
STEPHEN LACK
Education
M.F.A. Sculpture. University of Guanajuato,San Miguel de Allende; Mexico
B.A. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Canada
Related Studies
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal Quebec; Canada.
Columbia University, New York City, N.Y.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016: “Vintage Lack” Works on Paper from the 80’s Castor Gallery NYC
2015: ‘Small Works” Galerie D’Avignon; Montreal Quebec, Canada
Small Works Steven Adams Gallery Denver Colorado.
2013: “Strangely Familiar” Annex Gallery Saratoga Performing Arts; Albany International Airport. N.Y
“Art and the Automobile” Stephen Lack; Andy Warhol; Alexander Calder; Commander Cody. Saratoga Automobile Museum
Saratoga Springs N.Y.
2010 : Drive By : Gallerie Pangee; Montreal Que. Canada
“Into the Mist” (Children at the End of the World); Southern Vt Arts Center
2009 “AUTONATION” Illinois State University School of the Arts ,
Normal, Illinois. Curator: Barry Blinderman
“Recent Work” : Joyce Goldstein Gallery; Chatham, N.Y. t
“Vintage Lack” Christopher Henry Gallery; NYC
2008 “Filmstills op doek en Paper” Gallerie Dijkstra
Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Joyce Yahouda Gallery: “The Book Show” Montreal; Quebec; Canada
2006 “The Rise and Fall of Suburban Empire”: Christopher Henry Gallery;
N.Y.C.,N.Y.
2005 Joyce Goldstein Gallery; Chatham N.Y.
2004 “Dreams that Come True” Gallery Dijkstra Antwerp Belgium
2003 “Paintings, Drawings and Prototypes”: Gallery One; Toronto, Canada
2002 “Recent Work”: Gallery Dijkstra; Antwerp, Belgium
“Recent Work”: Bodi Modern Art; Newport RI
2001 “History and Drama”: Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
2000 “Recent Work”: Gallery Dijkstra Antwerp, Belgium
1999 “Recent Paintings and Drawings”: Gallery One, Toronto, Canada.
1998 “The Edge Of Innocence”; retrospective @Lyman-Allyn Museum,New London
“American Dream” Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec; Canada
1997 “Recent Paintings”: Leo Kamen Gallery Toronto Canada.
“Small Wars”: Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York City.
1996 “Route U.S.A.”: Gallery Dijkstra, Antwerp, Belgium.
1995 “Golden Age of America” : Joyce Goldstein Gallery, N.Y.C
“America for Sale”; Dresdnere Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1993 “New Work” : Gallery Dresdnere, Toronto Canada.
1990 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Greene Gallery, Miami Florida.
Gallerie Daniel, Montreal, Canada
1989 Walls, Seibu; Tokyo, Japan
Simon Dresdnere Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1988 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1987 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Simon Dresdnere Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Gallery Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich Switzerland
“New Traditionalism” Gracie Mansion Gallery, N.Y.C.
“New Work”, Greene Gallery; Coral Gables, Fla.
1985 Anna Friebe Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Dresdnere Gallery Toronto, Canada
1984 The Center for Contemporary Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.: “Power” Gracie Mansion Gallery, N.Y.C.
Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1983 “The Crime of your Life” Gracie Mansion Gallery, N.Y.C.
“New Work” Piezo Electric Gallery, N.Y.C.
1982 “Evidence” Gracie Mansion Gallery, Loo Division,N.Y.C.
1981 “ Process” Idee Gallery, Toronto Canada.
1978 “The Rubber Gun Work”; Little Carnegie Gallery; New York City, N.Y.
1977 “Trophy Art for the Blind” Vehicule Art; Montreal Canada.
1974 “Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture” Vehicule Art, Montreal Canada.
Selected GROUP SHOWS
2017: “The Times” Flag Art Foundation NYC
“One Cup” Post Eroticism Ken Nakahashi Gallery Shinjuku Japan
“Social Photography Show” Carriage House Gallery NY
2016: “Something Possible Everywhere: PIER 34 “ Curated by Jonathan Weinberg Hudson Gallery Hunter University NYC
2015 “COPS” Tops Gallery Memphis Tn
2014: “Wet and Hot” Urban Paintings Walter Robinson; Stephen Lack; James Romberger, Conrad Vogel.
Dorian Grey Gallery NYC NY
2013: “Suddenness and Certainty” Robert Miller Gallery; NYC. Curated/Robert Greene
“Small Works” Newtonberry House; Ireland
Museum of New Art; Detroit; Curated by Jeff Bourgeau
“Phone Art” Carriage House Gallery; NYC.
Michael Gennis Gallery; Ottawa Canada.
2012: “ Summer Group Show” Southern Vermont Arts Center; Vt.
2010: “Draw”: Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico.
