Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Audra Skuodas spent six formative years in a displaced persons camp in Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1949. She became a U.S. citizen in 1961 and earned both her B.A. and M.A. from Northern Illinois University. Based in Oberlin, Ohio, she maintained a rigorous studio practice while raising a family and teaching at institutions including the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Oberlin College.
Over the course of five decades, Skuodas developed a distinctive body of work spanning painting, drawing, textile-based sculpture, and artists’ books. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is held in prominent museum collections including the Akron Art Museum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 2010, she was honored with the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.