JENNY LYNN MCNUTT

RESUME


707 Lorimer Sreet
Brooklyn, New York 11211
zfla@mindspring.com
www.jennylynnmcnutt.com


EDUCATION

Present: Student of African & Afro-Caribbean dance, Djoniba School of Dance, NY, NY.
1992 "Teaching Africa", Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1983 MFA , Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT.
CERTIFICAT, University Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland, French Lit.
BA, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL , French Literature & philosophy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Galerie d’Arte Essaadi, Carthage, Tunisia
2004 Artefact, Galleria Pardo, Sculpture and prints, Milan, Italy
2003 Galleria Robert Pardo, Inaugural Show, sculpture & sound installation, Rome, Italy
2002 Florence Lynch Gallery, sculpture/sound & video installation, Chelsea, NY, NY
2001 Nadine Thomas Gallery, Paris, France and Regent et Jaccaud, Saignon, France
2000 "33 Swoonings", Paintings and Installation, The Painting Center, NY, NY
1997 Recent Paintings, The Painting Center, New York, NY.
1995 The Painting Center, New York, NY.
1994 Musee de l’Art Contemporain, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1993 Hillyer Gallery, Smith College, Northhampton, MA.
1988,86 Sorkin Gallery, New York, NY.
1984 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.

PERFORMANCE

2005-6 “Grupo Cuerpo”, a video/performance collaboration groups in New
Mexico, Brooklyn, France, and Tunis, Tunisia.
2005 FEDCA, Dance Festival, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2003 Robert Pardo Gallery & Galerie Le Bateleur, Rome, Italy, performance/ installation
“Sewing Songs”, multimedia, Tishman Auditorium, New School University, NY,
“Woman’s Song; The Story of Roro Mendut”, a Wayang Opera,in collaboration w/ Lisa Karrer at the Glasperlenspel International Music Festival Tallinn, Estonia and The Kitchen with The World Music Institute NY, NY
2002 "33 Swoonings", Tishman Auditorium, New School University
"Sewing Songs", Bard College, Annandale, NY
2001 " Sewing Songs ", solo performance/ installation,Lacoste & Saignon, FR
"33 Swoonings" a multi-media performance , Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.
2000 "Conversation in the Grotto", Multimedia performance and installation Lacoste, FR
1999 "Speaking in Tongues" conceived/ directed performance, Lacoste, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, Pierogi Flatfile show
RKL Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
Lizan Tops Gallery, Hayground, East Hampton, NY
2003 Sideshow, Christmas Exhibition, Williamsburg
Triple Candie Benefit in Harlem, NY, NY
“La Fontaine Fables Exhibition”, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA. &Maryland Institute, Meyerhoff Gallery - a traveling exhibition
2002 "All Drawing", Gallery 817, Philadelphia, PA
"Made in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
"Art for Air", Parker’s Box, Brooklyn &"Tributary" Exhibition , A.I.R. Gall, NY
2000 "Lacoste Encore", Alliance Francaise, NY, NY
1999 "Speaking in Tongues" conceived/ directed performance, Lacoste, France
"Familiar Strangers", Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
"Former Fellows of New York", Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA. and Lamia Ink Gallery, NY, NY.
"New York Calling", Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
"Works on Paper", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"A Valentine Exhibition", Eyewash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Dot Show", The American Gallery, NY, NY
1998 Site Specific Collaborative Performance, Portland, OR
" Noves Figuracions de New York", La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
Foundation Exhibition, and Faculty at Pratt Institute
Slide Animation - "Les Animaux", Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1997 "Fulbright Assn 20th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC
"Small Works" and "Reconfigured", Kendall Art and Design, Hudson, NY
1997 "Drawing Across the Board", Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
1994 Painters Painting III, The Painting Center, New York, NY.
1993 Seven on Everit Street, Erector Square, New Haven, CT.
1992 Inaugural Exhibit, The Painting Center, New York, NY.
"Drawing: Across the Board", Bucks County College and MD School of Art, D.C.
"Lyric Thought, Lyric Form", National Drawing Invitational, Champaign, IL.
1990 "Faith in Paint", Image One Gallery, New York, NY.
"Five Painters", Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT.
1989 "Curators Choice", Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT.
"Provincetown Fellows", Twining Gallery, New York, NY.
1988 "Abstractions", Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME.
"Contemporary Syntax", Robeson Ctr. Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.

TEACHING

PRESENT since 1996 Pratt Institute, studio and performance & writing courses
New School University, Performance/ Art in Action & Cultures of W. Africa
2005 Pace University, Cultural Reinvention:Arts of West and Central Africa
1998-2001 Lacoste School of Art (with Bard College), Lacoste, France
1998-2000 New School Core Faculty for B.A. program
1998-9 Rhode Island School of Design, Drawing course, Fine Arts Dept.
1996- Parson’s School of Design - Drawing Concepts, Foundations, NY, NY.
Wesleyan University, Graduate Liberal Studies - Seeing, Making,
Meaning - drawing and painting studio
1996 Yale University - "Venture into West African Art", New Haven, CT.
Bowdoin College, Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Brunswick, ME
1995 -6 Bard College, Drawing Marathon, Annandale, NY.
1995 Studio Museum in Harlem- Visiting Artist, Cooperative School Program Harlem
Public Schools, NY, NY.
Yale University - Council for African Studies - Lecture
1993-4 Institute National Superieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle, Seminar , Abidjan,
Ivory Coast and Cameroon, West and Central Africa.
1992 Yale University, "Drawing as Process - Vision, Memory and Perception", CT.
Creative Arts Workshop, Life Drawing and Intermediate Painting, New Haven
1991 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Multi-level Drawing, Beginning Paintg
Oxbow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Program,
Figure in the Landscape Painting, Saugatuck, Michigan.
1990 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Winter Term -Visiting Artist.

OTHER: Pierogi Gallery, Flat File, 2003, Participant in Celebration of African Culture, Sponsored by EDEC of Ivory Coast, Dec 2000,Thai Elephant Orchestra Project, Producer with the New School University, "Cry of the Forgotten Ones", Rosemarie Guiraud and Les Guirivoires,1999, Founding Member, The Painting Center, NY, 1994
Oxford University Press, International Encyclopedia of Dance, Consultant for African Section - research and photography.

PUBLICATIONS

2005 “Mami Wata Magazine”, Tribute to African Dance and Beauty, Rosemarie Guiraud
2003 “Le Bateleur bottega..”, Francesca Bellino, La Stampa, Rome, January 2003
2002 Footnotes / Dance- Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Village Voice, October 23, 2002
1994 "Cocktail de couleurs et de formes", Agnes Kraidy, Ivoir Soir", April, 1994.
1994 " 5 Plasticiens au Musee de Cocody", Henri N’Koumo, Ivoir Soir, May, 1994.
"Contemporary Syntax", Catalogue, Alison Weld, Curator, Robeson Center Gallery,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Maine Coast Artists, "Abstractions", Susan Sulzer, Camden Herald, September, l988. “Seeing Is Not Believing”, Edgar Allen Beem, Main Times, Sept. 1988

AWARDS

2004 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant for “The Memory Palace”
2002 William Talbott Hillman Foundation for the Arts
2000 Pratt Institute and New School University Faculty Development Grant
1998 Eastman Foundation for Documentary Film of West Africa Dance and Music
1993-4 Senior Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Ivory Coast and Cameroon
1983-4 Fellowship Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting, Yale School of Art, CT.
1980 Philip Hailey Johnson Fellowship, MFA Ptg, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
1970-74 Academic Scholarship, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

COLLECTIONS

William T. Hillman
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Musee d’Art Contemporain d’Abidjan (Museum of Contemporary Art), Ivory Coast
Rosemarie Guiraud, Ecole des Danse et d’ Echange Culturelle, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Jake Berthot and Edith Gould
Edward Broida, Los Angeles
Emily Sorkin, New York, NY
David Saltz, New York, NY
Warren Spector, New York, NY and Mark Weiss, New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Fulbright Association
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA