CURRICULUM VITAE TITTA VALLA

Portraiture of the self wearing my mother's wedding dress. An experiential phototherapy workshop of Rosy Martin 2008. Photo: Maija Ranta

Date of birth 19.1.1965, Säkylä Finland
+358 400 746819 tittavalla@hotmail.com
www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi
www.tittavalla.net

PROFESSIONAL STATUS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Photographer, Installation Artist, Art Therapist
Union of Artist Photographers, Full Membership; Finnish Art Therapy Association (FATA)

ART EDUCATION
Master’s Degree Programme in Visual Culture, Aalto University School of Art and Design 2011 onwards
Art Therapist (PGD), University of Hertfordshire, England and Satakunta Polytechnic / Finland 2005
Photographer (HND), Bournemouth University, England 1994

ARTISTIC WORK
Résumé
A Hut, group show, Galleria Betesda, Kristiinankaupunki, Finland 2010
Holiday Housing Fair, Pori Finland 2008
Miniature, Galleria Harmonia, Jyväskylä Finland 2008
I would like to be a dog, Rauma Art Museum Finland 2007
Vaiheilla06, group show at the old cotton factory, Pori Finland 2006
Backlight05 International Photographic Triennial in Tampere, Finland 2005
Mielimaisema (Favourite View), exhibition and publication of landscapes in Satakunta, Finland 2005
recent group exhibitions:
Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma Finland 2005
Verkaranta, Tampere Finland 2005
Varkaus Art Museum, Varkaus Finland 2004
The Line Gallery, Linlithgow Scotland 2003
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Scotland 2003-2004
Villilä Film Studios, Nakkila Finland 2004 and 2003
Ministry of Education Finland, Helsinki Finland 2003
galleriaK, Huittinen Finland 2002
Ars Nova Museum, Turku Finland 2002

PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS, INDIVIDUAL ART WORK AND INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
The Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu Finland 2008
Aula Gallery, Arts Council of Satakunta, Pori Finland 2004-2005
Gallery of Kankaanpää Art School, Kankaanpää Finland 2002
Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma Finland 2000
Sininen Talo, Salo Finland 1995
The Book Cafe, Turku Finland 1995
Gallera Finnfoto, Helsinki Finland 1994
Naantali Spa, Naantali Finland 1993

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, SHOWS AND PROJECTS
Art Gallery at Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland 2006
Backlight05 International Photographic Triennial in Tampere, Finland 2005
The Line Gallery, Linlithgow Scotland 2003
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Scotland 2003-2004
Non-Presence in Nature, Galleria Foto Medium Art Wroclaw, Poland 1994
Planket, Stockholm Sweden 1994
Mall Galleries, London UK 1994
The Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Orleans House Gallery, London UK 1994

COLLECTIONS
Town of Huittinen (Finland), Kankaanpää Art School (Finland), Arts Council of Satakunta (Finland), Satakunta Hospital District (Finland), Bournemouth&Poole College of Art and Design (UK)

ART TEACHING
An artist-in-residence with young people at a psychiatric hospital in Pori Finland 2002
Photo art workshops for children and adults in Satakunta Finland 1996 onwards

OTHER WORK
Art Therapist 2005 onwards