Laura Marie Katriina Vuorio was born in Turku, Finland, but has lived the majority of her life in Singapore. She received her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts (Honours) from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, and is currently working as a Visual Arts Teacher in Art Village in Singapore. As a practicing artist, she specializes in mixed media, often combining oil medium, charcoal, and watercolour together. Her work focuses on themes of perception, dealing with body politics, sexuality, and discrimination, which she conveys by the use of her own dwarf body.
Vuorio’s work is a journey towards accepting herself and her circumstances by exploring the artist’s dark relationship within herself, her sexuality, and the public. By consciously manipulating and asserting the presence of her own body through her body language, repetition, and lewd medium, Vuorio hopes to mold her body into a symbol of resistance, and to again restrengthen her own incapacitated character.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Restrengthening Dwarfism
NUSS Guild House, Singapore
Restrengthening Dwarfism
NUSS Guild House, Singapore
2016
Redefining Sexuality
Merlin Gallery, Singapore
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Redefining Sexuality
Merlin Gallery, Singapore
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
1+1+1+
Art Village Gallery & Studio, Singapore
1+1+1+
Art Village Gallery & Studio, Singapore
2019
Student Art Exhibition 2019 (Level 4 Students and Teachers)
Art Village Gallery & Studio, Singapore
2016Student Art Exhibition 2019 (Level 4 Students and Teachers)
Art Village Gallery & Studio, Singapore
Through the Years
New Treasure Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
BOD Seven Deadly SINS
Capitol Piazza, Singapore
Capitol Piazza, Singapore
NAFA Alumni Show
Merlin Gallery, Singapore
Merlin Gallery, Singapore
2015
Bank Art Fair
Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
Bank Art Fair
Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
NAFA Grad Expectations
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
Unpredictable Volume: A Painter’s Vision
NUS Guild House, Singapore
NUS Guild House, Singapore
2014
‘Comma’ NAFA Final Year Exhibition
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
‘Comma’ NAFA Final Year Exhibition
NAFA Gallery, Singapore
ART ACTIVITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2016
Artist Talk
Hillside World Academy, Singapore
Artist Talk
Hillside World Academy, Singapore
2015
Portrait Commissions (series of two)
NUS Paint a President, NUS Guild House, Singapore
Portrait Commissions (series of two)
NUS Paint a President, NUS Guild House, Singapore
2014
Moderator for ‘UOB Painting of the Year- A Critical Relevance and Research Seminar’
Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore
Moderator for ‘UOB Painting of the Year- A Critical Relevance and Research Seminar’
Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore
AWARDS
2014
Winner of Meeting Room Category
Clyde & Co Clasis Community Art Project
Winner of Meeting Room Category
Clyde & Co Clasis Community Art Project