Minna Suoniemi

Minna Suoniemi (she/her, b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist and University Lecturer at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media. Her artistic practice draws from embodied experience and feminist knowledge production and she has worked on themes such as control, body, class and family. Her latest projects examine the materiality of the ageing body and transgenerationional bodily experience of being in-excess and excessiveness. Her academic interests include transformative, arts-based pedagogical practices, questions of class in arts and education, embodied and feminist approaches towards knowing and researching. She enjoys collective writing processes and her co-written texts have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Research in Art and Education and Origins - Finnish Studies in Art Education. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia and her work is represented in Finnish collections including EMMA Espoo Modern Art Museum, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum and the Finnish State Art Collection. She has been nominated for trustee positions i.e. The Finnish Arts Promotion Center and has worked as an artist, curator and pedagogue with various Institutions.