Monika Furmana
Biography
EDUCATION
2016 PhD in painting, theory and practice, Vilnius Academy of Arts
2010 M.A. Vilnius Academy of Art, Department of Painting
2008 B.A. Vilnius Academy of Art, Department of Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 – (Im)Possible (Cosm)Us, M. Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 – Mechanical Soul, Tsech gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 – Eat Myself, Drink Myself, Meno Niša gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 – The Other One, Exhibition Halls Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 – A Woman’s Identity, Mariehamn’s City Library, Mariehamn, Finland
2012 – Back to the future, Akademija, Gallery of Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 – Sin and Redemption, Kairė-dešinė Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 – Monologues, Mariehamn’s City Library, Mariehamn, Finland
2009 – Gravitation, Akademija, Gallery of Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Part of the Out of the Shell San Francisco Art Week programme. Aedicule, San Francisco, California, USA.
2024 Vilnius Vibes exhibition of 19 contemporary Lithuanian artists. Anger Museum, Erfurt, Germany.
2023 Imagining Ourselves: Self-portraits of Lithuanian Artists from the 19-th Century to the Present Day, Vilnius Picture Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Why Is It So Hard to Love? Curated by Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway, MO museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 Spring Time, Lewben Art Foundation collection, M.K.Čiurlionis Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 Lithuania Now, gallery D Contemporary, London, UK
2015 Lithuania Now, Gallery D Contemporary, London, UK
2013 Vilnius international painting triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 International figurative painting competition Figurativas ’13, The European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Video festival Points of Perspective, Lodz, Poland
2012 Lithuanian Artist’s Union group exhibition, Principality of Andora
2012 Lithuanian Artist’s Union group exhibition, Salzburg, Austria
2012 Valley of the Moon, Cagliari, Italy
2011 NEU/NOW festival, Talinn, Estonia
ACHIEVEMENTS
2022 Lithuanian Ministry of Culture Grant for artistic achievement.
2021 CFA Artist of the Month Award
2014 Lithuanian Ministry of Education Grant for artistic and scholarly achievement.
2009 Young painter prize, Pamėnkalnio Gallery Vilnius
PUBLICATIONS
2020 “Why Is It Hard To Love?”, Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway, ISBN 9786098136227, MO Museum, Vilnius
2018 Catalogue of works by female artists from the Lewbwn Art Foundation collection ” What Took You So Long”, Monika Krikdtopaityte, ISBN 9786098241006, Vilnius
2014 Ten paintings and the article “Painting, Context, Identity” published in Lituanus (Spring
2014, 60:1), Chicago, USA (http://www.lituanus.org/2014/14_1_07Furnanaviciute.html)
Works are in the collection of Mo Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania, Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania