Essi Nieminen (b. 1992) is a Helsinki-based visual artist, musician and art educator.

Nieminen works mainly in painting. Her artistic process focuses on playful, intuitive exploring and making. She loves messy & chaotic processes, as well as organizing and piling things. She works with found objects and images, every day observations, notions emerging – or purely just follows materials, colour and shape. Her practice is often fast-paced and frantic, and usually leads her to a nice place…

Nieminen has studied art in Aalto ARTS (BA & MA), Universität der Künste Berlin (painting minor) and Oriveden opisto (fine arts). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, and thrown a few solo exhibions as well. In addition to painting, she makes street art, comics, installation, prints and photos.

Lately Nieminen's paintings have depicted e.g. food creatures, stuffed toys and compilations of imaginary objects / quirky shapes leaning on each other. Nieminen hopes to deliver a presence of kindness through her practice.