Born 1966, Pello, Finland
Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
STUDIES
1984-89 Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2009 Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Gallery Heino, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
2001 The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2000 Viive gallery, Rovaniemi, Finland
Ama gallery, Turku, Finland
1999 Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
1997 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1994 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
1992 Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany
1991 Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1990 Kluuvi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2009 ArtHelsinki 09 / Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
Flash! – Light and Movement, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
I Love Malmö, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Swanljung Meets Malmö, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
The Site of Painting, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Carnegie Art Award, Centre International d´Art Contemporain, Carros,France
2008 Kuvan jälkeen, Image and after, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland Carnegie Art Award, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden/Oslo, Norway; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Denmark;
Listasafn Kópavogs, Kópavogur / Reykjavík, Iceland; Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 Carnegie Art Award, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Taiteilijatiloja, Jugend-sali, Helsinki, Finland
Maalaus ja valokuva ja maalaus, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
I love Malmö, Turun taidemuseo, Turku; Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art,
Vaasa, Finland
Kuntsin ikonit 1, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
2006 Suspended E-motion, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2005 Vastamaalattu – Painture Fraiche!, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland
Työnimi: Heijastuksia, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm Art Fair / Galleria Heino, Stockholm, Sweden
X Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä, Finland
Purnu 2005, Orivesi, Finland
2004 Vastamaalattu – Peinture Fraiche!, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
Talviunia – Hibernations, The Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2003 Maisema nyt, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland
2002 Over the Horizon, Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
2001 Soome Nûûdiskunst – Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola, Eesti Kunstimuuseumi,
Tallinn, Estonia
Interface – Kosketuspintoja, Suomen taiteen III triennaali, Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg & Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
Hockey Flowers, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
2000 Europe – Different Perspectives in Painting, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
Pohjoismainen postmodernismi, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
100 VR-makasiini, Helsinki, Finland
Berlin Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Berlin, Germany
1999 Carnegie Art Award, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland; Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland
Finnish Line: Starting Point, Musées de Strassbourg, Strassbourg, France
Pohjoinen maisema, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Frankfurt Art Fair / Galleria Kari Kenetti, Frankfurt, Germany
1998 Carnegie Art Award, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden; Sophienholm, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Stockholm Art Fair / Gallery Kari Kenetti, Stockholm
1997 Galleri Wynick / Tuck, Toronto, Canada
Art goes kapakka, Restaurant Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
TAiDETTA, Konstens hus, Luleå, Sweden
Kari Cavén – Henrietta Lehtonen – Jussi Niva, Galleria Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland
1996 TAiDETTA, Karlskrona Konsthall, Karlskrona, Sweden; Västerås
Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden; Skövde Konsthall, Skövde, Sweden; Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Konst I hemmiljö The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Comp I Box, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland
Enter, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
1995 ARS -95, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Air Water Earth, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka; Fukuyama Museum of
Art, Fukuyama, Japan; Turun taidemuseo, Turku, Finland
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1994 Ennakkoluuloja – Fördomar, Östergötland Country Museum, Lindköping, Sweden; Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland; Örebro länsmuseum, Örebro, Sweden; Landskrona konsthall, Landskrona, Sweden; Museum for Contemporary art, Warsaw, Poland; Museum for Contemporary art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nordisk Önskemuseum, Göteborg Museum of Art, Göteborg, Sweden
8 rum till måleri, Galleri F 15 Alby, Moss, Norway
Grreen, Tourch Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Nina Roos – Jussi Niva, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Air Water Earth, The Azabu Museum for Arts and Crafts, Tokio, Japan
1993 Fünf Bilder, Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Berlin, Germany
XLV La Biennale di Venezia, Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Entrée, The Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
Valintoja, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Transit, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Ennakkoluuloja – Fördomar, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden;
The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1992 Välimatkoja – Avstånd, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Rakkautta raunioilla, Tampere Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland
Finlandi Dá -92, Stockholm, Sweden
Tidsanda, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Frankfurt Art Fair / Galerie Gebauer u. Günther, Germany
1991 Näkemiin, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Tillstand Switches, Stedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Face to Face – Ars Baltica Prolog, Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Stadgalerie im
Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Latvija, Museum of Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia;
Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Aurora 4, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1990 Finnish Visions, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1989 Finnish Painters´union 60th aniversary exhibition, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
PUBLIC ART WORKS
2010 M in Us, Vasakronan, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Expose #43–46, Finnish Embassy, Berlin, Germany
1998 Expose, Vuosaari metro station, Helsinki, Finland, 1998
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Jenny ja Antti Wihuri Foundation, Rovaniemi, Finland
The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
The City of Espoo, Finland
The City of Tampere, Finland
The National Public Art Council, Sweden
Swanljung Collection, Finland
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
The Finnish State Art Collection, Finland
AWARDS
2009 Fine Arts Association of Finland, William Thuring -Prize
1998 Carnegie Art Awards, Scholarship to a young artist
1996 Young Art Finland -Prize
PUBLICATIONS
Iitiä, Inkamaija: “Kuvan jälkeen”, Kuvan jälkeen. Image and after, 2008, Nykytaiteen museon julkaisua 109/ 2008, p. 42-43.
Iitiä, Inkamaija: Käsitteellisestä ruumiilliseen, sitaatiosta paikkaan – maalaustaide ja nykytaiteen historia, Helsinki 2008, p. 264-272.
Roos, Rita : Critique, Veenman Publishers/Gijs Stork, Rotterdam, 2006
Kalhama, Pilvi: “Vuorovaikutusta väritilassa – Jussi Nivan Fine Tuning – sarjan dialogisia tulkintoja”, Kanssakäymisiä, Osallistuvan taiteen tutkimuksen askelia 32, Helsinki, 2005
Kalhama, Pilvi. 2002. “Suomalainen nykymaalaus ja katsomisen haaste”, Pinx maalaustaiteen mestareita: Maalauksen rajat ja rajattomuus. WSOY, Helsinki, p. 263–287.
Kantokorpi, Otso: “Kuvan katoava taajuus”, Kosketuspintoja, Helsinki, 2003
Haapala, Leevi : “Valomaalarit ja sähköinen valo”, Pinx. : maalaustaide Suomessa : Siveltimen vetoja, Espoo 2003, s. 280-287.
Valjakka, Timo: Jussi Niva, Expose, Helsinki, 2000
van der Heeg, Eerik. 1999. “Kekarainen – Niva – Vuokola”, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
Castren, Hannu: “Painting Beyond the Eye and Frame”, Form Function Finland, 1/95
Valjakka, Timo: "XLV La Biennale di Venezia, Melin Niva Stokke", 1993
Thordeman, Thord. “Venezia!”, Paletten 3/93
Sandqvist, Gertrud : “Jussi Niva”, Siksi, 2/92
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary
