Plunge, Lithuania, 1969. Vive e trabalha em Nova York, EUA
Formação
1998-02
Combine Media at Hunter College, City University of New York, MFA
1987-93
Studies of Painting, Art Academy, Vilnius, BFA
Exposições Individuais
2023
Light Sculptures (curadoria de Skaistè Marcienè), Lietuvos Nacionalinis Dailés Muziejus, Lituânia
Portraits-Fossils 2023 (curadoria de Miglė Survilaitė e Aušra Trakšelytė), MO Museum, Lituânia
2022
Works on paper, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brasil
2021
Analog, BitForms Gallery, Estados Unidos
2018
Žilvinas Kempinas, V Formation, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, EUA
2017
Žilvinas Kempinas, Dartmouth college, Hanover, EUA
2016
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituânia
The Big O (installation), National library, Vilnius, Lituânia
Žilvinas Kempinas, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Inglaterra
Žilvinas Kempinas, Tube, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Áustria
2015
Lio Malca, Airborne, Nova Iorque, EUA
Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brasil
Žilvinas Kempinas, Santorini Arts Factory, Santorini, Grécia
2014
Fifth Wall, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapeste, Hungria
Scarecrow, Socrates Sculpture Park Public Artwork Comission, Nova Iorque, EUA
2013
Darkroom, Laboratory K20, Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Alemanha
Fountains, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islândia
Zilvinas Kempinas, Slow Motion, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Suíça
2012
Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brasil
2011
Lucid Dream, Yvon Lambert, Paris, França
Still, Garage, Centre For Contemporary Culture, Moscou, Rússia
Vartai 20 Years: Žilvinas Kempinas, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituânia
Žilvinas Kempinas, Yvon Lambert, Paris, França
2010
Ballroom, Yvon Lambert, Nova Iorque, EUA
AV Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Inglaterra
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brasil
2009
53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Veneza, Itália
2008
Žilvinas Kempinas, Kunsthalle Wien, Viena, Áustria
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galerie des Franciscains & Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, França
Open Studio, Atelier Calder, Saché, França
2007
Parallels/Flying Tape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
White Noise, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2006
Flying Tape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, França
Columns/Bike Messenger, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2004
Flying Tape, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2003
Still and 186 000 mi/s, site specific installations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Nova Iorque, EUA
1996
The New Year of King Nebuchadnezzar, site specific installation, Vilnius, Lituânia
Portraits-Fossils, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius, Lituânia
1994
Painting from Nature, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
Exposições Coletivas
2023
Try to make it real. But compared to what?: Contemporary Art from Lithuania, Museum of contemporary art in Krakow, Polônia
LUMINIAL, Light Art Museum of Budapest, Hungria
Ray Bartkaus ir Žilvino Kempino instaliacijos, Naionaline dailes galerija, Lituânia
So it appears (curadoria de Sarah Rifky), Institute of Contemporary Art Virginia Common Wealth University, Estados Unidos
Une histoire intime de l’art (curadoria de Stéphane Ibars), Collection Lambert, França
2022
ThisPlay (curadoria de Emre Baykal), Arter Museum, Istambul, Turquia
Parallel Time (curadoria de Birutė Pankūnaitė), Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum, Lituânia
KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art (curadoria de Peter Weibel), Kunsthalle Praha
2021
Calder Now (curadoria de Dieter Buchhart, Anna Karina Hofbauer e Calder Foundation), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holanda
Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah Art Museum, Emirados Árabes
2019
Zilvinas Kempinas & Juste Janulyte SKYCITY, WAVES (curadoria Remigijus Merkelys), National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lituânia
The Origins of Species: 1990s DNA (curadoria de Vaidas Jauniškis, Rimantas Kmita, Mantas Pelakauskas, Miglė Survilaitė, Aurimas Švedas, Tomas Vaiseta e Renata Valčik), MO Museum, Vilnius, Lituânia
EXTENSION.LT: narrações paralelas (curadoria de Kristina Romanova e Egle Mikalayune), National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscou, Rússia
Liberté (curadoria de José-Manuel Gonçalvès), Bordéus, França
Negative Space (curadoria de Peter Weibel, Daria Mille e Anett Holzheid), ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Alemanha
Between Us, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mogúncia, Alemanha
