Hi! LABAS! MARHABA!
My name is Inga. I am a Lithuanian living, mothering, loving, spinning, painting, potting and educating in Ontario, Canada. I believe that this world would be a happier place if we would spend more time to foster our creativity. My focus is to practice visual art making, learning and sharing my knowledge with everyone who got the need to try it. And as my favourite living ceramic artist Maggie Boyd says “ I am also in the midst of raising a love-creature and trying to find ways to fight supremacist structures and ecological devastation in little and big ways because this place is a bit of a mess right now and I’m not interested in passing it on in this condition.”
Peace, Love you too! :)
Inga
EDUCATION
2015-2019
BFA – Drawing and Painting, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, ON
2013 -2014 Creative Integrative Arts Therapies Training Program, The Create Institute, Toronto, ON
2005-2010
BFA- Theatre Directing, Klaipeda University, Lithuania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Slabs for the Lobster Paw, Fraser Cultural Center, Tatamagouche, NS
Elora Fergus Studio Tour Members show, Elora Center for the Arts, Elora, ON
2021
Ceramic and Textile show, Sound & Colour gallery, Paisley, ON
2020
Expanded Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2019
Group Work, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
Nothing, Something , Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto ON
The The The Walls, 181 Brunswick, Toronto, ON
Exuberant, Women's Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON
Shifting identities, First Ontario Centre of Arts, Milton, ON
OCADU GradEX 104, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2018
Why the @#&! Do You Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto,ON
Crossing Boarders, Weird Things, Toronto, ON
Look inside, OCAD University Great Hall , Toronto, ON
Crossing Boarders , Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Painters Make Better Lovers, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON
Awenda Inspired, OCADU's Ada Slaight Student Gallery, Toronto, ON
Artist Showcase, Red Eye Espresso, Toronto, ON
2017
Painters Make Better Lovers, Sussex Contemporary, Ottawa, ON
Why the @#&! Do You Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto,ON
Scarborough Arts' 31st Annual Juried Exhibition, Papermill Gallery, Toronto ON
VAM39 Annual Juried Show, Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM), Mississauga, ON
2016
Why the @#&! Do You Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto,ON
Festival of The Body, OCAD U, Toronto, ON
First Year Celebration, OCAD U, Toronto, ON
Burlington Urban & Rural, Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, ON
2015
OAS Juried Show , Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, ON
AUCTIONS
2015
Art Auction, Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, ON
OAS Juried Show and Auction, Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, ON
2014
OAS Juried Show and Auction, Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, ON
AWARDS
Project 31 Drawing and Painting Award
Mrs. W.O. Forsyth Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-
Drawing, Painting and Ceramics Instructor: Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, ON:
Including PORTAGE (Elora Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Centre for Youth) program ;
Supportive Arts (Art and Mindfulness program for (dis)abilities) program
2013-2019
Ceramics and Painting instructor : Oakville Art Society, Oakville, ON
2019
TA : OCADU University - Giblartar Point, A Living Lab, Toronto Island, Toronto, ON