Profile
PO Box 348, St. John, VI 00831-0348
340-693-8069 / fax 340-775-9014
[email protected]
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Art; Sculpture (Graduate level) with Richard Stankiewicz at SUNY (1968), Printmaking - Skidmore College, NY (1990) PublicArt, Installation/NewMedia - School of Visual Arts (2006) Mid Atlantic Arts Creative Fellow, VCCA, VA - 2011, 2008
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
| 2011 | TRANSFER 2011 – a collaboration with Edgar Endress, Lori Lee - Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/03/transfer-2011/ |
| 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 and Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY |
| 2000 | ISLAND DREAMS, Savannah Gallery, Anguilla, BWI |
| 1999 | RECUERDO, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1999 | THEN AND NOW, Savannah Gallery, Anguilla, B.W.I. |
| 1998 | WHO DO VOODOO, Györy Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2012 | TRINIDAD+TOBAGO FILM FESTIVAL, NEW MEDIA, Port of Spain, Trinidad |
| 2012 | 25th FESTIVAL LES INSTANTS VIDEO, Milan, Italy |
| 2012 | CARIBBEAN TALES FILM FESTIVAL, 2012 – Barbados, WI |
| 2012 | 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 Domingo, DR |
| 2010 | COMMON GROUND – CMCA, St. Croix, Public Art, by Kendal Henry |
| 2010 | PARADISE LOST, CMCA, St. Croix, VI ,curated by Monica Marin NEW MEDIA FEST - curator: Wilfred Agricola de Cologne, Germany VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL - School of the Arts, St. John, VI |
| 2009 | OK VIDEO COMEDY – 4th Jakarta International Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta |
| 2009 | DAILY STRIFE - VI-PR Commemorative show CMCA, St. Croix, VI FACING LOCALITY, curator: Luis Camnitzer, CMCA, St. Croix, VI FOLK LIFE FESTIVAL, Nat'l Park Service, St. John, VI |
| 2006 | Tumbando Caña…Raising Cane, Caribbean Musem Center, St. Croix, VI |
| 2006 | OPEN STUDIOS, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
| 2006 | LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, Caribbean Musem Center, St. Croix, VI |
| 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, Santo Domingo MILLENNIUM EXHIBITION, Alternative Museum, NYC |
| 1998 | THE 30th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PAINTING, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France CARIBBEAN ARTISTS, Williston Fine Art Gallery, Northhampton, MA |
| 1996 | NATIONAL SHOWCASE, Alternative Museum, NY. Berkeley Art Center Assoc., Berkeley, CA |
| 1996 | lll Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sto. Domingo, DR |
| 1994 | II Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Sto. Domingo 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. ARC Magazine - August 20, 2013
Source: arcthemagazine.com - http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/08/every-era-all-at-once-on-the-set-of-janet-cook-rutniks-crime-seen/
Arte Al Dia International- First Triennial of the Caribbean by Marianne 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 byManual Alvarez Lezama - To Remember 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.
First Virgin Islands Federal Savings Bank, St. Thomas, VI
University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH
Marriott's Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St. Thomas, VI
Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix
GRANTS/AWARDS:
| 2013, 2012 | Univ. of the VI Cultural Award Grant for Crime Seen, Transfer Project | ||
| 2011, 2010 | Univ. of the VI Cultural Award Grant for Transfer Project, Ancestor Figures | ||
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| 2009 | Virgin Islands Council on the Arts Grant for “Time out of Time” project | ||
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| 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, to bring Transfer project to 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:
| 2012, 2010 | Co-curator with Sigi Torinus – VIP MINI FILM FESTIVAL, St. John |
| 2010 | Project Director – COMMON GROUND - Public Art forum with Kendal Henry for Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix 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 to organizing committee for V BIENAL DEL CARIBE, Museo de Arte Moderna, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| 2000-2002 | Planner and Director of VIA COLECTIVA, at Museo de las Américas, San Juan, PR. |
| 2001-2006 | Board of Governors – VIRGIN ISLANDS CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE |
| 1997-2000 | Author of monthly column on art for The St. John Times, VI |
| 1998 | Virgin Islands advisor to organizing committee for VI INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF PAINTING, Cuenca, Ecuador |
FEATURED IN:
| 2008 | St. John Magazine – summer issue – 2008: Painting and Beyond, Janet Cook-Rutnik |
| 2008 | Latitudes – Jan.- Feb. 2008 |
| 2004 | Caribbean Travel and Life - 2004 |
| 1995 | Caribbean Travel and Life - 1995 |