MONIKA DIRSYTĖ (b. 1989)

Lives and works in Vilnius – London

Education

2016   MA in Sculpture, Vilnius Academy of Arts
2013   BA in Sculpture, Vilnius Academy of Arts

Awards and Grants 

2015   The Best Artist, Audience Award for the performance I am Your Sun, ARTVILNIUS’15, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014   The Lithuanian Council for Culture State Grant for Culture and Art Creators

Art fairs

As part of Meno Niša display at:
2021   Limits. ARTVILNIUS’21, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020   Pan/demos. ARTVILNIUS’20, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017   No one will take me away from me, ARTVILNIUS’17, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016   Complex, ARTVILNIUS’16, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015   I am your Sun, Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2015   I am your Sun, ARTVILNIUS’15, Vilnius, Lithuania

Selected exhibitions, performances 

2017   I am your Sun, D-Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2016   I am your Sun, Burster Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015   Virus’20 Contemporary Art Festival, Šiaulių Art Gallery, Šiauliai, Lithuania
2015   Future Shorts Program, Loftas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015   Black Roses, Jonas Mekas Visual Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014   LT Art NL, Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014   Monika to Monika, YPA POP UP 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014   Season 4, Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014   TRUENOTTRUE, Jonas Mekas Visual Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013   ONĖMONĖ, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013   Audit, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012   Spa, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011   JEKlai(pe)da 2011, KCCC, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2011   Marilyn Monroe, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010   The Garden, National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010   Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone, Ruhr, Germany