Bio
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Sarah Koljonen is a Eurasian artist with Chinese and Finnish roots. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. Koljonen held solo exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Oklahoma City, participated in group exhibitions in Hong Kong, New York and Missouri, and received several artist awards.


The site
The works in this site are samples of Sarah Koljonen's artistic investigations, mainly from 2002 through 2006. A new website with recent work will soon be available.


About the recent work
Sarah Koljonen plays games with the natural occurring events in her daily life. She approaches the process of art-making as conversations with nature, or as games with chance phenomenology. She then transcribes the resulting dialogue in the visual language that emerges in the game. Koljonen's recent work derives from using the drawing tools she develop. Koljonen's work is not confined to any particular medium or process, but follows a principle that allows the art to unfold itself. By keeping the door open to the undefined and unpredictable, her work is open to the discovery of possibilities that are self-generating and non-repeating.