Jazmina Cininas is represented by Australian Galleries..

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
2014   PhD; The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame: Historical and                          Contemporary Figurations of the Female Werewolf, RMIT                  University
2002    MA, Fine Art, Printmaking; Women and Wolves: Gender in                  Lycanthropy, RMIT University
1995    BA Fine Art, Honours, Fine Art, Printmaking; RMIT                                University

Selected solo exhibitions:
2024     Padarė Žvirblis Alutį, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas,                          Lithuania
2023    The Sparrow and the Iron Wolf, Albury Library Gallery, NSW
              The Phoenix and the Iron Wolf, Australian Galleries,                              Melbourne
2022    The Sparrow Made Some Beer, Counihan Gallery,                                  Melbourne
2021    The Stoat and the Serpent Queen, IMPACT11 International                  Printmaking Conference, Hong Kong
2020    Eglė and the She-Wolves,  National MK Čiurlionis Art                            Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
2019    Tell Tail, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
              The Sparrow Made Some Beer, Artery Project Space
2018     Once Upon a Time in Estonia, EestiTrüki- ja                                             Paberimuuseum, Tartu, Estonia
2017     Enter the Lair, Benalla Art Gallery
              Hell Hunt and the Slippery She Wolf, Rõdugaleriis, Eesti                      Trüki- ja Paberimuuseum, Tartu, Estonia
              What Big Teeth You Have! 2017 White Night, RMIT                              Gallery, Storey Hall Annex
2016      Blood Moon Rising, Port Jackson Press
               Where the Wolfsbane Blooms, The Art Vault, Mildura
2014      The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame, Maroondah Art Gallery
2012      Jazmina Cininas: Past to Present, Port Jackson Press
               Jazmina Cininas: Four Recent Editions, James Makin                         Gallery
2007     The Girlie Werewolf Project: Heretics and Hirsute                                   Heroines, PJP Centre for Australian Printmaking
2006      The Girlie Werewolf Project: Between the wolf and the                          dog, Impressions on Paper , Canberra
2004      The Girlie Werewolf Project: Dingo Variation, Fremantle                       Arts Centre

Selected group exhibitions:
2024   Ulsan International Print Festival (Australian contingent),                     curator: Bridget Hillebrand, Ulsan Culture and Arts Centre,                 South Korea
2022   The Festival of the Fantastic in Australian and Japanese                     Arts: Australia Week, Kanagawa University, Yokohama
2019   Von Wölfen und Menschen (Of Humans and Wolves),                             MARKK Museum of Ethnography, Hamburg  
             Between the Moon and Stars, curator: Wendy Garden,                         Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
             Lupercalia, curator: Andrew Purvis, Adelaide Central                           School of Art, Adelaide
2018   My Monster: Human Animal Hybrids, curator: Evelyn                             Tsitas, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
             Pasaulio Lietuva: Kūrybos Horizontai, curators: Ilona                           Mažeikienė & Regina Urbonienė, Vilnius Town Hall,                             Lithuania
2017   Into the Wilderness, Flinders Lane Gallery
             Platinum, curators Richard Harding & Anne Virgo, RMIT                     Project Space/Spare Room
             Eventide, curator: Rona Green, Mornington Peninsula                         Regional Gallery
2016    Out of the Matrix, curator: Richard Harding. RMIT Gallery.                  Eventide, curator: Rona Green. Mornington Peninsula                          Regional Gallery
              Modern Myth, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
              Panoply, curator: Rona Green, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong
2014     Femme Fatale: Jazmina Cininas & Lucy Hardie, Metropolis                Gallery, Geelong
              APW Print Fair, Australian Print Workshop
              Seventh Skin, curator: Claire Watson, Hatch Contemporary                Art Space
2013     Unveiled: Art from the Manningham, Maroondah and                           Whitehorse Council Collections, Whitehorse Art Space
2012     Artist as Curator, curator: Ruth Johnstone, RMIT Project                     Space
              Familiar Unfamiliar, curator: Rona Green, Scotch Oakburn                   College, Performing Arts Centre, Launceston, Tasmania &                 Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW
2011     Re-enchantment (interactive online documentary),                               director: Sarah Gibson, ABC online
              Freak of Nature, curator: Rona Green, Switchback Gallery,                  Gippsland
              Contemporary and Collectible, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong
2010     Pressing Matters, Jenny Port Gallery
              52, curator: Rona Green, Geelong Gallery
2009     Second International Sanbao Printmaking Exhibition;                            curator: Minna Resnick, Jingdezhen Ceramic University,                    China
              Stories Of Our Making; curators: Jan Davis & Travis                             Paterson, University of the West of England, Bristol;                             Tweed River Regional Gallery
              I saw and heard of none like me; curator: Rona Green, c3                    Contemporary Art Space
2008     Re-Visioning Australia, Curator: Ruth Johnstone, Belfast                    Print Workshop Gallery, Northern Ireland
              Who let the dogs out; curator: Merryn Gates, Lake                                Macquarie City Art Gallery, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2007     This is Not a Print Show; curators: Karen Lunn & Milan                       Milojevic, Plimsoll Gallery Tasmania, touring Burnie                             Regional Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Gippsland                  Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
2006     The Idea of the Animal; Melbourne International Festival,                    curators Linda Williams & Suzanne Davies, RMIT Gallery
               Monsters; curator Rita Lazauskas, Albury Regional Art                        Gallery
2005     Grotesque: the diabolical and fantastic in art; National                         Gallery of Victoria International
              Girls, Girls, Girls: Images of Femininity from the Banyule                      Art  Collection; Banyule Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery,                      Mc Clelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Benalla Art Gallery
2004     Place Made: Australian Print Workshop; National Gallery                    of Australia
2003      Act XII; new works on paper (signature image); Victorian                    Arts Centre, UTS Gallery Sydney, Artspace SA                       

