Aglaja Ray (Egle Tamulyte, b. 1988, Sakiai, Lithuania) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between painting, illustration, installation, comics, and speculative visual storytelling. She graduated with a BA in Graphics (Illustration) from Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2012 and completed her MA there in 2020.

Her early creative life (2007–2019) unfolded in the underground art scene, where she was known as Shaltmira. She produced DIY zines, alternative comics, and black-and-white illustrations for music collectives across Europe, establishing a strong cult-like following. This period shaped her graphic, narrative-driven sensibility and her interest in unconventional forms of mythmaking.

From 2019 to 2025, her work expanded into theology, artificial intelligence, and the posthuman condition. Through murals, performances, and immersive installations—often using UV-reactive materials—she fused biblical references with science fiction, spiritual texts, and cyborg iconography. Her imagery explored resurrection, transcendence, and the fragility of the human body in an age defined by technological acceleration. Metaphorical beings and speculative figures questioned how belief systems, mortality, and emerging technologies shape human identity.

Her current direction marks a contemplative turn. The ongoing painting series REST focuses on rest, overstimulation, and emotional healing. Using acrylics, spray paint, and layered, intuitive mark-making, she depicts reclining figures and botanical motifs inspired by her mother’s garden, poetry, and dream states. These works hold space for slowness and sensory attention, proposing rest as a form of resistance and reconnection in an overactive world.

Throughout her practice, Aglaja treats art as a tool for inquiry rather than a fixed outcome—a means to explore existence, inner life, relationships, technology, and the metaphysical. She often leaves narrative gaps for viewers to complete, encouraging personal interpretation. Her work has been recognised in Lithuania and internationally, and continues to evolve at the intersection of spirituality, abstraction, and speculative imagination.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 "Superhumans". PAGAUAGAI festival at Lily Factory. Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 "To give". Ultrasound diagnostics summer school 2022. Dubingiai, Lithuania
2022 "Races with the Cyborgs”, "The school of life" gallery, Griskabudis, Lithuania
2021 Graphic Art Exhibition, Birstonas Museum of Sacral Art. Birstonas, Lithuania
2021 "Structure". Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Library. Curator Geda Zyvatkauskaite. Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 "Structure". Vilnius Evangelical Church. Curator Geda Zyvatkauskaite. Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 "Structure”. „MOrka” gallery. Curator Evaldas Jansas. Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 "Truth's square". „Tiesos kvadratas”, Art project space of LDS "Siauliai dailininkai organization" (online exhibition)
2020 "Technotheology”, MMLAB, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 "Transhumanism and artificial eternity". "The school of life" gallery, Griskabudis, Lithuania
2020 "The end times". "The school of life" gallery, Griskabudis, Lithuania
2019 "R/evolution". “Menu zona” gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2016 “Cosmogenesis”, "5 MALUNAI" gallery. Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 "Sisters of Monelle“, Etnografijos muziejus, Marijampole, Lithuania
2015 "HypersigilZ“, Mazasis Vilniaus teatras, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 "A Night With Shaltmira“. "Kunst Kabinet 451" gallery. Curator Paola Verde. Berlin, Germany
2015 "Bad ARTworks", Oslo namai - meno erdve, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 „A Night With Shaltmira”, kur. Paola Verde, Kunst Kabinet 451, Berlynas, Vokietija
2014 "Across lengthwise”, „PIN diena 2014”, Vilnius, Lithuania

