visual artist. Lives and works in New York. The artist is represented by the prestigious Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris and the Vartai Gallery.
1987-1993 studied painting at the State Art Institute. In 1994 he held his first solo exhibition "Painting from Nature" at the Contemporary Art Centre. In 1998 he received an award for the best stage design of the year.
In late 1997 he moved to New York, where he studied interdisciplinary art at Hunter College from 1998-2002. 2003 - New York Contemporary Art Center P.S.1"Leme (São Paulo), Yvon Lambert (New York), Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead (UK, 2010), Spencer Brownstone Gallery (New York, 2004, 2006, 2007), and the Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead (UK, 2010).
Major group exhibitions: MoMA (New York); 53rd Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy); 6th Liverpool Biennale (UK); Transmediale.10 (Berlin); Yvon Lambert (Paris, New York) Lunds Konsthall (Lund, Sweden); Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin Citz, South Korea), Manifesta 7, Bolzano (Italy); SFMOMA (San Francisco, USA); MUDAM (Luxembourg).
In 2007, the international monthly publication "Art Review Magazine" named Kempinas one of the "25 Contemporary Artists You Need to Know". In 2008, Kempinski won the Kolder Prize and a residency at the Kolder Studio, and spent six months at the Alexander Kolder Workshop in France, where he created his work Tūba, with which he represented Lithuania at the 2009 Venice Biennial (curated by Laima Kreivytė). In 2012, the artist was awarded the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art for the impact of the minimalist language of contemporary art and its international resonance.
The works consist of optically and physically immersive aesthetic events. His work employs the aesthetics of minimalism and op art. The works are abstract, communal and universal. Uses few elements, such as tape and fan, light and needle, simple and unconventional tools - videotapes, fans, fluorescent tubes - and combines them with space, rhythm, air and light. The result is a highly complex effect involving all the senses, changing the perception of place, time and movement. The works are directed towards the observer, who becomes the protagonist of a theatrical, often minimalist environment.
