Artistic education. 1985 graduated from Šiauliai Art School. Since 1987 studied at Kaunas Higher School of Arts, graduating in 1990 with a diploma in artistic design, speciality in mural painting. 1990–1998 studied at Šiauliai University Faculty of Arts, acquiring Master‘s Degree in the Humanities (art criticism, painting, academic adviser prof. Vincentas Gečas).
Teaching. 1997–2011 worked as teacher at Šiauliai University Faculty of Arts, Drawing Department. Since 2006 works as teacher of art subjects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. 2015-2022 – at Kazimieras Simonavičius University. In 2016 was awarded the pedagogical title of Associate Professor in Arts. In 2016 and 2019 has lead art workshops at University of Coimbra and ESMAD P. Porto (Portugal), Leuvarden University of Applied Arts (the Netherlands), UNIWA (Greece), University of Franche-Comté (France), UJEP (Czech Republic), University of A Coruña (Spain).
Memberships. Since 1999 Member of Lithuanian Artists’Association (LAA). 2016-2020 Member of LAA Painters’ Board. Since 2017 Member of LATGA (Lithuania). Since 2020 Member of the Council of LAA. Since 2022 Member of Paris Taylor Foundation, Artists’Association (France).
Publications. In 2006 published students’ handbook Relief Textures; Co-author, compiler and designer of students’ handbook Laws of Composition in Forms of Nature (published 2011); Art Director for Kensaku Shioya (Japan) photo album See through Chrysalis (published 2011); In 2020 published art album Meda Norbutaitė compiled by the culturologist and art critic Prof. Dr. Habit. Antanas Andrijauskas; Co-author of 2021 published book Fashion Phenomenon. Fashion in a creative society (article Art Contexts in the Fashion Industry); In 2022 published catalog of cycle Clownery; etc.
Curatorial activities. Selected projects: 2015 – Still-Life. Contemporary Context in Tradition, LAA Gallery Arka, Vilnius; 2016 – 100% Painting, LAA Gallery Arka, Vilnius; 2018 – Document, Vilnius Town Hall; 2020 – coordinator of Vilnius Painting, Alytus Culture Center, Lithuania.
Exhibitions, art fairs, residencies. Since 1997 holds personal exhibitions (Lithuania, Poland, France, Switzerland, Belarus, Russia, etc.) and participates in group exhibitions, art fairs, residencies, other art projects (Lithuania, France, USA, England, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Norway, South Korea, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, etc.).
Main exhibitions: 2023 – 7th Zagreb Biennial of Painting, Mestrovic Pavilion, Croatia; 2023 – Exhibition „Man and Woman“, Estonia National Museum, Tartu; 2023, 2022, 2021 – Contemporary Art Fair ART VILNIUS, Litexpo; 2023 – VOLTA Basel Art Fair, Switzerland; 2023 – 30th exhibition „Man and Woman“, MONA New Art Museum, Estonia; 2023- Exhibition of Vilnius artists Iron Wolf, Espace Commines, Paris, France; 2023, 2022, 2021 – International Contemporary Art Exhibition NordArt, Germany; 2022 – Project X: EGO, Mark Rothko Art Museum, Latvia; 2022- EAL, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, England; 2022 – Author’s painting exhibition, Antanas Mončys Museum, Palanga, Lithuania; 2017 and 2021 – International art residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France; 2021- Art Basel Miami Beach Art Fair Scope art show, Florida, USA; 2020 – Author’s painting exhibition, Artists’ Union Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2018 – International Contemporary Art Fair Art-Minsk, Belarus; 2014 – Quadrianale of Contemporary Art Q14, Vilnius Bastei, Lithuania; Author’s painting exhibitions, BaltArt GmbH, Langenthal (2006), Bern (2012), Switzerland; 2011 – Lithuanian Art Museum and M.K. Čiurlionis Gallery (Lemont, USA) art exhibition of competition, Lithuanian Art Museum, Radvilos Palace, Lithuania; 2011- International Painting Biennial BIP Chisinau-2011, Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Center, Moldova; 2006 – 5th International Biennial of Drawing, Museum of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia; 2002 – International project Time for Tea. Lietuviškai, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2001 – 2th World Festival of Art on Paper, Ljubliana, Slovenia; 2001 – 15th International Triennial of Drawings, Rijeka Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijek, Croatia; etc.
Awards and recognition. Receiver of the Swiss Baltic Net Graduate Award (Gerbert Rüf Foundation, Switzerland, 2003). The work Rafting of The Red Sheep nominated for International Painting Biennial BIP Chisinau-2011 (Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Centre, Chisinau, Moldova, 2011). Winner of the 8th World Samogitian Art Exhibition (The Samogitian Art Museum, Plungė, Lithuania, 2020). Finalist of Zabolis Art Prize (Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021). Grand Prize Winner of the competition Exposure (See/Me art gallery, New York City, USA, 2021). Finalist of competition True North, (New York City, USA, 2023) and etc.
Art works are represented in the collections. MO Museum of Modern Art (Lithuania); SEMC Stasys Eidrigevičius Museum (Lithuania); private collections in Lithuania, Germany, England, Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Japan, USA and etc.
