Erkka Nissinen

Erkka Nissinen (born 1975 in Jyväskylä, Finland, lives and works in New York, Helsinki and Amsterdam) studied at The Slade School of Fine Art in London and gained an MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland in 2001. In 2007–2008 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Nissinen was awarded the Illy Prize at Art Rotterdam in 2011, and the AVEK Prize for media art in 2013.