kultureflash

Issue no. 14

Nabisco Factory, Beacon I: July 19-22, 1999 (236 x 427 cm)

Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1960. Since completing her photographic studies at both the Munich Art Academy and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, her work has been exhibited in major exhibitions worldwide, including the Kunsthalle, Basel, the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In addition, Lutter has undertaken a number of commissions, including a series of photographs at the site of the future Dia Center for the Arts in Beacon, New York, and, most recently, for the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago as an artist in residence in October/November 2001. Her work is also included in important public and private collections including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lutter is the only contemporary artist to be included in the extraordinary collection of German and Austrian masterworks at the recently opened Neue Galerie in New York.

Vera Lutter continues to live and work in New York.

Representation:
Gagosian, New York, USA
Max Heztler, Berlin, Germany

Links:
Biography
Images
Visions from America group photography exhibition at the Whitney (2002)
Chicago Obscura exhibition at the MoCP (2002)
Time Traced exhibition at the Dia Center (1999)
Essay by Lynne Cooke (1999)