Jan Kenneth Weckman, b. 1946
Solo shows
2016 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2013 Hard Facts, a Closer Look, Gallery Joella, Turku
2013 Hard Facts, a Closer Look, Galerie Toolbox, Berlin
2011 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2008 Corpus revisited, Wäinö Aaltonen museum Studio, Turku
2008 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2008 Gallery VISU, Kokkola
2007 Gallery Nefret, Turku
2006 Gallery Harmaja, Oulu
2005 Gallery Nefret, Turku
2003 ! Ars Nova & Aboa Vetus, Turku; Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki; Galleria Harmaja, Oulu
2001 "As if" Forum Box, Helsinki; The Finnish Institute, Berlin; Önningeby museum, Åland;
xxxPictor, Nummela, Finland; LUME, Konstindustriella högskolan, Helsinki
2000 Amos Anderson Museum of Art, Helsinki
1998 Lost and Found, Galleri G, Helsingfors; Mengerzeile, Berlin
1997 Gallery Harmaja, Oulu
1996 Formell/Informell, Tikanoja Museum of Art, Vasa
1995 Formell/Informell, Heinola Art Museum, Heinola; Formell/Informell Ålands Museum of Art, Mariehamn
1994 Formell/Informell, Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki
1993 Gallery G, Helsinki
1992 Lilla Agora, Helsinki
1991 Kemi Museum of Art, Kemi; Gallery DARTE, Helsinki; Gallery Boibrino, Stockholm;Gallery Selzer-Lejeune, Paris
1990 Gallery Persons-Lindell, Helsinki
1989 Gallery Persons-Lindell, Helsinki
1988 Gallery Vita Rummet, Tampere; Galleri 1, Göteborg
1987 Helsinki City Galleria Kluuvi; Galleri Ahlner, Stockholm
1986 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki
1985 Gallery Ahlner, Stockholm
1984 Gallery Ackerman, Helsinki
1983 Gallery Artek, Helsinki
1982 Amos Anderson Museum of Art, Helsinki; Kunstverein Erlangen, Germany;
xxxxxGallery Aesbek, Copenhagen, Denmark
1981 Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1980 Gallery Bronda, Helsinki
1979 Gallery Moment 76, Stockholm, Sweden
1978 Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1970 Konstgrafikerna, Helsinki
1969 Gallery Strindberg, Helsinki
In group exhibitions
2017 Yhteispaino, Gallery Joella, Turku2016 Simultaneously Elsewhere, Raatihuonegalleria, Turku (together with Markku Hakuri)
2016 Two artists in the church, Turku Cathedral (together with Markku Hakuri)
2016 Ornament and Beauty, Gallery Titanik, Turku
2013 Drawing in the Flesh, Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa
2012 Social Box, Galerie Toolbox, Berlin
2010 Kauhea Ilo, Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä-Vilppula
2010 Gallery Maaret Finnberg, Turku (with Mikko Ijäs, Mika Karhu)
2010 Dialogues in Space, Mimara-museum, Zagreb, Croatia
2009 Outside the Rules, Norway-Finland Instute of Culture, Oslo, Norway
2009 Gallery Heino, Copenhagen Artfair, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Gallery Nefret, ARTVILNIUS'09, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Kuopio Art Museum, Kuopio
2008 Icon@BraveNewWorld, Galleria Manés, Prague
2008 Outside the Rules, Härnösand Konsthall, Sweden
2008 Kristiansund Konsthall, Kristiansund, Sweden
2007 Outside the Rules, Renlund museum, Kokkola, Cable Factory, Helsinki;
xxxxxTaju, Hyvinkää Art museum; Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2004 Näkemisen virta (The Stream of Seeing) Amos Anderson Museum of Art, Helsinki
2002 Uniikki (Unique) Fiskars
1999 Black, White and Gray, Lahti Museum of Art, Lahti
1995 Medvind 2, Hangö; Art Apollo, Borgå
1994 Medvind 1, Hangö
1992 Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer , France; L'ete de la Vienne, Festival de Beaux-Arts,
xxxx Chateau; Bonnetiére, Loudun, France; The Finnish Institute in Paris
1991 Nordiska Teckningar (Nordic Drawing), Nordic Centre of Art, Helsinki,; Aalborg, Denmark, Bergen; Norway
1988 Schneesmelze, Kunst aus Finnland, Wiener Secession, Austria; Aachen, Bonn, Germany;
xxxxxGraphica Creativa, Jyväskylä
1987 Kuuntelua (Listening), Konsthallen, Helsinki Art Hall
1986 Grafikbiennalen, Baden-Baden, Germany
1984 Finsk Kunst Nå, (Finnish Art Now) Sonia Henie-Onstad Kunstcenter, Hovikodden, Norway
1982 Contemporaries, New Art from Finland, St Paul, Long Beach, Seattle USA
1982 The Graphic Art Biennale, Bradford, England; Spelets regler (Rules of the Game - Art from Finland
xxxxx and Sweden); Amos Anderson Museum of Art, Helsinki
1981 Helsinki City Gallery Kluuvi; Årets konstnärer inbjuder (Artist of the Year invites), Helsinki Art Hall;
xxxxx Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France; Art Today, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
xxxxxxSapporo, Japan
1979 1. International Drawing Triennale, Nürnberg, Germany
1980 Young artists, Helsinki Art Hall
1971 Triennale of the Art Academy, Helsinki
1970 Young Artists, Helsinki Art Hall
Represented in collections
Finnish state Art collection, Swedish State Art collection, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki, Moderna museet, Stockholm, Göteborgs konstmuseum, Helsinkis City Art Museum, TUrku Art Museum, Ars Nova Aboa Vetus Museum, Turku, Lahti Art Museum, Art collections of Borvoo, Espoo, Hyvinkää, Joensuu, Vasa, Imatra, Kemi, Oulu, Nüremberg Germany. Private art collections in Finland, France, Sweden, United States
Awards
Young Artists, Helsinki Art Hall 1978
Award at the International Drawing Triennale, Nürnberg, Germany 1979
Award of the Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 1981
The Art Award of the Finnish State 1983
Marcus Collins Art Award 1996
Svenska Kulturfonden, Art award 2009
Studies and art-related activities
Free Art School 1969
The Finnisch art Academy School 1969-73
PhLic studies at the University of Art and Design UIAH Helsinki 1995-98
Doctoral degree Fine Art Academy, Helsinki 2005
Jan Kenneth Weckman held a position as Dean and Professor of Visual Composition at the School of Visual Culture, University of Art and Design Helsinki 2000-2005
Writings
Du, stanna här, poetry, Söderströms & Co, Helsinki 1978Points of view, essays and catalogue texts for Retretti Art Centre, 1994
Articulation and Topography Essay on Roland Barthes and Arcimboldo, in Levanto, Yrjänä (chief ed.), University of Art and Design, Workpapers F18, Helsinki 2001, published within a series of articles edited by Määttänen, Pentti, Pragmatist Viewpoints on Art - Proceedings of the AWE Symposium in Helsinki, June 2000
Seitsemän maalauksen katsominen/Maalaus maailman osana, Helsinki, LIKE 2005, a thesis work for the degree study to DFA (Doctor of Fine Arts), Fine Art Academy, Helsinki 2005; Abstract of practice-based thesis work