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Riitta Vainionpää

Swedish textile artist (1952–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Riitta Vainionpää
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Riitta Maija Vainionpää (3 October 1952 – 24 April 2021) was a Finnish-Swedish textile artist.[1]

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Biography

Vainionpää has been awarded several scholarships and was chosen Artist of the Year 2011 by the Swedish-Finnish art association Suomiart.[2][3][4]

Vainionpää's work has been displayed in galleries throughout Sweden, in exhibitions such as "Då och nu" (English: "Then and Now") at Liljevalchs konsthall in 2011,[5] and "Nu får det vara nog" (English: "Enough is enough") at the Röhsska Museum in 2015/2016.[6][2]

Vainionpää died on 24 April 2021, in Stockholm, from COVID-19. She was 68 years old.[2]

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