Rasa Andriušytė - Žukienė was born in Jurbarkas on August 1, 1960. She graduated from Jurbarkas 2nd Secondary School (1976), St.Žukas Art Technical School (1980). She studied art criticism at Vilnius Art Academy (1982-1987).

Membership in creative organisations: member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Union from 1990, member of AICA from 1992, member of the Lithuanian Art Historians’ Association from 1998.

Present activity, scientific degree: Doctor of the Humanities, lecturer of Vytautas Magnus University, Department of Art Criticism (head of the department in 2001-2007), docent.

State and other major awards and stipends:

2000-2001 – Individual stipend of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture;

2005 – Stipend for a trainee at the Czech Academy of Sciences;

2005 – Letter of Gratitude of the Lithuanian Artists' Union for the contribution to activity of the union

2006-2007 – Strategic stipend of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture

2008 – Culture and Art Prize of Kaunas City Municipality

Creative activity:

Supervision of exhibitions

1988 – Human Signs. Sculpture, drawings, photography. Klaipėda Exhibition Centre (along with E. Lubytė);

1991 – Graphics of M.K.Čiurlionis and Contemporaries. National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas (along with G. Jankevičiūtė);

1996 – Rimvydas Jankauskas-Kampas. Kaunas Picture Gallery and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius;

Kaunas-Ryga-Kaunas. Art exhibition of lecturers of VAA, Kaunas Art Institute. Kaunas Picture Gallery and Riga Academy of Arts;

1998 – Kęstutis Paliokas. Kaunas Picture Gallery and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius;

2001-2002 – Mysterium Magnum. International exhibition at the gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas;

2004-2007 – Sculpture Zone. Continuous project along with the gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Taikos Avenue 145 b.

 

Major scientific publications (2003-2008):

Books:

Andriušytė-Žukienė R. Akistatos: dailininko V. K. Jonyno kūryba pasaulio meno keliuose (Confrontations: Works of V.K.Jonynas in Art Roads of the World). Vilnius: Lithuanian Art Museum, 2007. ISBN 978-9986-669-66-1.

Andriušytė-Žukienė R. Eimutis Markūnas. Vitražai (Eimutis Markūnas. Stained-Glass Works). Kaunas: Meno Parkas, 2007. ISBN 9955-674-03-2

R. Žukienė, R. Mažeikienė, L. Dovydaitytė, Kultūros animacija (Animation of Culture). Methodological book, Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-9955-12-286-9.

Andriušytė-Žukienė R. M.K.Čiurlionis: tarp simbolizmo ir modernizmo (M.K.Čiurlionis: Between Symbolism and Modernism). Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2004. 246 p. ISBN 9955-601-45-0.

Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė, Milda Kulikauskienė, Darius Kučinskas, Osvaldas Daugelis. Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: twórczość, osobowość, środowisko [collective monograph]. Kaunas: National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum, 2001, 203 p.

Rasa Andriušytė-Žukienė, Ugnė Karvelis, Serge Faucherau, Vytautas Landsbergis. Čiurlionis et l’art Européen // M.K.Čiurlionis. 1875-1911: [collective monograph]. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000. 204 p. ISBN 2-7118-4140-5.

Vakarų Europos XX a. dailės istorija (Art History of Western Europe of the 20th Century). Educational book. Kaunas: VMU Publishers, 2003.

 

Articles of Rasa Andriušytė – Žukienė have been published in Lithuanian periodical publications, other cultural and professional publications, and in exhibition catalogues.

 

Information about the personality: www.vdu.lt.