Painter Ričardas Garbačiauskas was born in 1956 in Vilnius. In 1980 he graduated from the Vilnius Art Institute with a degree in painting and began working at the then Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute (now Šiauliai University, Faculty of Arts). He held the position of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Head of the Painting Department. Since 2006 he has been a professor in the Departments of Painting and Fine Arts, and in 2009 he was awarded the title of professor of education. R. Garbačiauskas is a member of the Senate of Šiauliai University. Since 1982 he has been participating in exhibitions, projects and plein-air exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad (Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Poland, Germany). Member of the Lithuanian Artists' Union since 1992, chairman of the Šiauliai Artists' Organisation