EEMIL KARILA - CURRICULUM VITAE

Born 1978, Rovaniemi.
Lives and works in Helsinki and Rovaniemi
+35850-3553070
info@eemilkarila.net
www.eemilkarila.net

(Contemporary Santa Claus Artist Association, Eemil Karila & Kalle Lampela)
www.cscaa.info

EDUCATION
97-02 Academy of Arts in Estonia, Tallinn
99-00 Instituto de Artes Plasticas de Armando Reveron, Caracas, Venezuela
06- Academy of Arts in Finland, Helsinki

EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions

2008 MIKÄ ON MINUN ON MEIDÄN; WHATS MINE IS OURS, Art Museum of Rovaniemi
2007 Bar9, Helsinki, Finland
2006 ”How to seduce a cynic?”, Gallery Mältinranta, Tampere, Finland
2006 “Fart in a Sahara”, Aine Art Museum, C.S.C.A.A., Tornio, Finland
2005-06 touring exhibition arranged by the Oulu regional art museum, Finland
2006 ”Selected works”, finnish institute in Oslo, Norway
2006 “vergangenheitsbewältigung” Helsinki Art Museum, gallery Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland
2005-06 MADE IN LAPLAND, Galleria Jangva, C.S.C.A.A. (Eemil Karila & Kalle Lampela), Helsinki, Finland
2005 ”POST OFFICE”, Linnagalleria, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Finlandsinstitutet gallerii, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 “Jingle! ”, C.S.C.A.A., Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
2004 “GLOBAL HOME”, Painters Unions gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2004 “trans air”, transformers, Viinistu Art museum, Estonia
2004 “EXERCISE”, Contemporary Santa Claus artist association, gallery napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
2004 “titled”, gallery Rajatila, Tampere, Finland
2003 “titled”, gallery napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
2003 “Eemil from Lapland”, Tallinn city gallery, Estonia
2002 ”Transformers, jesus and angel”, Jazz gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2002 ”Transformers”, gallery of Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia
2000 Sala Austria, Caracas, Venezuela

Selected group exhibitions

2007 ”Piirustusluokka”, "Drawing Class, Kunsthalle, Helsinki
2007 ”Nulle terre sans seigneur ”, C.S.C.A.A., University of Lapland, part of methodological
research seminar “Locations of Emancipation”, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
2007 ”Souvenirs”, Svolvær Lofooten, Norway
2007 ”Constructing the identitty”, Royal Academy schools galllery, London, UK
2007 ”Lecture of contemporary art”, Keminmaa county office, Keminmaa, Finland
2007 Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä , Finland
2007 Ars Kärsämäki, Kärsämäki, Finland
2007 “Collage”, Oulu Art museum, C.S.C.A.A., Oulu, Finland
2007 “I want to be a dog”, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2006 “LEFT”, Kiila ry:s 80th anniversary exhibition, Art hall, Helsinki, Finland
2006 “Masters of the university”, Academy gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2006 ”Permission to grow old”, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Pikasso, Art Supermarket, Helsinki, Finland
2005 Mäntän kuvataideviikot, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä , Finland
2004 “Rajaton”, national drawing exhibition, Joensuu Art museum, Finland 1.prize (C.S.C.A.A., Eemil Karila & Kalle Lampela)
2004 “Kesänapa” Summer exhibition Laplands Artists´ Association, gallery napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
2003 “Kesänapa”, Summer exhibition Laplands Artists´ Association
2002 ”Autoportree”, Theatre gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2002 Exhibition of diploma works, Art Museum of Tallinn, Estonia
2001-02 ”Flowers or something” Raattuse gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 ”Cult”, Museum of energy, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 ”50 x 50”, Art museum of Kuresaari, Estonia
2001 ”Water”, Theatre gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2005 110. annual Finlands artists exhibition, Helsinki Art hall, Finland
2003 ”Den Store Elgutstillingen, Telemark Fylkesgallerii, Nodtodden, Norge
2003 “Old and new Art”, Art Museum of Kerava, Finland
2003 ”ARS Arctica”, Art Museum of Rovaniemi, Finland
2002 ”Artist union of Lapland in Kerava”, Art Museum of Kerava, Finland
2002 ”Drawing 2002”, Annual exhibition of Graphic Union of Estonia, Art Hall of Tallinn, Estonia
2002 ”Old and young”, Residence of Albu, Estonia
2002 ”Painters Union of Estonia, Annual exhibition, Art Hall of Tallinn, Estonia

SCHOLARSHIPS and GRANTS
2008                  Finnish Art Foundation, young artist grant
2008                  Finnish Culture Fund (Lapland region), for artistic practice
2008                  Visek, project grant
2007                   Lapland Art Council, for artistic practice
2006                  Valtos´ foundation, project grant
2006                   Finnish Culture Fund (Lapland region), for artistic practice
2006                  Lapland Art Council (residence  grant)              
2005                   Finnish Culture Fund, for artistic practice
2004                   Art Council of Finland (material costs)
2004                   Lapland Art Council (1/2 year grant), for artistic practice
2004                   Finnish Culture Fund (one year grant), for artistic practice
2003                   Paulo Foundation (for exhibition activity)
2003                   Finnish Culture Fund (one year grant), for artistic practice

MEMEBERSHIPS
- Finnish Painters’ Union
- Artists’ Association of Lapland
- Kuvasto ry
- Finnish Culture Fund

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
- Finnish cultural Foundation, Lapland county collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri´s Foundations collection, Rovaniemi Art Museum
- Aune Laaksonen Foundation, Art Museum of Kerava
- Aine Art foundation, Art museum of Tornio, Finland

UP COMING exhibitions

2008 ”Souvenirs”, Bergen, Norway
2008 ”Uknown society”, public art event, Helsinki