​Selected public collections:
National M.K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, Lithuania; Lithuanian National Museum of Art; MARKK ethnographic museum, Estonian Printing Museum, Hamburg; National Gallery of Victoria; National Gallery of Australia; Museums Victoria; Silk Cut Foundation; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Art Gallery of South Australia; City of Banyule; City of Fremantle; Artspace Mackay; City of Maroondah; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery; Customs House Gallery; Laurence Wilson Art Gallery, WA; Print Council of Australia; Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, Australian Print Workshop, Geelong Gallery, Jingdezhen Ceramic University China; RMIT Gallery; RMIT Library Special Collection

Selected residencies:
2024.         Kaunas Picture Gallery (invitational), Lithuania
​2017          TAiR, Estonian Printing Museum, Tartu
2016          The Art Vault, Mildura
2004          Fremantle Print Award Residency, Fremantle Art Centre
2000          A&P Galaune House, Kaunas, Lithuania

Selected bibliography:
"Menininkė Cininas australiškus instrumentus kuria pagal baltiškos
        tautosakos motyvus," LRT Television Panorama, 2024.08.27,            21:16. Duration 02:14 (30:32 - 33:18). Link.
Šarunė Kutinskaitė-Būdavienė, "J. Cininas – menininkė tarp                      Lietuvos ir Australijos", Kauno Diena, 2024-06-15. Link.
"J. Cininas darbuose - tolimų tautų tradicijos ir tvarumas", Kauno            diena, 4 June 2024, Nr 108/23210, p. 22.
Kortyna Lingienė (interviewer), LRT Radio Klasika: Ryto allegro,                03.06.2024, 7:05am. Duration 12:05mins (13:35 - 25:40). Link
Paulina Okunytė, “Australijoje gimusi kūrėja įkvėpimo ieško lietuvių         tautosakoj”, Kauno Diena: Santaka, Nr 426, 2020/03/06, p. 1 &          p.p. 3-4.
Agnė Taliūtė, “Būvis „tarp“: Jazminos Cininas paroda „Eglė ir                    vilkmergės“, Šiaurės Atėnai, 2020/04/26
Ilona Mažeikienė & Regina Urbonienė (eds.), Terra Australis                       Incognita: Lithuanian Artists in Australia, Lithuanian Art                       Museum, 2019
Wendy Garden, Between the Moon and Stars, (catalogue essay):             Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Tiina Vähi, “Hellad ja libedad naishundid linoollõigetes”, Postimees          (Estonian newspaper), 21 December 2017
 Andrew Harper, “Feast of Dark Marvels”, The Mercury:                                Tasweekend, May 2017
Sasha Grishin, "Profiles in Print - Jazmina Cininas", Craft Arts I.               International, Issue 96, 2016, pp. 31-35
 “Jazmina Cininas: Interview and email exchange with Ruth                    Johnstone”, in Ruth Johnstone (ed.) The Artist Curates,                       Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2015, pp. 72-78
"Studio: Jazmina Cininas", Art Guide Australia, September/October        2014, pp. 64-65 & 248.
Lawrence Money: "The werewolf, the tomato and hairy girls", The          Age: News, Saturday 9 August 2014, p. 20.
Jazmina Cininas: "The Girlie Werewolf Hall of Fame", Imprint,                   Volume 49, Number 1, Autumn 2014, p.10
Mayako Murai, “The Genealogy of Wolf-Girls: Representations of             Little Red Riding Hood in Contemporary Art” in Chinami                     Kasama (ed). Representing the Bodies of "Bad Women" and               "Good Women", Seikyusha, Tokyo pp. 243-266 (Japanese text)
Jeffrey B. Snyder (ed.), “Jazmina Cininas,” Printmakers Today,                Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2010, pp. 60-61
Anusha Kenny, “The enchanted forest: new gothic storytellers”              (review), Artlink, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2009, p. 89
“Project: Jazmina Cininas”, Artist Profile, Issue 5, 2008, p. 98
Rebecca Cannon, “Jazmina Cininas” (interview), Artabase,                      December 31, 2008, http://artabase.net/public/blog
Sasha Grishin, “Printmaker: Jazmina Cininas”, Australian Art                    Collector, Issue 43, January-March 2008, p.320
Penny Webb, “Fur and feathers in litho and lino”, The Age: Metro,            Thursday November 8, 2007, p. 21
Wendy Garden, “Jazmina Cininas: A woman who runs with the               wolves,” Imprint, Vol 42, No. 3, Spring 2007
Megan Backhouse, “Previews: Jazmina Cininas: The Girlie                      Werewolf Project: Heretics and Hirsute Heroines”, Art Guide,              October 2007
Emma Kirsopp, “The Monstrous Encounter” (Masters'                              dissertation), School of Visual and Performing Arts, University          of Tasmania, June 2007,                      
Sarah Tutton, “The Idea of the Animal”, Art & Australia, Vol 44.                 No.3,  Autumn 2007, p.p. 330-331
Linda Williams, “The Owl of Minerva and Recent Art”, Eyeline, No.           56: Summer 2004/2005; p.p. 30-32