralbergisches Landesmuseum, Bregenz, Austria
Stadtmuseum Nordico, Linz, Austria1994
Galerie Polaris, Paris
Interior Essence, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, U.S.A.
Eros and Identity, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
Tema: AIDS, Nordic Arts Center, Suomenlinna, Helsinki
Helsinki City Art Museum
Galleria Bellarte, Turku, Finland
Natura Baltica, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Tarto Art Museum, Estonia
KVHS Wolfenbuttel, Germany
Rathaus Galerie, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
St?dtische Galerie, Zulpich, Germany
Galerie im Kreishaus, Cuxhaven, Germany
13. International Triennial of Original Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland
Saga, Grand Palais, Paris
Retretti, Finland
Pyhaniemi, Finland1993
Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio, U.S.A.
Earthmatters, Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kreistagssaal Celle, Germany
Rathaus Galerie, Leverkusen, Germany
Saga, Grand Palais, Paris
Retretti, Finland
Tampere Art Museum / Newcastle City Museum, England1992
Miniatuur Museum, Amsterdam
Pools, Aspen Museum, Colorado, U.S.A.
Animal Image in Finnish Art, Ilkaalinen Art Center, Finland
Ars Rauma: Luostarinen-Penttinen-Rauhala, Rauma Art Museum, Finland1991
Dreamland, Tallinn, Estonia, Pori Art Museum, Finland
Pools, Helander/Levy, New York1990
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York
New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York
Visual Arts Gallery, New York
The Society of Artists in Tampere 70th Anniversary Exhibition,
Maltinranta Art Center, Tampere, Finland
Expohja´90, Fiskars, Finland
Galleria Mikkola & Rislakki, Helsinki1989
Line Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Nokia Fine Art Exhibition, Finland1988
Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Helsinki Art Hall
Exhibition of the Young, Helsinki Art Hall1987
Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki
Artists’ Association of Nokia 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Finland
Exhibition of the Young, Helsinki Art Hall1986
City Art Gallery, Karlstad, Sweden
TM-Gallery, Helsinki
City Art Gallery, Forssa, Finland
