Sex / Female

Year of birth / 1967

Website / www.phnet.fi/public/goy

Greta-Mari Voijola is a finnish fine artist who currently lives in North Karelia. She was born in Helsinki. Greta-Mari studied painting at the Norden School of Art, in Kokkola, in 1991-1993. In 1995, while she studies in Art Academy of Helsinki, Greta-Mari participated ARS-95 Master Class and was tutored by Lewis Balz. She studied video-, sound and webart at the Department of Time and Space Based Art and graduated as a Master of Fine Art in Art Academy of Helsinki in 2000. She is also specialized in graphic art at the Art Institute of Lahti. Greta-Mari Voijola works mainly on videos and graphics. In her graphic works she´s keen on using materials sensitive to light, i.e. the Imagon-technic. In her solo exhibitions she constructs so called time-collages by combining still and moving images. In addition there´s often included a piece of furniture, being both a part of the piece and a set for the audience.