Biography

Katja Tukiainen was born in 1969 in Pori, Finland (Latin: Arctopolis). Her strong and soulful grandmother lived with her family, practicing yoga and oil painting. Young Katja followed the path of her granny and started to study both.

Katja gained recognition for her pink girl paintings and comics already by the end of 1990’s. Katja’s painted degree for the Doctor of Fine Arts at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki is called The Girl Army: Narrative Painting in Space. Katja’s girl gang speaks to you in her paintings and installations. She paints with oil on linen but also uses spray paint as an ode to the paintings she made as a rebellious teen. The girls in her paintings are both innocent and sassy, and she wants to create places of open-minded humanity with her paintings.