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since 2019
Member of Estonian Artists’ Association
SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS
2023
Eduard Wiralt’s scholarship, Estonian Ministry of Culture
2021
The Kraszna-Krausz Photo Book Award – book Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
Estonian Endowment of Culture: Six-month Artist Fellowship
2020
Cultural Endowment of Estonia – grant for a solo exhibition
A Woman’s Work: Creative European Programme – grant for exhibition & publication with Gallery of Photography Ireland
2019
Cultural Endowment of Estonia – grant for a book publication
British Council in Estonia – grant for publication & launch of the artist book Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear
2018
Aperture First Photobook Award – shortlisted with the book You can call him another man
Runner-Up Award – FOKUS Video Art Festival, Denmark
European Cultural Foundation – STEP Travel Grant
Cultural Endowment of Estonia – grant for a book publication
2017
University of Michigan-Dearborn – bursary for a collaborative research project with Assistant Prof. Anna Muller
British Council in Estonia – grant for solo exhibition and its public programme at NART
Cultural Endowment of Estonia – grant for production a solo exhibition at NART
2016
Gasworks & Triangle Network Fellowship for a new work research at Kooshk Residency, Iran
UNSEEN Dummy Award – shortlisted with the book You can call him another man
Self-Publish Riga Dummy Award – shortlisted for Top 10 with the book You can call him another man
LATENT Award in collaboration with D.O.O.R. & Materia – shortlisted
Cultural Endowment of Estonia – fellowship for the research and work development at NART
Estonian Gambling Tax Council Grant – grant for production of a new work with a local community at NART
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Listen To My Scream, Hear Their Dreams – Draakoni gallery, Tallinn Estonia (17.04-11.05)
2023
Loose Photos, Odds and Ends – The Estonian National Archive, Tartu
Loose Photos, Odds and Ends – Võrumaa Museum, Estonia
2022
Loose Photos, Odds and Ends – KUMU Art Museum, Estonia
2021
When the world blows up, I hope to go dancing – Finnish Museum of Photography
2020
When the world blows up, I hope to go dancing – Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn Estonia
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear – Sirius Art Centre, Ireland (cancelled due to covid-19)
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear – Photography Gallery Ireland (cancelled & presented online due to covid-19)
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear – Lithuanian Gallery of Photography, Lithuania
2019
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear – Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
Test Shooting – Digital Art Space, CBS, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear – Narva Art Residency, Estonia, curate by Liisa Kaljula
I just knew… She’s been with me ever since – WOAK Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
You can call him another man – Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2015
Interiors – The Auckland Photo Festival, New Zealand
2010
Transformation – Narva Art Gallery, Estonia
2009
Call Me Early – ArtDepoo Contemporary Art Gallery, Tallinn Estonia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Spring annual exhibition – Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Look at me! Listen to me!- Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
2022
Decolonial Ecologies – The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga Art Space, Latvia
Women on the move – F3 freiraum für fotografie, Berlin Germany
2021
My problem is a woman’s problem – Fabryka Sztuki w Lodzi, Poland
(Self-)opinion – Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
2020
Patterns: Kreenholm textile design 1963-2005 – Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
2019
First Feminnale of Contemporary Art – Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
May My Voice Now – curated by Elena Zaytseva, Pushkin House, London
Industrialised – curated by Alex Zawadski, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Photobooks from Baltic States – curated by Evita Goze, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
Field/s ONE – Sluice HQ Art, London, UK
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Arts – curated by Katerina Gregos, Latvia
Transformations – 44 Gallery Contemporary Photography, Bruges, Belgium
Narratives alongside Him – curated by Gintarė Krasuckaitė, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
To J. Alfred Prifrock – curated by Indu Antony, Bangalore, India
2017
Dark Rooms: Photography and beyond – 44 Gallery Contemporary Photography and PAK, Bruges, Belgium
INTERGENFEM – organised by Desperate Artwives, London, UK
he, she, me – an exhibition of two with Tomek Zerek, Oloman Gallery, Detroit, USA
UNA Y OTRA (One And Another) – curated by Rodrigo Orrantia, Espacia El Dorado, Bogotá, Colombia
Hatched – The North Wall Gallery, Oxford, UK
The Censored Exhibition – Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark
Leboudoir2.0 – Arles, France
Circulation(s) on theme Feminine – Voies Off, Arles, France
2016
Marry Me – One Goa Festival, India
VISION 20/20 – Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK
Between the lines: artists’ books – curated by Archipelago, London, UK & at Materia gallery, Rome, Italy
Ouvrage – curated by Archipelago, Twenty14 Contemporary, Milan, Italy
The Photobooks Exhibition – Athens Photo Festival, Greece
Home for Two Days – curated by Chinar Shah, Home Sweet Home, Ahmedabad, India
FATHOM Residency exhibition – Four Corners Film, London, UK
2015
The Space Around Me – curated by Tiiu Talviste, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
LOOK/15: Exchange – curated by Anna Fox, Tate Liverpool, UK
2014
Traces: Contemporary Baltic Photography – Budapest Centre of Architecture, Hungary
Fotokunstimess – Tallinn, Estonia
Celebrating Europe – Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
Walls – curated by Elena Zajtseva, Pushkin House, London, UK
he, she, me – Samuel Harn Museum, Gainsville, USA
The Interior (PIX Quarterly 8) – Galerie Max Mueller, Mumbai, IndiaFamily – Guernsey Photo Festival, UK
SCREENINGS
2024
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Germany
2023
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – Paris, France
Videocity, curated program by by Dr Andrea Domesle, Basel, Switzerland
Art Viewer: programme curated by Paola Paleari
2022
Spiral Bound at Von Krahl Cinema by The Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art
2021
AFF: ARS Film Festival, Estonia
2020
VAFT: Visual Art Festival Turku, Finland
Digital Art Space, CBS, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
TEDx Abay St Women, Kazakhstan
Critical Tourism Studies Conference VIII, Spain
2018
Luminocity Video Art Festival, Canada
Transcending species,Transcending gender, Transcending nations. curated by Natalia Skobeeva, Deptford Cinema, UK
FOKUS Video Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
NexT Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Berlin Feminist Film Week, Germany
Moving Image at ORGAN VIDA, Zagreb, Croatia
2016
Bomb Factory’s Second Artist Film Festival, London, UK
OPEN’16 Moving Image at Brighton Photo Fringe, UK
F_Festival, Dublin, Ireland2015 Month of Photography, Minsk, Belarus
PUBLICATIONS
ARTIST BOOKS
Dream Is Wonderful, Yet Unclear, Milda Books, 2020
You can call him another man, Kaunas Photography Gallery, 2018
OTHERS
Your Time is My Time, Annika Toots & Merilin Talumaa, Mousse Publishing and Roots to Routes, 2023
Photography – A Feminist History, Emma Lewis, Tate Publishing & Ilex, 2022
A Global History of Women Photographers, (English Edition), Eds. Luce Lebart Marie Robert, Thames & Hudson, 2021
Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art. Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021, ed. Svitlana Biedarieva, ibidem Press, 2021
A Global History of Women Photographers, Eds. Luce Lebart Marie Robert / Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes, Textuel (in French. Contribution as an author of an article), 2020
Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing, Eds. Zaytseva & Anikina, ZED Books, 2017
A Joyful Archipelago, Ed. Grotova, Guest Projects / Sunbury House, 2012
RESIDENCIES
2023
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
2020
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2017
Narva Art Residency, Estonia
Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2016
Kooshk Art Residency led by Rybon Art Centre, Tehran, Iran
Narva Art Residency, Estonia
2015
FATHOM Residency at Four Corner & Film, supported by Arts Council England, London, UK
2014
Bridge Guard Art Residency, Štúrovo, Slovakia
2012
HIAP: TOKAMAK Residency, Finland
COLLECTIONS
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Feminist Art (MoFA)
Tartu Art Museum
EDUCATION
2021-
PhD Candidate, practice-based, Estonian Academy of Arts
2015
PGC in the Creative Arts Education University for the Creative Arts, UK
2013
MA Photographic Studies University of Westminster, UK
2009
BA (Hons) Photography University for the Creative Arts, Farnham UK
2000
BA (Hons) Economics and Business Administration University of Tartu, Estonia
since 2015
Higher Education Academy Fellow, UK