Audronė Petrašiūnaitė

b. 1954

Audronė Petrašiūnaitė (b. 1954, Kazlų Rūda) is a Lithuanian painter. She graduated in painting from the Lithuanian State Art Institute in 1982, has exhibited since 1983 and has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association since 1988. She taught at the S. Žukas Technical School of Applied Arts and the J. Naujalis Secondary Art School in Kaunas, and since 1995 has taught at the Kaunas Art Institute of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she is an associate professor. She received the Nemunas magazine prize (1985), a Soros Center for Contemporary Arts grant (1998) and the state’s highest-level artist grant (2002). Her motifs are people’s faces, fallow fields, rain, landscapes of memory and the view through a window; at times a sense of solitude is felt in her paintings. Her works are held by the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, the MO Museum and the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA).

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