Artist's Biography

 

Shana Lutker was born 1978 in Northport, New York and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from UCLA, School of Art, Interdisciplinary Studio in 2005. She received BA from Brown University, Providence, RI. Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media in 2000 and attended Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, visitng artist in 1999. Her group exhibition is “This is Killing Me,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, West Adams, MA. (May 2009 - April 2010), her solo exhibition was Björn Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden(2009)

Curator's Biography

Jenée Misraje is an independent curator and art consultant based in Los Angeles. She graduated with a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1990 and received her MA Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2005. Past curatorial projects include: The End of the End of the Line at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis and Art and The Afterall Effect at Playspace Gallery, San Francisco.  Misraje has managed numerous site-related works, including San Francisco-based New Langton Arts’ land-based art initiative Terrain Terroir and projects by artists Christoph Büchel, Edgar Arceneaux and Charles Gaines. She continues to serve on several advisory boards: YARD magazine, 12 Duffield: The Glen Seator Foundation and greenmuseum.org <http://greenmuseum.org> . Her writing has appeared in publications including CCA’s Curating Now publication, ArtLies and she has contributed essays to the exhibition catalogues for Downtime: Constructing Leisure, Modern and Contemporary: Lannan Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago and Bill Viola: Stations. In fall 2008 Misraje curated an exhibition of new work by Erlea Maneros for the Fellows of Contemporary Art’s Curators Lab award program and a project titled Solo Solo: Jenée Misraje and Joe Sola at Crisp London|Los Angeles. She served on Hammer Museum’s curatorial staff from 2006 to 2009. Misraje is currently working on a comparative text examining contemporary art of Los Angeles, London and Paris.