Santeri Lehto
Lappeenranta, Finland, 1982
About
Santeri Lehto graduated as a visual artist from the Lahti University of Applied Sciences’ Art Institute in 2013 and as a puppet designer from the School of Arts and Crafts in 2005.
Lehto uses a kind of minimalism, and carefully considered analytical naivety, as his stylistic means. First the viewer notices the childish nature of the works and a certain kind of visual simplicity, but the immersion in the symbolic space of the paintings reveals their completely different, almost paradoxical nature. The deconstruction of Lehto’s paintings reveals how visual simplicity underscores the extremely complex and endless question and mystery of existence. So maybe the most important thing in Lehto’s works is not what you see, but that what you can’t see.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
LIFESTYLE, Palau de Casavells, Casavells, Spain (2024)
LOVE OF LIFE_Invisible Love with Maijastiina Lehto, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland (2023)
LIFESTYLE, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
LOVE OF LIFE with Maijastiina Lehto, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland (2022)
LIFESTYLE, with Maijastiina Lehto, HAA Galleria, Helsinki, Finland (2022)
LIFESTYLE, with Maijastiina Lehto, DOJO, Helsinki, Finland (2022)
Ready or Not with Maijastiina Lehto, B-Galleria, Turku, Finland (2016)
Drive-by with Maijastiina Lehto, B-Galleria, Turku, Finland (2015)
Growing Business with Maijastiina Lehto, Galleria Linnakatu 33, Turku, Finland (2014)
Made in Paradise with Maijastiina Lehto, Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany (2013)
Näkymätön rakkaus – Ghost, Galleria OyOy, Lahti, Finland (2010)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland (2024)
Floralia, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
Great Art for Young Collectors, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
Santeri Lehto, Andrew Colbert, Taru Happonen, TM Gallery, Helsinki Finland (2019)
Group Show, Cable Factor, Helsinki, Finland (2012)
Young Artists Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (2011)
The Art of Basware, Sanomatalo, Helsinki, Finland (2010)
OYOY CREW, Galleria OYOY, Lahti, Finland (2010)
Group Show, Jyväskylä Art Museum – Suoja, Jyväskylä (2005)
Doll art Exhibition, The Museum of Central Finland’s Craftsmanship Museum, Jyväskylä (2004)
Doll art Exhibition, Craft Museum Of Finland, Ikkunagalleria, Jyväskylä (2004)
ART FAIRS
FOUNDATIONS, Artsy Curated (2024)
AWARDS
The Finnish Cultural Foundation / Päijäthäme Foundation (2012)
Jyväskylä Craftsmen’s Foundation (2005)
Jyväskylä Craftsmen’s Foundation (2004)