Sex / Female

Year of birth / 1974

Website / www.rainioroberts.com

Minna Rainio (1974) is a visual artist working primarily with photography and video. She has studied Photography in England, and Audiovisual Media Culture in Finland, and worked as a researcher in the Elomedia Doctoral School of Audiovisual Media in the University of Art & Design, Helsinki. During 2009-2011 she holds the position of Visiting Associate Professor in Photography in the University of Minnesota.

Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts often collaborate to produce large-scale, multi-channel video installations that deal with social and political issues and their impact on people’s individual experiences and histories. Their art has dealt with issues such as Finnish-Russian border, refugees’ experiences in Finland and the international trafficking of women. Rainio & Roberts have exhibited widely in Finland, Europe and United States including Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art 2004 (Helsinki), Finnish Photography Triennial 2006 (Salo Art Museum), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst 2008 (Aachen, Germany), Finnish Cultural Institute in Paris (2008) as well as numerous international festivals.