Ieva Baltaduonyte (b.1988 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a lens based artist and graduate of the Photography BA programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Informed by her own personal experience of displacement, her artistic practice engages with topics and issues relating to migratory culture. Central to her work are the psychological consequences of migration, such as displacement trauma, as well as the concepts home, identity and the in-between state. After spending seventeen years living in Dublin, Ireland, Ieva has recently returned to her native Lithuania, where she is currently based.
Transnational migration is perhaps the most highly contested issue across Europe. For new migrants spatial and temporal displacement is potentially traumatic, resulting in shifting identities where home can no longer be understood as a fixed knowable entity. Ieva is preoccupied with revealing personal and collective narratives where trauma, identity and memory encourage a deeper engagement with cross-cultural dialogue.
By using photography for both personal expression and to foster a critical dialogue with contemporary society, she invites the viewer to participate in societal debates, foregrounding human experiences, and exposing what is otherwise obscured or ignored. Her carefully constructed projects combine politics and aesthetics inviting a dialogical relationship with the viewer.
AWARDS / GRANTS / NOMINATIONS
2023 Futures! Photography nominee, nominated by ISSP Gallery
2023 Winner of the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT and ISSP Gallery Award 2023 “Seeking the Latest in Photography!”
2020 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship
2017 Lithuanian Council for Culture, Artist scholarship
2014 Winner of DEBIUTAS’14, award for Emerging Photographers, Lithuanian Art Photographers Union, Vilnius, Lithuania, December
2013 Shortlisted for the 3rd Alliance Française Photography Award, Dublin, Ireland, April
SOLO SHOWS
2023 ISSP Gallery, part of Riga Photography Biennial, Riga, Latvia, May
2019 Adomas Mickevičius Public Library, Vilnius, Lithuania, July
2015 Vilnius Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, June
2013 Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, October
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SHOWS
2024 Group show as part of the “Lithuanian Season in France 2024” coordinated by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute, the French Institute and Kaunas Photography Gallery, Royan, France, September
2023 Group Show curated by Adam Mazur, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, August
2023 Visage(s) d’Europe exhibition curated by Collectif Fetart, organised by EUNIC Paris, Vincennes, France, May
2022 ‘Opening The Gates’ exhibition, PhotoIreland Festival 2022, Dublin, Ireland, July
2022 Visage(s) d’Europe exhibition curated by Collectif Fetart, organised by EUNIC Paris, Paris, France
2021 PHOTO IS:REAL, International Photography Festival, Rahat, Israel, August
2021 PHOTO IS:REAL, International Photography Festival, Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Kibbutz Lohamei Ha’Getaot Israel, July
2020 PHOTO IS:REAL, 8th International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, November
2019 Kaunas Gallery, ‘Svetur’ group show curated by Gytis Skudzinskas, Kaunas, Lithuania, January
2018 Prospekto Galerija, ‘Svetur’ group show curated by Gytis Skudzinskas, Vilnius, Lithuania, October
2017 RHA 188th Annual exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, May
2017’Outside the Wall’ group show curated by Gytis Skudzinskas, part of NIDA International Photography Symposium 2017, Nida Art Colony, Sep
2017 RHA 187th Annual exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, May
2014 Embassy of The Republic of Lithuania, Dublin, Ireland, January 2016
2014 DEBIUTAS ‘14, Group exhibition, Prospekto Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, December
2014 RHA 184th Annual exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, May
2013 Presentation of Lithuanian photography, L’Artothèque, Espaces d’art contemporain, Les Boreales festival, Caen, France, November 2013
