Darius Žiūra

Darius Žiūra (born 1968 in Joniškėlis) is an artist whose practice combines different forms of visual expression, documentary film and literature. From 1991 to 1997, he studied painting at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and in 2017, he completed a doctorate in art. Žiūra develops long-term projects over decades, allowing them to become records of particular periods of time.

His solo exhibition Portretai, presented at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius in 2022–2023, brought together two decades of artistic ideas and his multifaceted engagement with portraiture. In 2024, Žiūra published the autobiographical prose book Diseris, based on his doctoral dissertation. He is a recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts.