Emilia Tanner (b.1990) is an artist working and living in Helsinki. In her work Tanner often uses paper as a raw material to explore ideas of time, temporality and perception. She approaches paper as a three-dimensional material that can be sculpted, transformed, manipulated and altered. Actions of repetitions and manipulations of the paper bring forth an intense desire to scratch the surface of what lies in front of us and discover something new. Recently she has been focusing on installations and working with light.

Tanner received her MFA from The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in 2021. Her work has been exhibited in Finland and internationally. Tanner’s works have been on display in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Helsinki (2023), Galerie Anhava (2022), Forum Box Gallery (2020), in a solo show at Sinne Gallery (2022) and in a duo exhibition at Kohta Taidehalli (2024). Tanner has been awarded the Ducat Prize from The Finnish Art Society (2023), the Héléne and Walter Grönqvist Foundation prize (2022) and the Stina Krook Foundation stipend (2019).