
The Sun That Grew Round That Very Day, 2017
oil on board
160 x 155 cm
In private collection
ANNA TUORI’s visual expression is vibrant, playful, intriguing and melancholic. Her paintings are brimming with tensions and meanings, and in them things are constantly shifting; faces and other shapes emerge, disintegrate or unfold into a seeming void. Some of the shapes are entirely abstract, while others are subtly suggestive and therefore recognisable. Painting provides Tuori with a way to examine things that cannot truly be seen nor verbalised and to investigate how such things can be portrayed. A recurrent theme is how things appear on the outside and what they conceal within.
Anna Tuori (b. 1976) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, in 2003, and studied at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, between 1999–2000. In 2011 she was awarded as the Young Artist of the Year, and she’s been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Art and Ars Fennica awards.Tuori’s works have been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including at venues such as Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve in Paris, the Busan Museum of Art in South-Korea, the Efremidis Gallery in Berlin, the Norrköping Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Her works are included in various private and public collections, such as the HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Saastamoinen Foundation, Sara Hildén Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Calling for the Future to Return
10 May – 2 Jun 2024
installation view
Photo: Jussi Tiainen

Claus & Lukas, 2024
oil on canvas
155 x 155 cm
In private collection

Guilty, 2024
soft pastel on paper
50 x 65 cm
In private collection

Not Even Past (Incarnat with Golden Shell) 2020
acrylic and oil on canvas
160 x 150 cm
In private collection

Window | Ikkuna | Fönster
3–27 September 2020
exhibition view at Galerie Anhava
photo: Jussi Tiainen

Entirely Personal Matter (Hooker´s Green Lake Deep), 2019
acrylic, oil pastel and oil on canvas
110 x 100 cm
In private collection

Never Seen a Bag Exploding II (Gris de Lin), 2020
acrylic and oil on canvas
150 x 160 cm
In private collection

Voice (Bleu Cérulé Clair Vert Tropical), 2019
acrylic and oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
In private collection

Bring the Noise I, 2017
oil on board
130 x 120 cm
In Saastamoinen Foundation collection

Blow Out Your Candles, Laura, 2010
oil on board
213 x 305 cm
In Saastamoinen Foundation collection

Hard, Get Up
5 Oct – 29 Oct 2017
exhibition view at Galerie Anhava

Into the Wood That I Made, 2009
oil on board
120 x 130 cm
In private collection