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Viera
Levitt
(formerly
Viera Jancekova) settled in Rhode Island 6 years ago following
her Artslink Residency at RISD Graduate Studies in 2002
and an internship in the Photography Department at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York in 2005. She currently works as
the Director
/ Curator for the CCRI Knight Campus Art Gallery and
as as a freelance curator and photographer in Rhode Island,
Massachussets, Connecticut and beyond.
Viera's show at CCRI about its brutalist megastructure
“We Talk About Architecture, Architecture Talks Back”
recently won the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research's
2011 New England Art Award in the Concept/Theme Show Curator
category.
Before moving to the United States, Viera served as the
youngest art museum director in Slovak history, responsible
for among other things, managing an international, 672,000.00
Euro project with 6 other partners from European art centers
called 'Re:Location'. She has taught Art History and 20th
Century Art in Trnava University, Johnson & Wales University
and at the Community College of Rhode Island.
From 1996 to the present, Viera has curated or co-curated
more than sixty exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic,
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and in the USA. Venues have
included, the Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Synagogue,
the Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava, Slovakia, the
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Germany, Casino Luxembourg,
Narodni technicke muzeum in Prague, Czech Republic, O.K
Center in Linz, Austria, Povazie Museum of Art in Zilina,
Slovakia, Myopic Bookstore in Wakefield, RI, Hera Gallery
in Wakefield, RI, with the Mobile Art Project in various
locations in Rhode Island, the URI Fine Art Center Galleries
in Kingston, RI, the Courthouse Center for the Arts in West
Kingston, RI, FreeDom, Bahon, Slovakia, AS220 in Providence,
and the At Home Gallery in Samorin, Slovakia.
Viera Levitt has also lectured about contemporary art in
cities such as Bratislava, Brno, Berlin, Rotterdam, Hiroshima,
New Delhi, Caracas, Nairobi, as well as in Rhode Island
often with her lecture, 'Who is Afraid of Contemporary Art?'.
Ms. Levitt was invited as a guest critic to RISD, URI, CCRI, Salve Regina University, and
Roger Williams University. She is a member of Open Section
of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and IKT
(International association of contemporary art curators).
Viera Levitt in the exhibition spaces of the Jan
Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia (Exhibition of Alojz
Klimo)
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We
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