2023
Zilvinas Kempinas. Portraits-Fossils 2023, MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Zilvinas Kempinas, Light Sculptures, Prana Domšaitis Gallery, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2022
Zilvinas Kempinas, Works on Paper, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Zilvinas Kempinas, Light and Gravity, 24th Islamic Art Festival Gradation, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Zilvinas Kempinas, Analog, bitforms gallery, New York
2019
Zilvinas Kempinas & Justė Janulytė: SKYCITY, WAVES, Gaida Contemporary Music Festival, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Zilvinas Kempinas, Liberté! Saison Culturelle 2019, Bordeaux, France
2018
Zilvinas Kempinas, Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
2017
Zilvinas Kempinas, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
2016
Zilvinas Kempinas, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Tube, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
Zilvinas Kempinas, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2015
Zilvinas Kempinas, Santorini Arts Factory, Santorini, Greece
Zilvinas Kempinas, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Airborne, Lio Malca Gallery, New York City, United States
2014
Fifth Wall, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle The Budapest Hall of Art, Budapest, Hungary
Scarecrow, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, United States
2013
Fountains, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Darkroom, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Slow Motion, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2012
Zilvinas Kempinas, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2011
Lucid Dream, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Still, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Vartai 20 Years: Zilvinas Kempinas, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Zilvinas Kempinas, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
2010
Ballroom, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City, United States
Airborne, AV Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, United Kingdom
Zilvinas Kempinas, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2009
53rd International Art Exhibition, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008
Zilvinas Kempinas, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Zilvinas Kempinas, Galerie des Franciscains & Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France
Open Studio, Atelier Calder, Saché, France
2007
Parallels/Flying Tape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
White Noise, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, United States
2006
Flying Tape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Columns/Bike Messenger, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, United States
2004
Flying Tape, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, United States
2003
Still and 186 000 mi/s, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center MoMA PS1, New York City, United States
1996
The New Year of King Nebuchadnezzar, (site specific installation), Vilnius, Lithuania
Portraits-Fossils, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
1994
Painting from Nature, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
4XGB, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Try to make it real. But compared to what?: Contemporary Art from Lithuania, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Superluminal, Light Art Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
So It Appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia , US
2022
Being Theoria: the 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Raum der Zeichnung, Port25, Mannheim, Germany
Growing Out? Growing Up? Contemporary Art Collecting in the Baltics, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
This Play, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
Parallel Time, Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Kinetismus, 100 Years of Electricity in Art, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Repubic
2021
Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020
The Art of Diminished Differentia, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
2019
The Origin of Species: 1990s DNA, MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Worlds in Motion, Collection Presentation, Mudam Luxembourg Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean (The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Negative Space, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Between Us, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
magnetic_T, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
EXTENSION. LT: Parallel Narratives, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
Action-Reaction, 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Floating Infinity. Žilvinas Kempinas - Attila Csörgő - Miklós Erdély, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Re: Work, The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, United Kingdom
2016
Calder Prize, Pace London, London, United Kingdom
Se souvenir des Belles Choses, Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
Zilvitis, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Sculpture by the Sea: Cottesloe, Cottesloe Beach, Australia
Le temps de l'audace et de l’engagement - de leur temps, Contemporary Art Institute Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Laboratoires de l'art, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
Set in Motion, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Hopla Boom! Art Contemporain, le Bel Ordinaire espace d’art contemporain, Billière, France
2015
Walk The Line:, New Paths in Drawing, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Sculpture by the Sea: Aarhus, Aarhus Bay, Denmark
Concretely more space, Kunsthalle Osnabrüuck, Museum of Cultural History, Felix Nussbaum Haus, and public spaces, Osnabruck, Germany
Invento: As Revoluções que nos Inventaram, Oca, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil
The Kaleidoscopic Turn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
First cut, TEBA Factory, Arad, Romania
Sculpture by the Sea: Bondi, Bondi Beach, Australia
2014
Sublime, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Face a Face, Festival Les échappées belles, Alençon, France
The Disappearance Of The Fireflies, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France
Inversion. Evil Goods, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Shine, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
On What There Might Not Be / Acerca De Lo Que Podría No Ser, MARSO Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Solides Fragiles, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean (The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2013
Film As Sculpture / Sculpture As Film, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
Antigravity, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Dynamo, Grand Palais National Galleries, Paris, France
Slow Burn, Railway Zone Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Pattern: Follow The Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Turbulences II, Collaboration with L’Esapce Culturel Louis Vuitton, Fondation Boghossian/Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Part of a Larger Whole. Lithuanian Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Projections, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d' Olonne, France
