Résumé

 

S E L E C T E D   S O L O   E X H I B I T I O N S

2010

Notes for Future Illusions, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

2009

"Refrain", The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA

2007

"Watch This", Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

"Watch This", Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

2006

“Lana Z Caplan: Dual”, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

2003

“Lana Z Caplan: Photograms, Palladium Prints, and Tintypes”, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA

2000

“New Work”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

S E L E C T E D   G R O U P   E X H I B I T I O N S / S C R E E N I N G S

2010

Manipulated Image #12, Complex Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM: April 2010

  "¡VideoNorte!!", South American touring film program, Córdoba, Argentina; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Valparaiso, Chile, Spring, 2010, curated by discordiafilms
 

VideoChannel Cologne: Experimental short videos from the U.S., Curated by Alysse Stepanian, NewMediaFest'2010: 10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:IIcologne
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org Online screening launched in April 2010

2009

"Foto-tipos", National Gallery of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"New Media", City Hall, Boston, MA

"Video Lounge", DownstreetArt Festival, North Adams, MA

"LE:60 Film Festival", Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

"OnWard '09", Project Basho, Philadelphia, PA

"Woodshed II: The Next 100 Hours", Gallery 51, North Adams, MA *

2008

"Minotaur in the Mirror", Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

"LE:60 Film Festival", Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA

"EXPOSURE: The 13th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition", Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

"Change", Gallery 321, WSAC, Somerville, MA

2007

“Drawing the Line: 20th Drawing Show”, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA *

 

"New England Photographers Biennial Exhibition" Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

6DOFMuestraPuebla2007, Puebla, Mexico

"New England Photographers Biennal Exhibition', Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

"Pushing Light", Kolok Gallery, North Adams, MA

"Garden Shorts", Women in Film & Video Screening Series, Somerville, MA

"Festival CAP SEMBRAT 3", Barcelona, Spain

"FICCO"(Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

"100 Hours in the Woodshed", Gallery 51 (in association with Mass MOCA), North Adams, MA

2006

"On the Road Video Festival", screenings in Lowell, MA; Washington DC; Barcelona, Spain

 

"Common Language" film/video screening, Galeria 10+36, Medellin, Colombia, South America

"Noble Processes, in a Digital Age", John Stevenson Gallery, New York, NY

"Spaces: Process Revealed", Pearl Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"You can't see the forest...", Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

"Synergetic",The Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA

2005

“New Art”, John Stevenson Gallery, New York, NY

 

“New England Photographers 2005”, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

“Midway Show”, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

“artWORK”, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA

“Photo Sensitive”, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

"Works on Paper", Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2004

"Coney Island Film Festival", Coney Island, NY

 

“Unsettled Domesticities”, Patricia Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

"Feast or Famine: Artists and Food", DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

"PRC Members' Exhibition", Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

“Alternative Processes”, Options Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa TX *

“Photography NOW”, South Shore Art Center, MA

“Alternative Processes”, University Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL *

2003

"Exhibition VII: Summer Small Works", AAN Gallery, Nantucket, MA

 

"Alternative Processes: A Traveling Exhibition", Texas Photographic Society's 3-year traveling exhibition *

“Boston Cyberarts Festival: Cyber Lounge”, Gallery@Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA

“Your Work Here”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA

“Between Evolution and Aberration: Works of Imaginary Anatomy”, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, MA

2002

“Trans Cultural Coaster Project Exhibition”, New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA

 

“Building the Collection: New Gifts and Acquisitions”, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

“The Experiment Show: Putting Science to the Test”, The Revolving Museum, Boston, MA

2001

“Works of an Eastern Nature”, Media Gallery, Boston, MA

 

“City Guns”, Boston Artists-in-Residence at the Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA

“East Meets West”, Flatiron Gallery, North Adams, MA

* catalogue available

S E L E C T E D    B I B L I O G R A P H Y

2010

McQuaid, Cate. "Arts: The Week Ahead: Galleries: Editor's Pick", The Boston Globe, February 11, 2009.

2009

Lombard, Rhiannon. "Making Things Happen: An Interview with Lana Z Caplan", Compass Rose, December 4, 2009. http://compassroseonline.wordpress.com

  Perreault, John. "Fluxus Among Us", ArtsJournal: Artopia, Spetember 2009. http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/2009/09/
 

Huberdeau, Jennifer. “Artists show their drive”, North Adams Transcript, January 19, 2009, p.1

Stafford, Scott. “In the woodshed: Dozens of artists make the most of cabin fever in North Adams”, Berkshire Eagle, January 18, 2009, p.B1, B4

Huberdeau, Jennifer. “Gallery 51 sets ambitious effort in creativity”, North Adams Transcript, January 15, 2009, p.1

2008

Cornuelle, Kimberly. "War, Family, and Work on Display at PRC", BU Today Online, May 22, 2008.

