Inga Likšaitė was born in Kaunas on June 26, 1972. She graduated from Palanga 3rd Secondary School. In 1990 she studied at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Humanities, in 1992-94 – at Kaunas Art Institute of VAA, Department of Design, in 1994-99 – at Kaunas Art Institute of VAA, Department of Textile. She is a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union since 2006. The artist works in the fields of textile and contemporary art.

 

One-man exhibitions

2000 – Presentation of the cycle of stations at St. Ann’s chapel, Kačerginė, Kaunas district
2003 – “2LinesPer”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2003 – Exhibition of textile works, Ūkio Bankas, Kaunas
2004 – Exhibition of textile works, Jurbarkas Museum
2004 – Exhibition of textile works, gallery File Shearing, Berlin, Germany
2006 – “White & Blue Lines”, gallery HOP, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 – “Exhibition”, gallery ARTima, Vilnius
2007 – “White & Blue Lines”, gallery S.O.F.A., Druskininkai
2007– “On Cinema”, Museum of History of Communication, Kaunas
2008 – “On Cinema / Version 2”, Lithuanian Museum of Theatre, Cinema and Music, Vilnius

Group exhibitions

1999 – Exhibition of young textile artists, Thunder House, Kaunas
2000 – Mini textile exhibition, Lithuanian Artists’ Union Kaunas gallery
2000 – “Textile without Yarns”, Medals gallery, Vilnius
2000 – “Big Format’2000”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2000 – The constitutive exhibition of the Textile Artists’ Guild, Kaunas
2001– Contest of big format works “Always Ready”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2001– The 3rd international textile exhibition “Soft World”, Kaunas
2001– “New Clothes of Old Town”, gallery of the Textile Artists and Artists’ Guild, Kaunas
2002 – “Things To be Touched”, J. Monkutė-Marks Museum, Kėdainiai
2003 – The 4th international textile exhibition “The Good and Wrong Sides”, Kaunas
2003 – Exhibition of sewing, gallery of the Textile Artists and Artists’ Guild, Kaunas
2004 – Exhibition of young artists “Social 2 – Evolution”, Architects’ Union Gallery, Kaunas
2004 – “The Best Artwork of the Year", Kaunas Picture Gallery
2004 – International biennial of fibre art “Trame d’autore”, 4^“, Biblioteca Civica, Citta di Chieri, Italy
2004 – International biennial of fibre art “Tradition and Innovation”, Riga, Latvia
2005 – International exhibition of fibre art “Trame d’autore”, 4^“, St Galen Textile Museum, Switzerland
2005 – “The Best Artwork of the Year”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2005 – “Lithuanian Textile”, Korner park gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 – The 1st Lithuanian quadrennial of contemporary art, gallery Arka, Vilnius
2005 – International exhibition, “Black Light Gallery”, U3 tunnel, Berlin, Germany
2005 – Kaunas art biennial TEXTILE’05, M. Žilinskas Picture Gallery, Kaunas
2005 – “Sewing. Finland–Lithuania”, Graphics gallery, Kaunas
2005 – “Lithuanian Textile”, D. Rostworowski gallery, Krakow, Poland
2006 – “Route”, gallery Arka, Vilnius
2006 – “Kersvers”, Post CS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2006 – “Black Light”, Kaunas Castle
2006 – “Needles and Pins”, Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2007– “The Best Artwork of the Year”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2007 – “Contemporary Lithuanian Textile”, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Warsaw, Poland
2007 – “Still-life. Pfaff Embroidery Challenge 07”, Alexandra Palace, London, Great Britain
2008 – International exhibition “Art of Stitch”, Birmingham, Great Britain
2008 – “Hello”, gallery Arbeitskreis68, Vasserburg, Germany
2008 – “Contemporary Lithuanian Art ANEW”, Galeria Miejska, BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland
2008 – “Lithuanian Textile”, Brussels, Belgium

Symposiums

2000 – Corrugated cardboard symposium “Origami”, Kaunas
2000 – Symposium of fibre art “Tradition and Innovation”, Zvartava, Latvia
2001 – Plain-air of graphics “Flammable”, Pedvale, Latvia
2001 – Corrugated cardboard symposium “Origami-2”, Vilnius
2004 – Felt symposium, Hiuma Island, Estonia
2007 – Platform of multi-media ideas “Schmiede”, Halein, Austria

Awards, achievements

2001 – The first prize in the contest of big format works “Always Ready”, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas
2004 – Prize for the debut of the year at Kaunas artists’ exhibition “The Best Artwork of the Year”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2005 – The highest evaluation for mastery in the category “Technologies” in Kaunas art biennial “TEXTILE 05”
2006 – State stipend of the highest degree
2007– Prize of the audience at Kaunas artists’ exhibition “The Best Artwork of the Year”, Kaunas Picture Gallery
2007 – Grand Prix in the exhibition “Still-life. Pfaff Embroidery Challenge 07”, Alexandra Palace, London, Great Britain
2008 – The first prize in the exhibition “Art of Stitch”, Birmingham, Great Britain

Works of the artist have been purchased by the National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum, private collectors in Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, the USA.