Ari Pelkonen

Ari Pelkonen
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b. 1978, Pori
Visual artist, Printmaker
Residence: Helsinki

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Phone number: +358407761165

Artist’s Statement

​​Ari Pelkonen is a visual artist and printmaker living and working in Helsinki. Pelkonen’s artistic work is strongly linked to the field of printed art. The printing techniques, painting, moving image and three-dimensionality that Pelkonen uses in his works are all ways to visualize the field of printed art and contribute to expanding the perception of what printed art and printmaking can be in our time and in contemporary art.
In addition to personal subjects, Pelkonen’s works are based on the concept of printmaking. Constructed images, covering and revealing, displacement and mediation are present. Cooperation with the methods and materials of printed art, as well as making things by hands, are at the center of Pelkonen’s art-making.
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Ari Pelkonen graduated from the Turku Art Academy with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004 and from the Academy of Fine Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in 2007.

Pelkonen’s works have been exhibited in e.g. At the Saatchi Gallery in London, at Mänttä Art Festival, at Tartu Art Hall and EKA Galleria in Estonia, at the Graphica Creativa exhibition at the Jyväskylä Art Museum, at the IMPACT10 Printmaking conference in Santander, Spain, and at Gallery Forum Box and Gallery AMA in Helsinki.

Ari Pelkonen’s works are held in the collections of  e.g. The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki; the Saastamoinen Foundation; the Paulo Foundation; the Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation; and several Finnish art museums, as well as the art collections of the State of Finland.

Pelkonen was awarded the Finnish Young Artist of the Year Award and nominated for the International Queen Sonja Print Award (both 2012). Since 2009, Pelkonen has worked at the University of the Arts Helsinki in the Printmaking Department, including substituting for the Head of Department.