# Shana Lutker

URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-shana-lutker-12809/

1978 Born in Northport, NY  Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA    2005 MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, UCLA, School of Art 2000 BA, Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, Providence, RI 1999 Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist

**Selected Exhibitions**

  2019 "An Analphabet," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2018 "Phosphorescents, Pheasants and Unpleasants," performance at Art Catalogues LACMA, Los Angeles, CA 2017 "a.k.a. Public Opinion," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "Mutual Admiration," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL  “SNAFU,” Barbara Seiler, Zurich, Switzerland 2016 “Scenes from Chapter Four,” 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2015 "Paul, Paul, Paul, and Paul," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "Shana Lutker: Le New Monocle, Chapters 1-3," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.  "Shana Lutker: Project Gallery," Perez Art Museum Miami, FL  "Shana Lutker: The Raven, The Dove, Paul, and the Peacocks," Barbara Seiler, Zurich, Switzerland 2014 "Realism," LAXART, Hollywood, CA 2013 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "The Blowing Nose," Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2012 New Research Concerning Fistfights of the Surrealists, The Center For Ongoing Research & Projects, Columbus, OH 2011 A. G. L. & X., Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  Make Knot Meddle, New Positions, Wetterling Gallery, Art Cologne, Germany 2010 H.Y.S.T. et al. Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  Here It Here, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico  Reading Seating, Works Sited, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA 2009 "Forever Will a Blockhead Be", Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Books, 2005-2008, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL  The Commiffioners, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  Combined Faulty Acts, Artists Space, New York, NY 2007 CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; curated by Jens Hoffman  The Future of an Illusion, Room Gallery, UC Irvine, California; curated by Juli Carson 2006 Excerpts, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

