I use painting to think, to tell stories, and to explore how the way we see the world is shaped by the information we consume. My work investigates how themes like death, slowness, or personal rupture shift meaning depending on the context in which they are seen—whether through personal memory, media coverage, or collective imagination.
Rather than approach painting through formal or technical concerns, I use it as a narrative device—much like language. My practice often begins with a question or a tension, and unfolds as a series of paintings that approach the theme from multiple perspectives. I’m especially interested in how contemporary flows of information—fast, fragmented, overwhelming—affect our ability to see, feel, or reflect.
I paint recognisable, realistic imagery with expressive, rough brushwork, often accompanied by text or subtitles embedded into the image. At times, I integrate painting with sound, walking, or site-responsive installation, using the exhibition space as a kind of expanded canvas. I think of exhibitions not as containers for finished works, but as works in themselves—experiential narratives made of images, movement, and mood.
My artistic position doesn’t sit comfortably within either traditional painting communities or the broader contemporary art scene. I don’t see painting as nostalgic or retrograde, but as a flexible and living form that still has the power to carry complex, layered thought. I use the tools of modernism when they’re useful, but not as ends in themselves. For me, painting is not something to preserve—it’s something to keep reimagining.
BORN:
1993
EDUCATION:
2013-2017 – BA at Vilnius Art Academy, monumental art department
2018-2020 – MA at Vilnius Art Academy, site specific art department
2019 – Erasmus+ studies at University of Montenegro, Faculty of Fine Arts, Montenegro
OTHER:
2020 - Lithuanian Artists Association
2022 - Association LATGA
2023 - Art Workers Union
2025 - Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists Association
MAIN EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
2024 - Exhibition "UNALIVE" "Pamėnkalnis gallery", Vilnius
2022 - Exhibition "380 B.C." together with Martynas Pekarskas, VDA exhibition halls "Titanikas", Vilnius
2021 - Exhibition "Sanctity Translated", "8 akys ir ausys" gallery, VIlnius
2021 - Exhibition "THE DECAMERON", Smoke Factory (Dūmų Fabrikas), Vilnius
2021 - 17th International Vilnius painting triennial (UN)DETERMINED, Vilnius
2019 - Exhibition of a painting expedition "Painting the River", Routers Art Lab, Vilnius
2018 - Painting expedition "Painting the River" and exhibition in Kintai Arts artist residence, Kintai
2018 - Exhibition "The Look (Žvilgsnis)", VDA gallery "Akademija", Vilnius
2016 - International project "In the trails of Baltic refugees", Baltic Art Center, Visby, Gotland, Sweden
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GIM.:
1993
IŠSILAVINIMAS:
2013-2017 – VDA BA Monumentalioji dailė
2018-2020 – VDA MA Įvietintas Menas
2019 – Erasmus+ studijos University of Montenegro, Faculty of Fine Arts, Juodkalnija
KITA:
2020 – Lietuvos dailininkų sąjunga bei meno kūrėjo statuso suteikimas
2022 – Asociacija LATGA
2023 – Meno darbuotojų profesinė sąjunga
2025 - Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno kūrėjų sąjunga
PAGRINDINĖS PARODOS IR PROJEKTAI:
2024 - Paroda "UNALIVE" "Pamėnkalnio galerija", Vilnius
2022 - Paroda "380 B.C." kartu su Martynu Pekarsku, VDA parodų salės "Titanikas", Vilnius.
2021 - Paroda "Išverstas Šventumas", galerija "8 akys ir ausys", Vilnius
2021 - Paroda "DEKAMERONAS", Dūmų Fabrikas, Vilnius
2021 - XVII Tarptautinė Vilniaus Tapybos Trienalė „(NE)DETERMINUOTA“ – Taikomosios dailės ir dizaino muziejus, Vilnius
2019 - Tapybinės ekspedicijos projekto paroda „Tapyba Upe“ – Maršrutizatorių Meno Laboratorija, Vilnius
2018 - Projektas „Tapyba Upe“ (Tapybinė ekspedicija Lietuvos upėmis bei paroda) – „Kintai Arts“ menininkų rezidencija, Kintai
2018 - Paroda „Žvilgsnis“ – VDA galerija „Akademija“, Vilnius
2016 - Tarptautinis projektas „In the Trails of Baltic Refugees“, Baltic Art Center, Visbis, Gotlandas, Švedija