V I I V I K E M P P A I N E N
Visual artist
Born in Paltamo Finland
Lives and works in Hausjärvi, Finland
Education:
Varkaus School of applied arts 1985-88
Helsinki Design school 2018
Private exhibitions:
MTV Gallery, Helsinki Finland 1993
Art Museum, Varkaus Finland 1995
Red Cross Gallery, Helsinki Finland 1994
Library in Paltamo, Finland 1995
Galleria Oskarin Piha, Lahti Finland 1995
Art Salon Cellar, Helsinki Finland 1996
Gallery Stenman, Kokkola Finland 1997
Onnenkukko Gallery, Kouvola Finland 1998
Musashino Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 1998
Art Room, Gallery, Seinäjoki Finland 1999
Galleria Kapriisi, Kuopio Finland 2001
Samuli Paronen Gallery, Library Riihimäki, Finland 2003
Galleria Maria, Helsinki Finland 2006
Gardenia Gallery, Helsinki Finland 2013
Green House, Iittala Finland 2017
Group exhibitions:
Gallery Brahe, Turku Finland 1996
Parcent Perge Art Gallery, Kanazawa Japan 1997
La Galleria, Sapporo Japan 1999
Tobu Art Gallery, Utsunomiya Japan 1998-2008
Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 1998
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 1998
Daimaru Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 1998-2004
Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 1998
Tobu Art Gallery Ikebukuro, Tokyo Japan 1997-2020
Tobu department Art Gallery, Funabashi Japan 1999-2019
K´s Gallery, Hamamatsu Japan 1999
Gallery Artra, Kanazawa Japan 1999
City Center, Takaoka Japan 1999
Keikyu Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 2000
Isetan Art Gallery, Niigata Japan 2000, 2001, 2002
Printemps Ginza Art Gallery, Tokyo Japan 2004
Tobu Art Gallery, Otawara Japan 2004, 2005
Tokyu Honten Department Art Gallery, Japan 2004-2021
Battersea Art Fair, London Great Britain 2005
Maruzen Art Gallery, Okayama Japan 2006
Contemporary Art Show, Helsinki Finland 2009
Art Forum, Helsinki Finland 2012
Kintetsu Abeno Art Gallery, Osaka Japan 2018, 2019
Mitsukoshi Gallery, Niigata Japan 2018, 2019
Gallery Sho Hokuou no Takumi Ginza, Tokyo Japan 2018, 2019, 2020
Alpark Tenmaya Art Gallery, Hirosima Japan 2018, 2019
St Luka´s Gallery (Seiroka hospital), Tokyo Japan 2018, 2019, 2020
Odakiyu Art Gallery, Shinjuku Tokyo Japan 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Meitetsu Department Art Salon, Nagoya Japan 2018,2019, 2020, 2021
Sendai Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Sendai Japan 2019
Sanseido Book Store, Tokyo Japan 2019
Keisei Department store event space, Mito Japan 2019, 2020
Junkudo Fukuoka Maruzen Gallery, Tenjin Fukuoka Japan 2020
Gallery Tor, Kobe Japan 2020
Maruzen Honten Art Gallery, Kyoto Japan 2020
Northern European Art Fair, Metsä Village Hanno Japan 2020
Event space Maruzen&Junkudo bookstore Umeda, Osaka Japan 2021
Other:
Tokyo international gift show Japan 1996,1997
Atlanta international gift show, USA 1998
Pos card series for Red Cross of Finland 1997,1998,1999
Illustration on Miki Taku´s fairy book in Japan 2008
Christkindlimarkt, Zürich Switzerland 2018
HGH Weihnachtsmarket in Lübeck, Germany 2019
