Born in Lemi, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland

Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Master of Fine Arts

University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Department of Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, Master of Arts

Knitosis in Herbarium, Aboa Vetus Ars Nova, Turku Åbo
Sundried Carrots, Hotel- and restaurant museum, Helsinki

Department Store, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä Finland

Kopplingar, Ålands konstmuseum, Mariehamn
Market, Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää

In the Rooms of Museums, Gallery Moletti, Forssa Museum, Forssa

The Ark Nature Centre, Pori

Tomorrow today will be yesterday, Kunsthalle Helsinki

Syli on kolme kyynärää, Vanhalinna, Lieto
Apteekki - Apotek, Ministudio / Gallery Orton, Helsinki

Between Black and White, Gallery Ville, Nurmijärvi Finland

October, Window Gallery, Emmaus Vallila, Helsinki Finland
Nearest Horizon, Gislaved Art Hall, Gislaved Sweden
Flies, Butterflies, Gallery Vanha Savu, Merikarvia Finland
Transparente Blanche, Söderlångvik Manor, Kimitoön Finland

Vintergrönt (Evergreen), Galleri Mårtenson&Persson, Stockholm Sweden

Practical Theories,Gallery Factory, Seoul Korea
FÄRG/VÄRI, Art Hall Märsta, Sigtuna kommun, Sweden
Léo-Ayotte Exhibition Center, Shawinigan Quebec Canada

Isvattenfärger (Icewatercolours), Art Hall, Luleå Sweden
Apelsinsol Morotsland, Tobaksmagasinet, Jakobstad Finland
I Found a Mountain, I Found a Bread, Forum Box, Helsinki Finland

Nectar de couleurs, Johanna Gullichsen, Paris France
Fingerprints, Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä Finland
Write Red in Blue, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn Sweden

Blue, Gallery Art-U room, Tokyo Japan
KYLA värme, Gallery Mårtenson&Persson, Stockholm Sweden

Punaisia lankoja, Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum, Turku Finland
Kevadega kõrvu - Kevään korvalla, Monumentaalgalerii, Tartu Arthouse, Tartu Estonia
Igijää, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn Estonia

Recreation, Art-U room, Tokyo Japan
Työn tila I, Työn tila II, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi Finland
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

Thinkables, bookshop Flammarion Centre in the Pompidou Center, Paris
Finlandsinstitutet, Stockholm Sweden
Gallery Orton, Helsinki
Forester, Art-U room, Tokyo Japan

On olemassa, Heinola Town Museum, Finland

Kesäpäivät talviunta, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Finland

Kitchen, Art-U room, Tokyo Japan
Galerie Anhava, projectroom, Helsinki

Sur le chemin de l’école, Finnish Institute in Paris, France
Galleri Mårtenson&Persson, Båstad Sweden
Kajaani Art Museum (with Kari Cavén), Kajaani Finland

Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels Belgium
Gallery Het Vijfde Huis, Antwerpen Belgium

Ars Fennica, Aine Art Museum, Tornio and Amos Anderson Art Museum,
Helsinki and Salo Art Museum, Finland

Gallery AMA, Turku Finland

Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen Denmark
Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger Norway
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki

Forum Box, Helsinki

Real Colour Circles, Café Ateneum, Helsinki

South Carelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta Finland

Galerie Artek, Helsinki
Push Firma Beige, Helsinki
Petite Galerie, Paris France

Gallery Titanik, Turku Finland
Voipaala Cultural Center for Children, Valkeakoski Finland

Galerie Artek

Finnish Forest Museum Lusto, Punkaharju Finland
Ministry of Education, Helsinki Finland

Galerie Artek, Helsinki

Artek, Helsinki

Cube, Diploma Work Exhibition, University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki

10th International Artists’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2024, Gallery SG, Venice Italy; Museum of Applied Arts and
Design, Vilna Lithuania; Biblioteca del Hospital Real, Granada Spain (2025-26)
Helminä, Anu Tuominen & Naomi Ito, Gallery Yamahon, Japan

Helminä, Anu Tuominen & Naomi Ito, Gallery Moletti / Forssa Textile Week, Forssa Finland

HIDDEN - Forms of the Senses, Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale 2022

First International Festival of Manuports, Kohta, Finland

Gösta Serlachius Museum, Mänttä

L’Été photographique de Lectoure 2018, Cerisaie / Centre d’art et de photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure France
8th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2018

Classics, Helsinki Contemporary and WSOY
Artist’s Book Exhibition II, Gallery Katariina, Helsinki Finland

Gallery Orton, Helsinki Finland
Colours and Patterns, Almgrens Silkmill and Museum, Stockholm Sweden
Draw Now!, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi Finland

Draw Now! Lahti Art Museum Lahti Finland
Occupy Space! Rovaniemi Art Museum Rovaniemi Finland

Kimpassa (Together), Marimekko&Kiasma, Kiasma, Helsinki

trois fois rien, Le 19 CRAC, Montbéliard France

Life and Design in Finland, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Japan
Nordic Day: Scandinavian Design in Everyday Life, KF Gallery, Seoul Korea

The Servant Nature, Logens Konsthall, Kisa Sweden
Pulp Spirit / Sense of Wood, Promenadigalleria, Hyvinkää Finland
XVI Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä Finland

MUJI CHAIR, BAL gallery 33, Kobe and YURAKUCHO MUJI, Tokyo Japan
Luvassa lämpenevää, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland
Tähtihetkiä, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku Finland
On Paper, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark
REWIND, PLAY/FORWARD, Verzameld Werk, Gent Belgium

