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SHANA LUTKER                                                                                                         

Born in Northport, New York.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

EDUCATION

UCLA, School of Art, MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, 2005.
Brown University, Providence, RI. BA, Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media, 2000.
Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, visiting artist, 1999.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS

2008
The Commiffioners, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
Books 2005-2008, The Surburban, Oak Park, IL.
Combined Faulty Acts, Project Room, Artists Space, New York, NY. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip. Catalogue

2007
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA. December 2007. Catalogue.
Room Gallery, UC Irvine, California. January 2007. Curated by Juli Carson. Pamphlet.

2006   
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Catalogue. February 2006.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, CA. Catalogue.
November Again, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY.
The Silence of Infinite Space, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Aram Moshayedi.
3 Rooms: Shana Lutker, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, David Kennedy Cutler, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2007
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, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
88:88, The Project, New York, NY.
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2006  
November, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY. Nov - Dec 2006.
California Biennial 2006, Orange County Museum, CA. October - December 2006.
Re-make/Re-Model, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY. Online Exhibition at www.remakeremodel.net
People for a Better Tomorrow, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA. Curated by Meg Cranston. April 2006.
And Therefore I Am, Tang Museum, Skidmore, Saratoga, NY. Curated by John Weber. February - Sept 2006.

2005   
Happenstance, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg. November 2006.
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. September 2005. Curated by Demetrio Paparoni. Catalogue.
Erzael mal was, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagan, 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. Curated by Jesse Benson. 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 for Thomas Blackman Assc.
Instant Installations, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Pipillotti Rist.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Armstrong, Elizabeth, "California Above All," Art Review, May 2006, p84.
Beil, Kim, "California Biennial at OCMA," in ArtWeek, February 2007, Vol 38, Issue 1, pg. 16-19.
Berwick, Carly, “Happenstance,” in ArtNews, April 2006.
Cotter, Holland, "November" in "Art Review," The New York Times, Dec 22, 2006.
Cotter, Holland, “Happenstance” in “Art in Review,” The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2005, B37
Carson, Juli, "Shana Lutker's The Future of an Illusion," published by Room Gallery, Jan 2007.
Diaz, Karla, "A Tour of San Francisco and Oakland," Flashartonline.com, December 2007.
Frank, Peter, "The Radiant Mind, The Body Politic: Lee Mullican, Shana Lutker, Olga Kourmoundouros," LA Weekly, June 4, 2008.
Holte, Michael Ned, "Shana Lutker," California Biennial 2006 Catalogue, Orange County Museum of Art, pp104-107. Available at ocma.net and amazon.com
Myers, Julian, “I want to tell you Everything,” in Excerpts:Works on Paper,
catalogue for February 2006 exhibition at Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm.
Pollack, Barbara, “Happenstance,” Time Out New York, Issue 536: January 5–11, 2006.
Schlenke, Saskia, “Kunstlerin prasentiert Langenhagen-Chronik,” Nordhannoversche Zeitung, August 29, 2005
Uslip, Jeffrey, "Combined Faulty Acts," Catalogue publised by Artists Space, New York, 2008.
Wulffson, Jennifer, "California Biennial, 2006," LatinArt.com

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.
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, October 9 x November 6, 2003, p54-61.
2002   "Kristin Lucas and Joe McKay," New Art Examiner, Jan/Feb 2002, Vol. 29 no. 3, p. 67.

PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

Managing Editor and member Editorial Board, X-TRA Magazine (2004 - present)
Production Consultant, LAXART, Los Angeles. (2006-present)
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. , Spring 2006
Warner Studio Visiting Artists Program Coordinator, 2005
Field Works Art/Geography, Organizer of symposium and public program at Hammer Museum. 2005.
http://www.fieldworks.org/
“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. Summer 2004.
2003 Wight Biennial, Curator and Coordinator, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Sigmund Freud Museum, London, Library Residency, Summer 2003.

ARTIST LECTURES/STUDIO VISITS/PUBLIC EVENTS

2007 Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits, CCA, San Francisco, CA.
Artist Talk, University of California, Irvine, CA.
2006   Artist Talk, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2005 Programmer and Moderator, Fieldworks/Artworks, Hammer Museum Evening Program,  Screening by Heather Frazar and                  performance by Ultra-red. 5/05.
          Artist Talk and Graduate Studio Visits at San Francisco Institute of Art. Organized by Jill Miller. 4/05.
2004   Artist Talk at Otis College of Art and Design.
2003   Programmer and Moderator, 2003 Wight Biennial Panel Discussion, UCLA Hammer Museum. Panel members: John                Baldessari, Lauri Firstenberg, Micol Hebron, Nic Herman, and Mary Kelly. 10/03.
          Conducted studio visits in London at the RCA, Central St. Martins and Goldsmith for the Wight Biennial.

AWARDS AND HONORS

California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2008
Durfee Foundation ARC Award, 2007
Emerging Artist Contest Winner, Artseen, 2005
Elaine Krown Klein Award, 2004-5
Hoyt Fellowship, 2004
Art Dept. Speaker to UC Board of Regents, 2004
Art Council Award, 2004-5
Orselli Fellowship, UCLA Department of Art, 2003
Clifton Webb Art Award, UCLA Department of Art, 2003
Travel Grant, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2003