Riitta Vainionpää

Riitta Maija Vainionpää (3 October 1952 – 24 April 2021) was a Finnish-Swedish textile artist.

Biography
Vainionpää has been awarded several scholarships and was chosen Artist of the Year 2011 by the Swedish-Finnish art association Suomiart.

Vainionpää's work has been displayed in galleries throughout Sweden, in exhibitions such as "Då och nu" ("Then and Now") at Liljevalchs konsthall in 2011, and "Nu får det vara nog" ("Enough is enough") at the Röhsska Museum in 2015/2016.

Vainionpää died on 24 April 2021, in Stockholm, from COVID-19. She was 68 years old.