SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
SHANA LUTKER
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Born in Northport, New York.

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

 

EDUCATION

 

2005     MFA, UCLA, School of Art, Interdisciplinary Studio.

2000     BA, Brown University, Providence, RI. Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media.

1999     Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, visiting artist.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2008    Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
            Artists’ Space, New York, NY. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip. Catalogue.

            CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Jens Hoffman.

2007     “The Future of an Illusion”, Room Gallery, UC Irvine, California. Curated

                        by Juli Carson.

2006     “Excerpts”, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Catalogue.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2008     “California Biennial 2008”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

            “The Silence of Infinite Space”, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA.
                        Curated by Aram Moshayedi.

            “3 Rooms – Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Shana Lutker, David Kennedy Cutler”,
                        D’Amelio Terras, NY

2007     “Art Perform”, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL

            “You Are Here”, Glassell CORE Program Gallery, Museum of Fine Art,

                        Houston, TX.

            “Passengers”, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA. Curated

                        by Jens Hoffman.

            “Abstraction”, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Nancy Meyer.

            "For Sale," Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated

                        by Jens Hoffman.

            "The Pyramid Show", Monte Vista, Los Angeles, CA.

            “Reality disorder”, three person show with Justin Beal and Mateo Tannatt,

                        Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA.

                        Curated by Gosia Wojas, Catalogue.

                  “88:88”, The Project, New York, NY

            “Big Secret Cache”, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2006     “November”, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip.

            “2006 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, CA. Catalogue.

            “People for a Better Tomorrow”, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA.

                        Curated by Meg Cranston.

            “Re-make/Re-Model”, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY.

                        Online Exhibition at www.remakeremodel.net

            “And Therefore I Am”, Tang Museum, Skidmore, Saratoga, NY.

                        Curated by John Weber.

2005     “Happenstance”, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York. Curated

                        by Lauri Firstenberg.

            “Speakeasy”, Upspace, Los Angeles, CA.

            "Champion Fine Art 2003-2005", Art 2102, Los Angeles. Organized by

                        Drew Heitzler and Flora Weigman.

            Public Sculpture for Benevento Citta Spettacolo, Italy, Theater Festival,

                        Curated by Demetrio Paparoni. Catalogue.

            “Erzähl mal was”, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany.

                        Curated by Veronika Olbrich.

            “Supersonic 2”, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA.

            “The Paths of Moons and Planets”, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA.

                        Curated by Dawn Kasper.

2004     “Faith”, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by

                        Matt Johnson. Catalogue.

            “Delusionarium I”, Legacy Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA. Catalogue.

            “Art and Propaganda”, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

2003     “Record”, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA. Screening curated by Sharon Hayes.

            “The Stage”, Stray Show 2003, Chicago, IL. Special installation project.

            “Instant Installations”, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA.

2002     “Slumberparty Noire”, Municipal, Chicago, IL.

            “Friends and Family”, Lombard-Fried Gallery, New York, NY.

2001     “Addition|Subtraction”, The Carlin Group, New York, NY.

            “Day Job”, Open End Art, Chicago, IL.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2008     Velasco, David, “West Side Story”, Afrtforum.com, January 31

2007     Diaz, Karla, “A Tour of San Francisco and Oakland”,

                        FlashArt, www.flashartonline.com, October.

            Beil, Kim, "California Biennial at OCMA," in ArtWeek, February, Vol 38,

                        Issue 1, pg. 16-19.

            Carson, Juli, "Shana Lutker's The Future of an Illusion," published by

                        Room Gallery, January.

2006     Armstrong, Elizabeth, "California Above All," Art Review, May, p84.

            Berwick, Carly, “Happenstance,” in ArtNews, April.

            Cotter, Holland, "November" in "Art Review," The New York Times, Dec 22.

            Holte, Michael Ned, "Shana Lutker," 2006 California Biennial, Orange

                        County Museum of Art, pp. 104-107.

            Myers, Julian, “I want to tell you Everything”, Excerpts, produced by

                        Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm.

            Pollack, Barbara, “Happenstance,” Time Out New York, Issue 536: January 5–11

            Wulffson, Jennifer, "California Biennial, 2006," LatinArt.com

2005     Cotter, Holland, “Happenstance” in “Art in Review,” The New York Times,

                        Dec. 30, B37.

 

PUBLISHED WRITING AND WORK

 

2007     “Confusion, Collateral, and Pain,” X-Tra, Winter 2007-8, Vol.10.2.

                        With Kris Paulsen.

2006     "Notes on Display, Exhibition and Awe," X-Tra, Winter 2006-7, Vol. 9.2.

            “Every Garden a Munition Plant,” X-Tra, Summer 2006, Vol. 8.4.

2005     “Ghosts of the Public," X-Tra, Fall 2005, Vol 8.1, pp 48-52.

2004     “Sourcebook of American Chatter: Issue One (Fragments)”, contributor.

 

OTHER PROJECTS

 

2004-Present

            Managing Editor and member Editorial Board, X-TRA Magazine.

2006     ANNEX, Organized lecture series for ART2102 at Mountain Bar,

                        conversations between artists and experts. Participating artists,

                        Mark Bradford, Meg Cranston, Sean Dockray, Angie Waller,

                        and Mario Ybarra, Jr.

2005     Warner Studio Visiting Artists Program Coordinator.

            “Field Works Art/Geography”, organizer of symposium and public program

                        at Hammer Museum.

2004     “Psychoanalysis and Politics,” UCHRI, Invitational Summer Experimental

                        Critical Theory Seminar at UC Irvine, led by Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec,

                        Mladen Dolar, Eric Santner, Alain Badiou and Alenka Zupancic.

2003     2003 Wight Biennial, Curator and Coordinator, New Wight Gallery, UCLA,

                        Los Angeles.

            Sigmund Freud Museum, London, Library Residency.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2006     Durfee Foundation Completion Grant.

2005     Emerging Artist Contest Winner, Artseen.

2004-5  Elaine Krown Klein Award.

2004     Hoyt Fellowship.

2004-5  Art Council Award

2003     Orselli Fellowship, UCLA Department of Art.

            Clifton Webb Art Award, UCLA Department of Art.

            Travel Grant, UCLA Center for the Study of Women.