SINISA KUKEC

Gathering memories of pleasure and obsession, I respond to my collection by creating sensually abstract sculptural forms, to be considered experientially with digital media. A visual poetry that is imbued with certain themes of immensity--the void - A personal language that resonates with awe and longing. Memories are to be explored and the myth to be revealed.

My aim is to create a rhythmic exchange between the viewer and sculpture that allows subjective emotion and objective perception. An intercourse that doesn ¹ t seem to always make sense. An attempt to create an infinite experience which one might question and play with An endeavor to embrace ourselves, to better comprehend our vacillating world in hopes of unraveling the myths of the human phenomenon of desire.

Sinisa Kukec  2004
Sinisa Kukec

Born:   23, June, 1970, Zagreb, Croatia

Education:

2001	Masters of Fine Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
1996	Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Professional Experience:        

2003	Artist in Residence, The European Keramics Center, Œs-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2002	Artist in Residence, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2001-2	Artist in Residence, The Clay Studio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001	Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
1999	Artist in Residence, Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
1997-9	Artist in Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
1997	Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana

Awards: 

2001-2	The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997	Manitoba Arts Council Travel Grant, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Teaching Experience:       

2002  Visiting Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

Solo Exhibitions:

2003	Sinisa Kukec, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida Lucid to the point of being blind, The European Keramics Center, Œs-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Hope to Desire, Helander Studio / Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2002	Somatic Myth, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001	Unintelligible Innocence, The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana Interactive Mirror Myth, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York
1999	Elevation, The Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Arts Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
1998	Denotes the Presence of Heat, Barbie Sidel Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

Group Exhibitions:

2004	Bettcher Gallery at the AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY Bettcher Gallery at Bloom, Miami, FL
2003	PBICA, Palm Beach Contemporary, The International Contemporary Art & Design Fair, West Palm Beach, Florida Anderson Ranch Group Show, LILLSTREET Art Center, Chicago Illinois Calm and Lake Effect, NTID Dyer Arts Center, Rochester, New York Generations: Impending Lineage, Art and Industry Gallery, San Diego, California Drawing Now, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2002	Resident Artist Group Show, Galeria De Arte (international invitation), University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
2001-5	A Ceramic Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2001	Strictly Dysfunctional (invitational), University Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gary Indiana
2000	Alfred Summer School Exhibition (invitational), Fosdick Nelson Gallery Alfred, New York Archie Bray Foundation (NCECA Invitational), Denver, Colorado
1999	Anderson Ranch Art Center Artists (invitational), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado
1998	Miami Valley Third Annual Crossroads in Clay Exhibition (juried),The Middletown Fine Arts Center, Middletown, Ohio Fletcher Challenge, (international juried), Auckland Museum of Art. Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand Anderson Ranch Artists (NCECA Invitational), Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas Odd Arrows (invitational), David Floria Gallery. Woody Creek, Colorado
1997	The Resident Artist Exhibition (invitational), The Archie Bray Foundation Gallery. Helena, Montana Remotely Inspired (international juried), Pottery Workshop & Show room. Hong Kong, China

Publications and catalogues:

2003	Thrice the PBICA (review by Gabriel Lazlo) Closer Magazine, West Palm Beach, Florida At Home with Art (article by Christine Davis) Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach, Florida The Blobjects of Desire (article by Gary Schwan) Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida
2000	Sinisa's Secrets (review by Bruce Helander), Palm Beach times, Palm Beach, Florida
1998	Fletcher Challenge (catalogue), Auckland Museum of Art. Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand