Vytautas Tomaševičius

Vytautas Tomaševičius (born 1972) is a Lithuanian painter, creating work in Vilnius since the late 1990s. His distinctive style combines a graphite and painted image with an enlarged laser-printed graphic transferred to the painting surface. In 2019 he became the first Lithuanian artist to win the Excellence Award in the Tokyo Art Olympia Biennale.

Life Tomaševičius was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1972, to a Lithuanian mother and Polish father. He graduated in 1989 from Vilnius J. Vienožinskis Art School, and in 1998 from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, majoring in painting and theatre set design.

Film Since 1995 Tomaševičius has worked as a set designer for international film and TV projects. His work included creating sets and costumes for the 1998 Lithuanian film Park Integrity, directed by Dalia Jakubauskaitė, and sets for the 2001 Werner Herzog film Invincible. More recently, he has devoted himself solely to painting. His first solo exhibition in Lithuania was in ARTima Gallery, Vilnius, in 2007. Currently he collaborates with the galleries VanLoon en Simons (Netherlands) and Galleri Svanlunda (Malmö).

In 2010 he won a scholarship from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and in 2018 one from the Lithuanian Cultural Council. More than 5,000 works by nearly 1,800 artists from 100 countries were submitted, of which 270 were selected by an international jury, and only 30 received an Excellence Award.

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