EXTENSION.LT: Parallel Narratives, Triumpg Gallery, Moscou, Rússia
magnetic_T, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canadá
2018
Re: work, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, Ingleterra
Action Reaction (curadoria de Serge Lemon e Marianne Le Pommeré), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Roterdã, Países Baixos
2017
YOU’VE GOT 1243 UNREAD MESSAGES. Last Generation Before the Internet. Their Lives
Latvian National Museum of Art, Great Exhibition Hall, Riga, Letónia
2016
Set in Motion, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Nova Zelândia
From Realism to the Object. Lithuanian World Art in the Collection of the Lithuanian Expatriate Art Foundation, Lewben Art Foundation, Kaunas, Lituânia
A World View. The Tim Fairfax AC Gift, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
Laboratoires de l’art, Musée des arts et métiers, le Cnam, Paris, França
Willow, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lituânia
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Se souvenir des Belles Choses, Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, França
The Calder Prize 2005-2015, Pace Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra
2015
The Art of Experimentation – Art and Technology, A shared Sphere, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, França
FIRST CUT, TEBA Factory, Arad, Art Encounters Foundation, România
Konkret Mehr Raum, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Alemanha
Invento | As Revoluções que nos Inventaram (curadoria de Agnaldo Farias e Marcello Dantas), OCA, São Paulo, Brasil
Sculpture by the Sea, Public Sculpture Biennial, Aarhus, Denmark
Walk the Line. New Paths in Drawing, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Alemanha
2014
Solides Fragiles, MUDAM Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo
Sublime: Contemporary works from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Austrália
The Shine, National Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lituânia
The disappearance of the fireflies, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, França
On what there might be not, MARSO Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Cidade do México, México
2013
Mindwalk, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituânia
De leur Temps 4: Nantes, Centre d’art Le hangar à Bananes, Nantes, França
Théâtre du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris, França
Projections, Le Musée de L`abbaye Sainte-Croix, França
Part of a Larger Whole. Lithuanian Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lituânia
TURBULENCES II, Foundation Boghossian/ Villa Empain, Bruxelas, Bélgica
Pattern: Follow the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, EUA; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, EUA
Slow Burn, Railway Zone Tilburg, Holanda
Dynamo – A Century of light and motion in art 1913 – 2013, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, França
Anti-Gravity, Toyota Miuniciopal Museum of Art, Japão
Film as Sculpture/ Sculpture as Film, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelas, Bélgica
2012
Exhibition of the permanent collection (from 1960 to present), Centre Pompidou, Paris, França
Echigo-Tsumari Triennale 2012, Niigata, Japão
Trait Papier, Musee des Beaux Arts, Chaux-de-Fonds, Suíça
Festival Via, Maubeuge, França
The Exit Festival, Creteil, França
Lightness?, Maison Particulière, Bruxelas, Bélgica
Beaufort 04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Bélgica
Perfoming Abstraction, Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo, Brasil
Oh, you mean cellophane and all that crap, A Calder Foundation project, The Mckittrick Hotel, Nova Iorque, EUA
Tapis Volants, Académie de France à Rome , Roma, Itália
Pink Caviar, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhaga, Dinamarca
Sculpture is Everything: Contemporary works from Collection, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Stanley Place, South Bank, Queensland, Austrália
Masterpieces of The Yvon Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Avignon, França
Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, França
Synergy, Hybrid Art 2012, Design Center Artplay, Moscou, Rússia
Prestige (Phantasmagoria of Our Times), Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lituânia
Moving is Living, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Polónia
Silence, Collection FRAC Basse-Normandie, Normandie, França
2011
Nuit Blanche Paris 2011 (Paris White Night), Paris, França
1.2 Volume, Polyforum Emergen Siqueiros, México
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japão
Number Five: Cities Of Gold And Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Alemanha
The Matter Of Air, Gertrude contemporary, Melbourne, Austrália
Play Time, Yvon Lambert, Nova York, EUA
Who Runs The Space Now?, ECOH Galeria, Mexico and Neue Galerie, Suiça / México
…so beautiful, NKV, Wiesbaden, Alemanha
Höhenrausch 2 (Trill of Heights 2), OK Centre, Linz, Áustria
Parcours Formes Olimpiques, LAM Lille Metropole Musee d’arte contemporain et art brut, França
2010
I Believe in Miracles – 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection – Collection Lambert, Avignon, França
Mostre in Corso. Spheres 2010, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, França
Sarabande. Žilvinas Kempinas and Deimantas Narkevičius, FRA -Basse-Normandie, Caen, França
City Without Walls. 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Inglaterra
Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: ten years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Alemanha
Sketches of space – MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo
From Artists’ Workshops, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lituânia
Listen to your eyes, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, França
Transmediale.10 – Future Obscura, Hause der Kulturen der Welt, Berlim, Alemanha
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA, Nova Iorque, EUA
2009
Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, França
Fall In/Fall Out, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canadá
ZEROplus, 401 Contemporary, Berlim, Alemanha
Go East II, MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo
Nightmare Full of Things Unspeakable, Concept V, Nova York, EUA
Das Fundament der Kunst – Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel seit Alberto Giacometti, Städtischen Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Alemanha
The Immediate Future, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Suécia
Espèces d’espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Nova York, EUA
We Go Round in Circles at Night, Contemporary Art Museum Rochechouart, França
2008
NOW JUMP, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin/Seoul, Coréia
New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, SFMOMA, San Francisco, EUA
Go East, Musee d’Arte Moderne, Luxemburgo
MANIFESTA7, Bolzano, Itália
Permutations, at the Musée des Beaux Arts et d’Archéologie, Valence, França
De Réalité, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, França
MANIF D’ART 4, La Biennale en Art Actuel de Quebec, Canadá
2007
Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turquia
Voyage Intérieur, FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, França
StereoVision: From 2D to 3D, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, EUA
The Last Seduction- A Welcome Surrender To Beauty, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, EUA
Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux, Centre International d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière, França
Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert, Nova Iorque, EUA
2006
Les Fils de Marcel, CRAC LR Art Center, Sète, França
Hapax, APERTO, Montpellier, França
2005
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
Drawings / Works with Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
2002
MFA Thesis Show, Time Square Gallery, Nova Iorque, EUA
1999
Prague Quadrennial 1999, Praga, Republica Tcheca
Lithuanian Art 1989 -1999, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
1998
After Painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
1997
Footnotes, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Islândia
1996
Holy Lie, press project, Vilnius, Lituânia
1995
Whales Stomach, site specific installation, Vilnius, Lituânia
Recent Documents, Balzekas Museum, Chicago, EUA
1994
Lithuania Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
For Beauty, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
1993
Kultr, Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lituânia
1992
Good Evils, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
Advent Bunch, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituânia
Prêmios
2007
Calder Prize and Atelier Calder Residency Award, Sachè, França
1998
Kristoforas Award for best Drama Theater Stage Design, Vilnius, Lituânia
1994
Westerly Trust Grant, Londres, Inglaterra
Academie Schloss Solitude Grant, Stuttgart, Alemanha
Coleções Selecionadas
Centre Pompidou, Paris, França
CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, França
FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, França
FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, França
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, EUA
Jumex Collection, México
Julia Stoschek Collection, Alemanha
Lusiana Museum of Modern Art, Dinamarca
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canadá
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Austrália
MUDAM, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburgo
Société Générale d’art contemporain, França
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, EUA