Petra Sairanen is a Finnish-born artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She earned her BFA from the University of New Hampshire and MFA from Brandeis University. Numerous public and private collections house her works, including the Portable Works Collection (City of Portland, Oregon), North Shore Children’s Hospital (Salem, Massachusetts), Children’s Hospital of Boston (Massachusetts), Astra Zeneca Pharmaceutical Company, (Newton, Massachusetts), and the Boston University Fuller Collection. Sairanen teaches painting and design at PCC Rock Creek and is the director of the Helzer Gallery.
