HANNU PALOSUO - Born in 1966 in Helsinki, Finland. Education: - 1991 - 1993 Universitá degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma - History of Art - 1993 - 1997 Accademia delle Belle Arti di Roma - Painting Awards: - 2009 Accademico di Merito, Accademia Internazionale "Città di Roma" Symposiums: 2010 - "III International Symposium of Contemporary Art", Ma'arra al No'man, SYRIA 2009 - "II International Symposium of Contemporary Art", Damasco, SYRIA - "Jerusalem in their eyes", Damasco, SYRIA Artist in residence: 2010 - Villa Karo, Grand Popo, BENIN 2008 - Cité International des Arts, Paris, FRANCE 2002 - Cité International des Arts, Paris, FRANCE 1999 - Voipaala Art Center, Sääksmäki, FINLAND Solo exhibitions: 2010 - "Italy in Finland", Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Love only is incorruptible", Tikanojan Taidekoti Museum, Vaasa, FINLAND - "Más allá de la visión, más allá el silencio", CEC, Rosario, ARGENTINA - "None of them is the truth", Fondazione Durini, Milano, ITALY - "Las Formas Del Espiritu", Pabellòn de las Bellas Artes UCA, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "Anonymous hands unties the mooring lines", Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, FINLAND - "Hannu Palosuo - Pauli Vuorisalo", Galleria Angelo, Pori, FINLAND 2009 - "Hannu Palosuo", VerArte, Roma, ITALY - "Omaggio al sublime di Turner", MLB Home Gallery, Ferrara, ITALY - "Bombardieri - Palosuo", Mart, REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO 2008 -"My life was a burning illusion", Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Roma, ITALY - "Denying one's destiny", Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "The rest of nothing", Plaza Mayor, Medinaceli, SPAIN - "When the truth lies", Willa Mac Museum of Finnish Contemporary Art, Tampere, FINLAND - "Time will tell", Maretti Arte Monaco, Monte Carlo, MONACO 2007 - "Mielenkuvia - Immagini dalla mente" (with Tuomo Rosenlund) Fondazione Pavia, Pavia, ITALY; Fondazion la Sartirana Arte, Sartirana, ITALY - "The rest of nothing", Istituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, SPAIN - "Given the change would I return", Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, FINLAND - "When the truth lies", Galleria Sottocornonove, Milano, ITALY - "The rest of nothing", Museo Zorrilla, Montevideo, URUGUAY 2006 - "The dream that dares not to tell its name", Heinola Art Museum, Heinola, FINLAND - "The rest of nothing", Focal Point, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "In silence dreams are hidden", Alex Gallery, Washington d.c., USA - "Harmonische Rhythmen", Herbergenmuseum, München, GERMANY - "In Silence Dreams Are Hidden", Frauatlantica, Miami, USA - "Happy Days", Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND 2005 - "Hannu Palosuo", Sojoh University Gallery, Kumamoto, JAPAN - "The Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie", Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, FINLAND - "In Silence Dreams are Hidden", Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Roma, ITALY - "Hannu Palosuo", Gallery Takechi, Kumamoto, JAPAN 2004 - "Hannu Palosuo", Twelve, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Childhood Playground", Galleria Ama, Turku, FINLAND - "Two for Tango" (with Francesca Tulli), Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND 2003 - "In the white box", Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea De Crescenzo & Viesti, Roma, ITALY - "Hannu Palosuo", Galleria ArteContemporanea, Catania, ITALY - "between the sky and the earth", Gallery Takechi, Kumamoto, JAPAN 2002 - "I need my memories", Galleria Nuovo, Lahti, FINLAND - "life is a paradise of lies", Skanno, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Hannu Palosuo" (with Marie Brask), Galleria Kapriisi, Kuopio, FINLAND 2001 - "I confess", Gallery Takechi, Kumamoto, JAPAN 2000 - "Souriants Souvenirs ", Galleria Romberg, Latina, ITALY - "Hannu Palosuo - Francesca Tulli", Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Hand made", Galleria ArteContemporanea, Catania, ITALY 1999 - "Quel che resta", Galleria Maniero, Rome, ITALY 1998 - "Amore ... un corno", Associazione Culturale Scandinava, Rome, ITALY 1997 - "Viaggio in Italia", RipArte, ITALY - "le Stanze dell'Assenza", Centro Informazioni Turistiche, Cosenza, ITALY - "un Altro Tempo", Il Pavone, Rome, ITALY 1996 - "Autiot Huoneet", Laulumiesten Ravintolat, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Attimi Fuggenti", Capranic' Arte, Rome, ITALY Group exhibitions (selected) 2011 - "54. Biennale di Venezia - il