Maija Miettinen

Maija Miettinen is a visual artist and a scholar born in Finland. Her colorful works are inspired by her nordic visual heritage, especially the traditional folk patterns of the Finno-Ugric people of the northern Europe and Siperia mixed with the immigrant experience in the US. In her works she explores the tension created by literal and metaphorical warping patterns in painting and in life. She lives and works in Pennsylvania where she carries on her studio practice and most recently worked as an Adjunct Professor of Art at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia PA. She received Master of Fine Arts degree, with a graduate minor in Comparative Cultural Studies from the Ohio State University in 2015. Miettinen has received numerous grants, nominations and awards such a University Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation's Emerging Artist Fellowship nomination and Alec Abels Memorial Award in Painting from Temple University. She has exhibited her artworks all over the US, as well as in Finland and in the UK, most recently at the James Oliver Gallery in Philadelphia PA and at LHUCA, Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery in Lubbock TX. Her paintings can be found from numerous public and private collections.