Marjatta Oja lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in Free Art School in Helsinki, Accademia di Belle Arte in Milan and in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, where she completed her doctoral studies in 2011. Oja uses different media, mainly photographs, videos and objects. She aims to infuse image with depth, liveliness and three-dimensionality into “situational sculptures”. The works of Oja have been presented in exhibitions and events since the late 1980s in Finland, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
Since 2018 she was accepted to Academy of Fine Arts as a research fellow with her post doctoral research ‘Experimentation, discussion and research in work of art – visual artist and activism’ or later with the theme ‘Artist-Activist in post-fossil revolution’.