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 ISKROVOS. Music and art festival. Panevezys, Lithuania
2022 SALTED („Sudyta"). Sakiai Cultural Center. Sakiai, Lithuania
2021 ARTVILNIUS’21 | Art Fair | Aglaja Ray is represented by gallery “MOrka”. Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 „Psiches/Psichoes”, Klaipeda gallery, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2021 „FORMATas", KKKC Parodu rumai, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2021 „Karantino snabzdesiai: Saugok savyje Zmogu”. Galerija „mOrka”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 „SAFARI”, Asociacijos „Saltmiros gyvenimo mokykla” galerija, Lithuania
2019.03 “Occulture”. Berlin, Germany
2018 LE BEAU EST TOUJOURS BIZARRE, Basel, Switzerland
2017 “PANDEMONIUM”, Rat Trap. Bogota, Colombia
2017 ULTRA MEDIA CONTROL. Curated by JJ Brine. Vector Gallery, New York, USA
2017 URBAN WITCHES NOT BITCHES #2 : A Pagan Wheel of the Seasons. Curated by Viviana Druga. Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 BAPHOMET RISING. Curated by Mascha Lagnia. Berlin, Germany
2016 12 CHASM. Curated by Julia Maria Sinelnikova. Brooklyn, New York
2016 Kosmogenezes ciklas: „Vaginos atsiprasymai”, Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany
2016 Kosmogenezes ciklas: „Shaltmiros labirintas", Kulturos baras „Kablys”, Vilnius, Lietuva
2016 Kosmogenezes ciklas: „Juodoji loze”, Vilniaus vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016 i k o n o s t a s i s, LocatieZ, Helena van Doeverenplantsoen, Haga, Nyderlandai
2015 TRANZ, 5 Malunai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 „Paramount” Exchange LA, Los Andzelas, JAV
2015 „Masine hipnoze IV,” Anyksciai, Lietuva
2015 „HypersigilZ” paroda su Michele Servadio, Kaleidoskop, Berlin, Germany
2015 „Manifestations II“, „Armageddon Descends“ festivalis. Vilnius, Lithuania
2015 „As", Siauliu Universiteto galerija, Siauliai, Lietuva
2014 Evaldo Janso paroda „Fetisas“, galerija „Artifex“, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 AltCom 2014, kur. Mattias Elftorp, Malmo, Svedija
2014 „Masine hipnoze #3”, Festivalis „Velnio akmuo”, Anyksciai, Lietuva
2014 „Ner0blio goes to Barcelona", Niu : espai artisticAlmogavers, Barselona, Ispanija
2014 „Sezonas’4", Pamenkalnio galerija, Vilnius, Lietuva
2014 „Studentu meno dienu: Kosmine odiseja 2014“, Performatyvaus meno laboratorija, VDA parodu sales „Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lietuva
2014 „Celebrating 9th Art”, Comicdom Con Athens, Atenai, Graikija
2014 „CRACK! festival”, Roma, Italija
2014 „Underdog Custom Show”, Underdog gallery, Londonas, Didzioji Britanija
2013 Komiksu paroda „Herojai”, VDA parodu sale „Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 „Kurorto istorijos: skaidrumas”, Nidos meno kolonija, Nida, Lietuva
2013 „Postideja II”, kur. Laima Kreivyte, Paveikslu galerija, Kaunas, Lietuva
2013 „Nuo sutemu iki ausros. 20 LGBT laisves metu Lietuvoje“, SMC, Vilnius, Lietuva
2013 „Masine hipnoze II”, festivalis „Velnio Akmuo", Anyksciai, Lietuva
2013 „Kunografija”, Kulturos naktis, Vilnius, Lietuva
2013 „Corrosive Container #2 XLAB”, kur. Paola Verde (Berlynas) and NIHIL (Paryzius), Teater de Verre, Paryzius, Prancuzija
2013 „Atvirkscia perspektyva”, kur. Laima Kreivyte, Vilniaus grafikos centras „Kaire - Desine”, Vilnius, Lietuva
2013 „Postideja: Atstatomieji darbai”, kur. Laima Kreivyte, VDA parodu sale „Titanikas", Vilnius, Lietuva
2012 11 "EXQUISITE CORPSE – COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION", “Currosive Farm“ at XLAB gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 11 "Russian Avagarde in Comics" at Elektrika Gallery, Pancevo, Serbia
2012 11 "Macabre Art Show + Live Painting Presented by X-LAB", Drop Dead Festival, Berlin, Germany
2012 09 Exhibition of fanzine zine „Night of fandom #5“ collaborators. Organized by underground publishing company Lovecraft House, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2012 09 Comics exhibition “MickeyMaus“ at Modern Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 06 Vilnius self-publishing art event "LENTYNA" at National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 06 "Varpu seselyje". Organized by ArtPit, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 06 Vilnius Academy of Art students exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 05 Installation “RAPED ROOM“. Studens experimental art festival „Garsas del Vaizdo" (“SOUND FOR IMAGE“), Siauliai, Lithuania
2012 04 "Neprivaloma paroda" ("The Exhibition You Don't Have to Visit"), Art week PLYTA, Sakiai, Lithuania
2012 03 "Art-show GRRRA", Vilnius, Lithuania