About - Timo Wright

Timo Wright is a media artist based in Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo, Japan. Wright has graduated with a MA degree from the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki in 2014. He has participated in domestic and international exhibitions since 2010 including Nakanojo Biennale (2023), Nikolaj Kunsthal (2022), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2017 & 2018), Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (2017), Galerie Anhava (2016), Helsinki Art Museum (2013 & 2012), Helsinki Design Museum (2012), Amos Anderson Art Museum (2012) and Kunsthalle Helsinki (2012, 2010 & 2009), as well as festivals such as Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, IDFA, Slamdance, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Japan Media Arts Festival. His films have been shown at over 80 festivals and exhibitions worldwide.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice combines deeply personal topics with larger political and societal questions. A Feast With King Midas egan during a period of intense fear of death, but came to also address human hubris, food waste, and the overconsumption of natural resources. Ex Nihilo continued this conversation about the fragility of life, adding to it the desire of many to transcend death through technology. Embrace ooks at death through what we leave behind — memories, marks, objects, and traces.

Solace investigates sorrow and letting go through looking closely at the faces and emotions of crying strangers. Fukushima - The Home That Once Was explores memory and its fragility through the stories of people who once lived inside the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.

I am currently finishing the photo series and book Everybody That I Love Will Die, hich captures the fragility of life, love, and friendship through more than 25 years of documenting the lives of a group of friends. It is a continuation of Our Memories are Tomorrow, a computer installation, which slowly destroyed a large database of pictures taken of my life.

I am also in the final stages of Search and Destroy, a series of photos and videos exploring how algorithms see our world. In early 2027, an experimental short film, Tokyo Fumin, about Tokyo's architecture and its relationship with the body will be released.

We are also developing Mosaics, an experimental documentary that uses algorithmic recommendation to create a unique film for each viewer, based on their unconscious hopes and needs. It is scheduled for release in late 2027.

Two further films are in early pre-production. Places of Distant Nature is a multi-channel documentary about various — typical and untypical — forms of love, with an estimated release in 2029. The Obituary Machine is an experimental documentary in which people compose a eulogy for a loved one who is still alive, with an estimated release in mid-2027. An as yet unnamed two-channel documentary exploring how language and culture shape personality is also in early development, with a first demo already filmed.

In the recent years I have been drawn to the audio format. Remnant Layers and The Common Table are both documentary-based audio works rooted in memory, while also addressing gentrification, nostalgia, and how traditions evolve in the contemporary world.

More overtly political works — Nemesis, Race Code and Collateral — create unsettling spaces where fear, oppression, and the possibility of death can be actively felt. Other works, such as Null Statue, and the contemporary dance films Unfit and Event engage with the world through form, movement, body and the abstract.

