Tero Puha
Tero Puha (born 1971) is a Finnish visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. His work often studies and explores the body image, identities and consumerism in the modern world. He is known for his aesthetic body studies as well as performances and video art.
Tero Puha
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- Name
- Tero Puha
- Born
- 1971
- Field
- Visual art, photography, filmmaking
- Nationality
- Finland
- Occupation
- photographer · graphic artist · performance artist · draftsperson · video artist
- Languages
- Finnish
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Tero Puha (born 1971) is a Finnish visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. His work often studies and explores the body image, identities and consumerism in the modern world. He is known for his aesthetic body studies as well as performances and video art.
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Tero Puha (born 1971) is a Finnish draftsperson, graphic artist and performance artist, among other activities. The draftsperson was born in Nurmijärvi.
Languages used include Finnish. Works by Tero Puha are held at Finnish National Gallery.
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Biography
His retrospective book, Almost Human-Works 1995–2010, was published in 2011.
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• Name — Tero Puha • Born — 1971 • Field — Visual art, photography, filmmaking • Website — www.teropuha.com
Personal life
Personal life
Puha has worked in the last few years mainly outside Finland (London, Paris and Berlin).
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Unfinished, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, November 2010–January 2011 • The Mirror That Lived, Turun Taidehalli, Turku, Finland, November–December 2024
Publications
• Almost Human-Works 1995–2010. Inky Robot, 2011. Over 200 illustrations and with essays by Leevi Haapala, Leena-Maija Rossi, Annamari Vänskä, Livia Hekanaho and Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger. A retrospective.
Collections
Collections
Puha's work is held in the following permanent collections: • Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma • Helsinki City Art Museum • Finnish Museum of Photography • Brandts Museum of Photographic Art • Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, in Japan
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- “Tero Puha”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 2014: Finnish State Prize in Photographic Arts
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