Basics

Channel:
Art
Genres:
Contemporary, Fantasy, Figurative, Outsider Art
Roles:
Painter, Artist
Hometown:
ROME

Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Heidi Hirvonen was born in Turku, Finland in 1966.
She has lived and worked in Rome for the past 20 years where she studied stage and set designing at the Accademia di Belle Arti recieving her degree in 1992. She has held solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad and has partecipated in numerous group exhibitions.
Although she studied stage and set design, she always felt the need to freely express her inner most feelings and so she began to put those emotions onto canvas.
Heidi Hirvonen is an artist of the feminine psiche. Her artistic career begins with abstracts and carries on with the slender woman figures, fhe fairies of her inner soul, as she calls them..
In her latest production reappears the princesses and the elves of the forests of the north and are non other than the children of the fairies.
The colours that in her earlier production were dark, typically nordic, has changed in whites that “covers” the story/ fairytail inside her art works.. The story exists, but this time one just needs to discover it by himself.
The technique that is used is mostly oil on canvas or wood.

Styles

figurative with slender, almost transparent black and white characters

Creative Tools Used

Canvas, wood

Techniques

basicly oil, sometimes acrylics

Exhibitions

Studies: Scuola libera del Nudo di Roma, Rome, 1987-88
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, 1988-93
(degree in 1992)
Lessons with Maestro Claudio Boggino, Rome, 1999-2000

Solo exhibitions:
2008 “Nowhere Land” Maud, Rome Italy
2007 “LO.LI.TA.” Supperclub, Rome Italy
2005 “To be or to appear” Contesta Rock Hair, Rome Italy
2004 “Pittura di Heidi Hirvonen” Rasho-Mon, Rome Italy
2004 “Visioni di fate” GOA, Rome Italy
2002 “Maalauksia” Naantalin taidehuone, Naantali Finland
2001 “Heidi Hirvonen” Centro culturale scandinavo, Rome Italy
2001 “Sulle tracce degli sciamani lapponi” Pro Loco, Marino Italy
2000 “Sulle tracce degli sciamani lapponi” CIAS, Rome Italy

Group exhibitions:
2008 Ambasciata D’Egitto, Rome Italy
2008 Palazzina azzurra, San Benedetto del Tronto Italy
2007 Città del Libro, Campi Salentina Italy
2007 MoCa (contemporaneamonti), Rome Italy
2006 Itinerating exhibition: Trentino Italy/ Bad Gandershaim
Germany/ Arezzo Italy/ Sarajevo Bosnia
2006 La Rocca, Civitavecchia Italy
2006 La torretta Valadier, Rome Italy
2006 Ex convento dei Teatini, Lecce Italy
2006 Istituto portoghese di Sant’ Antonio in Roma, Rome Italy
2005 Salone delle Fontane EUR, Rome Italy
2005 Plazzo degli Acquaviva, Atri Italy
2005 Hotel Salus, Cascia Italy
2004 Galleria Astrolabio, Rome Italy
2004 Sale del Bramante, Rome Italy
2003 Villa Borghese, Rome Italy

Inspirations

My childhood / my children / my roots / nothern forests / archipelago(finnish)/ people with elfin features and manners / inhabitants of the forests; elves,fairies.