Gaya Lastovjak

58 exhibitions, 34 art awards and 8 nominations, 29 publications.

Self-taught artist. MA in Art History.

Born in 1987. Contemporary figurative artist creating three-dimensional paintings with her own technique using paper-mache, canvas and oil paint.

The paintings reveal a sculptural vision of form, they surprise with their diversity in terms of structure and message, focusing on showing the aspect of human existence.

The characters in her paintings are static, even rigid, as if frozen in certain poses, thus showing a specific social problem, which is loneliness, limitation, pressure or anonymity. The current subject of the works focuses on issues related to perception and transformation, but above all on empathy and the presentation of various emotional states of a human being. The departure from the traditional range of colors in favor of white allows for perfect accentuation of light and shade. Everything seems to be saturated with symbolic content, the author entrusts her thoughts to the artistic matter and impresses it with her own feelings.

Gaya Lastovjak's art defies all classifications and definitions, it is subtle and at the same time critical.

Her works have been featured in international exhibitions in Austria, Spa...

AWARDS
2025 - finalist, Open Theme, Art Collide
2025 - distinction, Forms & Figures, category: figurative, Gallery Four Percent, USA
2024 - second place, Vivid Arts Contest, Art Tour International, USA
2024 - winner of the day, Vivid Arts Contest, Art Tour International, USA
2024 - nomination, Yicca Art Award, Italy
2024 - honorable mention award, Top 8 Three-dimensional artists, Open category, Light Space & Time Gallery, USA
2024 - first place, April Art Awards, The Fusion Art Gallery, Spain
2024 - exhibition award, Open category, Artist Space, USA
2024 - honorable mention, Circle Foundation for the Arts, France
2024 - honorable mention, 9th Portrait, Teravarna Gallery, USA
2024 - honorable mention, Open category, Grey Cube Gallery, USA
2024 - second prize, Top 4, three-dimensional Art Award, 14th Annual Figurative, Light Space & Time Gallery, USA
2024 - special recognition award, three-dimensional artists category, 14th Annual Figurative, Light Space & Time Gallery, USA
2023 - Honorable Mentions, Itsliquid International Contest 14th edition, Italy
2023 - Special Mention Award, 6th Artist Grant, Teravarna Gallery, USA
2023 - Artist of the Month June 2023, Camelback Gallery, USA
2023 - Nomination, Art Talent Fair, ...

59 exhibitions. Selected important exhibitions:

2025 "Vibration", collective exhibition, Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2025 "Paris Winter Art Boutique", collective exhibition, Espace Sorbone 4, Paris, France

2024 Tarnów Art Biennial, collective exhibition, Mościce Art Centre, Tarnów, Poland

2024 LABO 2024, the largest sculpture biennial in Poland - collective exhibition, ToTuart Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2024 "Who Ar(T) You? Miami Edition" - collective exhibition, Emporium Brazil Design Gallery, Miami, USA

2024 "Dualism" - individual exhibition, Jatki Gallery, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland

2023 Warsaw Art Fair, individual stand + happening, Expo XXI, Warsaw, Poland

2023 Rome Art Week, collective exhibition, Palazzo Cancelleria Vaticana, Rome, Italy

2023 XIVth Florence Biennale, collective exhibition, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy

2023 "Serenity" - collective exhibition, The Holy Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023 Artexpo Basel 2.0, Artbox Project, collective exhibition, Basel, Switzerland

2023 "Connections" - collective exhibition, Museo Venanzo Crocetti, Rome, Italy

2023 "Combined" - collective exhibition, MicksArt Gallery, Emmen, Netherlands

2022 XIXth Warsaw Art Fair, collective exhibition, Expo XXI, Warsaw, P...