Maria Liitola, born 1982
Bachelor of Culture and Arts / Kuvataiteilija AMK
Turku University of Applied Sciences / Turun Taideakatemia (2011)
Fine artist, graduated from Pori Art school and Art Academy of Turku University of Applied Sciences (BA 2011). MA student.
Lives and works in Turku, Finland. Work is concentrated on charcoal drawing techniques and acrylic/spray painting.
I’m interested in the concept of bodily space and equality. I draw and paint people in photorealistic style, mostly women, caught in a split second of time. I study the relation of the mind and the body, and the ownership of it in its physical surroundings. My work comments the word ”Freedom” as a noun that defines the right and power to be as one wants, and the state of, as a controversy, being imprisoned or enslaved in one’s own body by the standards of others or oneself. I combine the photorealistic drawing to markmaking and tagging familiar from the graffiti street art, as a comparison to the ideal of Freedom and self-expression. Figures that are partly visible and photorealistic while fading in the background, lead to the basic questions of existentialism: the edges of being and non-being.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Maria Katariina Liitola
Kuvataiteilija AMK
Bachelor of Culture and Arts
Born 25.07.1982
Tel. +358 045 8934 844
Studies
2019 alumna Turku University of Applied Sciences, Arts Academy, Master of Culture and Arts
(New contexts of art)
2007 – 2011 Turku University of Applied Sciences, Arts Academy, Bachelor of Culture and Arts
1999 – 2003 Pori Art School, Fine Arts
1998 – 1999 Proper Finland’s Folk High School, Fine Arts
Solo exhibitions
2018 9 seconds, Galleria G12 Helsinki
2017 Replika, Auran Galleria, Turku
2016 Humanity, Galleria G12 Kuopio
2015 Humanity, Galleria G12 Helsinki
2014 That she would exist, Auran Galleria, Turku
2012 Paintings, Galleria Art Frida, Helsinki
2011 Paintings, Poriginal - Galleria, Pori
2011 Unportraits, Auran Galleria, Turku
Selected group exhibitions
2018 Cismittääkö? Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti
2015 Paintings, Galleria Myötätuuli, Raahe
2014 Luokkakokous, Köysiratagalleria, Turku
2013 Maria Liitola and Nina Mattila: Galleria Art Frida, Helsinki
2012 The art of Basware, Sanomatalo, Helsinki
2011 2000 & 11 self portraits, Köysiratagalleria, Turku
2010 Köysiratagalleria, Turku
2010 Do you think you own this place? Turku
2008 Porvoo art hall
2007 Rauma Art Museum
2007 Salon Sininen Talo
2003 Poriginal-galleria, Pori
2001 Portait-galleria, Pori
Memberships
Finnish painters union, candidate
Awards and grants
2005 Kotka cultural board’s studio grant
2004 Kotka cultural board’s grant for young artists
Scollarships
2003 Pori foundation of art and industrial art, alumn scollarship
2003 OP financial group, alumn scollarship