2009: Artwalk Benefit: New York City
Postcards from the Edge: Aids Benefit Visual Aids NYC
2008: “Your Documents Please” Travelling Show. 2B Gallery Budapest Hungary
2006: The Downtown Show: “The New York Art Scene:1974-84” Curated by Carlo McCormick
Travelling: Grey Art Museum. NYC
The Andy Warhol Museum; Pittsburgh, Pa
Austin Museum of Art; Austin Texas
2005 “:Business Unusual” Howlfest, N.Y.C. Office of the Borough President
Recent Acquisitions: Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.
“WALDSEE Project:”: Postcard sized art as per the Holocaust Victims
Hebrew Union College Museum; New York City.
“EAST VILLAGE U.S.A.’ The New Museum; N.Y.C. Curated by Dan Cameron.
2004 ‘Group Show’ : Gallery Four Seven Nine; Ottawa Canada
2004 Waldsee Project;: 2B Galeria; Budapest, (traveling)
2003 “Permanent Collection”: Voorhees Gallery, Rutgers Museum NJ
2002 “Series”: University of Colorado; Boulder Col
2001 “Postcards from the Edge”: Visual Aids, NYC
“Wheels”: Connecticut Print Center; New Haven Ct
“ Take Home a Nude”: N.Y. Academy of Art; NYC
2000 Dorfman Projects; N.Y.C.
1999 “The Pet Show”: Bonwin Keenan Gallery
1996 “Man and Machine”: Forum Gallery,N.Y.C.
“Jerusalem 3000”: Jerusalem Museum, Isreal.
“Hopper Light” : Hopper Museum, Nyack N.Y.
“Take Home a Nude”:, New York Academy of Art; N.Y.C.
1995 “25 N.Y. Artists”: Yuki Sun International, Nagoya Japan.
1994 “A Sense of Place”: Dahlberg Gallery, College du Page, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
1991 “Medium Messages” Wooster Gardens, Brent Sikemma; N.Y.C.
“Recent Acquisitions” Rutgers Museum, Print Archive, New Brunswick N.J.
“Benefit Auction”, Belport L.I. New York.
1990 “Motion as Metaphore”: Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Va.
1989 “Art on Paper”: Weatherspoon Art Gallery,University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, N.C.
1988 “Drive”: B.M.W. Gallery, N.Y.C.
1987 “Drawings”: The Bemis Foundation, Omaha Nebraska.
“Animal Life”: One Penn Plaza; New York City. Curated by Carola Van Den Houten.
1986 “The East Village”: Fashion Institute of Technology; N.Y.C.
“N.Y.C. New Work”: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, De.
“A Survey of Recent Trends”: Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
“Television and the Imagination”: H.B.O. New York, N.Y.
!984 “Neo York”: University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Cal
”Painting and Sculpture ‘84”: Indianapolis Museum of Art
“Recent Acquisitions”: Australian National Gallery; Canberra, Australia.
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts “Painting” 1993; 1987.
Canada Council for the Arts; “Painting” 1991.
Print Magazine Regional Design Award 1985
Lectures and Residences :
Illinois State School of the Arts: Guest Lecturer; 2010
School of Visual Arts; Manhattan; Masters Thesis Advisor 2005-2006
Dartmouth College; Hist. Dept. Guest Lecture. New Hampshire; 2000.
Skidmore College, Summer Six, Saratoga N.Y. 1999
Connecticut College, 1999 Artist in residence.
Design Dept. Ford Motor Co. Dearborn Michigan. Artist in residence 1989
Banff Institute of the Arts; Artist in Residence. 1988
Ancienne Manufacture Royale, Limoges France. Artist in Residence. 1988
Florida State University; Artist in Residence Program, 1985
Collections: Corporate And Public
Australian National Gallery; Canberra, Australia
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Chemical Bank; New York
Imperial Oil Canada
Dept.of External Affairs Canada
Progressive Corp. Ohio
M.T.V. New York
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Ct.
Prudential Corporation, N.J.
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, N.Y.
New York Public Library Print Collection, N.Y.C.
U.Q.A.M. (Universite de Quebec a Montreal) Quebec Canada.
Royal Bank of Canada
New School for Social Research, N.Y.C. NY
S.I.T.A.(Societe International de Transport Aeronotique) Switzerland
Weatherspoon Gallery; University of North Carolina at Greensboro, N.C.
Voorhees Zimmerlee Museum, Rutgers Print Archives, New Brunswick N.J.
New York Stock Exchange, N.Y. .
Jerry Speyer Collection
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign Ill.
Ralph Lauren Collection
Union Rescue Mission,Los Angeles
Jerusalem Museum, Isreal.
Rubell Family Collection, Fla.
Elmhurst Museum, Ill.
Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.
Senvest Corporation Quebec Canada.
The New Britain Museum of American Art, Ct
Howard Shore Collection, NY
Abrams Family Collection; Los Angeles California
Iger Family Collection
Blauch Family Collection
Stephen Lack’s work has been the subject of a documentary
on BRAVO Television’s ARTS and MINDS