LIISA KRUUSMÄGI
liisa.kruusmagi@gmail.com
+372 58141330
Born 1988 in Estonia
Lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia
EDUCATION
2010-2013 Estonian Academy of Arts, fine arts, drawing. Master degree
2011 Rhode Island School of Design, USA, exchange student, fall semester
2007-2010 Estonian Academy of Arts, fine arts, painting. Bachelor degree
2009 Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, Portugal, Erasmus, spring semester
RESIDENCIES
2026 Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 Casa Estrela, Portugal
2024 Sachaqa Centro De Arte, Peru
2023 Samos Residency, Greece
2023 Studio Kura, Japan
2021 Residência São João, Brazil
2020 Silva Linarte 2020 painting symposium, Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Läti
2019 Cassis Artist Residency, France
2018 Kitokia Grafika, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Yosuga, Kyoto, Japan
2015 AIRY, Kofu, Jaapan
2015 James Black Gallery, Vancouver, Kanada
MEMBERSHIP IN ASSOCIATION
2022 Estonian Painters Association
2013 Estonian Artists Association (EAA)
SELECTEDED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Weather As The Conversation Topic, EKA Billboard Gallery, Tallinn
2025 Yokai tea Party, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2025 Soft Chaos, Tartu Art House
2024 Memories from Altai Krai, curator Anneliis Lepp, Tallinna City Gallery
2023 Lots of Thoughts, Ferrumi Gallery, Kuressaare
2022 Cephalopods with Binoculars Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2022 Balearic Liisa Stella Soomlais Studio, Tallinn
2022 Valmermuiza Embassy
2021 Liisa Kruusmägi pinturas e desenhos, Casa Figueira - Fazenda São João, Brazil
2021 Colour Corals, Hop Gallery, together with Maarja Mäemets
2021 Dreamers 2, Türi Cultural Center Gallery
2021 Dreamers, Solaris Gallery
2020 Exhibition No 31, Fahle Gallery
2019 Limonaad asfaldil, Paide Music and Theather House
2019 Soda Pop on Asphalt, Kondas Center, Viljandi
2019 Soda Pop on Asphalt, Haapsalu City Gallery
2019 Meditation in Soda Pop Glass, Stella Soomlais Studio, Tallinn
2019 Soda Pop on Asphalt, Hobusepea gallery, Tallinn
2018 What If…, Micēlijs, Riga
2018 EARLSTREET gallery Darmstadt, Germany
2018 Kaunas Comics Residency exhibition, Kaunas Artist House, Lithuania
2017 Neetud!, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
2016 All Dressed Up And No Place To Go, Narva Museum Gallery, Narva
2016 All Dressed Up And No Place To Go, Jakobi Gallery, Tartu
2016 All Dressed Up And No Place To Go, Kullo Lastegalerii, Tallinn
2015 We Are Homesick for Most of the Places We Have Never Known, AIRY, Kofu, Japan
2015 In Else, with Alina Orav, Emily Carr University Library, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Maailm Põleb. No Nation Gallery. Chicago, IL. USA
2015 The Other, James Black Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Journey, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, with Liisi Küla and JHP
2014 Lived Lives, Mbar, Helsinki, Finland
2014 New Y(W)ork, Endla teatrigalerii sammassaal, Pärnu, Estonia
2014 All Periods Merge in, Third Space, Helsinki, Finland
2014 America Talks, Saare Maakonna Keskraamatukogu, Kuressaare, Estonia
2013 America Talks & New York Sketchbook, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 Exhibition in French Institute of Estonia, Estonia
2013 Me oleme lähedal ärkamisele kui näeme unes, et näeme unes. EKA G Gallery, Estonia
2012 America Talks. Tartu Art House, Estonia
2011 Overheard Stories. Draakoni Gallery, Estonia
2010 Argirändur. East Gallery, Estonia
2009 Pieces from Portugal. Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Connection. Fabrica Features Benneton, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 Outlined Spaces. Kulturhuset Lava, Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 SMS. WIFI. OK. Baltic New Painting, Viscosa, Hiiumaa
2026 Ideal Landscapes, Estonian Painters Union annual exhibition, New Art Museum, Pärnu
2026 Out of Line, Bästard Gallery, Tallinn
2025 Metsik aed, metsik aeg, Voronja Gallery
2025 Streets of Baltics, Kett Gallery, Tartu
2025 Spring Exhibition 2025, Tallinn Art Hall
2024 Estonian Painters Union annual exhibition SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW, New Art Museum, Pärnu
2024 KOOSKÕLA Pärnu Museum, curator Marieli Reinhold
2024 GENIUS LOCI V. OWN. 1813.1867. 2024 Reigi Pastorate, Hiiumaa
2023 Tantsi, Halmetoja Gallery, Helsinki
2022 NEONAIVISM / HAA Galerii, Suomenlinna, Finland
2021 Pause, Vana-Võromaa Kultuurikoda