Théâtre du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
De Leur Temps: 4 Nantes, Le hangar à Bananes Galerie, Nantes, France
Mindwalk, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012
Moving is Living, Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland
Prestige (Phantasmagoria of our times), Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Sculpture Is Everything: Contemporary Works From the Collection, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
Silence, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Normandie, France
Lexus Hybrid Art 2012, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow, Russia
Masterpieces of the Yvon Lambert Collection, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Avignon, France
Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Exhibition of the permanent collection (from 1960 to present), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Tapis Volants (Flying Carpets), French Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oh, You Mean Cellophane and All that Crap, A Calder Foundation project, The McKittrick Hotel, New York City, United States
Performing Abstraction, Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
The EXIT Festival, Creteil, France
Festival Via 2012, Maubeuge, France
Beaufort 04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, multiple cities, Belgium
Lightness? Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Trait Papier, Musee des Beaux Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds, Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012, Niigata, Japan
2011
Exhibition of the permanent collection (from 1960 to present), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Nuit Blanche Paris 2011 (Paris White Night), Paris, France
1.2 Volume, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Our Magic Hour, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Number Five: Cities Of Gold And Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Matter Of Air, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Play Time, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City, United States
Who Runs The Space Now? ECOH Gallery, Mexico City and Neue Galerie, Switzerland, Mexico City
...so beautiful, NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Höhenrausch 2 (Thrill of the Heights 2), Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Parcours Formes Olympiques, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France
2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, United States
I Believe in Miracles: 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Avignon, France
Mostre in Corso. Spheres 2010, GALLERIA CONTINUA/ Le Moulin de Boissy, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Sarabande. Zilvinas Kempinas and Deimantas Narkevicius, FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
City Without Walls - Vilnius, 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: ten years, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Sketches of Space, The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
From Artists' Workshops, Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Listen to your eyes, 49 Nord 6 Est FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Transmediale.10 - Future Obscura, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2009
Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Fall In/Fall Out, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
ZEROplus, 401 contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Go East II, The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Nightmare Full of Things Unspeakable, Concept V, New York City, United States
Das Fundament der Kunst – Die Skulptur und ihr Sockel seit Alberto Giacometti, Städtischen Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
The Immediate Future, Lunds Konsthall Art Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Espèces d'espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City, United States
We Go Round in Circles at Night, Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
2008
NOW JUMP, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea
New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States
Go East, The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
MANIFESTA 7, Bolzano, Italy
Permutations, Musée de Valence art et archéologie, Valence, France
+ De Réalité, Nantes School of Art, Nantes, France
MANIF D’ART 4:, La Biennale en Art Actuel de Quebec, Quebec City, Canada
2007
Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Voyage Intérieur, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
StereoVision: From 2D to 3D, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
The Last Seduction: A Welcome Surrender To Beauty, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, United States
Château de Tokyo/Tokyo Redux, Centre International d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac, France
Ready-Made, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City, United States
2006
Les Fils de Marcel, Centre regional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
Hapax, Aperto, Montpellier, France
2005
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, United States
Works on Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City, United States
2002
MFA Thesis Show, Time Square Gallery, New York City, United States
1999
Prague Quadrennial 1999, Prague, Czech Republic
Lithuanian Art 1989 –1999, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1998
After Painting, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1997
Footnotes, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996
Holy Lie (press project), Vilnius, Lithuania
1995
Whales Stomach, (site specific installation), Vilnius, Lithuania
Recent Documents, Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago, United States
1994
Lithuania Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
For Beauty, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
1993
Kultr, Gallery ARKA, Vilnius, Lithuania
1992
Good Evils, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Advent Bunch, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Collection Lambert, Museum of Contemporary Art, Avignon, France
Collection Société Générale, Paris
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius
Lio Malca Collection, New York
Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
MO Museum, Vilnius
MUDAM Musée d'art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art), Luxembourg City
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, United States
distinctions
2017
Artist in Residence, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, United States
2016
Sculpture by the Sea: Cottesloe EY People's Choice Prize, Cottesloe Beach, Australia
Sculpture by the Sea: Cottesloe Kids' Choice Prize, Cottesloe Beach, Australia
2012
Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2007
Calder Prize and Atelier Calder Residency Award, Sachè, France
1998
Kristoforas Award for Best Drama Theater Stage Design, Vilnius, Lithuania
1994
Akademie Schloss Solitude Grant, Stuttgart, Germany
Westerly Trust Grant, London, United Kingdom
EDUCATION
1998 - 2002
Hunter College, Combined Media, City University of New York (MFA)
1987 - 1993
Vilnius Art Academy, Painting (BFA)
Born 1969 in Plunge, Lithuania
Lives and works in New York