2013 New Irish Works at düo gallery, Paris, France, November 2013
2013 ‘New Irish Works’, Ormston House, PhotoIreland Festival 2013, Limerick, Ireland, July
2013 Group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, February
2012 Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, November
2012 Kaunas Photo Festival, VDU Gallery 101, Kaunas, Lithuania, September
2012 ‘On Migration’, Moxie Studios, PhotoIreland Festival 2012, Dublin, Ireland, July
2012 Group show curated by Kate Howard, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, July
2012 Group show at Benburb street, The Complex, PhotoIreland Festival 2012 Open Programme, Dublin, Ireland, July
2012 DIT Graduation Show 2012, Gallery Of Photography, Dublin, Ireland, June
2011 Group show ’Photo 19’, The Complex, PhotoIreland Festival 2011 Open Programme, Dublin, Ireland, July
2011 Group show, Homeless Gallery, Lighthouse Studios, PhotoIreland Festival 2011 Open Programme, Dublin, Ireland, July
2010 Group show, Exchange, Dublin, Ireland, June
RESIDENCIES
2022 Kaunas Gallery Residency/Workshop with Jim Goldberg, Kaunas, Lithuania, May
2019 Kaunas Gallery Residency, Kaunas, Lithuania, September-October
BOOKS
2022 H – The Notion of Humanist Photography, book by The Centre de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg and The Kaunas Photography Gallery in Kaunas
2013 ‘New Irish Works’, book on contemporary photography from Ireland, by PhotoIreland
ARTIST TALKS / INTERVIEWS
2023 Interview, Perspektyva, aired on LRT Plius, Lithuania, September
2023 Artist talk, 46-th NIDA International Photography Symposium 2023, Nida, Lithuania, September
2023 Interview, FK – a journal on Latvian and international photography, May
2021 Artist Talk , PHOTO IS:REAL, 8th International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel, April
2018 Artist talk, 41-st NIDA International Photography Symposium 2018, Nida, Lithuania, September
2015 Interview, Culture week, National Lithuanian Radio and Television, August
FEATURES / MENTIONS / COVERS
2023 NOBA, Nordic and Baltic art platform, feature, May
2023 BLOK Magazine, Visual Art | Culture | Politics | Eastern & Central Europe, feature, May
2023 The Baltic Times, feature, May
2023 Echo Gone Wrong, online art magazine feature, May
2023 Kultūras Diena (KDi), National Latvian Newspaper, May
2023 Fold Magazine, online art magazine feature, May
2023 Mutual Art, provider of art market, feature, May
2022 Art Territory, art magazine, feature, November
2020 ‘Contemporary Lithuanian Photography: Yesterday and Today’, article by Tomas Pabedinskas, Month of Lithuanian Photography in Kyiv, Nr 4 (118) (EN/UK), December
2019 Kaunas ‘Į’ Magazine, published by Kaunas Gallery, December
2019 artnews.lt, online art magazine feature, July
2019 artnews.lt, online art magazine feature, January
2019 Echo Gone Wrong, online art magazine feature, July
2019 SwO Magazine, online art magazine feature, July
2018 artnews.lt, online art magazine feature, October
2017 District Magazine, feature, December
2017 Junior, Issue #2, Photography magazine, feature, May
2016 Lithuanian Photography magazine ‘Fotografija’, cover and interview, February
2015 artnews.lt, online art magazine feature, June
2014 Lietuvos Rytas, Lithuanian national newspaper, December
2014 Kauno Diena, Lithuanian national newspaper, December
2014 Klaipeda Diena, Lithuanian national newspaper, December
2014 Lietuvos Zinios, Lithuanian national newspaper, December
2013 Tn2 Magazine, interview, October
2013 Le Cool Dublin, mention, October
2013 Latitude55 Magazine, feature, April
2013 Photographic Museum of Humanity, feature, March
2012 Camera Austria, Issue 120, feature, December
2012 Le Journal De La Photographie, feature, September
2012 The Irish Times, ’Photography Festival launched in Temple Bar’, mention, July
2012 Source Magazine, Graduate Photography Online, mention, June
2012 The Irish Times, ’Future Proofing the Arts’, mention, June
EDUCATION
2012 – 2013 Web Building and Graphic Design Course, Dublin, Ireland
2008 – 2012 BA Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
2006 – 2007 Photography Course, Sallynoggin College of Further Education, Dublin, Ireland