TADAO CERN

I’ve decided that I want to try a different approach to the art world by studying architecture and then diving deep in to contemporary art field. So my visual perception together with my creative process are very much influenced by the things that I’ve learned at the beginning. As an architect you are very closely related to human anthropological behavior and habits – you work around them, with them or try to change them. And now as an artist I have the same field of interest – I question what affects human actions in a certain way and can those things be changed. I consider art field as a laboratory for Homo Sapiens where each art piece is an experiment helping to distinguish our actions/interactions and natural behavior boundaries - as an artist you can document, change, create or get rid of them.

I try not to take everything that is around me for granted - I love taking everyday objects or occurrences, strip them to their basic concepts and reintroduce them as art. This process works as a refreshment, helping us to see things that we forget and take for granted.

My creative style is very much affected by my architectural background too: I work in a very systematic and rational way, all my artistic decisions are calculated and I’m always looking for most hygienic expressions so the ideas would become as clean as possible.

Masters Degree in Architecture

2017 – ‚Comfort Zone‘‚ Panorama Mesdag‘, Hague, The Netherlands
2015 - 'SNAP', Vilnius
2013 - ‘5/5/Junior’, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 - ‘Login 2013’, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 - ‘Loftas Fest’, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 - ‘Photo Romania’, Cluj, Romania

2012 - ‘Blow Job’ at ‘Kaunas Photo’ festival, Kaunas, Lithuania 2013 - ‘Paintography’ at ‘Centras’ festival, Kaunas, Lithuania 2013 - ‘Blow Job’ at ‘Photo Romania’ festival, Cluj, Romania 2013 - ‘Blow Job’ at ‘Les Boreales’ festival, Caen, France 2014 - ‘Revealing The Truth’ group exhibition at ‘Saatchi Gallery’, London, UK 2014 - ‘Comfort Zone’ at ‘Images’ festival, Vevy, Switzerland 2014 - ‘Comfort Zone’ solo exhibition at ‘Ingo Seufert’ gallery, Munich, Germany 2015 - ‘Comfort Zone’, ‘Paintography’ solo exhibition at ‘nhow’ gallery, Berlin, Germany 2015 - ‘Comfort Zone’ group exhibition at ‘SF Camerawork’ gallery, San Francisco, US 2015 - ‘Comfort Zone’ solo exhibition at ‘Digitaliseum’ gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2015 - ‘Comfort Zone’ group exhibition at ‘RPS’ gallery, London, UK 2016 - ‘Comfort Zone’ group exhibition at the THE FENCE 2016 festival in Boston, New York, Atlanta, Houston, Santa Fe 2016 - ‘Blow Job’ group exhibition at ‘Galerie Sakura’, Paris, France 2016 - ‘Black Balloons’ group exhibition at ‘Blooom Awards’, Cologne, Germany
2017 – ‘Chromatic Aberration‘ group exhibition at ‘Thomas Riley Studio‘, Florida, USA
2017 – ‘Black Balloons’ group exhibition at ‘Arte Laguna Prize’, Venice, Italy
2017 – ‘Hanging Paintings’ group exhibition at ‘Portal’, New York, USA
2017 – ‚Comfort Zone‘ solo exhibition at ‚Panorama Mesdag‘, Hague, Netherlands
2017 – ‘Hanging Paintings’ group exhibition at ‘YICCA 16/17’, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 – ‘Comfort Zone’ group exhibition at ‘Kaunas Photo’, Kaunas, Lithuania
2017 – ‘Black Balloons’ group exhibition at ‘ArtVilnius’17’, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 – ‘Hanging Paintings’ group exhibition at ‘The Concept Space’, London, UK
2017 – ‘Black Balloons’ group exhibition at ‘Governors Island Art Fair’, New York, USA
2017 – ‘Chromatic Aberrations’, ‘Hanging Paintings’ solo exhibition at ‘Contemporary Cluster’, Rome, Italy