  Johnson, Miki. "Where to Go and What to See", State of the Art, American Photo Blog, May 21, 2008.
  Brown, Leslie. "An Image a Week: PRC Juried Exhibition", Boston Photography Focus, May 12, 2009.
2007

Kearnan, Scott. "Whose line is it? ", South End News, November 22, 2007, p.12.

Bergeron, Chris. “Nightmare on Union Avenue”, The Metro West Daily News, November 8, 2007, p. C1.

Cook, Greg. "Lana Caplan" New England Journal of Aestic Research, July 13, 2007.

McQuaid, Cate. "Critic's Pick: Gallery 6.28 - 7.13; Lana Z Caplan: "Watch This"", Boston Globe, June 28, 2007.

Mitchell, John E. "Old technology creates modern visions", North Adams Transcript, June 21, 2007, p.A10.

Bush, Susan. "100 Hours" Artist Lana Z Caplan", iBerkshires.com, January 10, 2007.

Huberdeau, Jennifer. “Artist wrap up 100 hours”, North Adams Transcript, January 30, 2007, p.1

2006

Meyers, William. “Photography: Ancient Materials, Transcendent Beauty”, The New York Sun, June 1, 2006, p.17.

Duehr, Gary. “Lana Z Caplan: Dual”, Art New England, April/May 2006, p. 35

2005

Streitfeld, L.P. “Photo Sensitive: Responsive to the personal touch”, The Advocate & Greenwich Time, February 13, 2005, D-3-4.

Taylor, Millie. “’Photo Sensitive’ show opens Jan. 27”, Greenwich Post, January 20, 2005.

Taylor, Millie. “Eye on Photography. Exhibit opens next week at Flinn Gallery”, Greenwich Time, January 17, 2005.

2004

Gantcheva, Nina. ”Tin Woman: Lana Z Caplan Finds New Meaning in an Old Photographic Process.”, American Photo On Campus, September 2004, p.26-7

Wildman, David. “Art Scene: Special Issue”, Weekly Dig, October 13, 2004, p.2.

2003

Silver, Joanne. "Old techniques give focus to photos", Boston Herald, July 4, 2003, p. E23

Sullivan, Sady. "Winchester Vertebrae: Lana Z Caplan's Photograms, Palladium Prints, and Tintypes at Gallery NAGA", Weekly Dig, July 2, 2003, p.29

McQuaid, Cate. "Photographic Processes", The Boston Globe, June 27, 2003, p. C19

McQuaid, Cate. “At Oni, Artists Take Life's 'Information' and Make Something of It: Beyond Aberration” , Boston Globe, February 7, 2003, p.C18

McQuaid, Cate. “Critics Pick”, Boston Globe, January 31, 2003, p.C18

2002

Kaufman, Hayley. “Making the Scene Once More”, The Boston Sunday Globe, January 27, 2002 p. L2

2001

McQuaid, Cate. ‘Heading East’, The Boston Globe, December 1, 2001 p. G3

Rhyne, Brett M. “Look Within, Grasshopper, Works of an Eastern Nature at Media Gallery”, Weekly Dig (Boston, MA), November 14, 2001, p.10

Smith, Lisa. “Art at SCAT”, Somerville Cable Access Television (Somerville, MA), television interview, November 2001

Rhyne, Brett M. ”Recombining DNA”, Lana Z Caplan’s Art at SCAT’, Weekly Dig (Boston, MA), November 7, p.10

2000

Birnbaum, Robert. “Artist of the Month, Lana Z Caplan”, Ego Trip Magazine, Boston Edition, November 2000, p.28

1998

O’Connor, Dan. “Ten Minutes: 10 Local Artists Share their Wealth”, Stuff Magazine (Boston), March 1998

T E A C H I N G

2005-08

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA

2006-09

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Guest Artist Lecturer

2003

Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Visiting Artist

New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, Guest Artist Lecturer

G R A N T S / R E S I D E N C I E S / A W A R D S

2009

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, Residency Support

Experimental Televison Center, NY, Artist-in-Residence

2008

Puffin Foundation, Grant for the series Execution Sites

Institute of Comtemporary Art, Boston, James and Audrey Foster Prize, Nominee

2005

Massachusetts College of Art, International Travel Grant

2004

Vermont Studio Center, Artist-in-Residence, Artist Grant

South Shore Art Center, Photography NOW Merit Award

2003

Harvard University, Visiting Scholar

2002

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Development Grant

2001

Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA, Artist-in-Residence

2000

William Benton Museum, Storrs, CT, Medici Circle Artist

1997

Polaroid Corporation, Materials Grant

E D U C A T I O N

MFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

BA with Honors, Boston University, Boston, MA

Université d’Attaches des Presse, Paris, France

P U B L I C   C O L L E C T I O N S

Simmons College, Boston, MA

William Benton Museum, Storrs, CT

The Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA

The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA