Tadao Cern was born in Lithuania in August 1983 and currently lives and works in Vilnius. He received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius Lithuania, finally graduating in 2009. After a year of working as a freelance architect, Tadao decided to pursue a new occupation: Photography.

He began  with a series of “wind-swept portraits” called Blow Job, which was inspired by Van Gogh’s self-portrait. This he followed with a documentary photo project called Comfort Zone which featured beach sunbathers. Both these projects have received global recognition and have been exhibited in the U.K., the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and France and have received awards in various international competitions, such as the 1st Prize at the “Fine Art Photography Awards.”

Tadao has worked on the advertising campaigns of international brands such as Samsung, BMW, the New Yorker, Mentos and Chupa Chups. Today he’s focusing on Contemporary Art and his current project, Black Baloons.