Vera Lutter
Born 1960, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1991 BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
1995 MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Selected museum exhibitions: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2015); Carré d’Art Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France (2012); Foundation Beyeler, Switzerland (2008); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2005); Dia Beacon, New York (2005); Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2004); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2002); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2001)
Selected honors: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2002); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2001); International Artists Studio Program, Artist in Residence (2001); Kulturstiftung der ZF Friedrichshafen Grant (1999); International Center for Advanced Studies Grant, NYU (1997); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant (1993)
Selected public collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Lenbach House, Munich; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art
Among the most innovative photographers working today, Vera Lutter produces one-of-a-kind photographs that incorporate fundamental principles of her medium. To make her work, she creates a room-size camera obscura with a simple pinhole, exposing large sheets of photographic paper on the opposite wall. The result is a unique large-scale black-and-white image that she retains as a unique negative. In this image, Lutter pictures the Piazza San Marco in Venice, capturing its famous architecture and their reflections at a fittingly monumental scale.