Lina Kusaite is an illustrator, eco-artist and art-coach, working in Brussels, Belgium. Her professional life was influenced by a mix of Post-Soviet, Dutch and French education systems in the disciplines of Arts, Fashion & Textile Design. This varied mix has taught her to balance and weave different techniques with a strong concept-development.

Her curiosity and desire to learn of-, and understand our world’s complexity brought her to Brussels in 2001, where she joined the trans-disciplinary laboratory and research group FoAM. During ten years of collaborative work, she assumed the roles of experimental textile designer, production manager, office manager, illustrator, concept artist for game design, permaculture garden designer, and workshop facilitator.

All the while, actively involved in FoAM’s projects, Lina was drawing. Her illustrations appeared in a wide range of international publications, editorials, computer games, and exhibitions. She was selected for a display on Times Square/NY as part of see.me in 2014. Other prizes include the second place as best illustrator at the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards in 2016, a gold medal in the category of Book illustrations at the iJungle Illustration Awards in 2019, a MERIT AWARD at the 8th Hiii Illustration International Competition in 2020.

Since 2012 Lina creates and organizes workshops—the most prominent being “Plant Kingdom”—thanks to initial support by Citymine(d)) and Espace Senghor, Brussels. In 2014 and 2015, supported by local governments in Brussels, this workshop was brought to a number of schools, cultural centers, libraries and community houses, and then adapted to “Mobile Plant Kingdom” for a children art school in Oaxaca, Mexico. It has been invited to, and presented during various international conferences. Her most recent workshop “Plant & Play” currently travels to various academies, cultural centers and educational contexts across Europe.

Since 2019 Lina collaborates with companies, illustrating for interior design. Her botanical murals decorate restaurants, hotels and private houses in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Shenzhen, Beijing and Rotterdam. On 25 of November 2023, Secrétariat du Prix Versailles announced that Hotel Xitan (Beijing, China) where Lina created 10 artworks, has been designated one of 18 New World's Most Beautiful Hotels by the Selection Committee for the Prix Versailles – the World Architecture and Design Award at UNESCO.

Since 2020 Lina leads an “Uncomfortable creativity” course for Fashion Design Master students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania.

In 2023 and 2024 Lina collaborated on two environmental research projects as editorial illustrator for publications for the IPBES assessment (the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) and BIONEXT (research and innovation project that joins the fight for nature and biodiversity).