JAN WECKMAN  

Biography: Born 1946 in Helsinki, lives and works in Helsinki and Billnäs, Pojo
Professo, Dean School of Visual Culture, University of Art and Design, Helsinki UIAH

Education:
Schools Free Art School 1969
The Finnisch art Academy School 1969-73
PhLic studies at the University of Art and Design UIAH Helsinki 1995-98
Currently Doctorate Candidate, Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki 1997-

Writings:  Du, stanna här (You, stay here), poetry, Söderströms & Co, Helsinki 1978
              Points of view, essays and catalogue texts for Retretti Art Centre, 1994
              Articulation and Topography Essay on Roland Barthes and Arcimboldo, University of Art               and Design, Workpapers F18
              Painting and Iconicity Paper at the ISM:s conference 2001, Imatra, Finland, Acta Semiotica               Fennica, Indiana University Press (to be published 2003)
              Medium and media in Art and Design , paper at Peirce seminar, Finnish society of               Semiotics, ISM conference 2002, Imatra, Finland

Solo shows (selected)

2003   Drawing as painting, Krista Mikkola Gallery, Helsinki
           Orthon Gallery, Helsinki
        Ars Nova, Turku ( July 2003)

2001  Forum Box, Helsinki
         The Finnish Institute, Berlin
          Önningeby museum, Åland Islands, Finland
          Pictor, Nummela, Finland
          LUME, Konstindustriella högskolan, Helsinki

 2000 Amos Anderson Museum of Art, Helsinki
1998  Lost and Found, Galleri G, Helsingfors
          Mengerzeile, Berlin
1997  Galleria Harmaja, Uleåborg
1996   Formell/Informell Tikanoja Museum of Art, Vasa
1995   Formell/Informell Heinola Art Museum, Heinola
          Formell/Informell Ålands Museum of Art, Mariehamn
1994   Formell/Informell, Nordic Art Centre, Sveaborg Finland
1993   Galleri G, Helsinki
1992   Lilla Agora, Helsinki
1991   Kemi Museum of Art. Kemi Finland
          Galleria DARTE, Helsinki
          Gallery Boibrino, Stockholm
          Galerie Selzer-Lejeune, Paris
1990   Gallery Persons-Lindell, Helsinki
1989   Gallery Persons-Lindell, Helsinki
1988   Galleri Vita Rummet, Tampere, Finland
           Galleri 1, Göteborg
1987   Helsinki City Galleria Kluuvi
           Galleri Ahlner, Stockholm
1986   Galleria Bronda, Helsinki
1985   Galleri Ahlner, Stockholm
1984   Galerie Ackerman, Helsinki
1983   Galerie Artek, Helsinki
1982   Amos Andersson Museum of Art, Helsinki
           Kunstverein Erlangen, Germany
           Galerie Aesbek, Copenhagen, Denmark
1981   Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1980   Galleria Bronda, Helsinki
1979   Gallerie Moment 76, Stockholm, Sweden
1978   Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1970   Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1969   Galerie Strindberg, Helsinki

Participation in group exhibitions

2002   Uniikki, Fiskars
200     AWE, Kiasma projectroom, Kiasma, Helsinki
1999   Black, White and Gray, Lahti Museum of Art, Lahti
1995   Medvind 2, Hangö
          Art Apollo, Borgå
1994   Medvind 1, Hangö
1992  Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer , France
          L'ete de la Vienne, Festival de Beaux-Arts, Chateau
          Bonnetiére, Loudun, France
          The Finnish Institute in Paris
1991  Nordiska Teckningar (Nordic Drawing), Nordic Centre of Art, Helsinki,
          Aalborg, Denmark, Bergen; Norway
1988   Schneesmelze, Kunst aus Finnland, Wiener Secession, Austria; Aachen, Bonn,           Germany
          Graphica Creativa, Jyväskylä,
1987   Listen, Konsthallen, Helsinki Art Hall
1986   Grafikbiennalen, Baden-Baden, Germany
1984   Finsk Kunst Nå, (Finnish Art Now) Sonia Henie-Onstad Kunstcenter, Hovikodden,            Norway
1982   Contemporaries, New Art from Finland, St Paul, Long Beach,
          Seattle USA
1982   The Graphic Art Biennale, Bradford, England
           Spelets regler (Rules of the Game - Art from Finland and Sweden)
           Amos Andersson Museum of Art, Helsinki
1981   Helsinki City Gallery Kluuvi
           Årets konstnärer inbjuder (Artist of the Year invites), Helsinki Art Hall
           Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
           Art Today, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1979   1. International Drawing Triennale, Nürnberg, Germany
1980   Young artists, Helsinki Art Hall
1971   Triennale of the Art Academy, Helsinki
1970   Young Artists, Helsinki Art Hall

Represented in collections

Finnish state Art collection, Swedish State Art collection, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary ArtNutidskonstmuseet Kiasma, Helsingfors, Moderna museet, Stockholm, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Helsingfors stads konstmuseum, Åbo Konstmuseum, Lahtis stads konstsamlingar, i följande städers konstsamlingar: Borgå, Esbo, Hyvinkää, Joensuu, Vasa, Imatra, Kemi, Uleåborg, Nürnberg stads konstamlingar, Tyskland. Private art collections in Finland, France, Sweden, United States

Awards

Young Artists, Helsinki Art Hall 1978
Awardat the International Drawing Triennale, Nürnberg, Germany 1979
Award the Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 1981
The Art Award of the Finnish State 1983
Marcus Collins Art Award 1996

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