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Born in, New York, 1946 - Resident of St. John, Virgin Islands since 1969
EDUCATION: Art/Sculpture (Graduate level) with Richard Stankiewicz at SUNY (1968), Printmaking- Skidmore College, NY (1990) Public Art,Installation/NewMedia- School of Visual Arts (2006) Mid Atlantic Arts Creative Fellow, VCCA, VA –2011, 2008
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2022 FOUNDATIONS presentation - SASS Conference, Rio Mar, PR
REFLECTIONS, premier showing - Bethany Moravian Church Hall, St. John, VI
FOUNDATIONS - Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
2021 IN THE TIME OF CORONA - Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
“IN THE GARDEN'“ - Book signing, Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
2019 SNORKEL MAN and ON THESE SHORES - Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
THE BOOK PROJECT - Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI,
BOOK BACCHANAL - Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI
2017: HeARTiFacts - Seven Minus Seven - St. Thomas, VI
BY THE SEA - Best of Both Worlds, St. John, VI
2014: FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO NY - solo show - JVS project Space, NYC
CRIME SEEN/TRANSFER 2014 - collaboration with William Stelzer, Edgar Endress, Lori Lee – Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts,St.Croix
2011: TRANSFER 2011 – a collaboration with Edgar Endress, Lori Lee –
Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix
2010: THE JOURNEY at Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix
2008: NEW MEDIA at Mixed Media Gallery, St. Thomas, VI
2007: NEW WORK, NEW MEDIA – AASJ Gallery, St. John, VI
2007: TRANSFER IV, a collaboration with Edgar Endress, Lori Lee
Caribbean Museum Center, Fort Frederik Museum, St. Croix
2006: TRANSFER III, a collaboration with Edgar Endress, Lori Lee
Caribbean Museum Center, Fort Frederik Museum, St. Croix, VI
2006: NEW WORK, NEW YORK – Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
2005: TRANSFER II, I a collaboration with Edgar Endress, Lori Lee
Ft. Christian, St. Thomas TRANSFER - Sólo Arte, St. John, VI
2005: MONOTYPES – THE AGNES SERIES, Sólo Arte, St. John, VI
2004, 2003: NEW WORK – PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, Sólo Arte, St. John, VI
2002: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DREAMS, Fondo del Sol, Wash. DC, J. Proctor
Gallery, Seaside, FL, Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY
2000: ISLAND DREAMS, Savannah Gallery, Anguilla, BWI
1999: RECUERDO, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
THEN AND NOW, Savannah Gallery, Anguilla, B.W.I.
1998: TO REMEMBER, Györy Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL, Fondo del Sol, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 CLEAR DE ROAD: Counter Archives of Resistance - Ft. Frederik Museum, St. Croix, VI.
Presented by the Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in partnership with the 175th Anniversary of Emancipation Committee.
MOKO JUMBIES: Icons of the Virgin Islands at the VI Children's Museum, St. Thomas, VI
2022 SHE - Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
THE REVOLUTION IS NOT A ONE TIME ACT Ft. Frederik Museum, St. Croix, VI
FLOTSAM & JETSAM - Seven Minus Seven - St. Thomas, VI
2019 8vo. FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL de CAUMAGÜEY, Cuba
2018: ANIMISM AND THE COLONIAL IMAGINATION, Studio Walsh, St. Croix, VI
AFTERMATH, Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
2017: MY ISLANDS DO NOT MAKE A NATION, Casa De Las Americas, Havana, Cuba. Curated by Priscilla Hintz Rivera & David Knight, Jr.
100 YEARS OF…A CENTENNIAL TRANSFER REFLECTION, Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
INVISIBLE HERITAGE/TRANSFER 2017, VI Cultural Embassy, Copenhagen, DK, - CMCA, St. Croix, VI, curated by Monica Marin
AN ISLAND IS A WORLD, Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
INFLAGRANTE DELICATO, Seven Minus Seven, St. Thomas, VI
2016: AN OCEAN OF DIGNIFIED DUST, PoP-Up Gallery, St. Thomas, VI, Curated by Priscilla Hintz Rivera & David Knight, Jr.
