Professor Dr. Giedre Jankevičiūte (b. 1960, Vilnius, Lithuania) is a leading researcher at the Department of the Art History and Visual Culture of Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. She also teaches the history of modern art and social art history at Vilnius Art Academy. She has read papers in numerous conferences and symposiums on modern art history, and has published a series of articles, based on her research, in Britain, Estonian, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Taiwanese and American academic reviews and journals, edited paper collections and catalogues of the exhibitions of the Lithuanian art of the 20th century. As a curator, she collaborated with Lithuanian national art museums in Vilnius and Kaunas, and with numerous Lithuanian galleries and local museums. Among them, she has curated graphic art and book illustrations exhibitions in Graphic Art Center of Vilnius; Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, Germany; Archiginnasio and S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy. Lithuanian graphic art and graphic design has been among her research interests since 1998, when she worked on the exhibition on art deco in Lithuania. Later, she edited numerous catalogues of the graphic art exhibitions, curated by herself, including Illustrarium: Soviet Lithuanian Children's Book Illustration (2011). She has also written The Graphic Arts in Lithuania 1918-1940 (2008; the bilingual Lithuanian-English edition).