Padiglione Italia nel Mondo", Jukka Male Museum, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Rome Sculpture Biennale 2011", Roma, ITALY - "In Calda Sicilia", L.I.B.R.A. Gallery, Catania, ITALY - "Factory Superstar", Valo, Lahti, FINLAND - "Too many artists", L.I.B.R.A. Gallery, Catania, ITALY - "Art Factory - Art Fair", con Yvonne Artecontemporanea, Le Ciminiere, Catania, ITALY - "New Grotesque", Oratorio della Passione - Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, Milano, ITALY - "Pyhäniemi 2011", Pyhäniemen Kartano, Hollola, FINLAND 2010 - 12th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, EGYPT - "Group exhibition", Arab Cultural Center, Idleb, SYRIA - "Constelacion", Museo Magnucia, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "L'Arte dei Giardini", Museo Nazionale Romano Terme di Diocleziano, Roma, ITALY - "Less is More", L.I.B.R.A. Gallery, Catania, ITALY - "Art Helsinki 10 - International Art Fair" with Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Summer exhibition", Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Billnäs Summer", Billnäs, FINLAND - "ArteFiera10 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY 2009 - "53 Biennale di Venezia", Venezia, ITALY - "Jerusalem in their eyes", Art House Gallery, Damascus, SYRIA - "Open XII", Lido, Venezia, ITALY - "25 tondi tondi", Galleria Maniero, Roma, ITALY - "Art Helsinki 09 - Art Fair" with Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Tabù", Giffoni, Salerno, ITALY - "Kesäsalonki", Galleria Angelo, Pori, FINLAND - "Expotrastiendas - Art Fair", with Artel, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "Billnäs summer", Billnäs, FINLANDIA - "ArteFiera09 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY 2008- "Quadrato d'Arte", Galleria L.I.B.R.A., Catania, ITALY - "Camino al Bicentenario", Precidencia de Nacion, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "Art Helsinki 2008 - Art Fair" with Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Arte Verona - Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Verona, ITALY - "The Italian way of seating", Index, Mumbai, INDIA - "XXXIV Premio Sulmona", Museo Civico, Sulmona, ITALY - "Taide Liikkeessä", Skanno, Helsinki, FINLAND - "Sconfinamenti", Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Roma, ITALY - "ArteFiera08 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY 2007- "The Italian way of seating", Innocenter, HONG KONG - "Segni di confine", Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Istanbul, TURKEY - "Arte Verona - Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Verona, ITALY - "L'arte, il colore, il segno", Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Roma, ITALY - "XVI Triennale di Arte Sacra", Celano, ITALY - "Summer exhibition", Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki, FINLAND - "XXXIV Premio Sulmona", Museo Civico, Sulmona, ITALY - "Erwartung - Attesa", Fondazione Valerio Riva, Venezia, ITALY - "Fuori Castello", Studio MIC, Roma, ITALY - "Baltico - Mediterraneo", Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Roma, ITALY - "Stockholm International Art Fair", with Galleria Uusitalo, Stockholm, SWEDEN - "Artour-o art fair", with Planisferio Art Gallery Firenze, ITALY - "ArteFiera07 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY 2006- "Arte Verona - Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Verona, ITALY - Museo de Casilda, Casilda, ARGENTINA - "Europa aperta", Trentino, ITALY; Bad Gandersheim, GERMANY; Arezzo, ITALY; Sarajevo, BOSNIA - Aida Cherfan fine arts, Beirut, LEBANON - "Cowparade", Olympic Arena, Torino, ITALY - "AAF - Art Fair" with Nordic art Works, London UNITED KINGDOM - "ArteFiera06 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY - "Glasgow Art Fair", with Nordic Art Works, Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM - Sovintolan Kesägalleria, Kesälahti, FINLAND - "Cava", Tahko Spa, FINLAND 2005 - "Plot@art", Art Gallery Hart, Diest, BELGIUM - "Cowparade", Firenze, ITALY - "Windows on Italian painting", Embassy of Italy, London, UNITED KINGDOM - "Artcard", Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - "El Ritmo del Silencio", Focal Point, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "AAF - Art Fair" with Nordic art Works, London UNITED KINGDOM - "ArteFiera05 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY - "Stockholm International Art Fair" with Galleria Uusitalo, Stockholm, SWEDEN - "New Horizons in Contemporary Italian Painting", Miami-Dade, Miami, U.S.A. 2004 - "Contemporary Art from Finland", Alex Gallery, Washington