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Personal Information
Jyrki Kirjalainen
born 1977, lives in Helsinki
telephone: +358 44 5114181
e-mail:

Education
2004-2008: Bachelor of Art Tampere Polytechnic – Fine Art Program
2002-2003: Alfa-art –art school, Helsinki – Fine Art Program
1997-2002: University of Helsinki – Computer Sciense, cum laude – Mathematics, Astronomy, Sociology, Antropology, Psychology
1996: Upper secondary school, Leppävaaran lukio
Languages Finnish, English, A little: Swedish, French, Russian, Germany

Memberships
Founder member of Moving Gallery, a Finnish artist-run space (movinggallery.net)
Member of Muu ry Artists’ Association

Private Exhibitions
2011: Journey to the Center of the Sky, drawings, mixed media, graphics, Galleria Realis, Helsinki
2008: Where the Emotions Last And the Moment Lies Still, graphics, Galleria 4-kuus, Helsinki
2005-2007: Kevään pieni onni, graphics, Kahviravintola Hymyilevä saturnus, Tampere / Ikuisesti, with Inka Ylikotila, Ikuinen galleria, Tampere / Pietari-Pariisi –photographs, with Katja Bohm, Ravintola Telakka, Tampere / Kuuntelee ja muita maalauksia, Kotibaari, Tampere / Riipaisu Tampereelta syksyllä 2004, TTVO pesurumpu, Tampere

Group Exhibitions
2012 Screening Budapest photographic exhibition in Berlin – Vienna – Hungary
2011-2012: Screening Helsinki photographic screening exhibition in Helsinki – Tampere – Tartu
2011: Extemporary – one night exhibition in Helsinki
2010: Moving Gallery screening at Kolmikulma
2008: TAMK, The Graduates’ Exhibition, TR1, Tampere
2004-2006: Grafitaatio, TTVO pesurumpu, Tampere / Terästä ja tuulipukuja, Tampere Polytechnic main building and Tampere Office Building / Huutovideolounge-screening –videohappening, Galleria huuto, Helsinki / Valosta – videohappening, Tampere / Helsinki (part of the Valovoima-event) / Tanssiharjoitukset, Ikuinen galleria, Tampere

Joint Exhibitions
2010: Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm; Video
2009: Riihimäki Art Museum; Kierrätystä 11.9.-29.11; Video

Other artistic activities
- Backlight Screening 2011, a part of the Backlight ’11 triennal photo exhibition held in Tampere – A Commissioned work for the Photographic Centre Nykyaika
- Comic Books: Pupu ja Marsu – Eksistentialistinen sekasotku metafysiikan raunioilla / Loppukoseny vai alkokosevasta / Kukaan ei tee sitä puolestasi, Hra Kaleidoskooppi
- Environmental art practical training in Viikinsaari during the summer, Tampere, 2005

Grants
FRAME 2011, Screening trip to Tartu, regarding the Screening Helsinki project
Taiteen Keskustoimikunta 2012, grant for ongoing projects