**Group Exhibitions**

  2020 "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Cloud 9," Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA 2019 "Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume," Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (forthcoming)  "CURRENT:LA FOOD," City of Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles, CA  "Enchanted Interior," Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England, UK  "Smoke and Mirrors," AF Projects, West Hollywood, CA  "Dreamhouse vs. Punk House (+Cat House)," Serious Tropics, Inglewood, CA 2018 "Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings," Tate St. Ives, UK ([Link](http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf))  "Twentyfourseven: 40 Years," Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden  "EX-CORPSE," AWHRHWAR at OPAF, Battery Leary-Merriam Angels Gates Park, San Pedro, CA  "26 on 3rd," LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA  “No. 1,” The Magic Hour, High Desert, CA ([Link](http://themagichour.site/))  "My Kid Could Do That," Project Art Benefit exhibition at The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA  “Vision Valley: The Glendale Biennial,” organized by The Pit, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2017 "99 Cents or Less," Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI  "Summer of Love," Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA 2016 "IN SITU," EXPO Chicago, curated by Diana Nawi, Chicago, IL  “The Artists’ Library,” LAXART, Los Angeles, CA  "PDF-OBJECTS," Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2015 "PASSING LEAP," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY  "F.B.I.," Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA  "The Museum of the Unwanted," Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland. Curated by Clare Goodwin 2014 Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY  "The Outlanders," The Pit, Los Angeles, CA  "Pier 54," curated by Cecilia Alemani, High Line Art, New York, NY  "Unsparing Quality," Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Farrah Karapetian  "Bachelor Machines," ROOM EAST, New York, NY 2013 "Manifest Destiny," Public art project with Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Jacksonville, FL  "The House that Jack Built," Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  "The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm," Performa 13, New York, NY  "The Unicorn," Transformer Station, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH ([Link](http://www.clevelandart.org/events/exhibitions/unicorn))  "subject, answer, countersubject," Disjecta, Portland, OR, curated by Summer Guthery  "The Stand In (or a glass of milk)," Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA  "The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project," Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), USA ([Link](http://nomadicdivision.org/exhibitions/manifestdestiny/default.html))  "A Round World Distorts a Flat Map," 5323 Abbott Place, Los Angeles, CA  "Emmy Moore’s Journal," SALTS, Basel, Switzerland  "Works Sited," Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY  "Double Life," SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY  "Cats & Dogs," Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012 "Reflections on Form," Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  "Things, Words and Consequences," Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia  "Perros Negros presents Perros Negros," New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland  "A Brand New Baby Carriage Standing There on the Porch," Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  "Barter Show," LAND, West Hollywood, CA  "Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop," Los Angeles, CA  "economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ  "Ball of Artists," Greystone Mansion, part of Pacific Standard Time Festival, Beverly Hills, CA 2011 "The Trap Door," Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA  "Two Schools of Cool," curated by Sarah Bancroft, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA  "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleanor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY  "Suelto," curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Adrian Rivas, La Central, Bogota, Colombia 2010 "Lovingly, Rose Peebles," Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA  "Session_12_Words," Am Nuden Da at Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark  "Ruins (Los Angeles)," LA><ART Billboard, Los Angeles, CA  "A Torrent of Words," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI  "Territories, Left of Center," The Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA  "Point to one end, which is always present," Small A Projects, New York, NY 2009 Performa 09, X Initiative, New York, NY  "Words," Am Nuden Da, London, England  "An Object tossed from One Country to Another," Block Party, Highland Park, CA  "In Bed Together," Royal T, Los Angeles, CA  "Veronica", Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis  "In Love With Night," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, curated by Max King Cap & Ciara Ennis  "On the Pleasure of Hating", Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY  "Bitch is The New Black," Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Emma Gray  "Broken English," Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  "Extra, Extra," China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA  "This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA  "The May Show," Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA  "Put On," Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008 California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; offsite performances at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; and the LAB, Costa Mesa, CA; curated by Lauri Firstenberg  "Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, Brenna Youngblood," University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA  "Delusionarium 4," David Salow Gallery and Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA  "This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; curated by Kelly Chen and Anthony Elms  The 30TH Anniversary: PART II, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden  "The Whole World is Watching," The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA; curated by Irene Tsatsos  "November Again," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY; curated by Jeffrey Uslip  "The Silence of Infinite Space," Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA; curated by Aram Moshayedi  "3 Rooms: Shana Lutker, Sara Greenberger Rafferty," David Kennedy Cutler, DAmelio Terras, New York, NY 2007 Art Perform, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL; curated by Jens Hoffman  "You Are Here," Glassell School of Art 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  "For Sale," Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Jens Hoffman  "The Pyramid Show," Monte Vista, Los Angeles, CA  "Reality Disorder," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "88:88," The Project, New York, NY  "Big Secret Cache," Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA  "November," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY; curated by Jeffrey Uslip  "People for a Better Tomorrow," Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA; curated by Meg Cranston  "Re-make/Re-Model," DAmelio Terras, New York, NY  "And Therefore I Am," Tang Museum, Skidmore, Saratoga, NY; curated by John Weber 2005 "Happenstance," Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Lauri Firstenberg  "Champion Fine Art 2003-2005," Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA  Public Sculpture for Benevento Citta Spettacolo, Italy, Theater Festival; curated by Demetrio Paparoni  Erzhl mal was, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany  "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  "Delusionarium I," Legacy Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA  "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 with Matthew Rich  "Instant Installations," Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA 2002 "Slumberparty Noire," Municipal, Chicago, IL. Curated by Allison Frey and Casey Gunchel  "Friends and Family," Lombard-Fried Gallery, New York, NY 2001 "Addition|Subtraction," The Carlin Group, New York, NY. Organized by Isca Greenfield-Sanders  "Day Job," Open End Art, Chicago, IL. Organized by Susannah Strang and Joshua Gleason  "Trauma tic," Open End Art, Chicago, IL. Curated by Duncan Anderson

