Linara Dovydaitytė (b. 1975) has a Ph.D. in art history and is curator and art critic. She is lecturer for history and criticism of contemporary art at the Art Institute at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, exhibition curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius and co-editor of the quarterly ‘CAC Interviu’. Editor of several collections of essays and exhibition catalogues, author of publications on 20th c. Lithuanian art, curator of contemporary art exhibitions. She was a fellow at the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague in 2003 and at the Institute of Art History at A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 2004.