NEW VERNACULARS, Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI
2015: COLONIAL COMFORT, curator: Lisa Ladner, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR
WOMEN TO WOMEN, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, VI, curated by Carmen Mojica
DE MUJER A MUJER II, Museo de la Historia, Ponce, PR, curated by Carmen Mojica
2014: DEFEND PARADISE, PoP-Up Gallery, St. Thomas, VI, Curated by Priscilla Hintz Rivera & David Knight, Jr
COLONIAL COMFORT, curator: Lisa Ladner, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI
TRANSFORMING SPACES, Nat’l Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS SPRING SHOW - JVS Project Space, NYC
1ST VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL - St. John Film Society - School of the Arts, St. John, VI
2013: ASSOCIATE ARTISTS INAUGURAL - JVS Project Space, NYC
2012: TRINIDAD+TOBAGO FILM FESTIVAL, NEW MEDIA, Port of Spain, Trinidad
25th FESTIVAL LES INSTANTS VIDEO, Milan, Italy
CARIBBEAN TALES FILM FESTIVAL, 2012 – Barbados, WI
2ND VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL –School of the Arts, St. John, VI
2011: PARADISE LOST, 2nd edition, ÁREA, lugar de proyectos, Caguas, PR
2011 - 2008: THE LAST BOOK – curator: Luis Camnitzer – New York Public Library, NYC, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Zentralbibliothek, Zurich
2010: I TRIENAL INT’L DEL CARIBE Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Dom. DR
NEW MEDIA FEST-2010 - curator: Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Germany
2010: COMMON GROUND – Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, Public Art, by Kendal Henry
2010: PARADISE LOST, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI, curated by Monica Marin
VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL –School of the Arts, St. John, VI
2009: OK VIDEO COMEDY – 4th Jakarta International Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Jakarta, Indonesia,
DAILY STRIFE – VI-PR Commemorative show Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI
FACING LOCALITY, curator: Luis Camnitzer, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix,
VI FOLK LIFE FESTIVAL, Nat’l Park Service, St. John, VI
2006: Tumbando Caña…Raising Cane, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI
OPEN STUDIOS, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2006: LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, curated by LaVaughn Belle
2005: PRESSED PAPERS, Sólo Arte, St. John, VI
2005: BALALAIKA: ARTS FOR CHANGE, Accra, Ghana, Todo, Benin, Nigeria
2003: V BIENAL del CARIBE, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, DR
2002: VIA COLECTIVA, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001: THE HEART OF AFRICA IN THE USVI - St. Thomas, A&T State Univ., NC
ENTRE LÍNEAS, Bellas Artes, Sto. Dom., DR, Nat’l Gallery, Jamaica,
2000: MITOS EN EL CARIBE, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
COLECTIVA, Galerías Prinardi, PEQUEÑO FORMATO, La Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR
1999: GRANDS ET JEUNES D'AUJOURDHI, Salon de Arte, Paris, France
LA VIDA URBANA EN LA REGIÓN CARIBE, Bellas Artes, Sto Domingo
1998: THE 30th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PAINTING, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
MILLENNIUM EXHIBITION, Alternative Museum, NYC
CARIBBEAN ARTISTS, Williston Fine Art Gallery, Northhampton, MA
1996: NATIONAL SHOWCASE, Alternative Museum, NY. Berkeley Art Center Assoc., Berkeley, CA
lll Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sto. Domingo, DR
1994: II Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sto. Domingo, DR
IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador
Karibische Kunst Heute, Kassel, Germany
1993: 500 YEARS AFTER, Art Museum of the Americas (OAS), Washington DC
ART PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
Every Era All At Once: On the Set of Janet Cook-Rutnik’s “Crime Seen” by David Knight, Jr. for ARC magazine, August 2013
Arte Al Dia International- First Triennial of the Caribbean byMarianne de Tolentino Dec. 5, 2010
ARTfusion – cover and feature article – Spring 2008
Art Contemporain Caraibe, Michele Baj-Strobel, AICA, Jan. 2002 issue of ARTHEME
Entre Lineas, Centro Cultural Cariforo, Santo Domingo, Oct. 2001
