About

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.