Timo Aho (b.1980 Finnish)

EDUCATION
2019 – 2021 Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, MFA, Sculpture
2013 – 2016 Glasgow School of Art, BA Honours, Sculpture and Environmental Art
2010 – 2013 Pekka Halonen Academy, Visual Artisan, Sculpture & Printmaking

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
28.10 – 20.11.2022 Volume, Gallery Sculptor, Helsinki, FIN
2022 – 2023 Línte na Farraige, site-specific installations, Wexford, Dublin, Balbriggan, IRL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Sediments of Time, public artwork at Kannisto roundabout, Kerava, FIN
2021 Paradise Lost, Exhibition Laboratory – Project Room, Helsinki, FIN
2019 Some Forces Unknown, VS Gallery, Fiskars, FIN
2018 Lines, Taigh Chearsabhagh Art Centre, Outer Hebrides, Lochmaddy, UK
2016 The Cross, The Ladder and The Cloud, Cleland Lane Arches, Glasgow, UK
2015 With Its Words Cut Into Stone, Pig Rock Bothy, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2014 Top To Bottom, 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
2022 Línte na Farraige, Creative Climate Action, Galway, IRL
2022 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
2021 Lumiere Durham, Light Art Festival, Durham, UK
2021 Lux Like Kouvola, Light Art Festival, Kouvola, FIN
2021 On The Air, Kerava City Art Museum Sinkka, FIN
2021 Kuvan Kevät, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, FIN
2021 Uncertain Horizon, WAM Turku City Art Museum, Turku, FIN
2020 Ars Electronica, In Keplers Gardens, Paris, FR
2020 The Heartbeat of the Earth, Online art project with Google Arts and Culture
2020 Wie Wir In Den Wald Hineinrufen, Atelierhaus Aachen, Aachen, GER
2020 Transitions, 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
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
2016 Generator Projects: They Had Four Years

MEMBERSHIPS
2021 FLASH, Finnish Light Art Society
2017 The Association of Finnish Sculptors