2021 Silva Linarte 2020 painting symposium, Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2021 ARM, Triigi Filharmoonia, Saaremaa
2021 Estonian Artist Association Spring exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall
2019 Painted Architecture, Venice Institute for Contemporary Art gallery, San Pedro, USA
2019 Estonian Watercolour in 20th and 21th Century, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia
2019 Here and Now, Global Illustraton Show at The Seoul Illustration Fair 2019
2019 Spring Exhibition 2019, Tallinn Art Hall
2018 X Young Painter Prize, Tsekh Gallery, Vilnius
2018 Estonia100 – Self Identity, Galleria Kuja, Helsinki
2018 Juubelikevad 2018, Tallinn Art Hall
2018 EST.EETILINE, Annual overview exhibition by Estonian Painters Association, The Museum of New Art in Pärnu
2017 Sewage system observatory in baroque purple, Gallery Mihhail, Tallinn
2017 7 Solo Exhibitions, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn
2017 International Women’s Day Exhibition, Adam and Eve DDB, London, UK
2017 The 17th Survey Exhibition of the Estonian Artists Association, LIFE ON EARTH AND IN THE COUNTRY 2017 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2017 Gray Area, Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Estonia
2016 Young Painter Prize, Tsekh Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 The 16th annual Estonian Artists’ Association exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2016 Changing and Unchangeable, The Museum of New Art, Pärnu, Estonia
2016 Mихаил, Gallery Mihail, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 Di carta / papermade. Schio, Italy.
2015 Young Painter Prize, Pakrantė, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 Riding Color Waves. The Archer Beach Haus. Chicago, IL. USA
2015 Angels Egg. Naomi FINEARTS. Chicagi, IL. USA
2015 NTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - 22 10. Curator Alina Orav. Emily Carr, Vancouver, Canada
2015 REVIEW. Towards Gender Parity: Quality and Fairness in the Art Market, Võru Linnagalerii, Estonia
2015 Tallinn 5th International Drawing Triennial, BLACK and WHITE, Disain and Architecture Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 Lietuva / Indoenzija: Street Art exhibition: Same directions, Post Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2015 Summer Exhibition. Tallinn Art Space
2015 Spring Exhibition. Estonian Art Association 15 annual exhibition, Tallinn Art House, Estonia
2015 Plein-Air exhibition in Hannover, Germany
2015 Spring Exhibition. Tallinn Art Space
2015 Estonian contemporary graphic art exhibition, National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2015 Topographics. Curators Dan Brown Hozjan and Zandi Dandizette, The James Black Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Copies, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Drawn. Illustrated (Hi)stories of Colonial Soldiers, Hamburg Comics Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2014 Young Painter Prize 2014, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Work, Bratislava Design Week, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Co-Lab, Eka G Gallery, Tallinn
2014 Drawn. Illustrated (Hi)stories of Colonial Soldiers, Berlin, Germany
2014 Printmaking In, curator Al Paldrok, Port Artur 2, Pärnu, Estonia
2014 Give a New LIfe, Pärnu New Art Museum, Pärnu, Estonia
2013 Haneema nägemused. Curator Gerda Märtens. French Institute, Tallinn, Estonia
2013 ÖÖ2/NIGHT2. Curators Liisa Kruusmägi and Liisi Küla. Rundum, artist run space, Tallinn Estonia
2013 ÖÖ/ NIGHT. Curators Liisa Kruusmägi and Liisi Küla. Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2013 Tase. Estonian Academy of Arts master thesis exhibition. Estonian Architecture Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Silent Revolution. Curator Anu Juurak, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2011 Napp. Curator Margot Kask. Pärnu City Gallery, Pärnu, Estonia
2011 RISD Expose, Providence, RI, USA
2010 193x282. Curators Kaido Ole and Tõnis Saadoja, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 Sea Level. Pushkinskaya 10 gallery festival, Maneež, Peterburg, Russia
2009 Summer show. Pictures and people, curator Minnie Weisz, Minnie Weisz Studio, London, UK
2009 Manu Propria. Drawing Triennal, Viinistu, Estonia
2009 Lilla Europa. Öebro, Hällefors konsthall, Lindesbergs konsthall, Sweden
2008 I Have Problem. Curator Taavi Piibeman, Tallinna Linnagalerii, Estonia