ARTIST BIO | VIDEO PROFILE
Lisa Nankivil trained in studio art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she earned her BFA degree in painting in 1995. Nankivil exhibits her work nationally and internationally, most recently in Lisa Nankivil: Flying Dreams, at Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago; Lisa Nankivil: Lines of Inference, at Spanierman Modern, New York; Thirty Years of Collecting, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; and New Prints 2010, at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin. Nankivil’s work was also featured in the international touring exhibition Out West: The Great American Landscape, which explored the dramatic physical landscape and diverse culture of America’s western states. Organized by the Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, this yearlong exhibition traveled throughout mainland China and was seen in several American venues.
Nankivil has been a visiting artist at Highpoint Editions, a nationally recognized collaborative print workshop and publisher located in Minneapolis, where she produced a series of original lithographs and screenprints. Her most recent editioned print, Streaming, was released in November 2009. Nankivil also collaborates regularly with Streetside Editions of Minneapolis, the exclusive publisher of her monotypes.
In 2004, Nankivil was named a Jerome Fellow by the Jerome Foundation (New York & St. Paul), which allowed her to travel to Italy, where she studied the paintings and techniques of the Renaissance masters. An exhibition of paintings she completed during her yearlong fellowship was presented at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
In 2011, the Minnesota State Arts Board (St. Paul) awarded Nankivil the Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Arts with funding provided by Minnesota's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund for her project exploring the technical challenges and creative implications of using non-toxic materials, methods, and equipment in traditional printmaking practice. A solo exhibition of Nankivil's monotypes and editioned prints completed during her project year will take place in May 2012.
Nankivil's work is found in numerous public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; William J. Clinton Foundation, New York & Little Rock, Arkansas; SURDNA Foundation, New York; U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.; General Mills, Golden Valley, Minnesota; Peregrine Capital Management, Minneapolis; Reyes Holdings, Chicago; and Winston & Strawn LLP, Geneva Switzerland, among others.
Nankivil is an artist-member of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, a prominent artist cooperative located in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, where she maintains her principal painting studio and private press.
MN ORIGINAL VIDEO PROFILE OF LISA'S WORK AND STUDIO PRACTICE
Produced by Twin Cities Public Television (KTCA-TV), St. Paul, Minn. First aired February 17, 2011.
