Rose-Mari Torpo
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My work explores fundamental elements of painting, the relationship between colour, line and form. The important factors in my paintings are movement, rhythm, layering and new spaces created by colour. My painting is process-based and through experimentation of different materials I create a series of works. The theme of the latest series is a study on perception and understanding. By using materials that reflect light I have created paintings that don’t have a stable visuality, instead they are in continuous movement according to the viewers standpoint. Spatiality and multi-sensoriality become key components of my paintings.

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Rose-Mari Torpo was born in 1977 in Rauma, Finland. She lives and works in Helsinki. She started her studies in Fine Arts in 1997 and obtained her diploma from the Free Art School in Helsinki, in 2003. In the meantime she studied also art history at the University of Helsinki and attended the Escola Superior Artistico in Oporto, Portugal. She developed her final thesis/project in Madrid, Spain. Since year 2000, Rose-Mari has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Finland, Italy, Spain and Greece and had solo exhibitions at Rauma Art Museum and at the Instituto Iberoamericano de cultura Finlandesa in Madrid,in 2012 the Finnish Institute of Athens presented her first solo exhibition in Greece.  In 2014 she had solo shows at Tila Gallery,  at Gallery Å in Turku and at Huuto Gallery in Helsinki. In 2015 she had her last solo show in 3h+k Gallery in Pori and  in summer 2015 she will be showing in Gallery Uusi Kipinä in Lahti. In 2016 she has exhibited in tm-gallery in Helsinki and in Aarni Gallery in Espoo.
She is a member of Finnish Painters Union, Helsinki Artists’ Association and Rauma Artist' Association.

address: Lapinlahdenkatu 12 A 15, 00180 Helsinki
telephone: + 358 449712813                                           
rosemaritorpo@gmail.com   

Studies

2016  Turku Arts Academy, Turku
2003 Free Art School, Helsinki

2000 Fine art studies, Escola Superior Artistico do Porto, Portugal
1999   Art history, Helsinki University

1997   Fine art Studies, Karis Folkhögskola, Karis

Upcoming

2021 Show-case exhibition, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma
2021  Uusikuva Gallery, Autio and Torpo, Kotka
2021  Mistral 2, Oristano, Italy
2021  Kouta Gallery, Poikilo Museums, Kouvola
2021  tm•gallery, Helsinki

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2020  Aarni Gallery, Espoo, Finland
2019  Exhibition with Susanna Autio, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain
2019  Allergiatalo, Helsinki, Finland
2018  Poriginal Gallery, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2017  Exhibition with Taira Tiger, Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany
2016  Aarni Gallery, Espoo, Finland
2015  Uusi Kipinä Gallery, Lahti, Finland
2015  Gallery 3H+k, Pori, Finland 
2014  Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 
2014  Galleria Å, Turku, Finland 
2014  Tila Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 
2013  Marea with Michela Pelusio, Mesogios Art Space, Heraklion, Greece 
2013  Polar opposites, Apokoronas Art Festival, Dourakis Winery Gallery, Greece 
2012  Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece 
2005  Exhibition Taira Tiger, Rauma Art Museum, Finland 
2003  Exhibition with Nina Kataila, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia, Madrid, Spain                                                                                                                                               

Group exhibitions (selected)
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2020 Symposium Exhbition, Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2020 Galleria 5, Tiger, Pohjolainen and Torpo, Oulu
2020 Kosminen Salon, Kosminen gallery, Helsinki
2020 Unsurveyed Area, archipelago of Rauma
2019  Maalauksen monimuotoisuus, Gallery Katariina, Helsinki, Finland
​2019  Oxygenum, The Nordic Arts Association's Triennal exhibition, Vetelin Taidekartano, Finland
2018  Tuoretta maalia Lahdessa, Taidemaalariliiton 90 v. juhlanäyttely, Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
2017   Heteka13- group exhibition, Rantakasarmi Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2017   Saskia Gallery, Tiger, Lindberg and Torpo, Tampere, Finland
2016  tm•gallery, Arjatsalo, Honkanen ja Torpo, Helsinki, Finland
2016  Gallery Promenadi, Hyvinkää, Finland
2015  Hyvässä seurassa, Rauma Art Museum, Rauma, Finland
2015  Rantakasarmi Gallery , Helsinki, Finland
2014  Paraati, P-Galleria, Pori, Finland
2014  Galleria Collezionista, Rome, Italy 
2013  Plastic Ocean Event, Kotzia Sq. Athens, Greece 
2013  AmArti, Ada Art gallery, Barcelona, Spain 
2012  Santorini Biennale of Arts, finalist, Santorini, Greece 
2012  Art flight, Renaissance festival, Rethymno, Greece 
2012  Municipal Art Gallery, Heraklion, Greece 
2008  Art Center Crusell, Uusikaupunki, Finland
2008  Palazzo Pigorini, Parma, Italy 
2008  City council, Cascia, Italy 
2006  Studio Kontrast, Parma, Italy 
2004  Joint exhibition, Alphacentauri gallery, Ragazzola, Italy 
2002  Exhibition of the art competition “Art of Analyste” Sanomatalo, Helsinki
2000  Exhibition of the art competition "Art of Analyste" Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki

Grants:
Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Travel Grant, 2020
Art council of Finland, grant, 2020
​Kuvasto, VISEK grant, 2019
Art council of Uusimaa, a personal artist grant, 2016
Art council of Satakunta, Finland, a personal artist grant, 2004
Cultural Foundation of Finland, a collective grant, 2002
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