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Stage, November 4  Indrisek, Scott, Performa 13: What Not To Miss, BlackBook, November 1  Momin, Shamim, (Artist) Lunchtime Poll: Shana Lutker, Artsy, October 18  Jovanovic, Rozalia, "Ten Must-Sees at This Year’s Performa," ArtInfo, October 9  Bellman, Erica, "On View: Art Comes to the Interstate," T: The New York Times Style Magazine, September 24 ([Link](http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/on-view-art-comes-to-the-interstate/))  Litt, Steven, Saturdays opening for The Unicorn exhibition at The Transformer Station promises to be a surreal happening, like the show itself, Cleveland.com, September 3  _____. Shana Lutker, exhibition essay, The Unicorn at The Transformer Station, September  Jovanovic, Rozalia, "Performa Hints at Biennial Theme With Salon on Surrealism, Dating Apps," Artinfo, July 30 ([Link](http://origin-www.artinfo.com/news/story/934629/performa-hints-at-biennial-theme-with-salon-on-surrealism))  Frank, Peter, Haiku Reviews: From Alfred Hitchcock To Asian Fairy Tales, Huffington Post, July 9  Ong, Amanda, "The Blowing Nose by Shana Lutker," Frame Web, June 21  Wagley, Catherine, Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Fighting Surrealists, LA Weekly, May 1   Chappa, Kristen, Double Life, In Practice, Exhibition Catalogue, Sculpture Center, February 2012 Woods, Melissa Vogley, The Center For Ongoing Research and Projects: An Interview with Ryland Wharton, Temporary Art Review, December 27  Friedman, Julia, economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Critics Picks, Artforum.com, March  Griffin, Jonathan, Transcript (Verbatim Ad Nauseam), Exhibition Catalogue from Things, Words, and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, pp 5-8 2011 Nys Dambrot, Shana, Hoarders: Art Gallery Edition, LA Weekly, December 1  Latimer, Quinn, Shana Lutker, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Frieze, September  Gritti, Flice, Et bliev nix wie et wor, Artnet Magazin, artnet.de, April 11  Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Exhibition Catalogue, Fellows Of Contemporary Art, DelMonico Books  Lewallen, Constance, Shana Lutker and John Baldessari", essay in Exhibition Catalogue from Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art, Prestel, pp 44-47 2010 Holte, Micahel Ned, Top Ten, Artforum, December  West, Kevin, SoCal Cool, W Magazine, August  Tuck, Geoff, Notes on Looking, July 1, 2010, Notes On Looking, July 1  Wu, Cassie, Shana Lutker, Artforum.com Critics Pick, June  Williams-Ng, Stacey, Review: A Torrent of Words, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 1 2009 Uchill, Rebecca, This is Killing Me, Art Papers, November/December  Firstenberg, Lauri, The Talented Ms. Lutker, LA Confidential, September  Myers, Holly, Around the Galleries: Attitude and talent to spare, Los Angeles Times, August 21  Smee, Sebastian, Unflattering Reflection, The Boston Globe, August 1  AJ, The Feminine Artistique, Angeleno Magazine, August  Kley, Elisabeth, On the Pleasure of Hatred, artnet.com, June  Ramani, Donato, Creating amid Passion and Fears, LUomo Vogue, May/June  Ross, David, The Partys Over, Flyp, Flypmedia.com, March 13  Born, Katheryn, This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology, Time Out Chicago, Issue 201, January 1  Ennis, Ciara, Veronica, exhibition catalogue, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA  Haeg, Fritz, The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, Evil Twin Books, New York  Grabner, Michelle and Brad Killam, Forrest Nash, Jason Pickleman, Shana Lutker, exhibition catalogue from Can I Come Over To Your House?, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, pp. 1050-1057  Moshayedi, Aram with Shana Lutker, Forever Will A Blockhead Be, exhibition catalogue, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm  Nawi, Diana, This is Killing Me, exhibition brochure, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA  Tsatsos, Irene, Shana Lutker in Common Threads, Shared Spaces: Five Years of Fellowships for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation, 2004-2008, pp. 78-79  Younger than Jesus/Artist Directory, The New Museum, New York, NY, Phaidon Press 2008 Leong, Stephanie, California Girls, Daily Nexus, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 6  Wahlquist, Grant, O.C. Art Attack!, Riviera, November  Designed by Shana Lutker, Casa Magazine Santa Barbara, October 31  Woodard, Joe, Hear, Hear: Shana Lutker arrives in two capacities this month, Santa Barbara News Press, October 31  Olive, Ashley, Shana Lutker at CAFs Forum Lounge, Santa Barbara Independent, October 30  Mizota, Sharon, Eureka Moments, Los Angeles Times, October 19  OCMA Hits the Road, Jack!, Riviera, October  Schwyzer, Elizabeth, The Art of Now, Santa Barbara Independent, September 25  Martin, Victoria, Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artweek, September  Foss, Paul, Shana Lutker, ArtUS, September  Frank, Peter, The Radiant Mind, The Body Politic: Lee Mullican, Shana Lutker and Olga Koumoundouros, LA Weekly, June 4  Taft, Catherine, Catherine Tafts Round-Up of the Best Shows in LA, Saatchi Online, May 27  Velasco, David, West Side Story, Artforum.com, January 31  Firstenberg, Lauri, Shana Lutker in conversation with Lauri Firstenberg, exhibition catalogue from the 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, pp 146-147  Uslip, Jeffery, Shana Lutker: Combined Faculty Acts, exhibition catalogue, Artists Space, New York, NY  Hoffman, Jens, Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Art, exhibition catalogue from Passengers 1.4, published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA 2007 Diaz, Karla, A Tour of San Francisco and Oakland, FlashArt Online, October  Beil, Kim, "California Biennial at OCMA," in ArtWeek, Vol 38, February  Carson, Juli, "Shana Lutker’s The Future of an Illusion," Room Gallery, January  Ritter, Ben, Shana Lutkers Bizarre Illusion, New University, Vol 40, January 16  Wulffson, Jennifer, California Biennial, 2006, Latinart.com, January 2006 Cotter, Holland, "November" in Art Review, The New York Times, December 22  Armstrong, Elizabeth, "California Above All," Art Review, May  Berwick, Carly, Happenstance, in ArtNews, April  Pollack, Barbara, Happenstance, Time Out New York, Issue 536, January 5  Holte, Michael Ned, "Shana Lutker," Exhibition Catalogue from the 2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, pp. 104-107  Myers, Julian, I want to tell you Everything, from Excerpts, produced by Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm 2005 Cotter, Holland, Happenstance in Art in Review, The New York Times, December 30

