Mantas Poderys

I was born in 1990 in Kaunas, Lithuania, where I spent most of my childhood before moving to Ireland. All of my life I have been an artist and I cannot remember a time when I was not thinking about art. In 2004, my family moved to Ireland and we made our way up north to County Donegal to settle in Letterkenny.

Since graduating from NCAD, National College of Art and Design in Dublin, I have been travelling and creating work and throughout Europe. Recently I rediscovered my love of portraiture. In 2019, I won select 50 award at the Portrait Society of America and in 2020, the KPMG young artist of the year award at the Royal Ulster Academy show, in Ulster Museum, Belfast.