Henna-Riikka Halonen is interested in social structures and human behavior and often collaborates with people to engage with their working or leisure experiences, highlighting everyday practices, and peripheral positions, as potential sites for resistance to wider social structures. Her works aim to highlight our need to structure experiences as narrative in order to gain understanding of them. The myth like narratives that emerge from history, are important aspects of some of the works. Her focus on everyday settings and situations often reveal an almost absurd sense of comedy but also have both threatening and meditative undercurrents.
Rooted to both reality and fiction, Halonen’s works seek to question the clashes and parallels of these different elements brought together.

Henna-Riikka Halonen was born in Finland and graduated with BA Fine Art From Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland in 2002 and with MFA Fine Art from the Goldsmiths College in 2006. Since then she has exhibited internationally and received several grants, prizes and residencies. She is a lecturer in Fine Art in Teesside University and is currently holder of the prestigious Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship