Timo Aho (b.1980 Finnish) Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland EDUCATION 2019 – 2021 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, MFA, sculpture, FIN 2013 – 2016 Glasgow School of Art, BA Honours, sculpture and environmental art, UK 2010 – 2013 Pekka Halonen Academy, visual and media arts, sculpture & printmaking, FIN
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2026/5 Galleria Himmelblau / Finlayson Art Area (trio w/Teemu Mäenpää & Timo Heino), Tampere, FIN 2026/8 Art Linnankallio Symposium, commissioned public artwork, Kempele, FIN 2026/12 K-17 Space for art & ecology (duo w/Timo Vaittinen), Sipoo, FIN
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITION 2025 Into The Void, Pajagalleria, Helsinki, FIN 2024 Weightless Mass, Titanik Galleria, Turku, FIN 2023 Breathe II, Stoa Cultural Center, part of Lux Helsinki, Helsinki, FIN 2023 Nadiiri, (duo w/ Timo Vaittinen), Galleria Saltbodan, Loviisa, FIN 2022 Volume, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, FIN 2021 Paradise Lost,Exhibition Laboratory – Project Room, Helsinki, FIN 2019 Some Forces Unknown, VS Gallery, Fiskars, FIN 2016 The Cross, The Ladder and The Cloud, Cleland Lane Arches, Glasgow, UK 2015 With Its Words Cut Into Stone, (collab w/ Will Kendrick) Pig Rock Bothy, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK 2014 Top To Bottom (collab w/ Samuel Bich), Glasgow School of Art, UK 2014 Dem Lighted, Tres Bones, Helsinki, FIN 2014 Enlighted, Gallery 3H+K, Pori, FIN 2012 Nowhere, Surf Cafe & Gallery, Helsinki, FIN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 La Major Emergencia, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, SPA 2024 Human/Nature, VS Gallery, Fiskars, FIN 2024 Karhulankylä Summer Exhibition, Kainuu, FIN 2024 Strange Attraction, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, FIN 2023 Something Else (3rd. edition), Cairo, EGY 2023 Cinema Expanded, HIAP, Helsinki, FIN 2022 RA Summer Exhibition, (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta), Royal Academy of Arts London, UK 2021 On The Air, Kerava City Art Museum Sinkka, FIN 2021 Kuvan Kevät, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FIN 2020 Wie Wir In Den Wald Hineinrufen, (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta), Atelierhaus Aachen, Aachen, GER 2020 Transitions, (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta), Maif Social Club, Paris, FR 2019 Dimensions Tomorrow, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FIN 2019 Haihatus, Joutsa, FIN 2019 Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, FIN 2018 Fire/Light, Black Hall, Fiskars, FIN 2018 Agora, Botanical Garden Tuin Zuidas, Amsterdam, NL 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Scottish Pavillion, Happenstance -18, Venice, IT 2018 Earthly Pleasures, Hirvitalo, Tampere, FIN 2017 SWAC 89, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK 2017 Hortus Redux, Scottish Sculpture Park, Caoud Ruadh, UK 2017 TH4Y, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK 2017 RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK 2016 Parallel Dimensions, Cleland Lane Arches, Glasgow, UK 2016 Glasgow School of Art degree show, Glasgow, UK 2014 Pori Biennale, Pori, FIN
PUBLIC & ONLINE ART 2025 Lines (Helsinki), (collab w/ Pekka Niittyvirta), site-specific light installation, Lux Helsinki, FIN 2023 Lines (Blackrock park), (collab w/ Pekka Niittyvirta & Línte na Farraige) Creative Ireland, Dublin, IRL 2022 Lines (Wexford), (collab w/ Pekka Niittyvirta & Línte na Farraige) Creative Ireland, Wexford, IRL 2022 Lines (Galway), (collab w/ Pekka Niittyvirta & Línte na Farraige) Creative Ireland, Galway, IRL 2022 Sediments of Time, public artwork at Kannisto roundabout, Kerava, FIN 2021 Lines (Durham), (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta)Lumiere Durham, Durham, UK 2021 Lines (Turku),(collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta) WAM Turku City Art Museum, Turku, FIN 2019 Lines (Miami), (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta) UNTITLED Art, Miami Art week, FL, USA 2020 Ars Electronica, (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta), In Keplers Gardens, Paris, FR 2020 Coastline Paradox, (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta) The Heartbeat of the Earth, an online art project with Google Arts and Culture 2018 Lines (57° 59′ N, 7° 16’W), (collab w/Pekka Niittyvirta) Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre, Lochmaddy, UK 2014 – Ongoing. Light Interventions, Finland, Scotland, England, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania
PRICES AND MENTIONS 2021 Academy of Fine Arts: Academic Council Award for MFA thesis 2019 – 2021 Mentorship Program, Saastamoinen Foundation 2019 DesignBoom: Top 10 Large-scale Art Works of 2019, Lines (57° 59′ N, 7° 16’W) 2017 Avenir Magazine: 10 Emerging Artists 2016 Royal Scottish Academy: RSA New Contemporaries, selected artist 2016 Generator Projects: They Had Four Years, selected artist
MEMBERSHIPS 2024 Dimensio 2021 FLASH, Finnish Light Art Society 2017 The Association of Finnish Sculptors