Wendy Kveck
Lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada
wendykveck.com
contact wendykveck@gmail.com
SELECT SOLO, TWO AND THREE-PERSON PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2018 | Pageant, with Daniel Samaniego, Linder Gallery, Keystone College |
2015-16 | Kveck, Russ & Stellmon: Break Ups & Tear Downs, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas |
2014 | Stanley Hall, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2013 | GGW, College of Southern Nevada Fine Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2012 | The Pageant of the Amuse Bouche, artist residency and installation, sponsored by Art Production Fund and the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, P3 Studio, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Women Under the Influence: Conversations in Paint, Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, California (three-person) | |
The Party's Over, Kleven Contemporary, Las Vegas, Nevada | |
2009 | The Unseen Seen, Decorazon Gallery, Dallas, Texas (three-person) |
Sweet Devouration, North View Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon | |
2008 | The Look That Makes You Happy,The Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2007 | Wendy Kveck and Loo Bain, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada |
SELECT GROUP PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2021 | Freedom Force, The Studio at the West Sahara Library, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2020 | Excerpts, The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada |
Settlers + Nomads, curatorial project, Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada | |
2019 | Volcanoes, Holland Project Gallery, Reno, Nevada |
That’s What She Said, Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, School of the Visual Arts, Penn State University | |
2018 | 10 Prints, 11 Artists, MCQ Fine Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2017 | Tilting The Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2016 | Tilting The Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada |
Settlers + Nomads: 269 Miles, screening and performances, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles, California | |
2015 | Recent Acquisitions, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2014 | Crossing the Mount Diablo Meridian Basin Line, Reno, Nevada |
MAS Attack Vegas, Vast Space Projects, Henderson, Nevada | |
Past, Present, Future, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada | |
2013 | Some Fine Women, Vast Space Projects, Henderson Nevada |
2012 | Salon Show, PUAH Gallery, Henderson, Nevada |
2011 | Radiant City, Capital City Arts Initiative, Carson City, Nevada |
Unveiled, Craftswoman House, Los Angeles, California | |
2010 | Get Outta Dodge, Gallery Neuartig, San Pedro, California |
Aqua Art Miami 2010 (Decorazon Gallery) | |
2009 | Off the Strip 2009, performance and video art festival, The Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nevada |
For A Limited Time Only, The Art Center at Highland Park, Curated by Olga Stefan, Highland Park, Illinois | |
2008 | Around the Coyote Emerging Artists Festival, Curator, Allison Peters Quinn, Executive Director of Exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois |
On Being Good, The Reed Whipple Cultural Center, co-curator and participating artist, Las Vegas, Nevada | |
2007 | Mass Consumption, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, Arizona |
2006 | The Last Night at the Stardust, group collaboration, Stardust, Las Vegas, Nevada |
RESIDENCIES
2014 | Jentel Artist Residency |
2012 | P3 Studio Artist Residency, sponsored by Art Production Fund and the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada |
2006 | Art New York, The New School, New York, New York |
PUBLIC ART
2007 | The Good Eaters - The Casting Out, Guest Artist at The Americans for the Arts National Conference "Risk and Reward" at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts |
EDUCATION
MFA in Studio Art, May, 2007 | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
BFA in Painting and Drawing,1992 | The University of Iowa, Iowa City |
AWARDS AND HONORARIUMS
2017 | Nevada Arts Council Jackpot Grant |
2015 | Jentel Artist Residency Fellowship |
2009 | Nominee, Tiffany Foundation Award |
2007 | Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation, MFA Grant |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Danielle Kelly, "Dangerous Viewing," catalogue essay for Kveck, Russ & Stellmon: Breakups & Teardowns, published by the Univeristy of Nevada, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, 2016 |
Dawn-Michelle Baude, "Artists Play with Destruction and Recombination at the Marjorie Barrick Museum," Las Vegas Weekly, October 29, 2015 |
Dawn-Michelle Baude, “Best of 2014: Fine Art,” Las Vegas Weekly, December 24, 2014 |
Dawn-Michelle Baude, “Wendy Kveck’s Hard-Hitting ‘Stanley Hall’ Brings Trifecta to a Stunning Close,” Las Vegas Weekly, December 10, 2014 |
JK Russ, “Las Vegas Takes Center Stage in Large-Scale Art Project MAS Vegas,” Huffington Post, May 22, 2014 | Shana Nys Dambrot, "What Would Women Do?” exhibition catalogue essay, Some Fine Women, published by Vast Space Projects, Henderson, NV, 2013 |
Dawn-Michelle Baude, "Artist Wendy Kveck Explores Women and Excess, This Time with Works on Paper," Las Vegas Weekly, June 26, 2013 |
Victoria Dalkey, "Women Under the Influence: A Lush Showing of Painting," The Sacramento Bee,Sacramento, CA, July 1, 2012 |
Cindi Moon Reed, "Let Them See Cake," Vegas Seven, Las Vegas, NV, June 7, 2012 |
Molly O'Donnell, "Wendy Kveck takes over Cosmo's P3 Studio," Las Vegas Weekly, May 16, 2012 |
Kristen Peterson, "With Wendy Kveck's 'The Party's Over' Seeing Is Believing," Las Vegas Weekly, March 28, 2012 |
Kristen Peterson, “Feminist Las Vegas offers a look at women beyond the Boulevard,” Las Vegas Weekly, April 20, 2011 |
Kathryn Born, “Art is Not Eternal,” ArtSlant Chicago, March 2009 |
Jason Foumberg, “Art Break: West Town Beat,” www.art.newcity.com, Chicago, IL, October 20, 2008 |
Steve Bornfeld, "Changing Faces: Artist examines social masks women wear in multimedia exhibit,” Las Vegas Review Journal, July 25, 2008 |
Jarret Keene, “Culinary Artistry -'The Good Eaters' Specializes in Images of Women and Food," Las Vegas Citylife, March 2007 |