YANIS PROSHKINAS (b.1993)

Bio

Currently doing MA degree in Vilnius Academy of Arts, thesis: “Invisible workforce in training artificial intelligence”. In 2021 graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Moscow. Participant in the main program of “The Wrong Biennale”. Since 2022 based in Vilnius, Lithuania. 
Works

2024 upcoming Tatly
2024 upcoming Side effect: you may forget how to swallow
2024 Empire II + Take your time
2024 KAC is currently under reconstruction
2023 Fish and hammers



CV

Education
2023-2025 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021-2022 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow, Russia

Solo shows
2024 Take your time, Vent Space, Tallinn, Estonia

Group shows
2024 KAC is currently under reconstruction, Titanikas, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 I regret to inform you that, The Transformation Gallery, London, UK
2024 Within the limitations, Ashford Visuals, Ashford, UK
2024 Digital alchemy: rewiring paradigms, The Wrong Biennale, San José, Costa Rica
2024 Love letters to my fellow human, Alt lab, Institutio Media, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Untitled, Printmaking lab, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Unexpected dreams, Jozo-Jozo temporary gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Forget or not, Kazakov salon pop-up gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Me-them-you, Chistye prudy 23 gallery, Moscow, Russia

Labs
2024 Ecologies of labor, Sponge lab, SODAS 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 Anti-CV, CLPP, online participatory lab
2021 Collectivity and communities, CLPP, online participatory lab

Public speaking
2024 AI and labor. From fear to narrative, Vent Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 Interpersonality, participatory practices and community-based approach in creative production, EdCrunch conference, Astana, Kazakhstan

Grants
2024 Research grant by Research Council of Lithuania (LMT)
2023 Research grant for artists by Exactly.ai