SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
SHANA LUTKER
Born in Northport, New York.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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.
2010
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Ruin, Los Angeles”, billboard on La Cienega Blvd., LAXART, 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. 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.
2010
“Not Cooperative”, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Jeffrey Uslip Jan 29 - April 27, 2010
“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
“Reading Seating”, Art, Music, and Recreation Department, Los Angeles Public Library, CA
2009
“Performa 09,” X Initiative, New York, NY
“A Torrent of Words”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
“Broken English,” Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
“In Love With Night”, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, curated by Max King Cap & Ciara Ennis
“Bitch is The New Black”, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Emma Gray
"VERONICA", Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, curated by Ciara Ennis
“This Is Killing Me”, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
"On the Pleasure of Hating", Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY
“Put On,” Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
“California Biennial 2008”, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA., Curated by Lauri Fristenberg. Catalogue.
“Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, Brenna Youngblood,” University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
“Delusionarium 4: The Left Garden”, 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 & Anthony Elms.
“The Whole World is Watching”, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos
“The 30TH Anniversary: PART II,” Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm Sweden. Catalogue
“November, Again”, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip
“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, 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. Catalogue
“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,” Monta Vista, Los Angeles, CA
“Reality disorder”, 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
“2006 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, CA. Catalogue.
“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”, 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.
“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.
2010
Wu, Cassie, “Shana Lutker”, Artforum Critics’ Pick, July 16
2009
“Younger than Jesus/Artist Directory”, Phaidon Press
Myers, Holly, “Around the Galleries: Attitude and talent to spare”, Los Angeles Times, August 21
Ross, David, “The Party’s Over”, Flyp, Flypmedia.com, March 13 – 26
Born, Katheryn, “This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology”, Time Out Chicago, Issue 201, January 1-7
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
2008
Firstenberg, Lauri, 2008 California Biennial, “Shana Lutker in conversation with Lauri Firstenberg”, Orange County Museum of Art, pp 146-147, October
Uslip, Jeffery, “Shana Lutker: Combined Faculty Acts, Catalogue published with Artists Space, New York, NY
Hoffman, Jens, “Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Art,” Passengers 1.4 catalogue, published by CCA
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Woodard, Josef, “Hear, Hear”, Santa Barbara News-Press Scene, October 31 – November 6
Leong, Stephanie, “California Girls”, Daily Nexus, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 6
“Desiged by Shana Lutker”, Casa Magazine Santa Barbara, October 31
Olive, Ashley, “Shana Lutker at CAF’s Forum Lounge”, Santa Barbara Independent, October 30
Mizota, Sharon, “The California Biennial spreads out”, Los Angeles Times, October 19
Martin, Victoria, “Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Artweek, September
Foss, Paul, “Shana Lutker”, ArtUS, p. 7, September
Frank, Peter, “The Radiant Mind, The Body Politic: Lee Mullican, Shana Lutker and Olga Koumoundouros,” LA Weekly, June 4
Taft, Catherine, “Catherine Taft’s Round-Up of the Best Shows in LA”, Saatchi Online, May 27
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
Ritter, Ben, “Shana Lutker’s Bizarre Illusion”, New University, Vol 40, Issue 13, January 16
2006
Armstrong, Elizabeth, "California Above All," Art Review, May, p84.
Berwick, Carly, “Happenstance,” in ArtNews, April.
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.
2008
California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship
2006
Durfee Foundation Completion Grant.
2004-2005
Elaine Krown Klein Award.
2004
Hoyt Fellowship.
2004-2005
Art Council Award.
2003
Orselli Fellowship, UCLA Department of Art.
Clifton Webb Art Award, UCLA Department of Art.
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