CV

Born 1992, The Åland Islands, FI
Lives and works in Turku, FI
Studio at Taiteen talo, Turku, FI

nayabnoorikram@gmail.com
+358 (0) 40 7163337
Instagram @nayabikram

Education

2011—2015

Novia University of Applied Sciences, Jakobstad, FI Bachelor of Culture and Arts / Media Production

2014

National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE Exchange studient at the Faculty of Fine Arts / Media department

2008—2011

Ålands Lyceum, Mariehamn, FI Upper-Secondary Diploma in Fine Arts

Selected Awards

2024

PortRe 2024 Portfolio Residency Program — The Finnish Cultural Institute in Denmark & The Stina Krook Foundation in Finland 

2022

Culture award — Anna-Lena Dreijers Konstfond, Stiftelsen Ålands Vänner, Mariehamn, FI

2021

Culture grant — Julius Sundblom Stiftelse, Mariehamn, FI

2019

Culture award — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Helsinki, FI

2017

Winner of Portfolio Review for Young Nordic Photographers — Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, SE

2013

Winner of Ung VERA film — VERA Filmfestival, Mariehamn, FI

Recidencies

2024

Acme London Residency & Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, London, UK

2022

SIM Residency, Reykjavik, IS

2020

Energiverket Residency, Jakobstad, FI

2019 -2020

Art Lab Gnesta Residency, Gnesta, SE

2019

Öres Residency, Örö Island, FI 

Boy konsthall Residency, Bollebygd, SE

Mustarinda Residency, Hyrynsalmi, FI

2017

Architecture and Design House, former Tai Pin Elementary School, Keelung, TW

2016

B7 Baltic Islands Network, Saaremaa, EE

Grants

2024

Grant — Turku Art Society

2023

Project grant — The Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Project grant — The City Of Turku

Project grant — The Finnish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

2022

6 - months working grant — The Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Travel grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

Travel grant — Letterstedtska föreningen

Project grant — The Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2021

Project grant — The Finnish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

Project grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

Project grant — The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation

2020

1 - year working grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

Project grant — Konstsamfundet 

Travel grant — The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation

2019

Travel grant — Frame Contemporary Art Finland 

Project grant — The Arts Promotion Centre Finland

2017

1 - year apprenticeship grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

Project grant — Konstsamfundet 

Travel grant — The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation 

Travel grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

2016

Project grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland 

Project grant — The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation

2014

Project grant — The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation 

Project grant — The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland

Selected Public Art Commissions

2022

Symbiosis — Puotila Comprehensive School, Puotila, FI Commissioned by the City of Helsinki, Curated by Helsinki Art Museum

Positions of Trust

2023 - 2026 

Member, Acquisitions Committee, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, FI

2018 - 2021 

Substitute member, Konstnämnden, The Åland Islands Cultural Delegation, FI

2018 - 2019 

Member, Critical Friends’, Arts Council Norway, NO

Memberships

2016 – 20XX 

Photographic Artists’ Association, FI

2012 – 2017

Union of Student Photographers of Finland (VOry), FI

Other

2022 – 20XX 

Studio at The Art House Turku / Taiteen Talo, The Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation, Turku, FI

2020 – 2022 

Participating in the project Platform GÁTT, by The Nordic Council of Ministers led by Reykjavík Arts Festival

2019

Participating in an orientation trip organised to The United Arab Emirates and Pakistan, by The Mondriaan Fund & Frame Contemporary Art Finland 

Collections

Public collection at Helsinki Art Museum, Åland Islands Art museum 

Private collections in Belgium, Iceland and Finland

Solo Exhibitions

2023

Waves of Waves — The Sibelius Museum, Turku, FI

2019

In Between — TransFolk/ Galleri Saltbodan,Loviisa, FI Babe, call me back — Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki, FI

Babe, call me back — Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki, FI

2017

In Between — EXIT Konsthall, a portable gallery at Katarinavägen, Curated by Alva Roselius, Stockholm, SE

In Between — EXIT Konsthall, a portable gallery at Miramarparken, Curated by Alva Roselius, Mariehamn, FI

In Between — Embassy of Pakistan in Brussels at Steigenberger Wiltcher’s, Brussels, BE

2016

In Between — Galleri Zebra, Karis, FI 

In Between — B-Kalleria, Turku, FI

2012

The Young Debutant of The Year — Åland Islands Art museum, Mariehamn, FI

Selected Joint Exhibitions

2021

Can You Hear The Ocean — with Ramina Habibollah, MAA-tila project space, Helsinki, FI

2020

Bland läten — with Ursula Sepponen, Energiverket, Jakobstad, FI

2018

Bodies In Between — with Minna Palmqvist, Åland Islands Art museum, Mariehamn, FI 

Performances

2019

Mehndi & Vicks — Pink Space at Flow Festival, Curated by Fanni Suvila and Taika Mannila, Helsinki, FI 

Närhetens distans 6275 km till dig — Boy Konsthall, Bollebygd, SE 

2016

Wudu — by MUSSY SPACE, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE 

Konsten att dölja sitt ansikte — by YOUYOUERS, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Screenings

2018

Wudu: Performance by MUSSY SPACE — IFEMA International Female Film Festival, Curated by Konstkvinnor, Malmö, SE

2017

Wudu: Process & Performance by MUSSY SPACE — Göteborg Film Festival, Göteborg, SE

2015

In Between — Parkkino Outdoor Filmfestival, Pargas, FI

2013

Licking Landmines — VERA Filmfestival, Mariehamn, FI

2010

Valet är ditt — VERA Filmfestival, Mariehamn, FI

Curations

2024

GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, FI

2019

FemF Art x Titanik: How to Slow Rush — Curated by inaway, Titanik Gallery, Helsinki, FI

Waiting for the hidden gardens to draw us - closer — Curated by inaway, Art Collection Kirpilä, FI 

The Winds of — Curated by inaway, The Festival of Political Photography at Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI

2018

PPLATS #1 Ö — Curated by PPLATS, Mariehamn, The Åland Islands, FI 

PPLATS #1 — Curated by PPLATS, Photographic Centre Peri, Peri, Turku, FI

2017

FemF Art x Third Space: Video Screening — Curated by inaway, Feminist Forum at Third Space, Helsinki, FI 

FemF Art: Movement — Curated by PPLATS, Feminist Forum at Valssaamo, Helsinki, FI

Ö - SAARI - ISLAND — Curated by PPLATS, Emmausfestivalen at Emmaus Åland, Mariehamn,FI

Ö - SAARI - ISLAND — Curated by PPLATS, Third Space, Helsinki, FI

Selected Talks

2023

Behind the artistic process — TEDxMariehamn, Mariehamn, The Åland Islands, FI

2019

Svad talks: Symposium on contemporary art and curatorial practices — Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, PK 

Panel discussion — with inaway for Performance Days, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Turku, FI 

Lecture performance — with inaway for Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, MIF, Helsinki, FI 

Lecture — with inaway for The Praxis Programme, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, FI

2018

Panel discussion — Tidskriften Astra at Helsingfors Book Fair, Helsingfors, FI 

2017

Artist talk — Skogn Folkehøgskole, Skogn, NO

2016

Pecha Kucha — Nordens Institut på Åland, Mariehamn, FI 

Artist talk — Fotoklubben Obscura, Mariehamn, FI

Selected Publications

2018

Katalog Journal — Issue 21/1 

Tidskriften Astra — Issue 1/2018 

Denna framtid är vår! — Tidskriften Astra & Förlaget, ISBN: 9789523331037

2016

Tidskriften Astra — Issue 2/2016

2013

Book of lies — MustaTaide & Aalto PHOTO Books, ISBN: 978-952-292-002-7

2011

Blickfångat — Fotoklubben Obsucra, ISBN: 978-952-92-9293-6 952-92-9293-7

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Acts of Care — The Finnish Pavilion at The 15th Gwangju Biennale, Curated by Kati Kivinen & Pirkko Siitari, Gwangju, KR 

HAIHATUS25 — Art Center Haihatus, Curated by Elham Rahmati, Haihatus, FI

2023

Nuoret 2023 — Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, FI 

Shared Space — Helsinki Art Museum, Curated by Aleksandra Kiskonen & Kristiina Ljokkoi, Helsinki, FI

2022

Moms - Sisters - Daughters - Me’ — The Pingyao International Photography Festival, Curated by Irina Chmyreva, Pingyao, CH

In Your Face — The Åland Islands Art Museum, Mariehamn, FI

We Can Talk — Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Curated by Starkaður Sigurðarson, Kópavogur, IS

Porous Beings — Titanik Gallery, Turku, FI

2021

To Err Is Human — XXV Mänttä Art Festival, Curated by Anna Ruth, Mänttä, FI

Blindspot — Reykjavik City Library, Curated by Daría Sól Andrews, Reykjavik, IS

Vetrarljós — Winter Light Festival at The Nordic House, Faroe Islands, FO

2020

Föreställningar om naturen — Västerås konstmuseum, Västerås, SE 

In Between — Open Art Gallery, Helsinki Festival, Helsinki, FI

2084 — Cable factory, Curated by Anne Klontz, Helsinki, FI

2019

ART at EP - Works of Art from Finland’ — European Parliament, Curated by Juha-Heikki Tihinen (Pro Artibus), Brussels, BE

Sea Views — Site-specific exhibition, Dalsbruk, FI

2018

Listening to the Sound of the Shell — Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tammerfors, FI

If I change something, what is being moved? — Curated by nynnyt (Orlan Ohtonen & Selina Väliheikki), Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, FI

Konstkvinnor x IFEMA International Female Film Festival Malmö — Panora Folkets Bio Malmö, Malmö, SE

Blåkulla lever! — Grand Malmö, Curated by Konstkvinnor, Malmö, SE 

Art Meets Fashion’ — Lindex Showroom, Stockholm, SE

2017

Culture of Silence: Invisible Violence — Third Space, Curated by Analco Project, Helsinki, FI ’Keelung Nights - Nordic Lights’ — Architecture and Design House, former Tai Pin Elementary School, Keelung, TW 

Sunk3n place — Online exhibition, Curated by Antoine & Amanda, The Wrong Art Biennale ’PhotoVisa 2017 International Festival of Photography’ — Curated by Irina Chmyreva, Krasnodar, RU

Platform Nord 2017 — Kristiansand, NO 

In the name of ART — SAK UNG & Svenska Konstnärernas Förening, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE 

Distribution of Crisis — Mältinrannan Taidekeskus, Tammerfors, FI 

Art Fair Suomi — Cable Factory, Helsinki, FI 

ALTER - YOUYOUBERS - EGO — Moderna Museet & Galleri UNG, Stockholm, SE 

Rotterdam Photo 2017 — Rotterdam, NL

2016

Fria Fotografers Filial — Galleri 5, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE 

Strangest Greetings from Santa and 23 other extraordinary Finns — Online exhibition, ThisisFINLAND.fi 

Identitet — Konstskolan Basis, Curated by Klubb Kahlo, Stockholm, SE ’Mobile 2016’ — Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, FI 

Dokument A — Site-specific exhibition, Konstfestival Moment at Allgots Varv, Mariehamn, FI ’Ebakõla / Dissonance’ — Site-specific exhibition, Saaremaa, EE 

Distribution of Crisis — Valssaamo, Helsinki, FI

2015

Fenestra — Northern Photographic Center, Oulu, FI 

From Here To Now — Tobaksmagasinet, Jakobstad, FI

2014

Mobile 2014 @FI — Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, FI 

Konstbussen — Touring Art Bus Exhibition, Curated by Minna Öberg och Simon Törnqvist, The Åland Islands, FI ’Watercooler’ — Steambox, Dublin, IE 

From Context to Exhibition — Unit 3 & The LAB Gallery, Dublin, IE 

Collision — Mabos, Dublin, IE 

MK10VP06 — Pohjanmaan Valokuvakeskus, Lapua, FI 

Peterstad — Campus Allegro, Jakobstad, FI

2013

Peterstad — Loft Project ETAGI, St. Petersburg, RU 

Nature Morte — Galleri Gro, Jakobstad, FI