Kyzikaitė Jolanta

Born in 1980 in Kaunas district. In 1998, she graduated from Kaunas Art Gymnasium, and in the same year she entered the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she completed her bachelor’s (2002) and master’s (2004) studies. She has been participating in exhibitions since 2003.

During this time, she has organized four personal exhibitions and participated in over 30 joint exhibitions in Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Austria, and Andorra.

Since 2011, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union.

In 2010 and 2011, she participated in the “Artist in residence” program in Laudon, Austria.

In 2010, she became the first place laureate in the project “Young Painter Prize 2010”.

In 2009, won second place in the “Young Painter Prize 2009” competition.

J. Kyzikaitė’s works have been acquired by the Modern Art Center in Lithuania, the Walter Bischoff Museum in Germany and private collectors.

As J. Kyzikaitė herself says, her paintings are distinguished by their large formats and comic style. The themes of her works are determined by the environment around her. The woman’s work revolves mostly around the following themes: children, who reflect social relationships between people, and self-portraiture. Often these themes merge into one common work.

Children are frequent in the painter’s works. J. Kyzikaitė states that this is a kind of self-portraiture, because by painting her daughters, the woman wants to see a part of herself and society. The everyday play of children shown helps to respond to personal, internal problems, as well as family, common cultural experiences and current events. By interweaving personal experiences with the general social atmosphere, one can see the fundamental pains of the era, which arise from misidentification, upbringing, the influence of the media, and the Internet.