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Vickie Vainionpää
Email - vickievainionpaa@gmail.com
IG - @vickiejv


Vickie Vainionpää
B. 1992, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.


EDUCATION
2026 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
2015 University of Waterloo, B.A.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Spectral, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2026 Soft Logic, Gainesboro Modern Museum of Contemporary Art, Gainesboro, USA
2026 Tempest, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2025 Flux of Light (duo with Anselm Reyle), Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 Gaze Paintings, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2023 Metamorphoses, Museo Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta, Italy
2022 Software, The Hole, New York, USA
2022 NADA Miami with The Hole, Miami, USA
2021 FLOW_STATE, Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta, Italy


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Dear Data, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, USA
2026 Phantasma, Plato Gallery, New York, USA

2025 Formative, Ruzy Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Thom Oosterhof
2025 Exaltation, Plato Gallery, New York, USA
2025 XXS Small Paintings, COUNTY, Palm Beach, USA

2024 Light of Winter, Perrotin, New York, USA
2024 The Armory Show with Olga Korper Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Sparks, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024 Theory of Networks, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2024 Double Vision II, Plato Gallery, New York, USA

2023 X Pink 101, X Museum, Beijing, China
2023 Abstraction, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2023 Cacotopia, Annka Kultys, London, UK
2023 The Armory Show with The Hole, New York, USA
2023 Taipei Dangdai with The Hole, Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Art Brussels with The Hole, Brussels, Belgium

2022 Selected Works, Collection of Elizabeth Margulies at The Warehouse, Miami, USA
2022 Imagining Reality, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 The Armory Show with The Hole, New York, USA
2022 Her, Fir Gallery, Beijing, China
2022 Transobjectional, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2021 Salto in Altro, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2021 Digital Spirit, GR Gallery, New York, USA
2021 Bio Tech, The Hole, New York, USA
2021 A Posteriori, Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada
2021 Fondation du MAC benefit auction, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

2020 Turn on the bright lights, Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta, Italy
2020 Matériaux, WIP Gallery, Montreal, Canada

2019 Color & Form, Rauschenberg / Captiva Foundation, Miami, USA
2019 While Supplies Last, Bellevue Arts Museum, Seattle, USA
2019 (im)permanent collection, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, USA


RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS
2026 Circulation and Touring Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2026 Publication Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
2024 The Hopper Prize, Shortlisted Artist
2023 The Fores Project Residency, London, UK
2023 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, Italy
2021 Explore and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, USA
2017 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency, Banff, Canada
2017 Louis Muhlstock Endowment


SELECTED COLLECTIONS
X Museum, Beijing
Gainesboro Modern Museum, Gainesboro, USA
Collection of Elizabeth Margulies at The Warehouse, Miami, USA
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Torys LLP, Toronto, Canada
Ernesto Esposito Collection, Italy
D’Amico, Italy
Blackstone, London, UK
Private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia


PUBLICATIONS
2026 Soft Logic, artist monograph, text by James Frew, 184 pages, September 2026


ARTICLES & PRESS
2024 Frew, James. “Painting as a post-digital formalism.” Journal of Contemporary Painting, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 167–191.
2024 Parker, Odessa Paloma. “Technology is changing how artists create and art enthusiasts engage with the work.” The Globe and Mail.
2024 ArtBeat Podcast. “Vickie Vainionpää: When Art and Algorithm Collide.” August 2024.
2024 Schuster, Clayton. “Opposing Forces.” Hi-Fructose Magazine, issue 71, July 2024, p. 66.
2024 Lichterwaldt, Daniel. “Interview.” Les Nouveaux Riches.
2024 Becker, Noah. “Whitehot Recommends: Vickie Vainionpää's Gaze Paintings at Olga Korper Gallery.” Whitehot Magazine.
2023 Frew, James. “Metamorphoses.” Exhibition catalogue.
2023 Bodimeade, Bryony. “A Curving Thought.” Exhibition text for Abstraction, Taymour Grahne Projects.
2023 Pariante, Fabio. “Generative art in the painting process: Interview with abstract artist Vickie Vainionpää.” MuseumWeek Magazine.
2023 Simun, Miriam. “Transhumanist Cephalopod Evolution.” Forecast Journal, issue 10.
2022 Bogojev, Saša. “How 6 Artists Are Interpreting the Digital Art Landscape.” L’Officiel.
2022 Hencz, Adam. “Between Human & Machine.” Artland Magazine.
2022 Hencz, Adam. “What is Generative Art?” Artland Magazine.
2022 Feim, Alex. “Algorithmic Painting in Physical Space: Vickie Vainionpää: Software & Siebren Versteeg: Up The Ghost.” Battery Journal.
2022 Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Vickie Vainionpää Uses Generative Code to Create Her Alluring Paintings.” Hypebeast.
2021 Grayson, Emma. “BIO TECH.” The Artist Workspace.
2021 Bongiani, Sandro. “Vickie Vainionpää, FLOW_STATE.” Exibart.
2021 Jeff. “Booooooom Featured Artist.” Booooooom.
2021 Krysa, Danielle. “Featured Artist: Vickie Vainionpää.” The Jealous Curator.
2021 Bogojev, Saša. “Digital Spirit.” Juxtapoz.
2021 Mothes, Kate. “Vickie Vainionpää: Soft Body Dynamics 40.” SuperRare.
2020 Olson, Grady. “Blending the natural and digital world.” Gross Magazine.
2020 Bongiani, Sandro. “Turn on the bright lights.” Exibart.
2020 Farinotti, Rossella and Gianmaria Biancuzzi. “The Colouring Book.” Milano Art Guide.



Studio portrait by Emelle Massariol

Vickie Vainionpää makes paintings that integrate the logic of the machine with the human hand. Using generative and wearable technologies—including algorithms, eye-tracking, and virtual reality systems—she creates forms and compositions that are later translated into traditionally executed paintings on canvas. Operating between digital and physical environments, her work reflects the conditions of contemporary perception, in which experience is increasingly mediated by screens, software, and virtual space. Twisting tubular forms, blended brushwork, and smooth gradations of color produce abstractions that foreground the ever-evolving relationship between the human body and digital technology.

Vainionpää has participated in exhibitions at X Museum (Beijing, China), Perrotin (New York, USA), and The Warehouse (Miami, USA). Recent solo exhibitions include Metamorphoses at Museo Belvedere di San Leucio (Caserta, Italy), Software at The Hole (New York, USA), and a solo presentation at NADA Miami. In 2026, she will mount her debut institutional exhibition, Soft Logic, at Gainesboro Modern Museum of Contemporary Art (Gainesboro, USA) and attend the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.




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