90x120x9, freehand technique on canvas, 2022
B. 1987
Creates three-dimensional paintings through his own technique using paper-mache, canvas and oil paint. The paintings reveal a sculptural vision of form, surprising in their diversity in terms of structure as well as message, focusing on depicting an aspect of human existence.The artist is becoming more and more successful every year and the prices of her works are recording a regular increase. She uses a complex technique through which a limited number of works are produced (no more than 15 canvases per year). Many of them have received international art awards and have been exhibited throughout Europe.
In 2021, she was featured in three foreign publications: Arabic Independent, Nomads Lifestyle (Italy) and the art newsletter Photographize Arts Culture (USA). In the same year, she began participating in international art competitions. Since then she has won more than ten awards. The first success of 2022 was the acceptance of the artist's work to participate in the 14th Art Biennale in Florence, which will be held in 2023. She was also invited by the Van Gogh Gallery (Madrid) to participate in the International Contemporary Art Fair in Monaco. This year, one of her paintings was featured on the cover of the art and poetry magazine Woven Tale Press (New York).
Gaya Lastovjak has participated in many exhibitions, both individual and collective, and has collaborated with galleries: Galeria Next, At Art, Saatchiart, ArtMo, Singulart, Monshareart Gallery in Milan, Polskajungart in Vienna and Art Show International Gallery in Los Angeles as well as auction houses: Desa Unicum, DNA, SDA, Fineart's. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally in Austria, Portugal and Italy, and many have been purchased by private collectors from Switzerland, the US, Poland, among others,
Netherlands, Spain, Germany, etc. She creates and lives in Krakow.
EXHIBITS
- 2023 "In Bloom" - group exhibition, The Gallery by Mui, Washington, USA.
- 2023 "Figures or Faces" - group exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, USA.
- 2023 "Open Art" - group exhibition, Art Room gallery, online
- 2023 "Gaya Lastovjak" - solo exhibition, Marvelous Art Gallery, UK
- 2022 "We Are Reversal" group exhibition, Musa Pavilon, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, 59te Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy
- 2022 Monaco International Contemporary Art Fair/Monaco Art 3F, group exhibition, Monte Carlo, Monaco
- 2022 "The Other Art Fair Virtual Edition" - group exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- 2022 "New Generation" - group exhibition, IAA gallery, Miami, USA
- 2022 "Artists drawing and painting the human figure". - ArtisTTable 44rta edition - group exhibition, ArtisTTable gallery, Acme, USA
- 2022 "Artist Choice VIII" - participation in international juried visual arts exhibition, Camelback Gallery, Denver, USA
- 2022 "Downtown Chiado 22-9 edition" - group exhibition, Atelier Natalia Gromicho, Lisbon
- 2022 "All Women" - group exhibition, Light Space & Time Art Gallery, Missoula, USA
- 2021/2022 "Christmas Art." - group exhibition, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome, Italy
- 2021 "Art Walkway" group exhibition, Cael Pipin Gallery, Milan, Italy
- 2021 "Gaya Lastovjak" - solo exhibition, Art Show International Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- 2021 "Savasana" - project realized in collaboration with Wojciech Kukuczka, Full Moon Art Fest, Chorzow, Poland
- 2021 "Connected" - solo exhibition, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2021 "Natural elements" - group exhibition, Divulgarti Gallery, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy.
- 2020 - joining the permanent exhibition, Polskajungart Gallery, Vienna, Austria
- 2017 "Unfinished" - participation in the art festival 5 STATION (Negative Gallery), Katowice, Poland
- 2016 "Shapes" - solo exhibition, BWA, Sandomierz, Poland
- 2015 "Colorlessness" solo exhibition, Teatr Ludowy, Cracow, Poland
- 2015 "Fixation" - solo exhibition + happening, Negative Gallery, Katowice, Poland
- 2015 "Critical Forms" - solo exhibition, DNA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
- 2014 "Vernissage of one painting" - solo exhibition, One Hundred Candles Theater, Cracow, Poland
- 2014 "Chessboard" - solo exhibition, Alchemy, Cracow, Poland
- 2013 "Deformed" individual outdoor exhibition/performance, Warsaw, Poland
- 2010 "Carved from bodies" - solo exhibition, Stair Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- 2009 "Alchemy" - solo exhibition, Hydro4, Warsaw, Poland
- 2008 - 2009 "Misfits" - solo exhibition, Polyester, Warsaw, Poland
- 2008 "Interactions" - group exhibition, The Two of Us Galearnia, Warsaw, Poland
- 2008 "Good Centimetre" group exhibition, Dom Kultury Śródmieście, Warsaw, Poland
COMPETITIONS
- 2023 - honorable mention, open category, Art Room gallery.
