ALGIS GRIŠKEVIČIUS

• BIOGRAPHIE
  
  
• Algis Griškevičius was born on 1954 in Vilnius. Finished school in 1973. The same year he went to army till 1975.
  
  
• Worked as artist's assistant in Opera and Ballet House from 1976 to 1980.
  
  
• Studied at Vilnius Art Institute (now Academy) from 1980 to 1985.
  
  
• At the same time worked as senior artist - scene painter in Vilnius Youth Theatre from 1980 to 1990. Working as a freelance artist from 1990.
  
  
• Participating in exhibitions from 1986.
  
  
• Arranged 52 personal exhibition and participated in 95 group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad.
  
  
• His works had been shown in exhibitions around the world in: Latvia, Laos, Tunisia, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Sweden, USA, Croatia, Austria, China, Belgium, Italy, Vietnam, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Bulgaria, United Arab Emirates, Canada
  
  
• His works have been acquired by
  
  
• - Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
  - M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
  - Ethnographic Museum of Alytus, Lithuania
  - Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
  - Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  - Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  - The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum New Jersey, USA
  - European Parliament Brussels
  - Art collectors in various countries
  
  
• Awards:
  
  
• 2010
  Order of Special Merit for Lithuania
  
  
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  2009
  
Second position in International Caroun Photo Club (CPC) competition, (Vancouver, Canada)


• 2008
  Laureate of LATGAA (Lithuanian Artists’ Rights Association). Golden Star for the most popular visual artist .
  
  
• 2008
  Lithuanian Artists Association’s Golden Badge for the best exhibitions in 2007.
  
  
• 2007
  Laurynas Ivinskis premium for the best calendar of the year.
  
  
• 2005
  The first place in the national contest for the best Lithuanian landscape at Klaipėda Picture Hall and Baroti gallery.
  
  
• 1999-2000
  Premium for painting in national exhibition ‘The Beginning of the End’ in Klaipėda Picture Hall and Baroti gallery.
  
  
• 1997
  Lithuanian Artists Association premium for creative continuation of Lithuanian tradition in the annual exhibition of Lithuanian painters.
  
  
• 1994
  Ministry of Environment of Lithuanian Republic premium for a painting work in exhibition ‘To Beautify Lithuania’.
  
  
• Solo exhibitions:
  
  
• 2010
  ,,Everyday Miracles", ,, Ciurlionis Art gallery", Chicago (USA) “The State of Weightlessness”, (Photographs, sculpture) "Kaunas Photography gallery", Kaunas (Lithuania) “The Circus” (Photographs sculpture and video) Akademija Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) “… and reticences” (painting, object), “Baroti” gallery, Klaipeda, (Lithuania) “In the Shadow of Memories” (painting, objects, photographs), “Gallery XX”, Panevezis (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2009
  There Is a Land... (Painting, objects) Gallery „Meno niša“, Vilnius “Trilogie” (Painting, Photographs and objects), Galerie “mare Liberum”, Hamburg (Germany) “Miracles of Mikaliskes” (Photographs), “Ausra photography museum, Siauliai “The Signs” (Photographs and objects), Giedre Bartelt galerie, Berlin (Germany)
  
  
• 2008
  "Declaratory", Klaipeda Exhibition Hall and Baroti gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania). Pfoto and objects, in the Dum Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, County Hall,Marine Road,Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, (Ireland). 'Miracles of Mikaliskes Village' (photography), 'Prospekto' gallery, Vilnius.
  
  
• 2007
  “That is the way we are...” Painting, Objects, Photographs. Lithuanian Centre, Warsaw (Poland). “In the Autumn Light” (painting, object), Lietuvos Aidas gallery, Vilnius In the Other Side of Water (painting). Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2006
  Signs (Photographs) Artima Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) The Restoration of Life. Gallery Geraldes da Silva, Porto (Portugal) Eastwest. Dalia Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Painting, Objects, Photographs. Art Gallery of Kaliningrad (Russia)
  
  
• 2005
  Modern Painting. European House. Strasbourg (France) A Bit of Rough. Ethnographic Museum, Alytus (Lithuania) Restoration of Remembrance. Gallery 'Akcija M' Moletai (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2004
  Retrospective. Vilnius Town Hall, Vilnius (Lithuania) Oil, Nut-tree and Copper (painting and sculpture). Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) Painting. Objects. Photographs. Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden)
  
  
• 2003
  Handiworks. Meno Nisa Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2002
  Photographs. Savickas Art Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Echos. Rotundo Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2001
  Painting and… Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Bergamot Station Art Center, BGH (Boritzer/Gray/Hamano) Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
  
  
• 2000
  Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) Anya Tish Gallery, Houston (USA
  
  
• 1999
  Espaco Gan Gallery, Lisbon (Portugal) Embassy of Lithuania, Lisbon (Portugal) Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1998
  Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1997
  Ethnographic Museum, Alytus (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1996
  Akademija Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Gallery XX, Panevezys (Lithuania) Seidel Gallery, Cologne (Germany) Langas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1995
  The Art League, Cologne (Germany) Embassy of Lithuania, Bonn (Germany) Ethnographic Museum, Alytus (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1994
  Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1993
  Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Chicago (USA)
  
  
• 1992
  Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1991
  Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1990
  Arka Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1989
  Martynas Mazvydas National Library, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1987
  Youth Theatre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2010
  Zagreb Salon – International Exhibition of Photography. Museum “Mimara”, Zagreb (Croatia) ”Focus Europa” 6 International Contemporary Art Exhibition Plassenburg Castle Kulmbach, (Germany) “Nord Art 10” International exhibition, Kunst in der Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf (Germany) Lithuanian Season ALEX Gallery/GalleryA, Washington, USA
  
  
• 2009
  “Nord Art 09” International exhibition, Kunst in der Carlshütte in Büdelsdorf (Germany) “Salzburg – Litauen”, Traklhaus gallery in Salzburg (Austria) “Presentation of contemporary Lithuanian art - Od Nowa”, Contemporary art gallery of Olsztyn (Poland) “Caroun” Art gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
  
  
• 2008
  Beijing International Art Biennale (China) “Festimage” International Image Festival, Chaves (Portugal) “Baltic Pop”. Giedre Bartelt galerie, Berlin (Germany) “Presentation of contemporary Lithuanian art - Od Nowa”, Szyb Wilson gallery, Kattowitz (Poland) “Presentation of contemporary Lithuanian art - Od Nowa”, Miejska bwa gallery, Bydgoszcz (Poland)
  
  
• 2007
  Identification of new thinking, "Arka" gallerie, Vilnius, Lithuania “The Small Gallery from Vilnius (Lithuania) in Brussels”. K Gallery, Brussels (Belgium) The International Photography Festival. “Traditions and Contemporaneity”. Central Exhibition Hall 'Manezh', Moscow (Russia) The international digital visual arts exhibition. “The Brain Project. State Library in Trieste (Italy).
  
  
• 2006
  Exhibition of Henkel Art Awards nominees. Tresor at BA-CA Kunstforum in Vienna (Austria) 'The Modern Lithuanian Art' in Museum of Modern Art of Valencia (Spain) Contemporary Lithuanian Photography. Galeria Dom Fotografie, Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovakia)
  
  
• 2005
  The First Quadrianalle of Lithuanian Art. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania) Horizons of the Years '05. Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) People and Beasts. Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin (Germany) To be in a Spotlight (Art from Lithuania). Krapperups Exhibition Center, Krapperups (Sweden) Roadsign. Artima gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania) Money in Painting. Artima gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2004
  Project "Erosion", Kultural communication center, Klaipeda Art hall, Klaipeda, Lithuania The 12th Vilnius Painting Triennial. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania) The Landscape in the Contemporary Lithuanian Painting. Art Exhibition Hall and Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) ART LT. ABC treehouse Gallery, Amsterdam (Holland)
  
  
• 2003
  Madonna’s Iconography in Art. Picture Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) Checkpoint Charlie. Infra Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) Open Space. Doxa Gallery, Cesky Krumlov (Czech Republic) Four Lithuanian Artists. Gallery K, Brussels (Belgium) Lithuanian Art. Vasby Konsthall and Infra Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)
  
  
• 2002
  The Baltics: Nonconformist and Modernist Art during the Soviet Era. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey (USA)
  
  
• 2001
  The 10th Anniversary of Baroti Gallery. Art Exhibition Hall and Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) Culture of United Europe. Europe House, Paris (France) Miniatures of the Lithuanian Artists. Herning Museum, Herning (Denmark) Episodes. Oscar Wilde’s House-Museum, Dublin (Ireland) Lithuanian Art. Gallery at the Gildenburgh, Peterborough (Great Britain) Tradition Today. Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm (Sweden) Vartams-10. Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 2000
  Lithuanian Art in European Commission, Brussels (Belgium) Tradition and Future. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania) Baltic Art Exhibition. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Washington (USA) Exhibition of Lithuanian Artists. Dortmund Town Hall, Dortmund (Germany) Creative Exhibition of the Baroti Gallery Artists. Maj Gallery, Karise (Denmark) Vartams-9. Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1999
  The Beginning of the End. Art Exhibition Hall and Baroti Gallery, Klaipeda (Lithuania) Vartams-8. Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
  
  
• 1998
  Colours And Patterns. Baltic Arts Exhibition. Mayfair Gallery, London (Great Britain) International Art Fair. Moscow (Russia)
  
  
• 1997
  The Lithuanian Plastic Exhibition. The Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
  
  
• 1996
  Three Lithuanian Artists. Cologne Cathedral, Cologne (Germany)
  
  
• 1995
  Lithuanian Culture Days in St. Petersburg (Russia) Nonconformist Art from the Former Soviet Union. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey (USA) Baltic Days in Germany, Neustadt (Germany) Vartai Gallery Exhibition in the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago (USA)
  
  
• 1994
  Vartai Gallery Exhibition. Gallery 10, Washington (USA) Three Lithuanian Artists. Schwerin (Germany) Young Art from Eastern Europe. Norderstad (Germany)
  
  
• 1993
  Vartai Gallery Exhibition. Rhein-Ruhr-Zentrum, Mulheim (Germany)
  
  
• 1991
  Exhibition of Lithuanian Artists. De Melkfabriek Art Center, Amsterdam (Holland)
  
  
• 1989
  The 13th Biennale of the Baltic States, Norway and Iceland. The Art Gallery of Rostock, Rostock (Germany)
  
  
• 1987
  The USSR Art in Laos, Vietnam and Bulgaria
  
  
• Group exhibitions: