ARTIST BIO

Riikka Sormunen (b. 1987) is a self-taught Finnish artist. She studied fashion design briefly, but dropped out to focus on painting. She has had exhibitions at DE Studio, Antwerp; Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallin; Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Sipoo; Kosminen, Helsinki; Lokal, Helsinki; SOMArts Cultural Centre, San Francisco; Somerset House, London; Spazio Paraggi, Treviso; Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles; and Vertical Gallery, Chicago. She is the recipient of 5 years of fine art grants from Centre Taike in Finland. She is featured in a monograph called Big Mother, published by Nobrow Press, London. She lives and works in Helsinki.