Jenni Lukac
Jenni Lukac is an American artist based permanently in Spain since 2000.
Education
MFA cum laude in photography, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1989
BFA cum laude in Art /Experimental Studios, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1975
Sir John Cass School of Art, London Polytechnic, London, England, fall semester 1973
Selected solo exhibitions:
Obudai Pincegalería, Budapest, Hungary 10th Day (multimedia installation) 1998
Sculpture Center, New York, NY 10th Day (multimedia installation) 1997
Kreissparkasse Enkebach, Enkenbach, Germany, as part of Artlantischen Tage 1997
Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserlautern, Germany, 49 Waltzes for K-Town, homage to John Cage, collaboration with pianist Jens Barnieck, 1997.
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IlL, USA (two multimedia installations + book objects) 1996
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA Kaddish (video installation) 1995
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, USA Kaddish (video installation) 1995
Babcock Fine Arts Center Gallery, Sweet Briar College, VA, USA (drawings + book objects) 1995
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, USA Palimpsests (works on paper) 1994
Port of Miami, public sculpture installation Art Deco historic District, Miami Beach, FL, USA 1993
Portsmouth Museums/Art Center, Portsmouth, VA, USA (multimedia installation) 1991
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, USA Votive Shrine (multimedia installation) 1990
Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA (photographs and multimedia sculpture) 1990
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, USA (multimedia sculpture) 1990
Artists Book Works, Chicago, IL, USA (artists’ books) 1989
1708 East Main Street Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA (multimedia sculpture) 1989
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Thesis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA (multimedia sculpture) 1989
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA (photographic prints) 1988
Albany Academy Gallery, Albany, NY, USA (photographic prints) 1987
Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, USA (photographic prints) 1987
Inskirts Gallery, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, USA (photographic prints) 1987
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA, USA (photographic prints) 1986
Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA (photographic prints) 1986
Selected group exhibitions:
Works From the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, University of Iowa Libraries Special Collection, Iowa City, IA, USA 2020
Collage: Moving Beyond Paper, Krannert Museum of Art, Champaign, IL, USA 2016
The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Boston College McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA 2009
The Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA 2006
Cartographers, curated by Zelimir Koscevic, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, Croatia 1997. Travelled to: Center for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland 1998; Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary 1998; Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor, Slovenia 1998
Outfit: Authentizität und Maskerade, 12th International Photoscene, Cologne, Germany 1998
Fort Sztuki, Kraków, Poland 1998
Le livre dans tous ses états, Galería Nota Bene, Cadaquès, Spain 1998
L’art I la dona, Museo de Cadaquès, Cadaquès, Spain 1997
Cherchez la Femme 3 – Surface, Szombathely Gallery, Szombathely, Hungary 1997
Artscape, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA 1997
Un/Common Ground, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA 1996
Louise James and Jenni Lukac, Öberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany 1996
Book as Art VIII, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA 1996
Ethereal Images: Perry Bard, Joseph Delappe, Jenni Lukac, Jenny Marketou, Onajide Shabaka, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA 1996
Milliseconds to Millenia, The Art of Time, Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA, USA. Other venues : Bridewell Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA; Montserrat College Art Gallery, Beverly, MA, USA; Portsmouth Art Center, Portsmouth, VA, USA 1993—1994
Group exhibition, Pollack Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA 1994
1994 Juried Exhibition, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, USA 1994
1993 CAVA Exhibition, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA 1993
Books as Art, Barbara Gilman Gallery, Miami, FL, USA 1993
Book, Box & World, Volume II, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 1993
The Art of the Collage, Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA, USA 1992
Acts of Grace, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, USA 1992
Mixing it up: Art Reacts to Society School 33 Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA 1991
Sites of Recollection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA 1992; Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA, USA 1992; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA 1993; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA 1993
Vital Signs, Artists Make Work About AIDS, Key Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA 1991
Art and the Social, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, USA 1991
Opened all night: Subversive Correspondence in the Age of Open Borders and Closed Minds, Tula Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA 1991
Options, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, USA 1990
Boys & Girls, Men and Women: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA 1990
Día de los Muertos: Homelessness, Alternative Museum, NY, NY, USA 1990
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Newark, DE, USA 1990
Knight-Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA 1990
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, USA 1990
Shrines and Icons, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA , USA 1989
23rd University of Delaware Biennial Exhibition, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA 1988
20th Dulin Works on Paper Competition, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, USA 1988
In Pursuit of the Image: The Fine Art of Collecting Photographs, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY , USA 1987
Prints & Photography, Mildred Cohen and Jenni Lukac, Inskirts Gallery, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.
Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Art Association Gallery, Chautauqua, NY, USA 1985
Fellowships and residencies
Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow, Germany 1997
Kebbel Villa, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, 1996
Centre d’Art Contemporain d´Herblay, Herblay, France 1995
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY , USA 1995
Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, USA 1995
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, USA 1994
Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaquès, Spain 1994, 1997
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, USA 1993
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Miami, FL, USA 1991—1993
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA 1985
Awards, grants, prizes
Visual Artist Fellowship, Virginia Commission for the Arts, 1996
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Residency Grant 1994
Peninsula Fine Arts Center Award of Honor and Friends Award 1994
Individual Artist Project Grant, Virginia Commission for the Arts 1993
Virginia Prize for Sculpture, Virginia Commission for the Arts 1990
Arts in Education Grant, Virginia Commission for the Arts 1989
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, purchase award 1988
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY purchase award 1987
Hulda and Earle Miller Award, Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY, USA 1985
Independent Exhibitions Grant, Committee for the Visual Arts, New York, NY 1981
Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Artpool Archívum, Budapest, Hungary
Arts University Bournemouth Library, Poole, England
Atlantische Academy, Kaiserlautern, Germany
Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Manuscripts and Rare Book Collection, Munich, Germany
Biblioteca Ana Caputi, Collezione donne ad arte, Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples, Italy
Biblioteca Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Bridwell Art Library Rare Books Collection, University of Louisville, KY Louisville, KY, USA
Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
CFPR Artists’ Books Archive University of the West of England (UWE) Artist’s Book Archive, Bristol, England
Chris Fowler Artists’ Books Collection, Oxford Brookes University Library Special Collections, Oxford, England
Clarence Ward Art Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA
Collection of the Friends of the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus e.V., Schwandorf, Germany
Decker Library Artists’ Book Collection, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, USA
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Frost Library, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian Biblioteca de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Glasgow School of Art Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
James Mason University Library Special Collections, James Mason U., Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library Artists’ Book Collection, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Joseph C. Sloane Art Library Artists’ Book Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. USA
Knoxville Museum of Arts, Knoxville, TN, USA
KKV Grafik (Konstnärernas Kollektiva Grafikverkstand) Malmö, Sweden
Library of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Scotland
London Metropolitan University Library Special Collections, London, England
Maison Européen de la Photographie Library, Paris, France
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Library and Documentation Centre, Madrid, Spain
Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, Poland
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA
New York Public Library Art and Architecture Collection, New York, New York, USA
Peter Palmquist Collection of Women in Photography, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
PhMuseum Lab Library, Bologna, Italy
Rikhardinkatu Library Artists’ Book Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry University of Iowa Libraries Special Collection, Iowa City IA, USA
Sherrill Library, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA USA
Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Tate Britain Library Artists’ Book Archive, London, England
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Universidad Politécnica de València Colección de libros de artista, Valencia, Spain
Universitätsbibliothek Klagenfurt, Sondersammlungen, Klagenfurt, Austria
University of Iowa Library Special Collections, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
University of Louisville, KY Bridwell Art Library Rare Books Collection, Louisville, KY, USA
University of Michigan Art, Architecture & Engineering Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
University of North Carolina Library, Artists’ Book Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
University of Plymouth, Charles Seale-Hayne Library, Plymouth, UK
Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, USA
Weston Library Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Winterthur Fotomuseum Library, Winterthur, Switzerland
Books:
Lyons, Joan, Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1971-2008. Visual Studies Workshop Press. 2009. ISBN 9780898221268.
Wasserman, Krystina, Johanna Drucker and Audrey Niffenegger. The Book as Art. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Bloom, Lisa, ed, With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 1999 ISBN 9780816632237.