- public art projects
Shadow & Light Borderline Art Collective/ [working]. San Francisco
2013
Ping Pong Art in United States Embassies Program. Curator: Lynn Marie Kirby. Belgrade, Serbia
Inkwell For-Site Foundation. Nevada City, California
2012
if by sea: sound poetic walk for Angel Island California State Park at Angel Island. San Francisco
2011
signals 18th Street Art Center. Santa Monica
ART VULUPS Collaboration 1.0 American Planning Association Conference. Santa Barbara
Artscape : City of Riverside Art in Public Spaces Riverside County Administrative Building. Riverside
- museum and educational institution exhibitions
Textilities Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts. Oakland
2013
Comings and Goings:[…]Exchanges Cerritos College Art Gallery. curator: James MacDevitt. Cerritos
No Region Would West Los Angeles College. curator: Kio Griffith. Los Angeles
Between Dystopia and Greener Pastures California College of the Arts. San Francisco
Women of the Permanent Collection Riverside Art Museum. curator: Kathryn Poindexter. Riverside
2012
Knots: Textile Topologies California College of the Arts. Oakland
Allusions of Modesty Riverside Art Museum. curator: Kathryn Poindexter. Riverside (solo)
MOCA Fresh Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles
Baldessari: Class Assignments Wattis Inst. for Contemporary Art. curator: Jens Hoffman. San Francisco
2011
Slideslam Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco
Fluxface in Space at Fluxfest Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art. curator: Cecil Touchon. Chicago
2010
beauty refusal Palm Springs Museum of Art. Palm Springs
Writing the Desert UCR Sweeney Art Gallery/Culver Center for Art. curator: Shane Shukis
Seeing and Saying Riverside Art Museum. curator: Lee Tusman
Atlas of Gifted Ideas The Henry Art Gallery - Project Space. curator: Shaw Osha. Seattle
Americas 2010 Works on Paper Northwest University Art Center. juror: Heidi Goldberg. Minot ND
2009
MOCA Fresh Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles
- gallery exhibitions
Everyone is Hypnotized: Artists Dérive the Bay Area Pro Arts. curators: Gipe + Tell. Oakland
2016
Inclusion (Raining Down) LAND AND SEA. Oakland
2014
HOMING PIGEON Gallery Lara. curator: Kio Griffith. Tokyo
Something Completely Different City Limits. curator: Evan Reiser. Oakland
OVERVIEW Et. al gallery. curators: Chris Duncan, Maria Otero; LAND AND SEA. San Francisco
MAS (Mutual Appreciation Society) Attack 17th Street Studios. curators: Gipe + Tell. San Francisco
2012
VOX VIII Vox Pupuli Gallery. jurors: curator Ruba Katrib and artist Marlo Pascual. Philadelphia
Beauty Berkeley Art Center. juror: Glen Helfand. Berkeley
archive, articulate, alliterate, activate: transcribing the formative Aggregate Space. Oakland
2011
Spread the Word Mark Moore Gallery. curator: Cat Moore. Los Angeles
DEEP Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. juror: Grace Kook Anderson. Santa Ana
Tel-Art-Phone Beacon Arts Building. curator: Mat Gleason. Los Angeles
Summum Bonum; mapping line and making holes Bleicher Gallery (solo). Santa Monica
2010
39:NOW Sophia Louisa Projects @ dencontemporary. curator: Sophia Louisa. Los Angeles
Fluxface in Space Fluxmuseum. curator: Cecil Touchon. Fort Worth TX
Blue Planet SoMARTS Cultural Center. juror: Kim Abeles. San Francisco
In Memory of Judith Hoffberg Armory Center for the Arts. curator: Jay Belloli. Pasadena
Beauty Revisited Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. juror: Peter Frank. Santa Ana
32nd Juried Fine Arts Mills Pond House Gallery. juror: Joan Young; Guggenheim Museum. St. James NY
2009
proVISIONal Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. juror: Shane Guffogg. Santa Ana
urban plein air society Telic/The Public School. curator: Daniel Ingroff. Los Angeles
210 project210 gallery. curators: Chuck Feesago and Quinton Bemiller. Pasadena
Self Portraits in the age of Myspacebook I-5 Gallery. curator:Mat Gleason. Los Angeles
- curatorial projects
Revisited, Los Angeles, 2003 - 2008
Selected Collective, Gallery 4016. Los Angeles, 2002
- catalog bibliography
“MFA 2013,” essay by Maria Porges, 03/2013
“MFA Now,” Root Division, San Francisco, 02/2012
“Deep,” essay by Grace Kook Anderson, Laguna Art Museum, 04/2011
“Blue Planet,” essay by Kim Abeles, 05/2010
“Beauty Revisited,” essay by Peter Frank, 05/2010
“Americas 2010: Paperworks,” essay by H. Goldberg, 12/2009
“provisional,” essay by Shane Guffogg , 10/2009
- selected press
“Allusions of Modesty” by Lynn Lieu IE Weekly, 06/2012
“Summum Bonum…” by Marybeth Connaughton Nepotism magazine, 04/2011
“Art: I can’t help but go to them” by Jesse Morse Slacklust magazine, 03/2011
“Language Mapping” by Liz Danzico, bobulate, 10/2010
“Definitely an E-ticket” by Stacy Davies, IE Weekly, 06/2010
“Spotlight on the Arts: Leora Lutz” by Daniel Foster, Press Enterprise, 05/2010
“The Fine Art of the City”, The Planophile, 02/2010
“LA Painting”, FOUND LA, 12/2009
“Museum exhibits…Leora Lutz…” InlandArts.com, 11/2009
“OCCCA Provisional” by Jeannie Lee womantalk.blog, 10/2009
“East of Eden” by George Melrod artltd.; Interview, 09/2008
“Messages in bottles and embryonic stars”, AWOL blog by Ezhra Jean Black artillery, 05/2008
“The Joint Custody Project” by Mallory Feruggia White Hot Magazine, 07/2008
“Artists as Gallerists” by Mat Gleason Coagula Arts Journal, 01/2008
- awards & residencies
LAND AND SEA Art in Residence, 2016
Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Award, finalist, 2014
Recology Artist in Residence, finalist, 2014
California College of the Arts Named Merit Scholarship Award, 2011- 2014
Art Interview 19th International Juried Competition, 2nd place, 2010
artslant showcase, 2009 - 2011
- selected collections
Aandrea Stang. Los Angeles
Peter Frank. Los Angeles
Gustavo Arellano. Santa Ana
Oceana Hotel. Santa Monica
Trina Turk. Los Angeles
W Hotel. Hollywood
GLM Management. Los Angeles
Creative Circle Agency. Los Angeles
Ruben Esparsa. Los Angeles
CCH Pounder. Los Angeles