Henry Grahn Hermunen

Who is Henry Grahn Hermunen?

Henry Grahn Hermunen is a contemporary artist living in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden.

He studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki Finland between 1996–2001 and received a Master of Fine Arts. During 1998 -2000 he was a scholar at The Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm Sweden.

Since the late 1990s, he has created big scale installations consisting of separate techniques or combinations such as: photography, drawings, sculpture, painting, light and sound, dealing with environmental and sociopolitical issues.

In an interview "Art about the beauty in Life", with Ny Tid news magazine Henry Grahn Hermunen said: We live in the middle of a world wide renaissance with global education through the internet. But for example, people work too much to have time to consume what they have. Medias role is crucial - they can obviously make people shrink. Joseph Pulitzer who founded the Pulitzer Prize and who sometimes acted dubiously himself, said a hundred years ago "that a cynical, mercenary and demagogic press will eventually create a people who are just as shabby as themselves".