Photographic artist Nanna Hänninen was born in 1973 in Finland, in Rovaniemi and she lives and works in Finland in Kuopio. She graduated in 2002 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki, renamed Aalto University School of Art and Design in 2010. Nanna Hänninen’s international career began at the Berlin Art Fair in 2000. Over the past decades she has been presented by many frontline galleries like Galleri Bo Bjerggaard in Copenhagen, taubert contemporary in Berlin, Bryce Wolkowitz in New York, Galerie Anhava in Helsinki and Camara Oscura del Arte in Madrid. Currently her works are presented by Persons Projects in Berlin and Tintera in Cairo.

Nanna Hänninen is one of the first members of Helsinki School artists. Her works are held in numerous public and private collections around the world.