Inari Sandell
Visual artist
Based in Helsinki, Finland
inari.sandell@gmail.com
www.inarisandell.com
Instagram @inarisandell
Solo exhibitions
2026
“Butterfly Logic”, Poriginal gallery, Pori Art Museum, Pori
2025
”Total Control”, HAM gallery, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
”Butterfly Logic”, The Blackwood gallery, University of Toronto Missisauga, Toronto
2024
“Butterfly Logic”, Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
“On Butterfly Logic”, screening, Lou, Helsinki
2021
“Gravity Blanket”, Titanik, Turku
2016
“Life Be Like”, Photographic Centre Peri, Turku
Selected group and joint exhibitions, screenings and events
2026
“(UN)COMMONS: towards an institution otherwise”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
2025
“Under Pressure”, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
“Lapinlahti Film Festival”, screening, Helsinki
"From the faraway, nearby", screening, GASP!, Amsterdam
"Earthliness. Sensing the fragile real", SÍM Hlöðuloftið, Reykjavík
"Above and Under", screening, Cinema Orion, Helsinki
“showroom #2: Hot Minds”, Mad House, Helsinki
“On Butterfly Logic”, screening, PIAR, Kumasi, Ghana
2024
“On Butterfly Logic”, screening, Titanik, Turku
"Solstice festival", commissioned work, Ruka, Finland
"Lush", Spring Roll festival, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2023
“Moon in Your Mouth”, UKS, Oslo
“Lunglike Shadows”, Arnarhlið, Reykjavík
“Uncanny Virtuality”, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður
“Empathy Muscle”, The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, New York City
“Time and Space Exhibition 2023 vol. 2”, Kuva/Tila gallery, Helsinki
“www/melt/pool”, SÍM, Reykjavík
2022
“XS festival: Softspeed”, Turku
“Kuvasta ja sanasta”, Kaiku gallery, Helsinki
“Exercises in Togetherness” event by the FCINY, Scandinavia House, New York
“Y-festival”, Tiivistämö, Helsinki
2021
“Kuvan Kevät 2021”, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki
2020
“Sculpture Laboratory”, Tasku gallery, Helsinki
2019
“Purpuritanssi”, SIC, Helsinki
“In Carrara Even the Stones Are Anarchists”, Uusix Kyläsaari, Helsinki
2017
“The Turku Artists’ Association’s 93rd Annual Exhibition”, Gallery Å, Turku
2016
“H2Ö Festival”, Turku
“Athens Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition”, Benaki Museum, Athens
”VIRHE / ERROR”, Jukka Male Museum, Helsinki
2015
“Crisis – What Crisis”, Galerie Mitte, Bremen
“Stockfors Art Fair”, Pyhtää
“DEADLINE”, Jukka Male Museum, Helsinki
“20 000 HUF”, Köysiratagalleria, Turku
2014
“Minä, ikuisesti” – joint exhibition together with Mortti Saarnia, B-galleria, Turku
“Contemporary Self-Portraits", Köysiratagalleria, Turku
Residencies
2025
Artist residency, SÍM, Reykjavík
2023
Artist residency, SÍM, Reykjavík
2022
FIDA artist residency, FABRIKKEN, Copenhagen
Education
2023
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Time and Space Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki
2020
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Media Studies, University of Turku
2016
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography, Arts Academy at Turku University
of Applied Sciences
2015
Erasmus studies in Fine Arts, Illustration and Integrated Design, University of
the Arts Bremen
Work in Collections
HAM Helsinki Art Museum
HUS Arts Collection, Helsinki
Suomen Taideyhdistys (Finnish Arts Society), Helsinki
Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku
Benaki museum, Athens
Private collections
Awards, grants and recognitions
2026
Two-year artist grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation
2025
Mobility grant, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
2024
One-year artist grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Project grant, Olga and Vilho Linnamo Foundation, FI
2023
One-year artist grant, The Alfred Kordelin Foundation, FI
Culture Moves Europe mobility grant, European Union and Goethe Institute
Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI
Granted residency programme, SÍM, IS & Nordic Culture Point
2022
Covid support grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, FI
2021
Young Artist grant, Finnish Arts Society, FI
Nomination: NBYAA Nordic Baltic Young Artist Award
2020
MFA production grant, Academy of Fine Arts, FI
2015
Winner of exhibition grant for graduating artist, Photographic Centre Peri, FI
2014
Patricia Seppälän Säätiö, FI
Talks, lectures and teaching
2025
Artist talk and seminar, University of Helsinki
2024
Artist talk, Islands of Kinship & Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Publics, Helsinki
2023
Artist talk at Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2022
Artist talk at Art School MAA, Helsinki
2016–2017
Visiting teacher in Photography, Paasikivi-Opisto, Turku
Artist talk at Åbo Akademi, Turku
2014
Artist talk at “#snapshot” exhibition, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Memberships
Arte ry, board member 2023–25
The Association of Photographic Artists (Valokuvataiteilijoiden liitto ry)
AV-arkki, The Centre for Finnish Media Art
Kuvasto ry
Curatorial work
2018
”Joki, jota ei voi koskettaa” by Julius Töyrylä for Photographic Centre Peri, Turku
2017
”TOO MUCH” video screening for Photographic Centre Peri, curated together with Hertta Kiiski