Tuija Lindström
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Tuija Lindström is a Finnish
-Swedish
photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film,University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg
,Sweden, 1992-2001.
She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
.
In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as Girls at Bull's Pond. Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden.
She has held several international exhibitions and is represented in particular at the Moderna Museet
in Stockholm
, the Houston Art Museum in the U.S., and Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki
.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
-Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film,University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
,Sweden, 1992-2001.
She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as Girls at Bull's Pond. Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden.
She has held several international exhibitions and is represented in particular at the Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet
Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...
in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, the Houston Art Museum in the U.S., and Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
.