PROFILE
PO Box 348, St. John, VI 00831-0348
340-693-8069 / fax 340-775-9014
cookrutnik@gmail.com
Born in Albany, New York - Resident of St. John, Virgin Islands since 1969
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Completed undergraduate studies in Art; Sculpture (Graduate level) with Richard Stankiewicz at SUNY, Studied printmaking at Skidmore College, NY - Residencies: Public Art and Sculpture, Installation, New Media at School of Visual Arts, NY – 2006
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
| 2008 |
NEW MEDIA at Mixed Media Gallery, St. Thomas, VI |
| 2007 |
NEW WORK, NEW MEDIA - AASJ Gallery, St John, VI |
| 2007 |
MIGRATIONS INSTALLATION – The Gallery, St. John, VI |
| 2006 |
NEW WORK, NEW YORK – Bajo el Sol, St. John, VI |
| 2005 |
MONOTYPES – THE AGNES SERIES, Sólo Arte, St. John, VI |
| 2004 |
NEW WORK – PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, Sólo Arte, St. John, VI |
| 2003 |
MIXED MEDIA, THE GODDESSES, FROM THE HEART, 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 |
TO REMEMBER, Fondo del Sol, Washington, D.C. |
| 1999 |
THEN AND NOW, Savannah Gallery, Anguilla, B.W.I. |
| 1998 |
WHO DO VOODOO, Györy Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL |
| 1997 |
MOSTLY MONOTYPES, at La Tapa, St. John |
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
| 2008 |
THE LAST BOOK - curator: Luis Cammitzer - The National Library of Spain, Madrid |
| 2007 |
INT'L CARIBBEAN ART FAIR - Soho, NY - rep. Island Heritage Fine Arts Gallery |
| 2005 |
BALALAIKA: ARTS FOR CHANGE, Accra, Ghana, Todo, Benin and Nigeria |
| 2003 |
V BIENAL del CARIBE, Museo de Arte Moderna, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. |
| 2001 |
ENTRE LÍNEAS, Bellas Artes, Sto. Dom., DR, Nat’l Gallery, Jamaica,Maison desACP, Brussels, Museum of Art, Suriname, Musée D’Art Haitién, Haiti |
| 2000 |
MITOS EN EL CARIBE, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba |
| 1999 |
GRANDS ET JEUNES D'AUJOURDHI, Salon de Arte, Paris, France |
| 1999 |
LA VIDA URBANA EN LA REGIÓN CARIBE, Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. |
| 1998 |
THE 30th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PAINTING, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France |
| 1996 |
lll Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centroamerica, Museo de Arte Moderna, Santo 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, USA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2007 |
TRANSFER IV, Caribbean Museum Center, Ft. Frederik Museum, St. Croix |
| 2006 |
TRANSFER III, Caribbean Museum Center, Ft. Frederik Museum, St. Croix |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2000 |
COLECTIVA, Galerías Prinardi, PEQUEÑO FORMATO, La Galería Raíces, San Juan PR |
| 1999 |
MILLENNIUM EXHIBITION, Alternative Museum, NYC |
| 1998 |
CARIBBEAN ARTISTS, Williston Fine Art Gallery, Northhampton, MA |
| 1996 |
NATIONAL SHOWCASE, Alternative Museum, NY. Berkeley Art Center Assoc., Berkeley, CA |
ART PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
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 newspaper – 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, INTERNATIONAL 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” (collage) - Cover of Pensamiento Propio, a bilingual magazine of the Social Sciences 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, Santo Domingo, 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
GRANTS/AWARDS:
| 2008 |
| MidAtlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts |
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| 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 presentation |
| 2002 |
Printmaking Grant: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts |
OTHER:
| 2008 |
"Painting and Beyond, Janet Cook-Rutnik" - summer issue - St. John Magazine |
| 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 |
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