Seppälä, Mia

Mia Seppälä is a Finnish multidisciplinary visual artist, researcher, and teacher who works with photography, printed art, painting, performance, and moving image. Her works often deal with common and established cultural practices. Seppälä develops and utilizes participatory art methods to reach audiences beyond traditional art spaces. Recently, Seppälä’s public projects and media installations have been exhibited in her non-profit art space in the East Helsinki shopping center from 2019 to 2022, at the Finnish Museum of Photography in 2022, at the Jyväskylä Art Museum in 2023, and at the Mannerheim Museum and the Gallen-Kallela Museum in 2024. Seppälä is completing her doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2017.