ABOUT
Reetta Hiltunen (b. 1980) is Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist and printmaker working across painting, printmaking, fashion, and surface pattern design. Her practice explores the intersection of art and design through layered and visually rich graphic expression.
Her visual language is abundant, focusing on figurative imagery and geometric patterns, developed through her own artistic process. These motifs appear both within the figures and as background elements, transferring into textile and design works.
Her work is grounded in strong craftsmanship and material sensitivity, most often realized on paper through drawing, painting, and printmaking. In her printmaking practice, hand-drawn elements are digitally composed into complex visual collages, creating works that combine traditional techniques with contemporary processes.
Hiltunen’s body of work is aesthetically refined and stylistically cohesive. Her artworks unfold as narrative figures and symbolic compositions, in which layers of meaning create deep resonance with the viewer.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Preceded by international studies at institutions such as Middlesex University (BA in Fine Arts, 2005), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London and exchange studies at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally, awarded, and included in collections.
As a creative entrepreneur, Hiltunen manages her own Ateljé in Ullanlinna District of helsinki and runs an art-focused design brand. She actively contributes to the creative community, currently serving on the board of Ornamo, a Finnish association for designers.
The collections carry the Design From Finland mark. Visit the shop.reettahiltunen.comto discover more about Reetta’s art-orientated design label.
BRIEF CV
ART EDUCATION
2011 MFA (with Honors), Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2005 BA of Arts, Middlesex University, London
2004 art Exchange, sva - school of visual arts, New York
2002 BTEC Diploma in Fine Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
POSITIONS OF TRUST
2026-23 board member, Ornamo art & design
2025 Chair, Nomination Committee, Visual Arts’ Copyright Society Kuvasto
2022-20 Chair, Artists O ry (Vice Chairman 2019)
2022/20 Stipend committee, Ornamo art & design
LATest solo exhibitions
2025 Heavenly houses, Dromig Gallery, helsinki
2023 Habitare faiR stand 6n23, Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre
2023 Kamppi art summer - kamppi shopping center, Helsinki
2022 art games, capital of game art, kouvola
2021 Embodiments, Gumbostrand Konst & Form, Sipoo
COLLECTIONS (examples)
V&A Museum of Childhood, London
The Americas Biennial Archive of Contemporary Prints, USA
Paulon Säätiö
AWARDS
RHMD Printmaking, III International Printmaking Competition, Istanbul
a Billboard Art Project in Atlanta, Georigia, USA (cchrpartnership)
The service palette offered is vast; commission art, prints, illustrations, surface patterns, concept design, art workshops and many more creative ideas might be implemented on request.