Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.

In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000.^[1] In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern,^[2] and in 2006 her multi-screen video piece The Wind (2006) was exhibited at MoMA.^[3] In the same year she won the £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize in Cardiff, Wales.^[4]

Her work is held in the collection of the Tate.^[5] She is professor at the department of Time and Space-based Art at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art.

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• Artist's page on Artfacts.Net
• The Guardian review of Tate Modern show
• ArtForum review of Tate Modern show
• New York Times review of The Wind at MoMA

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