Stina Puotinen

Stina Puotinen is an artist, educator and occasional curator from New York City. Earning her BFA at Vassar College in 2004 in Studio Art and Art History, she went on to teach at major arts institutions in NYC including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among many others. She lived in Manchester, UK while earning an MFA in Collaborative Practice from Manchester School of Art 2015 - 2017, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Exhibitions and performances include Spring / Break (NY), Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Material Art Fair (CDMX), ICA (London UK), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester UK), Vane Gallery (Newcastle UK), Storm and Drunk (Madrid), and Museum of Art & Design (NYC). She was an artist in residence at Surf Point Foundation (Maine) in October 2023.

Her work explores the (mis)interpretation of objects, questions of communication & relationships, spontaneous collaboration and the creation of social space through sculpture, installation, and sometimes performance. Object-based work is often translated through another medium, ranging from photography and digital collage to painting and textiles. Across materials, all of her work alludes to art historical sources, examining the coded language of objects, images and color through visual and verbal double entendres. Performances and collaborative projects have tackled ideas around work, play, and the often semantic divide between the two.

Get in touch at stina.puotinen [at] gmail.com