**Awards, Grants and Fellowships**

  2016 Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 2014 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, 2013-2014 Artist in Residence, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Artist in Residence, Cité des Art Internationales, Paris, France  Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida 2011 Artist in Residence, Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2010 Artist in Residence, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico 2008 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship 2006 Durfee Foundation Completion Grant 2004-2005 Art Council Award 2004 Elaine Krown Klein Award  Art Council Award  Hoyt Fellowship 2003 Orselli Fellowship, UCLA Department of Art  Clifton Webb Art Award, UCLA Department of Art

**Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books**

  2019 Buhmann, Stephanie. Los Angeles Studio Conversations. The Green Box, Berlin, Germany 2016 Sur, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 2014 Whitney Biennial 2014, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2014

**Artist’s Writing and Published Projects**

  2018 Artist’s Portfolio, Apricota, Issue no. 1. Secretary Press, New York. pp 34–61. 2016 Madames Electrics, with drawings contributed by Maria Candanoza, Kate Costello, Zoe Crosher, Julian Hoeber, Adriana Lara, and Interior Theatre. Book produced as part of exhibition I curated and organized at The Pit, Glendale, CA. “Notes on the Project X Forums,” X-TRA, Volume 18, number 2, pp 85-87. 2014 “A to B to E to F to G to M to N: A conversation wtih Augustine, André Breton, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Gradiva, Me, and Nadja,” Whitney Biennial 2014, pp 369-372.  “Have you ever slapped a dead person?” Cadavere Quotidiano, published by Project X Projects, pp 96-103. 2012 New Research concerning the Fistfights of the Surrealists, 16-page newspaper published by the Center for Ongoing Research & Projects, Columbus, Ohio.  “Some Fistfights of the Surrealists,” MATERIAL, no 3, pp. 51-59.  “Kate Costello: Set Ups,” X-TRA, Volume 15, no. 1, p. 37. 2010 “Transitional Objects,” Lovingly, Rose Peebles, broadsheet published by Brand Gallery, Glendale, CA.  “Index: Studio, 2003-2006,” The Studio Reader, edited by Michelle Grabner and Mary Jane Jacob, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2009 “Eileen Cowin: Simply Because You’re Near Me,” Published brochure essay on the occasion  of Cowin’  s exhibition at Pasadena Community College Gallery, March 2009.  “Artists Are Not,” thehighlights.com, February issue.  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, Vol 9.1  “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. 2003 “Out with the Artist: The poet, the American, and the monster,” The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalogue, published on the occasion of the 2003 Wight Biennial, UCLA, p54-61. 2002 “Kristin Lucas and Joe McKay,” New Art Examiner, Jan/Feb 2002, Vol. 29 no. 3, p. 67.

**Public Collections**

   Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.  Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA