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 Arts (Finland).