My aim is to create work that looks at the world not only through personal experience, but across the registers of politics, society, customs, and memory. As an artist, I am drawn to working across different platforms and formats, and in many works I have been interested in pushing technical boundaries — as with the virtual reality documentaries.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Everybody That I Love Will Die. Launch Pad Gallery, Japan.
2023 Fukushima – The Home That Once Was. Oodi Central Library, Finland.
2022 Everyday Vrealities. Oodi Central Library.
2019 Solace. Forum Box, Finland.
2019 Solace. Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Finland.
2017 Ex Nihilo. Incheon Art Platform, South Korea.
2016 Collateral. Gallery Huuto, Finland.
2016 Kharon. Galerie Anhava, Finland.
2016 Null Statue. Mediabox/Forum Box, Finland.
2014 A Feast with King Midas. Mediabox/Forum Box, Finland.
2014 Nemesis. MUU Kaapeli Gallery, Finland.
2013 The Long Journey Home. Rajatila Gallery, Finland.
2012 If you tolerate this… Helsinki Art Museum's Kluuvi Gallery, Finland.
2011 Never-ending Sunday Redux. Gallery Uusi Kipinä, Finland.
2010 Never-ending Sunday Redux. Ikuinen Gallery, Finland.
2010 Self-Portrait. Northern Photographic Centre, Finland.
2010 Self-Portrait. Kunsthalle Helsinki Studio, Finland.
2009 Our Memories are Tomorrow. Rajatila Gallery, Finland.
2008 Our Memories are Tomorrow. Photographic Gallery Hippolyte Studio, Finland.
2007 Everybody that I love will die. B-Gallery, Finland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Search and Destroy (working title). Backlight Photo Festival, Finland.
2025 Self-Portrait. Mänttä Art Festival. Finland.
2025 Remnant Layers. Shibuya DIG, Japan.
2024 A Feast With King Midas. Lappeenranta Art Museum, Finland.
2024 Memory of the Sounds 音の記憶. Kameyama Triennale, Japan.
2024 Fukushima – The Home That Once Was. Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka, Japan.
2023 Surprise びっくり. Tokyo Biennale, Japan. 
2023 Embrace. Porin Juhlaviikot, Finland. 
2023 Remnant Layers 残りの層. Trolls in the Park, Japan. 
2023 The Common Table. Nakanojo Biennale, Japan. 
2023 Fukushima – The Home That Once Was. Deutsches Museum, Germany. 
2023 Everyday Vrealities. Somerset House, UK. 
2022 Fukushima – The Home That Once Was. Nikolaj Kunsthal, Denmark. 
2021 Collateral. Kerava Art Museum, Finland. 
2021 Ex Nihilo. Backlight Triennial, Finland. 
2020 Embrace. Royal Scottish Academy, UK. 
2020 Event. Gewerbemusem Winterthur, Switzerland. 
2018 Ex Nihilo. Mänttä Art Festival, Finland. 
2018 Ex Nihilo. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark. 
2017 Ex Nihilo. MU Art Space, Netherlands. 
2017 Ex Nihilo. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
2017 Displace. Flow Festival, Finland. 
2017 A Long Journey Home. Rauma Art Museum, Finland. 
2017 Solace. Incheon Art Platform, South Korea. 
2017 A Feast with King Midas & Embrace. Samuelis Baumgarte Gallerie, Germany. 
2017 Nemesis & Collateral. Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark. 
2014 A Feast with King Midas. Haihara Art Center, Finland. 
2014 A Feast with King Midas. Hyvinkää Art Museum, Finland. 
2014 Race Code. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany. 
2013 A Feast with King Midas. Helsinki Art Museum, Finland. 
2012 Self-Portrait. Design Museum, Finland. 
2012 Event. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland. 
2012 Race Code. Mediafacades, Finland. 
2012 Race Code. Nuit Blanche Brussels, Belgium. 
2012 Unfit. Amos Anderson Art Museum, Finland. 
2011 Our Memories are Tomorrow. Rauma Art Museum, Finland. 
2010 Self-Portrait. Ahne2010, Finland. 
2010 Europa. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland. 
2009 Our Memories are Tomorrow. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland. 
2005 Never-ending Sunday. Museum of Young Art, Austria. 
2004 Never-ending Sunday. Korjaamo Gallery, Finland. 
2004 Never-ending Sunday. Jugendsali Gallery, Finland.

COMMISIONED WORKS
2014 The Embrace of Wind. Helsinki Art Museum, Finland.

FILMS
2029 Places of Distant Nature (working title). Experimental feature-length multichannel documentary. In Development.
2027 The Obituary Machine (working title). Experimental short documentary film. In Development.
2027 Tokyo Fumin (working title). Experimental short fiction film.
2023 Fukushima – The Home That Once Was. Experimental volumetric open world virtual reality documentary.
2022 Everyday Vrealities. Experimental volumetric open world virtual reality documentary.
2017 Ex Nihilo. Experimental three channel short documentary.
2017 Embrace. Experimental short film.
2017 Solace. Experimental short documentary.
2017 Fall/Out. Experimental short film.
2016 Null Statue. Experimental stereoscopic 3D short film.
2013 A Feast with King Midas. Experimental short film.
2012 Unfit. Experimental short film.
2012 Stick no Bills – Pallo. Short documentary.
2011 Event. Experimental short film.
2009 Moon TV – Goodbye Television. Feature-length documentary.
2004 Kaksi kertaa kokonainen. Documentary.
2000 65410 Sundom. Documentary.
2000 Piccadilly Line. Documentary.
1999 Menkää ja tehkää kaikki kansat minun opetuslapsikseni. Documentary.

Contact: timo @ timowright.com // +81 90 1451 8879