- 2023 - honorable mention, 5th Figurative Competition, Art Show International gallery, USA.
- 2023 - special award, Global Talent Art Prize, United Kingdom
- 2022 - first place, Artist Grant - Spring, Art Show International Gallery, USA.
- 2022 - nomination, Premio Combat Prize, Italy.
- 2022 - finalist, International Art Award, USA.
- 2022 - second place, Figuratively Speaking competition , ArtisTTable Gallery, USA
- 2022 - Honorable Mention, 3rd Figuratively Speaking competition, ASI Gallery, USA.
- 2022 - nomination for Yicca Art Prize, Italy
- 2022 - Bronze Award, Artist Choise VIII International Visual Arts Competition, Camelback Gallery, USA
- 2022 -Honorable Mention award, Open category competition, Art Show InternationalGallery , USA
- 2022 - Merit Prize, competition in "3rd Portrait" category, Art Show International Gallery, USA
- 2022 - 5th place , Top 10, category: three-dimensional works, "All Women" Art, Light Space & Time Art Gallery - USA
- 2022 - Special Recognition award, category: three-dimensional works, "All Women" Art, Light Space & Time Art Gallery, USA.
- 2022 - acceptance to participate in the XIV Art Biennale of Florence 2023
- 2021 - Recognition Prize, Palm Art Award
- 2021 - Talent Prize, 2nd Figurative Competition, Art Show International Gallery.
- 2021 - 4th place in Sculpture-Representation category, American Art Awards
- 2021/2022 - nomination (twice), Yicca Art Prize, Italy
- 2021 - nomination, Boynes Artist Award, Australia
- 2021 - nomination, Global Art Award, Japan
- "The language of art is a language that unites different sensibilities. Gaya Lastovjak and art about man, for man.", interview with the artist in Art Magazine, by Natalia Gaj, March 2023
https://czasopismosztuka.pl/gaya-lastovjak-wywiad-z-artystka/
- Published in Gazete Sanat World, by Resul Sahin, Turkey
https://world.gazetesanat.com/interview-with-contemporary-figurative-artist-gaya-lastovjak/?fbclid=IwAR1JMV_lJMap2DYm_cpM4AeeQgKXFbkpjvjH700H55mpBumkY2DZ6FjvtSY
- Publication in Marvelous Art Magazine, February 2023 issue, UK
https://www.gayalastovjak.com/lib/rh2o8v/Marvelous_Art_Magazine_Marvelous_Art_Magazine_February_2023-le61awi9.pdf
- "Gaya Lastovjak's Figurative Poetry," Paris the Other Way, by Ana Malnar, France
https://www.paristheotherway.com/the-figurative-poetry-of-gaya-lastovjak
- Published in Musa International Art Space, We Contemporary Art Book, Italy
https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/330803535144123893/
- One of Gaya Lastovjak's paintings shown in a short video report from the 19th Warsaw Art Fair, Poland, Image appears at 5:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhy0mBoqPoE&t=8s
- Published in the cultural magazine Presto, Poland
https://prestoportal.pl/trojwymiarowy-obraz-gai-lastovjak-na-63-aukcji-sztuki-wspolczesnej
- Publicationin Art Show International Gallery "Artist Grant - Spring", LA, USA
https://www.artshowinternational.com/artist-grant-winners-2022-summer/gaya-lastovjak
- Publicationin Woven Tale Press - Literary / Fine Arts Magazine (picture of painting also on the cover), New York, USA
https://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/xobe/
- Publication of aphoto of the painting "Disappearance" in the art newsletter Photographize Arts Culture / October 2021, ISSUE 1, page 119, USA
https://www.photographize.co/magazine/issue01/
- "Gaya Lastovjak: The level of sophistication creates the value of a contemporary work of art" Arabic Independent, author - Yasmeen Alfardan, Saudi Arabia
https://www.independentarabia.com/node/252976/
- Art Show International Gallery- "Gaya Lastovjak"
https://www.artshowinternational.com/artists/gaya-lastovjak
- "Gaya Lastovjak / white paintings" Art People Gallery, author - Tina Meamar, USA
https://www.artpeoplegallery.com/gaya-lastovjak-white-paintings/
- "Gaya Lastovjak / Shapes" BWA Sandomierz, author - Katarzyna Pisarczyk, Poland
http://bwasandomierz.pl/index.php?news=168&no=1