Exposición Caribeña de obras sobre papel: una revelación para los propios caribeños, Marianne de Tolentino, AICA: Aug. 2001 issue of Cariforum
Janet Cook-Rutnik - An Alchemist of Color, Eduardo Marceles - Hoy, NY -Fall 2001
A New Caribbean Feminism, Marc Zuver,Wash.DC - On the Other Side of Dreams exhibition catalog 2001
Showcase of Mixed Media Master Artists, INT’L ARTIST MAGAZINE, Feb/Mar. 2000
Mitos en el Caribe, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba, Aug. 2000
La Vida Urbana en la región del Caribe, Santo Domingo, 1999
Una voz desde las Islas Vírgenes, José Antonio Peréz- Recuerdo catalog, 1999
Un arte que nos hace felices, Marianne de Tolentino - Recuerdo catalog, 1999
Regidos por una casualidad premeditada…Manual Álvarez Lezama Recuerdo catalog, 1999
Grands en jeunes d'aujourd'hui, Paris, France, Nov. 1999
XXXème Festival de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, Dec. 1998
Essay by Manual Alvarez Lezama - ToRemember catalog 1998
"Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon" (A World Encyclopedia of Artists), Vol. 20, by Michael Nungesser,M.A., pub.by K.G. Saur Verlag, München, Leipzig, Germany - 1998
Ferdinand Plotzer - Washington Post, Review - July 1998
“Flora” - Cover of Pensamiento Propio magazine of the Greater Caribbean –Nicaragua - May/Aug. 1997
Artwork reproduced in CARIBBEAN WRITER, Vol. 9, 1995
IV bienal internacaional de pintura, Cuenca, Eduador, Nov. 1994
II bienal de pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sto Dom.,1995
Karibische Kunst Heute, Gruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel, Germany, Aug. 1994
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
Museo de las Américas, Ballaja, San Juan, PR
Centro Cariforo, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.
Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, D. C.
Georgetown University Print Collection, Washington, DC
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.
University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI
Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix
University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH
Marriott's Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St. Thomas, VI
First Virgin Islands Federal Savings Bank, St. Thomas, VI
GRANTS:
2019: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Made in the VI, Fifty years of Art” book
2018: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Snorkel Man” project
2017: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Animism and the Colonial Imagination” exhibition
2016: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Transfer” project
2013, 2011, 2010 Univ. of the VI Cultural Award Grant for Transfer Project
2011: MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2009: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Time out of Time” project
2008: MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2008: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for Time and Place project
2006: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for Migrations project and exhibition
2005: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant, Transfer project, St. Croix
2004: Caribbean Museum Center, planning grant for multi-media project, Transfer. Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute for Transfer
2002: Printmaking Grant: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts
OTHER:
2010: Project Director – COMMON GROUND - Public Art forum with Kendal Henry for Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St.Croix
2012, 2010 Co-curator with Sigi Torinus – VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL, St. John
2009: Co-curator (with Lisa Ladner) Daily Strife – VI - PR show
2003: Virgin Islands advisor - V BIENAL DEL CARIBE, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2000-2: Planner and Director of VIA COLECTIVA, at Museo de las Américas, San Juan, PR.
2001-6: Board of Governors – VIRGIN ISLANDS CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE
1997 to 2000: author of monthly column on art for The St. John Times, VI
1998: Virgin Islands advisor to organizing committee for VI INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OFPAINTING, Cuenca, Ecuador
Featured in - St. John Magazine– summer 2008: Painting and Beyond, Janet Cook-Rutnik
Latitudes – Jan.- Feb. 2008
Caribbean Travel and Life – 2004/1995