CURRICULUM VITAE

Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION

2006 MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1996 BFA Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1994 FAMU National Academy of Film and Television, Prague, Czech Republic

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
"Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera", Tate Modern, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Half a self, a cave-dweller”, The Former Convent at St. Cecilia’s Parish, New York
“The Mediated Subject”, Scaramouche, New York
“Coup de Ville”, Sint-Nikklas, Belgium

2009
“Pittoresk. Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild”, Museum Marta, Herford, Germany
“One Minute More”, The Kitchen, New York
“Commune”, Black and White Gallery, New York
“Beyond the Picturesque”, SMAK Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium

2008
“Pleinairism”, i8, Reykjavík, Iceland
“Oliver Lutz: Paint It Black”, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas

2007
“IV International Painting Prize Diputación de Castellón,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellon, Spain
“Oliver Lutz & Vargas-Suárez,” Universal Space Other, Boston
“Incident No. 5: Oliver Lutz Incident Report Viewing Station”, Hudson, New York
“Design Trust for Public Space Benefit Auction”, MILK Gallery, New York
“Übergangsräume - Potential Spaces”, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
“Preview Berlin Space Other”, Berlin
“Swab”, Space Other, Barcelona
“Artists' Books: Transgression/ Excess”, Space Other, 63 Wareham, Boston

2006
“Wight Biennial: Anxiety of Influence”, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, Los Angeles
“A Forest II”, Space Other, Boston
“Spektakel Stadt”, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
“A Forest I”, FILTERprojectraum, Hamburg, Germany
“Kamp K48”, John Connelly Presents, New York
“Towne Center”, Greenport Towne Center, Greenport, New York

2005
“Kults, Werewolves, and Sarcastic Hippies”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
“A More Perfect Union”, Max Fish, New York

2004
“Heimat”, The Future Perfect - Brooklyn, New York

SELECTED SCREENINGS OF WORKS

2009
“The Behavioral Subject”, Video Performance, The Kitchen, New York

2006
“Ascender”, Video Performance, Various Mountaintops of North America
“Grendel and Beowulf”, Video Performance, N51-102, MIT, Cambridge

1996
“Pink Man”, written and directed, Digital Animation, Ithaca, New York

1994
“Little Pepe”, written and directed, 16mm, Prague
“Two Men and One Woman”, written and directed, 16mm, Prague

1993
“Autostop”, production design, 16mm, Prague

HONORS, AWARDS & POSTS

The Banff Center Artist Residency, Banff, Alberta Canada, 2008
IV International Painting Prize Diputación de Castellón, 2007
Laya And Jerome B. Wiesner Art Award, MIT, 2006
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, MIT, 2006
ARCADE (Assisting Recurring Cultural and Diversity Events at MIT) 2006
MIT Council for the Arts Production Grant , 2005, 2006
MIT GSL Grant, 2005
Dean of the Department of Architecture Grant, 2005            
MIT Department of Architecture Scholarship , 2004-2006
The Manhattan Group, MIT - President, 2005-2006
Juror for MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies Fellowship, 2005