Laura Guoke

Laura Guoke has organised 20 personal exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad and represented Lithuania in
international projects in Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Italy, USA, Estonia, etc. In 2015 , 2017 and
2020,2022 L. Guoke received a private national grant for cultural and artistic creators from Lithuanian
Council for Culture.
In 2016 in the world's most famous portrait competition, the BP Portrait Award, which is organized annually
by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, Laura Guokė became the winner in the Travel Award
category for the painting portrait Petras (acrylic on canvas, 146 x 200 cm) In 2019 Laura Guoke was one of
the six portrait artists and BP Portrait Award winners from around the world who were featured in the BBC
World News GMT documentary Portrait of the Artist ()
dedicated to the 30t hanniversary of the BP Portrait Award competition. After this competition, the portrait
paintings Rima and Muhammed Ahmed (acrylic, canvas, 150 x 100 cm) and Monika (acrylic, canvas, 150
x100 cm), created by the artist in the Ritsona refugee camp (Greece), where the artist not only painted, but
also volunteered was exhibited at National Portrait Gallery, London and Royal Albert Memorial Museum,
Art Gallery Exeter, Scotti...

2008 - 2010 Siauliai University - MA Fine Art
2006 - Kasimir Pulaski Technical University of Radom, Art Faculty, Poland - ERASMUS exchange
2004 - 2008 Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts - BA Fine Art.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Mod Portrait finalist, exhibited at MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain;
Caja Rural de Aragon and Arte Roma Gallery in Zaragoza, Spain.
Chianciano Art Biennial 2022, Museo d’Arte di Chianciano, Italy.
2021 COHERENCIES, Il Rivellino Leonardo Da Vinci Art Gallery, Locarno.
On paper without borders, 7th International Artistic Forum,Lublin, Poland.
2020 Art project ICEBERG,artworks from the cycle ‘EASY CHOICE’ (painting, video, sculpture),
KCCC Exhibition hall, Klaipėda, Lithuania.
“Why Is It Hard to Love”, curated by Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway, MO Museum’s main
exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2019 Derwent Art Prize,finalist,Derwent Pencil Museum,Keswick, Cumbria, United Kingdom.
2018 Derwent Art Prize,finalist,Trowbridge Arts (Town Hall Arts), Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
Derwent Art Prize,finalist,Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom.
The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, finalist, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom.
Exhibition of the international painting competition organized by The Three Bridges Foundation:
Sluzewski Dom Kultury,Warsaw, Poland;
ASP Gallery, Krakow Art Academy, Krakow, Poland.
2017 BP Portrait Award 2017, BP Travel Award 2016 display, National Portrait gallery, London, United
Kingdom.
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