is a Finnish painter, photographer, graphic designer, engraver and poet who worked as a professor at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts.

Kuutti Lavonen was born in 1960 in Kotka1. He studied at the French-Finnish Lyceum in Helsinki2, at the Institute of Decorative Arts (it) in Urbino, Italy in 1978-1979, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland from 1980 to 19841. He lived in Paris from 1990 to 1993.1 It draws faces with black stone, little colored with pastel1. He was a professor at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts3.

In 2005, some of his poems were published in a collection of poetry, Havahtumisia.

With Osmo Rauhala (fi), he painted the interior of St. Olaf's Church in Tyvu, Finland, after it was burned by a pyroman5,6. Some of his works are on display at the Kunts Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa.