Linas Gelumbauskas is an artist continuing the tradition of Lithuanian modernist painting. He was born in 1970 and lives and works in Vilnius. He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and painting plein-air events.

The origins of his artistic practice lie in the painterly plasticity of the interwar period and the art of the 1970s–1980s, shaped by the worldview of European Expressionism and the national “Ars” movement. The central focus of his work is the pure language of painting, in which paint and color occupy the most important place.

The artist’s works are imbued with the complexities of human existence. Abstracted natural forms, rendered almost as painterly signs, together with human figures acting within these spaces, reveal themes of life and death, solitude, waiting, and enlightenment. Gelumbauskas enjoys painting with layers of varying thickness and with both smooth and rough textures.