Katja Tukiainen
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Katja Maarit Tukiainen (born 1969) is a
Uusimaa from 1999 to 2001 and the 2003 winner of the Finnish Comic Society's annual Puupää Award. She received the Finnish State Prize for Design in 2007, and the William Thuring Prize of the Finnish Art Society
in 2011.
Tukiainen works with site-specific narration. She changes her medium according to what best suits the content of her artwork: paintings,
comics, drawings, animation
and sculptures. Her works are recognizable by their joyful colours (especially pink and magenta), sympathetic figures, and expressive style, and can deal with themes of daily politics, sorrow, or longing as well as dreams, love, and peace.
Tukiainen holds a Master's of Art degree from the
Venice, Italy. After graduating, she worked for six months in Mazzano Romano, Italy, and has travelled to India on ten occasions to work for Dalit
human rights.
Katja Tukiainen's paintings have been purchased into various prestigious collections in Finland[1] and her comics have been published in several international anthologies. She is married to her colleague, Matti Hagelberg, and they have one child.
Publications
Artist monographs:
- KATJA TUKIAINEN WORKS PART TWO ( 2008 - 2013, articles: Riiko Sakkinen, Katja Tukiainen, Raul Zamudio, languages: English and Finnish, 216 pages, Parvs Publishing 2013)
- KATJA TUKIAINEN WORKS ( 1999 - 2007, articles: Timo Valjakka, languages: English, France and Finnish, 112 pages, Daada kustannus 2007)
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