Atis Izands

Atis Izands (1986, Riga) is a Latvian artist who graduated from the Painting BA programme at the Visual Arts Department of the Latvian Academy of Art and later obtained an MFA in Painting from the Latvian Academy of Arts in 2022. In 2015, he represented Latvia at the international contemporary art biennial Jeune Création Européenne in Paris and later participated in the emerging artists’ group exhibition Tension at the exhibition hall Arsenālsof the Latvian National Museum of Art. Izands’ solo exhibitions include Transitional Forms (2017, Mūkusalas Art Salon), Ants Begin to Wander into the Room(2019, Riga Art Space), and Melted Lands (2023, DOM Gallery).

Painting is the basis of his practice and works as the main driver of ideas. In his artistic practice, he works with the artistic incompleteness of forms, prompting a reevaluation of spatial and socially canonical notions.