Email - vickievainionpaa@gmail.com
IG - @vickiejv
Vickie Vainionpää
B. 1992, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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, Nicola Pedana, Caserta, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sparks, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
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, 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 Mur, Montreal, Canada
2021 Fondation du MAC benefit auction, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2020 Turn on the bright lights, 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
2019 (im)permanent collection, A+D Museum, Los Angeles
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
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, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Vermont, USA
2017 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency, Banff, Canada
2017 Louis Muhlstock Endowment
COLLECTIONS
X Museum, Beijing
Collection of Elizabeth Margulies at The Warehouse, Miami
Palazzo Monti, Italy
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Paloma Parker, Odessa. Technology is changing how artists create and art enthusiasts engage with the work The Globe and Mail
2024 Lichterwaldt, Daniel. Interview Les Nouveau Riches Magazine
2024 Becker, Noah. “Whitehot Reccomends: Vickie Vainionpää's Gaze Paintings at Olga Korper Gallery” Whitehot Magazine
2023 Dr. Frew, James. “Metamorphoses” Exhibition Catalogue
2023 Pariante, Fabio. “Generative art in the Painting Process” MuseumWeek Magazine
2023 Simun, Mirium. “Transhumanist Cephalopod Evolution“ Forecast Journal Issue 10
2022 Bogojev, Saša. “6 Artists Intrerpreting the Digital Art Landscape” L’Officiel Magazine
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” Battery Journal
2022 Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Vickie Vainionpää Uses Generative Code" Hypebeast
2021 Grayson, Emma. “BIO TECH” The Artist Workspace
2021 Bongiani, Sandro. “Vickie Vainionpää, FLOW_STATE” Exibart
2021 Jeff. “Booooooom Featured Artist” Boooooooom.com
2021 Krysa, Danielle. “Featured Artist: Vickie Vainionpää’” TheJealousCurator.com
2021 Bogojev, Saša. “Digital Spirit” Juxtapoz.com
2021 Mothes, Kate. “Vickie Vainionpää: Soft Body Dynamics 40" SuperRare.com
2020 Olson, Grady. “Blending the natural and digital world” GrossMag.com
2020 Bongiani, Sandro. “Turn on the bright lights” Exibart
2020 Farinotti, Rossella and Biancuzzi, Gianmaria. "The Colouring Book”, Milano Art Guide
EDUCATION
2011 - 2015 University of Waterloo, B.A, Waterloo, ON
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Studio portrait by Emelle Massariol
Vickie Vainionpää is known for her generative oil paintings that use code as a medium to create infinite relationships between diameter, curve and entanglement. Her softly textured, organic shapes fold and twist on themselves to create biomorphic forms that are non-representational yet familiar. Using data from many sources, the artist's oeuvre began with an investigation into randomness and its relationship to abstraction. More recently, her research has included eye-tracking software in order to examine and respond to historical works of art.
In her Gaze Paintings series, the artist's signature curvilinear shapes are directly mapped through the process of looking, transforming the notion of the gaze into an abstract representation of viewership. With their cool, fleshy tones and plush texture, a certain exuberance exists in the work, giving way to a sense of techno-optimism that binds the dual process of code and paint.
I would like to acknowledge the generous support from :
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IG - @vickiejv
Vickie Vainionpää
B. 1992, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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, Nicola Pedana, Caserta, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sparks, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
2024 Theory of Networks, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada (forthcoming)
2024 Double Vision II, Plato Gallery, New York, USA (forthcoming)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, 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 Mur, Montreal, Canada
2021 Fondation du MAC benefit auction, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2020 Turn on the bright lights, 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
2019 (im)permanent collection, A+D Museum, Los Angeles
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
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, Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec
2019 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Vermont, USA
2017 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency, Banff, Canada
2017 Louis Muhlstock Endowment
COLLECTIONS
X Museum, Beijing
Collection of Elizabeth Margulies at The Warehouse, Miami
Palazzo Monti, Italy
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Paloma Parker, Odessa. Technology is changing how artists create and art enthusiasts engage with the work The Globe and Mail
2024 Lichterwaldt, Daniel. Interview Les Nouveau Riches Magazine
2024 Becker, Noah. “Whitehot Reccomends: Vickie Vainionpää's Gaze Paintings at Olga Korper Gallery” Whitehot Magazine
2023 Dr. Frew, James. “Metamorphoses” Exhibition Catalogue
2023 Pariante, Fabio. “Generative art in the Painting Process” MuseumWeek Magazine
2023 Simun, Mirium. “Transhumanist Cephalopod Evolution“ Forecast Journal Issue 10
2022 Bogojev, Saša. “6 Artists Intrerpreting the Digital Art Landscape” L’Officiel Magazine
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” Battery Journal
2022 Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Vickie Vainionpää Uses Generative Code" Hypebeast
2021 Grayson, Emma. “BIO TECH” The Artist Workspace
2021 Bongiani, Sandro. “Vickie Vainionpää, FLOW_STATE” Exibart
2021 Jeff. “Booooooom Featured Artist” Boooooooom.com
2021 Krysa, Danielle. “Featured Artist: Vickie Vainionpää’” TheJealousCurator.com
2021 Bogojev, Saša. “Digital Spirit” Juxtapoz.com
2021 Mothes, Kate. “Vickie Vainionpää: Soft Body Dynamics 40" SuperRare.com
2020 Olson, Grady. “Blending the natural and digital world” GrossMag.com
2020 Bongiani, Sandro. “Turn on the bright lights” Exibart
2020 Farinotti, Rossella and Biancuzzi, Gianmaria. "The Colouring Book”, Milano Art Guide
EDUCATION
2011 - 2015 University of Waterloo, B.A, Waterloo, ON
Vickie Vainionpää is known for her generative oil paintings that use code as a medium to create infinite relationships between diameter, curve and entanglement. Her softly textured, organic shapes fold and twist on themselves to create biomorphic forms that are non-representational yet familiar. Using data from many sources, the artist's oeuvre began with an investigation into randomness and its relationship to abstraction. More recently, her research has included eye-tracking software in order to examine and respond to historical works of art.
In her Gaze Paintings series, the artist's signature curvilinear shapes are directly mapped through the process of looking, transforming the notion of the gaze into an abstract representation of viewership. With their cool, fleshy tones and plush texture, a certain exuberance exists in the work, giving way to a sense of techno-optimism that binds the dual process of code and paint.
I would like to acknowledge the generous support from :
