Vita Zaman Lithuanian, b. 1976
Vita Zaman creates works in which paint, thread, and text remain inseparable, allowing images to emerge gradually through the material itself.
Vita Zaman is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist and poet whose work explores how value is produced through acts of looking, making, and remembering. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, text, and, more recently, embroidery, she constructs images in which meaning accumulates slowly, emerging through material, repetition, and sustained attention.
Rather than separating autobiography from fiction, Zaman allows the two to coexist. Mythology, ritual, and symbolic narrative appear throughout her work, not as subjects to be illustrated but as structures through which personal and collective experience are continuously reimagined. Her recent embroidered paintings extend these investigations through a medium whose slow, physical process becomes inseparable from the images themselves.
Based between Kaunas and Vilnius, Vita Zaman studied Fine Art and Art History (BA) and Creative Curating (MA) at Goldsmiths, University of London, before completing an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. She was a co-founder of IBID Projects in London. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions including Artists Space (New York), Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, and the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. She lives and works between Kaunas and Vilnius.
Vita Zaman is represented by Galerija VARTAI.
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Vita ZamanSaulėlydis / Sunset , 202582 x 64 x 2.5 cm
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Vita ZamanKai gėlės kelia nuobodulį / When flowers cause boredom, 202235 x 40 x 1.5 cm€ 2,600.00More details
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Vita ZamanMama, kuri mintimis laiko lėktuvus danguje, 2022100 x 74 x 2.5 cm
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Vita ZamanNaujoji vaidilutė / impossibility of an exotic holiday, 2022165 x 210 x 2.5 cmSoldMore details
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Vita ZamanAutoportait as a grumpy middle aged male, 2022113.5 x 90 x 2 cm / 105.5 x 68 x 2 cmMore details
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ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Vita Zaman's practice examines how images acquire value and how that value changes over time. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, writing, and, more recently, embroidery, she is interested in the conditions that bring certain images into focus while allowing others to disappear.
Rather than separating autobiography from fiction, Zaman allows the two to remain inseparable. Personal experience is reworked through mythology, ritual, and invented narrative, producing works that resist being read as either confession or allegory. Instead, they propose alternative ways of understanding memory, belief, and the stories through which identity is constructed.
Embroidery has become central to her recent practice. Developed during several years living in the desert on the west coast of the United States, its slow, repetitive process introduces a different sense of time into the work. Stitch by stitch, images emerge gradually rather than all at once, allowing the material itself to shape both the rhythm of making and the experience of looking.
Across media, Zaman's works do not simply represent value—they expose the processes through which it is made, and the quiet ease with which it can be withdrawn.
EDUCATION
Painting (MA), Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Composition (MA), Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo (Norway)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Second Life, Tema Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2009 – Shanghai, Carlyle, New York (USA)
2008 – Spending (with Michael Portnoy), Artists Space, New York (USA)
2007 – ReMap KM Athens (with Theodore Fivel), IBID Projects, Kerameikos, Athens (Greece)
2002 – Kaunas. Private View, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2002 – Wolf Hunt, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London (United Kingdom)
2002 – Ready Made, Cabinet, London (United Kingdom)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 – The Sweet Sweat of the Future, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2010 – Family Dinner, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (USA)
2009 – Made in America, Great Barrington, Massachusetts (USA)
2009 – Urban Stories. 10th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2008 – Shadows and Spaces, Lower Manhattan Shipyard, New York (USA)
2002 – The Wolf That Never Sleeps, Sexy Machinery, London (United Kingdom)
2002 – Changing Society: Lithuania, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany)
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Hotel Warszawa Art Fair 2023
Representing Donata Minderytė, Robertas Narkus and Vita Zaman 8 - 10 Sep 2023We are delighted to announce that we have received an invitation to participate in the 'Hotel Warszawa Art Fair ', scheduled to take place from...Read more -
NADA New York 2023
VARTAI with VITA ZAMAN & AIDAS BAREIKIS 18 - 21 May 2023We are happy to announce that we are participating in the Contemporary Art Fair NADA New York 2023 , presenting the latest works of Vita...Read more
