* 1969 in Plunge (Lithuania)
lebt / lives in New York (USA)

1998-02 Hunter College, City University of New York (USA), MFA
1987-93 Vilnius Art Academy (Lithuania), BFA


Selected Solo Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Einzelaustellungen

2011
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, February (Lithuania)
2010
Žilvinas Kempinas, Yveon Lambert, New York, September (USA)
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galeria Leme, São Paulo (Brazil)
2009
Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (Italy)
Volta Show 05, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (USA)
2008
Žilvinas Kempinas, Kunsthalle Wien (Austria)  
Žilvinas Kempinas, Galerie des Franciscains & Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire (France)  
Open Studio, Atelier Calder, Saché (France)
2007
Parallels / Flying Tape, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)  
White Noise, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (USA)  
2006
Flying Tape, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France)  
Columns / Bike Messenger, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (USA)  
2004
Flying Tape, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (USA)
2003
Still and 186 000 mi/s, site specific installations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (USA)
1996
The New Year of King Nebuchadnezzar, site specific installation, Vilnius (Lithuania)  
Portraits-Fossils, Jutempus Gallery, Vilnius (Lithuania)
1994
Painting from Nature, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Selected Group Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen

2010
Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Liverpool Biennal, September, (UK)
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, October, (Canada)
STRP festival,Philips, Eindhoven, November, (Netherlands)
Contemporary Art from Lithuania, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, (Germany)
Sketches of space, MUDAM-Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
AV Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, (UK)
From Artists' Workshops, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Listen to your eyes, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz (France)
Transmediale.10 - Future Obscura, Hause der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany)
2009
Locus Solus, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (France)
ZEROplus, 401contemporary, Berlin (Germany)
Fall in/Fall Out, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto  (Canada)
The Foundation of Art: The Base and its function since Auguste Rodin, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Gerhard Marcks Haus Bremen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Romantische Maschinen, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 
Espèces d'espaces, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
We Go Round in Circles at Night, Contemporary Art Museum Rochechouart 
The Immediate Future, Lund Konsthall, Sweden  
2008
Now Jump, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin / Seoul
Go East I, Mudam Collection, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam, Luxembourg  
New Work: Zilvinas Kempinas, Alyson Shotz, Mary Temple, SFMoMA, San Francisco  
MANIFESTA 7, Bolzano,
Leftovers, Micamoca, Berlin
Permutations, at the Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie, Valence
+ De Réalité, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
MANIF D’ART 4., La Biennale en Art Actuel de Quebec
2007
Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art  Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul
Calder Foundation, Beaux-Arts Mansion of Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York
Voyage Intérieur, FRAC-Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
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
Chateau de Tokyo / Tokyo Redux, Centre International d`art et du passage de Lìle de Vasivière
Ready-Made, Yvonne Lambert, New York    
2006
Hapax, APERTO Gallery, Montpellier
Les Fils de Marcel, CRAC LR Art Center, Sète, France
2005
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York    
Drawings / Works with Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York    
2002
MFA Thesis Show, Time Square Gallery, New York  
1999
Prague Quadrennial 1999, Prague
Lithuanian Art 1989 -1999, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
1998
After Painting, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
1997
Footnotes, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland
1996
Holy Lie, press project, Vilnius
1995
Whales Stomach, site specific installation, Vilnius
Recent Documents, Balzekas Museum, Chicago
1994
Lithuania Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
For Beauty, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
1993
Kultur, Gallery Arka, Vilnius 
1992
Good Evils, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
Advent Bunch, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius

Grants and Awards / Auszeichnungen und Stipendien

2007
/08 Calder Prize and Atelier Calder Residency Award
1998
Kristoforas Award for best Drama Theater Stage Design, Vilnius
1994
Westerly Trust Grant, London
Academie Schloss Solitude Grant, Stuttgart