RESUME - VESNA KREZICH KITTELSON
Studio Address
250 Third Avenue North, #312
Minneapolis, MN 55410
Tel. (612) 673 - 9754
Vesna Krezich Kittelson was born in Bosnia and Hercegovina and grew up in the ancient city
of Split in Croatia. She has lived in Paris, Vienna and Cambridge, England, and currently
lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
EDUCATION
1978 -- M.A. in Design, University of Minnesota
1974 -- B.A. in Studio Arts, University of Minnesota
1970 -- B.A. in Law, University of Zagreb
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Studio artist with studio in the Traffic Zone Center For Visual Arts
President and member of the Board of Directors of the Traffic Zone Center For Visual Arts,
a cooperative arts organization.
Adjunct Professor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Member, Board of Directors for the Artspace Incorporated, a not for profit organization.
RECENT AWARDS
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, 1996.
Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, 1993.
Open Studio Day, sponsored by the Walker Art Center, 1991.
Bush Artist Fellowship for painting, 1990.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995 WAR PAINTINGS, February 19 - March 22, Saint John's University Gallery,
Collegeville, Minnesota.
1995 PORTRAITS, July 27 - August 5, Diocletian Palace Museum, HDLU - Split, Croatia.
1995 PORTRAITS, February 2 - March 3, Hamline University Art Gallery, Saint Paul,
Minnesota.
1992 BIRTH OF FREEDOM, September 11 - October 18, in conjunction with BREAKTHROUGH:
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM AT THE BERLIN WALL, Macalester College Galleries, Saint Paul,
Minnesota. BREAKTHROUGH was organized by the Deutches Historiches Museum of Berlin and
Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin.
1991 OPEN STUDIO DAY, October 20, sponsored by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
1989 LANDSCAPE RELIEFS, TORSOS AND SELF PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST IN EXILE, October 14
- November 5, Macalester Galleries, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1986 SCULPTED PAINTING, June, Churchill Exhibition Hall, Cambridge, England.
SELECTED TWO - PERSON / GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 PRESENCE / ABSENCE, January 7 - February 25, CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE
STUDIES is the sponsor of this exhibition in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the
University of Minnesota.
1998 FACULTY EXHIBITION, November 1 - November 23, Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1998 FIVE PAINTERS, October, Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
1998 WOMEN IN THE WEISMAN COLLECTION: The Spirit of Seneca Falls, July 3 - August
30, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997 HORIZONS, June 14 - July 20, Mimara Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
1996 THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY PROJECT, June, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1996 WAR PAINTINGS, February 19 - March 22, Saint John's University Gallery,
Collegeville, Minnesota.
1995 FACULTY EXHIBITION, November 11 - December 8, Minneapolis College of Art and
Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995 NECESSARY DIFFERENCES, July, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1995 THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY - A BOOK PROJECT by Helmut Lohr, April 7 - June 17,
Center for Book Arts, New York, New York.
1994 MINNESOTA ARTISTS, July - August, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1994 BOOK PROJECT, January 1 - March 11, Stadtgalerie Lunen, Lunen, Germany.
1994 UNKNOWN TERRITORY, April 1 - April 18, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
1992 CHAPELLE DE LA SORBONE, April, Paris.
1991 / 1992 ART AND THE LAW, touring exhibition sponsored by the West Publishing
Company, Eagan, Minnesota.
1991 ART AND THE LAW, November 14 - January, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul,
Minnesota.
1991 PAINTING AT THE NASH, February 10 - March 10, Katherine E. Nash Gallery,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
Biography and Illustration in Encyclopedia of Croatian Art, p. 477,
Zagreb, Croatia, 1995.
Illustration in "Genocide In Our Time", a brochure prepared by the Minnesota
Coalition for Human Rights in Former Yugoslavia, p. 2, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 1995.
Illustration in Feminist Studies, p. 6, University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland, 1992.
Minnesota Public Radio interview on WAR PAINTINGS, aired February 26, 1996.
Cable TV 41 Special Feature of the exhibition WAR PAINTINGS, aired on March 11, 1996.
Fine Arts Forum, Guest Speaker, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Spring 1997.
Guest lecturer, University of Minnesota, Studio Art Seminar, Winter 1998.
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