Ingrid Helena Pajo (*1996, Estonia) is a textile artist, who – having in mind the importance of tactile knowledge – is exploring the roots of weaving, spinning and dyeing fabrics. Found materials are an integral part of this discovery, emphasising the journey; the collecting; the process; the bricolage.

ihpajo (at) gmail.com

Education

MA Design and Crafts; Textile, Estonian Academy of Arts
BA Textile Art and Design, Estonian Academy of Arts

Exchange studies in ISIA Urbino, MA Illustration; Accademia di belle arti di Roma, Fine arts

Awards

2021

  • Young Textile Artist of the year by Textile Artists Association
  • Dorothy Waxman Textile Prize finalist by NYTM
  • Mari Adamson Textile Prize by Estonian Academy of Arts

Selected exhibitions

2023

  • Things to move on with, duo-exhibition with Eugenio Marini, PS: Communitism, Athens (GR)

2022

  • Gathering branches for a temporary shelter, duo-exhibition with Eugenio Marini, Living Room, Athens (GR)
  • Roaming, collective exhibition at ARS Factory, Tallinn (EST)
  • Slow manouvres, group-exhibition at EKKM, Tallinn (EST)

2021

  • DOKKING Station, collective exhibition at Vent Space, Tallinn (EST)
  • Plain perceptions, solo-exhibition at ARS Showroom, Tallinn (EST)

2020

  • Messages from the invisible, installation at Castelnuovo Fotografia (IT)
  • Celebrating Twilight, solo-exhibition at Via Piave 21, Urbino (IT)

2019

  • South–Middle–North, group-exhibition at Dom Kultury Śródmieście, Warsaw (PL)
  • YTAT – Young Textile Art Triennial, Lodz, (PL)
  • Binding Matter, group-exhibition at Infinite Life Gallery, Tallinn (EST)

2018

  • NoTe, collective exhibition at Kraam artist-run space, Tallinn (EST)

2017

  • I feel gentleness while seeing a stray path, solo-exhibition at MYKO, Warsaw (PL)