Algis Kemezys

Algis Kemezys started taking photographs and filming with super 8 in the mid- sixties after deciding it was far more exciting to him than painting or making landscape art which he did for a number of years.. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the Doyenne of photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY. He has had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), and has been awarded three international awards. Currently he has divided his time between Qubec and the U.S., and has traveled to many countries around the globe. Geomancer, Dowser,Rock Sculptor, Gourmet Chef, World Traveller, Cinematographer, Photographer, Director

Algis Kemezys started out in the visual arts as a fine art photographer. He has photographed all over the world. His work has been published and exhibited internationally (New York; Chicago; Canada; Greece; Mexico and India).
While photographing the island of Crete (Greece) for a book cover in 2002, he became interested in making a documentary about the islands mimetoliths.
Drawing on his previous experience in working with video (Ryerson University; as well as an ongoing sideline in video-art pieces) he ...

Algis Kemezys is a seasoned image maker both in still photography and cinematography after working with the Doyenne of Photography Berenice Abbott and Oscar winning Cinematographer Walter Lassally. He attended Ryerson University and studied multi-media arts and has traveled around the world three times over the years.His photography has been exhibited worldwide while his fiction and documentary movies have played in International Film Festivals and won prizes. He has over 200 awards to date for his work in Photography and Cinema. He conceives and creates visual projects that are relevant to his world.

Scope Miami Art Exhibition Dec 2015 Group Show with the SeeMe Gallery. "Born in Stone" photographs

Exposure Award, Group Show @ Louvre Museum in Paris Summer of 2015

The National Archaeological Museum Athens. Solo show with "Born in Stone" Jan,Feb, March 2015

ICI PAR LES ARTS, St-Jèrôme, Québec, June-July 2014;

NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, Athens, Feb-April 2015

See Me Gallery: Times Square Billboard: Group show. July 2014, 2013

Instant Gratification. Copro Gallery, Bergamot Arts Complex in Santa Monica, California. Group show with Published book. Jan.2010

Instant Gratification Hibbleton Gallery, Aug. 200

MacWorld Convention Art Gallery *Digital Masterpiece NYC 1999 NYC Javits Center

Center for Photography @ Piramel Gallery, Mumbay,
India, OK Harris Gallery NYC, Lithuanian Museum of Art, Chicago, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, , Fuji Film
Gallery  Kaunas , Lithuania 

Fuji Film International Photo biennial, Vilnius Lithuania. Gold Winner with Altered Stataes. Catalog and traveling exhibition.  Lithuania 1996

Goethe Institute. Madras, India Solo show of Altered States. 1995 

The Red Wig Project: My Mothers Red Wig. Sponsor Polaroid featured on the CBC Newsmagazine.
 
United Nations Environm...