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