Janet Cook-Rutnik
www.cookrutnikART.vi
participant in
“Family Affairs 2” on VideoChannel
Born in, New York – Resident of St. John, Virgin Islands since 1969
EDUCATION: Sculpture (Graduate level) with Richard Stankiewicz at SUNY (1968), Printmaking – Skidmore College, NY (1990) Public Art/Sculpture/Installation/NewMedia-School of Visual Arts, NY (2006) Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts – 2008
Recent shows include:
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2010: THE JOURNEY – Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix, VI
2008: NEW MEDIA at Mixed Media Gallery, St. Thomas, VI
2007: NEW WORK, NEW MEDIA – AASJ Gallery, St. John, VI
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2009: OK. VIDEO COMEDY – 4th Jakarta International Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
2010 – 2008: THE LAST BOOK – curator: Luis Camnitzer – Zentralbibliothek, Zurich,
National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires
2008: OVERDRAGELSE – Transfer – Overgaden, Copenhagen – curator: Jacob Fabricius
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 LÃNEAS, 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
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:
2010: COMMON GROUND – Public Art – F’sted, St. Croix, curator- Kendal Henry for CMCA
2009: DAILY STRIFE – VI-PR Commemorative show Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts,
FACING LOCALITY, curator: Luis Camnitzer, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, St. Croix,