Marko Mäetamm

Marko Mäetamm (born December 13, 1965 in Viljandi, Estonia) is an Estonian multimedia artist, working within the mediums of video, drawing, interactive CDs, and the internet.

Mäetamm began studying graphic art at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1988 and received his M.A. from the academy in 1995. Mäetamm also studied practicing print technologies at the Swedish Royal Art High School.

Marko Mäetamm has had solo and group art exhibitions throughout the world and has published two books, one under the pen name/moniker "John Smith" - a fictional conceptual persona occasionally used by Mäetamm as an alter-ego in his artistic projects often, in collaboration with fellow Estonian artist Kaido Ole.

Mäetamm is currently a full-time teacher in the drawing department at the Estonian Academy of Arts and currently resides in Tallinn, Estonia.

Awards

• 2008 Order of the White Star V Class
• 2002 Painting's Prize of the Estonian Painter's Association.
• 2000 Kristjan Raud annual art award
• 2000 Harpoon. Annual art award of Vaal Gallery
• 1999 Stipendium of Cultural Endowment
• 1997 UNDP annual prize

Books by Marko Mäetamm

• MARKO und KAIDO - Under the pen name "John Smith". Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia. Tallinn, 2003
• Rääkivad majad - Speaking Houses. R/I/B/O/P, Tallinn, 2003

References/External links

• Marko Mäetamm's Homepage
• Over Art Biography of Marko Mäetamm
• Blur of the Otherworldly
• Gallery Vivian Napp