Fly me to the Moen, 44 Moen, Askeby Denmark
Ei saa peittää - Får ej övertäckas, Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Sweden
Värähtelyä, Danielson-Kalmari Museum, Vääksy Finland
The XIV Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä Finland

All Colors Permitted As Long As They Don´t Interfere With Business,
BWA Katowice and National Museum in Szczecin, Poland

Against-The-Light, Jubilee exhibition 60 years, Zuiderzee Museum,
the Netherlands

SLOW, Z33, Hasselt Belgium

Pewna Finlandia, BWA Katowice and BWA Wroclaw and CRP Oronsko, Poland

Strikknikk Knitnic, The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Bergen) and
National Museum of Art - the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Oslo) and Gallery Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (Arendal), Norway

Thread, Gallery of Fine Arts Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Everyday Lines, Gallery 51, MCLA, Massachusetts USA

Art, Life & Confusion, 47th October Salon, Belgrade Serbia
CHECK-IN EUROPE. Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, EPO, Munich Germany Remix, Fiskars, Finland
Sokerina pohjalla, Rauma Art Museum, Finland

Une Certaine Finlande, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels Belgium
On The Road, Museu da Aqua, Lisboa Portugal
Mouvement intuitif bis, Atelier 340 Muzeum
Kabusa Art Hall, Köpingebro Sweden

Ars Fennica 1991-2003, Marble Palace, St.Petersburg Russia
37.3 grader C, Vikingsberg, Helsingborg Sweden
Vasta Maalattu - Peinture Fraiche!, Le Triage, Nanterre France

Forum Box, Helsinki
GOKANN, Kyoto Japan

Fluxus und die Folgen, Wiesbaden Germany
Basic Elements, Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
Unique 2002, Fiskars Finland

L’Art dans le Monde, Pont Alexandre III, Paris

Umedalen Skulptur, Sweden
Laterna Nordica, AIFACS, New Delhi, India
Aquarium, Museum of Architecture, Tallinn Estonia

Purnu, Orivesi, Finland
Stone Sculptures, Galerie Artek, Helsinki

Sex, Snack’n Pop, Galleria Titanik, Turku Finland
Var Dag, Gävle Art Center, Gävle Sweden
Muuntamo, Helsinki
Exhibition of Finnish Artists, Art Hall, Helsinki

Mänttä Art Festival, Mänttä Finland

Forest and Mountain Project, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery and Gallery Wang, Oslo Norway

Wunderkammer, children’s exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Nordic Drawing Triennial, Sweden

The Young Artists’ Exhibition, Art Hall, Helsinki

Ekobäng, Old Student House, Helsinki

Nordic Furniture Design, Form/Design Center, Malmö Sweden
Young Sketches, Furniture Fair, Copenhagen Denmark

Ars Fennica, Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation

Aquarium, Tallinn, Association of Estonian Sculptors

Mänttä Art Festival, Grand Prize

Wood Product Competition, 1st prize, Finnish Crafts Organization

Art competition for the main entrance of the University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, 1st prize

Furniture design competition, 2nd prize, Finnish Furniture Exporters and UIAH

Grave monument competition, 1st prize and honourable mention, Church House, SKSK, Union of Helsinki Evangelic-Lutheran Parishes, Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo

Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki; Helsinki City Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; City of Espoo; City of Tampere; Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, Mänttä; Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä; Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere; Henna and Pertti Niemistö Contemporary Art Collection; Heino Art Foundation; Hämeenlinna Art Museum; Oulu Art Museum; Salo Art Museum; Aine Art Museum, Tornio; Wihuri Foundation; Saastamoinen Foundation; Collection Swanljung/Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa; Vexi Salmi´s Art Collection; Finnish Art Association; Kajaani Art Museum; The Finnish State Art Collection; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku; Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä
Abroad: Sammlung Block, Germany; Stalke Collection, Denmark; Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels, Belgium; Zuiderzee Museum, The Netherlands
Sweden: National Public Art Council; Nordic Water Colour Museum; Malmö Art Museum; Art Association of Apoteksbolaget; Provincial Administration (Landstinget), Gävle; Gävle Municipality; Provincial Museum of Gävleborg; Collection Källemo; Uppsala Art Museum; Carnegie Konstförening; Sigtuna Museum

Untamo-school, Helsinki 2025

New Children’s Hospital, Helsinki 2018

Ministry of Education, Helsinki 2008

Voutila Senior Home, Hämeenlinna 2006

Arabianaukio Square, Helsinki 2006

Kaakkuri School, Oulu 2004

Mariner of the Seas, Royal Caribbean International 2003

Children´s Clinic, HYKS, Helsinki 2000

Veräjälaakso School, Helsinki 1999

fabric design with Naomi Ito; nani IRO - Kokka, Japan

book cover, Minna Canth: Työmiehen vaimo, WSOY 2017 (1885)

Caroline Strubbe: Lost Persons Area-movie 2009 ("some of Tessa’s creations were inspired by the work of Anu Tuominen")

www.vimeo.com/38090210  /  The Nordic Watercolour Museum 2012

Anu Tuominen - Tomorrow today will be yesterday, The Finnish Art Society 2020

anu tuominen - write red in blue; The Nordic Watercolour Museum 2012

Anu Tuominen: Naturally!; Art-U room and Anu Tuominen 2011

Anu Tuominen: Thinkables; Anu Tuominen 2009, Art-U room, Galerie Anhava, Anu Tuominen 2008

Ars Fennica 2003 - Anu Tuominen; Ars Fennica Art Foundation and Like 2003; Anu Tuominen 2006, 2008

Anu Tuominen: Kuvan sijamuotoja; Anu Tuominen 2009, Jack-in-the Box 2001