Bio
Huhmarniemi Maria was born in Rovaniemi in 1977. He is a graduate of the University of Lapland, Faculty of Arts (2002) and has worked since her graduation in variety of projects and as university lecturer. During 20011-2012, she works as a leader of international program Masters´s in Applied Visual Arts.
Her artistic means of expression are installations and photography. Her works have themes such as intercultural communities and people's relation to environment. Background research includes interviews, documentation and collection of evidence, and is a prerequisite for her art.
Huhmarniemi is a postgraduate student at the University of Lapland. Her first exhibition that was evaluated as a part of her dissertation, dealt with one endangered butterfly species that threatens to disappear because of construction of new hydroelectric power. The second part dealt with values and meanings related to forest berries. The written part of her doctoral thesis deals with collaboration of eco-activism, contemporary art and science.
The main exhibitions in recent years are:
Halikko Green Art at Salo Art Museum, 2011
Lapland! Lapland Kemi Art Museum exhibition, 2011
SilvrettAteljee Symposium and Exhibition in Austria, 2010-2011
The Barents Ideal Cities project, with Timo Jokela, Murmansk, Rovaniemi and Tromsø, 2009
Berry Tours exhibition Arktikum, 2011.
Maria Huhmarniemi is a chairman of Artists' Association of Lapland. She also belongs to the Artists' Association MUU and to the Finnish Bioart Society.