Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts
250 Third Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN. 55401
612-332–8053
vkittelson@aol.com
www.vesnakittelson.com
EDUCATION:
1978 – M.A., Design, University of Minnesota
1974 – B.A., Studio Arts, University of Minnesota
1970 – B.A., Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia
AWARDS:
1996 – Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1993 – Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
1991 – Open Studio Day - sponsored by the Walker Art Center
1990 – Bush Artist Fellowship for painting
CURRENT AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Currently preparing an exhibition in commemoration of the Holocaust in
Zagreb, Croatia. The exhibition will take place in
2008 in several locations around Zagreb.
2003-2004, Sabbatical leave in Cambridge England, resulting in two solo
exhibitions in Europe.
1996-2003, Adjunct Faculty in Fine Arts Department and Graduate Program,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
2001, Spring Semester, Coordinator - Fine Arts Department, Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995, Founding member and currently a member of the Board of Directors
in the artist’s Co-Op, Traffic Zone Center for Visual
Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1998-2001, Board of Directors, Artspace Incorporated, a not for profit
art organization for development of artist’s spaces,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS - partial listing:
2005, November 5- December 18, LOST AND FOUND IN AMERICA, a
retrospective, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
2004, March 30 - April 9, ICARUS, TRAFALGAR FOUNTAINS, PORTRAITS,
Queens’ College, Cambridge, England.
2004, September 2-September 17, ICARUS’ FLIGHT, State Archives in Rijeka,
Croatia.
2004, March, Churchill College Galleries, Cambridge, England.
1995, February 19- March 22, WAR PAINTINGS, St. John’s University
Gallery, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
1995, July 27- August 5, PORTRAITS, Diocletian Palace Museum, sponsored
by the artist’s organization HDLU, Split, Croatia.
1995, February 2 -March 3, PORTRAITS, Hamline University Art Gallery,
Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1992, September 11- October 18, BIRTH OF FREEDOM, in conjunction with
the BREAKTHROUGH: THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AT THE BERLIN
WALL, Macalester Galleries, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
BREAKTHROUGH was organized by the Deutches
Historiches Museum of Berlin and Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin.
1989, October 14 – November 5, LANDSCAPE RELIEFS TORSOS AND SELF
PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST IN EXILE, Macalester Galleries,
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
TWO PERSON/ GROUP EXHIBITIONS – partial listing:
WARM, 12 Artists of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, June 9 –
September 17, 2006, Weisman Art Museum, University of
Minnesota.
2004, March, PAINTINGS, Churchill College Gallery, Cambridge, England.
2000, October 19- November 18, NECESSARY DIFFERENCES II @ THE SOAP
FACTORY, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2000, September-December, MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS, Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2000, September, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College of Art and
Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1999, January 7-February 25, PRESENCE/ABSENCE, sponsored by the CENTER
FOR THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES, Katherine E.
Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
1998, November 1-November 23, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1998, October, FIVE PAINTERS, Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park,
Minnesota.
1998, July 3- August 30, WOMEN IN THE WEISMAN COLLECTION: The Spirit of
Seneca Falls, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997, June 14- July 20, HORIZONS, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
1996, June, THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY PROJECT, Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
1995, November 11 - December 8, FACULTY EXHIBITION, Minneapolis College
of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995, July, NECESSARY DIFFERENCES, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995, April 7 – June 17, THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY, A BOOK PROJECT, by
Helmut Lohr, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York.
1994, July – August, MINNESOTA ARTISTS, Weisman Art Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1994, January 1 – March 11, BOOK PROJECT, Stadtgallerie Lunen, Germany.
1994, April 1 – April 18, UNKNOWN TERITORY, Katherine E. Nash Gallery,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1992, April, CHAPELLE DE LA SORBONNE, The Sorbonne University, Paris.
1991/1992, ART AND THE LAW, touring exhibition sponsored by the West
Publishing Company, Eagan, Minnesota.
1991, February 10 – March 10, PAINTING AT THE NASH, Katherine E. Nash
Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES:
2002, April 11, Panel Discussion; Genocide in our Time, Parts Gallery,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2002, March 17, Panel Discussion: Art Criticism Today, at the Winona
State University, Minnesota.
2001, Studio Lecture about Genocide – fund raising event for a
Minneapolis synagogue.
2000, Compleat Scholar Class, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
1999, Seminar and Panel Discussion in conjunction to PRESENCE/ABSENCE
Exhibition on Holocaust and Genocide.
1998, Visiting Artist lecture, Studio Arts Department, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997, Fine Arts Forum Visiting Artist speaker, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1996, Cable TV 41, Special Feature: Vesna Kittelson’s War Paintings,
aired February 26.
1995, Reproduction of Vukovar – installation work, Encyclopedia of
Croatian Art, p.477, Zagreb, Croatia.
1995, Illustration of a brochure “Genocide in Our Time”, Minnesota
Coalition for Human Rights in Former Yugoslavia.
1992, Illustration in Feminist Studies – SELF PORTRAIT, p.6. University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
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