The Discoverer, 1994, oil on canvas, 70x90 cm
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Born in 1957
in 1982 graduated from Vilnius State Art Institute (now Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Since 1988 Member of the Union of Lithuanian Artists
Since 1990 24th member of the group of artists
Since 2001 works at Vilnius Justinas Vienožinskis art school
Since 2008 works at the Vilnius Academy of Arts
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
1988 Diploma of the Fine Art Exhibition of Young Artists of the Baltic States "Youth-88"
1996/97, 2000/01, 2006/07 State scholarship
2020 Cultural Council scholarship
2009 Lithuanian Artists' Union Golden Badge (No. 26)
BOOK
"Vygantas Paukštė". From the series "Contemporary Lithuanian artists". Artseria Publishing House of the Union of Artists. Vilnius, 2012
WORKS PURCHASED
National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lewben Art Foundation, Lithuania
Lithuanian art recognition fund TARTLE, Lithuania
StedelijkMuseet, Amsterdam, Holland
SBK Kunstuitleen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heden (ArtoteekdenHag), The Hague, Holland
The NOG Collection, SNS REAAL Fond, The Netherlands
Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland
Zimmerli Art Museum, NewBrunswick, USA
Private collectors in Lithuania and abroad
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1989 - Art Exhibition Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
1993 - Arch Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
1995, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 – Aido gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
1997, 1999, 2007, 2009 - Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland
1997 - Giedrė Bartelt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002 - A. Monči's house-museum, Palanga, Lithuania
2006 - Center of Lithuania, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, Warsaw, Poland
2006 - House of Lithuanians, Seinai, Poland
2006 - Janina Monkutė–Marks museum - gallery, Kėdainiai, Lithuania
2007, 2016, 2021 – Stair Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2007 - Vilnius City Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
2007 - Left Left Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008 – Vilnius Little Theater, Lithuania
2009 - Lithuanian Artists' Union Exhibition Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 - Piano.lt concert hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 - ARTVILNIUS'11, LITEXPO exhibition and congress center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 - VDA gallery Titanic, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 - Academy Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
MORE IMPORTANT GROUP EXHIBITIONS since 2007.
2007 - Bee art spaces. Klaipėda, Lithuania
2009 - A living tradition of modernism. Exhibition Gallery of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 - 20th century Lithuanian art. National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 - Abstractionism and Expressionism. LDS Exhibition Hall and Ark Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 - Radar. Painting at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Warsaw and Lodz, Poland
2010 - State of Anxiety. Contemporary Art Center SOVIART, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 - Collection of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. Klaipėda, Utena, Bratislava
2011 - Collection of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. Jurbarkas, Šiauliai, Vilnius, Zagreb, Warsaw, Riga
2011 - XX-XXI centuries. painting. Lithuanian Echo Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 - Collection of the Union of Lithuanian Artists. National Museum, Rokiškis, Lithuania
2012 - Exhibition 6.0. Gallery "Left-Dešinė", Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 – Lithuanian Echo Gallery. ARTVILNIUS'12, LITEXPO, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 - LT00 PAINTING. ŠMC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 - Contexts of painting. XV International Triennial of Vilnius Painting. ŠMC, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 - ABLV Banka collection. Art Space Riga, Latvia
2014 - Auction to support Ukraine. LDS
2016 - Another crossroads of eras. NDG, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 – 25x25 anniversary. Stair Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2017 - Landscape. Lewben Art Foundation. Žilinska Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 - LDS group exhibition. National Museum, Liepaja, Latvia
2017 - Khora. VDA Titanic, Vilnius - Gdansk. Gdańsk Academy Gallery, Poland
2017 - Silent collections. NDG. Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 - LDS Centennial Collection. BERLAYMONT Piazza. Brussels, Belgium; T. Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 - All art is about us. MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 - Aidas'19. Dates. Gallery Echo, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 - Recommendations. KKKC Exhibition Hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2019 - With coffee. Stair Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2019 – New exhibition of Lithuanian art. NDG, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 - Contemporary Lithuanian art. Gallery ESPACE COMMINES, Paris, France