DC, USA - "Art Irland - Art Fair", with Nordic Art Works, Dublin, IRELAND - "Expotrastiendas - Art Fair", with Artel, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - "Arte Padova 2004" - Art Fair", with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Padova, ITALY - "Premio Celeste", Galleria l'Albero Celeste, San Gimignano, ITALY - "ArteFiera04 - International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Bologna, ITALY - "Art on Paper International Art Fair", with Nordic Art Works, London, UNITED KINGDOM - "Rosso", AT.31 Gallery Seattle, USA - "Stockholm International Art Fair" with Galleria Uusitalo, Stockholm, SWEDEN - "AAF - Art Fair" with Nordic art Works, London UNITED KINGDOM - "Helsinki, Pariisi, Rooma", Aine Art Museum, Tornio, FINLAND - "MiArt04 International Art Fair" with Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti, Milano, ITALY - "Finlanded", d'AC, Ciampino, ITALY - "Nel Segno della Pittura", Termoli Art Museum, ITALY 2003 - "50/50", TGB Gallery, Dublin, IRELAND - "Aspetti della Figurazione in Italia", Museo Epicentro, Messina, ITALY - "Occhio", Ex-Macello Gallery, Benevento, ITALY - "stART - Itinerant views on Europea arts", De Side Gallery, Torino, ITALY 2002 - "Welcome 02", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, ITALY - "sul filo dell'arte", Museo di Offida, ITALY 2001 - "Single Room", Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, ITALY - "Il paese delle Meraviglie", S. Michele Arcangelo, Miglianico, ITALY - "Il sogno, il segno, il colore", National Gallery, Amman, JORDAN 2000 - "Visione intima", Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Rabat, MOROCCO - "Suomi matkalla", Galleria Romberg, Latina, ITALY - "Atelier", Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, ITALY - "Il sogno, il colore, il segno", Royal Cultural Center, Amman, JORDAN; Consolato di Italia, Izmir, TURKEY - "Sääksmäki 2000", Voipaalan Taidekeskus, FINLAND 1999 - "Il sogno, il colore, il segno", Al Assad Library, Damasco, SYRIA - "Dalla Città ideale alla Città Virtuale", Museo dell'Arte, San Buono, ITALY Centrum Imarmiitaliani, Prague, CHECHREP. - "Arte Duemila", Temple Gallery, Rome, ITALY - "I Confini dell'Europa", Casa delle Culture, Cosenza; Museo Marco Scacchi, Gallese, ITALY - "l'Arancia era l'unica luce", Galleria Maniero, Rome, ITALY 1998 - "Roma verso il terzo Millennio", House of Commons, Rome, ITALY - "Made in Roma", Voipaalan Taidekeskus, FINLAND - "Uomo ambiente territorio", Museo dell'Arte e dell'Archeologia, San Buono (CH), ITALY 1997 - "Proposta finlandese", Palazzo Colonna, Marino, ITALY - "ARTE facto, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, ITALY - "Wastelands", Palazzo Colonna, Marino, ITALY 1996 - "10 Allievi dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma", Galleria Eralov, Rome, ITALY 1995 - "Storia ed Arte", Istituto Jean Piaget, Istituto Vincenzo Bellini, Rome, ITALY - "Sport Militare e Arte", Foro Italico, Rome, ITALY Works in public collections: - Fundacion CABA, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Fundacion Mundo Nuevo, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Pabellòn de las Bellas Artes UCA, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Università di Bologna Representación en Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Università 3 de Fevero, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, FINLAND - Heinola Art Museum, Heinola, FINLAND - Paulo Foundation, Helsinki, FINLAND - Nelimarkka Foundation, Helsinki, FINLAND - Kuntsi Foundation, Vaasa, FINLAND - Willa Mac - Museum of Finnish Contemporary Art, Tampere, FINLAND - OKO Bank Collection, Helsinki, FINLAND - Nordic Investment Bank Collection, Helsinki, FINLAND - Voipaalan Taidekeskus, Sääksmäki, FINLAND - Hospital of Päijät-Häme, Lahti, FINLAND - Herbergenmuseum, München, GERMANY - Fondazione Durini, Milano, ITALY - Fondazione Valerio Riva, Venezia, ITALY - Fondazione la Sartirana Arte, Sartirana, ITALY - d'AC Collection, Ciampino, ITALY - Museo della mattonella, Messima, ITALY - Fendi Collection, Rome, ITALY - Museo Marco Scacchi, Gallese, ITALY - Province of Firenze, ITALY - Sojo University, Kumamoto, JAPAN - National Gallery, Amman, JORDAN - Royal Cultural Center, Amman, JORDAN - Instituto Iberoamericano, Madrid, SPAIN - National Museum, Damascus, SYRIA - Ministry of Culture, Damascus, SYRIA - Handelsbankens Konstsamlung, Stockholm, SVEDEN - Apotekets Konst Forening, Stockholm, SVEDEN - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Ankara, TURKEY - Consolato di Italia, Izmir, TURKEY - Museo Zorrilla, Montevideo, URUGUAY