Born 09 06 1961 in Vilnius. Photography historian. Member of the Lithuanian Photographers' Union since 2005, granted the status of art creator in 2005. Member of the International Organization of Museums (ICOM) since 1998. 2005-2009 PhD studies at Vilnius University, Faculty of History. 2005 Italian language and culture studies at the University of Perugia for foreigners, 2008 English language, culture and communication studies at the Oxford International Study Centre. 1995-2001 Head of the Iconography Department at the National Museum of Lithuania, since 2002 Curator of the Photography Collection of the Lithuanian Art Museum, curator of exhibitions, lecturer at the Faculty of History, Vilnius University, from 2006-2008, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius Academy of Arts, from 2006-2007, lecturer at the Institute of Journalism at Vilnius University, since 2007. 100 publications on photography in Lithuanian and foreign press. Since 2001 she has been cooperating with the editors of the Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia and the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon.
Publications include Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Ferrotypes in Lithuanian Museums (2000), Vilnius Photography 1858-1915 (2001), Salve, Italy! (Yesterday and Today (2006-2008), Antanas Sutkus. A Retrospective (2009), etc., and the book series Other Photography (since 2008).
Lithuanian Photographers' Union Award ( 2003).