SELJA RAUDAS
Visual artist
Selja Raudas is a visual artist, illustrator and painter from Helsinki. She graduated as a visual artist from the Lahti Art Institute, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and completed a master’s degree in art at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Raudas’ works have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions since 1989.
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NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
Kuvakirja tasa-arvon mahdollistajana
Lonna-sali, Helsingin Kirjamessut
24.10.2025
Kuvakirjataide pystyy tuomaan esiin isoja asioita muodossa, joka on sekä lapselle että lapsen kanssa kirjaa tutkivalle aikuiselle helposti lähestyttävä. Se mahdollistaa tasa-arvon ja asioiden käsittelyn turvallisessa ympäristössä.
THL:n Barnahus-hankkeen johtava asiantuntija Sini Stolt, kirjailija Katri Tapola ja kuvittaja, kuvataiteilija Selja Raudas keskustelevat kuvakirjasta peilinä, jonka avulla nimetä tunteita ja kohdata omaa tilannetta.
Drawing exhibition at the arctic circle
Gallery Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
14.12.2024 – 7.1.2025
The exhibition is the first step to establishing a biannual drawing exhibition that is launched in Lapland and tours the Nordic region. It is an initiative by artist, curator Elisa Alaluusua who has been part of the drawing community in London and wants to expand that to her native home in Finnish Lapland.
Habitare 2023
Messukeskus / Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland
13. – 17.09.2023
Finland’s largest furniture, design and decoration event, Habitare, will take its place in September. You can explore Selja Raudas' artwork in booth 3d29.
Participating in the group exhibition in Ukraine
Central Exhibition Hall of ART Union of Ukraine,
Kiova, Ukraine
Art Library named after Nikolai Bazhan,
Kiova, Ukraine
Marya Zenkovetskaya museum,
Lviv, Ukraine
Exhibition Desert – Ice
Art Center Ahjo, Joensuu, Finland
15.02. - 05.03.2023
The exhibition brings together two contrary environments: desert and ice. Raudas has collected inspiration and knowledge by working on Greenland's glaciers and in deserts in Jordan, Israel and Death Valley, California. Paintings describe all the beauty and cross-purposes that are happening when ecosystem is slowly changing.
