education
Master of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction, California College of the Arts
awards
Visual Artist Fellowship and Residency, Camargo Foundation,
Cassis, France
Individual Artist Grant, Illinois Arts Council
US/France Visual Artist Residency, La Napoule Art Foundation,
La Napoule, France
Margaret Hall Silva Foundation, for in code exhibition, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Individual Artist Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts
exhibitions
Solo/ Two Person Exhibitions
Jane Lackey: frontiers , Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
map room , Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
interior particular , Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan
scraps, swabs, blots, smears , Mott Fine Arts Gallery, Flint, Michigan
sending/receiving , Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago Illinois
Jane Lackey , Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Jane Lackey/Joan Livingstone , Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
archive , Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
in code , Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Jane Lackey : Recent Works, I Space, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Works : Jane Lackey, Warren Seelig, Gallery of Art, Johnson
County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Selected Group Exhibitions
Material Evidence: Phenomenology of Matter, Beach Museum, Manhattan, Kansas
Gendered Space/s, Loranger Art & Architecture Center, U of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan
Connecting with Contemporary Sculpture, Museum of Art and Archaeology, U of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
The Book Borrowers, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Form as Content, The Book as Object in Art and Design, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Small Treasures , Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
The Inland See , Richmond Art Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Hot House , Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
One more thing added to the world: the Borges effect in contemporary
artist’s books , Borges Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Medicine Now , Wellcome Collection, The Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Marking Boundaries , Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco, California
PAGES , I Space, Chicago, Illinois
Textile/Future Expression , Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan
Material Inquiry 2005 , Macalester College Art Gallery,
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Bones of Clouds: Some Recent Experiences of Chance , Center
Galleries, Detroit, Michigan
Paradise Now , Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga
Springs, New York
Exit Art , New York, New York (2000)
On Language: Text and Beyond , Center Galleries, Detroit, Michigan
Remnants of Memory , Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
publications
Selected Books/Catalogs
The Map as Art, Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, Katharine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, New York
The Book Borrowers, exhibition catalogue, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Hot House, Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook , 1970-2007,
exhibition catalogue, Cranbrook Art Museum, essays by Jane Lackey
and others
Art & Biotechnologies , 2nd edition, DVD-Rom anthology, included with
book of essays, Presse de L’Universite’ Du Quebec
Interior Particular , exhibition catalogue, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, essay by Dick Goody
Portfolio Collection 15: Jane Lackey (monograph), Telos Art Publishing, Winchester, England, intro by Irene Hoffman, essay by Helga Paakasar
Art Tomorrow , Edward Lucie-Smith, Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, France
Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution , exhibition catalogue,
Tang Teaching Museum, edited by Ian Berry, D.A.P. New York
Selected Reviews/Articles
American Craft, Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook , 1997-2007, Natalie Haddad, Oct/Nov, Vol. 67, pp. 72-76
Metrotimes , Get Fresh, Laura Semivan, July 4
Chicago Tribune , Jane Lackey : frontiers, Fred Camper, Dec. 16, p.25
Metrotimes , map room, Gerry Craig, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, p.32
Art in America , Review, Lynn Crawford, December 2004
ARTnews , Review, John Brunetti, April 2003
Chicago Tribune , Review, Lisa Stein, December 13
Surface Design Journal , Waiting, She Missed Nothing, Gerry Craig, Winter Metrotimes, Seeing in Tongues, George Tysh, April 11-17
The New Yorker , DNART, Peter Schjeldahl, October 2
Kansas City Star , Our Language, Our Selves, Kate Hackman, September 29
New Art Examiner , Jane Lackey/ Joan Livingstone, Jenni Sorkin, Vol. 27, no.10,
Detroit Free Press , Review, Keri Guten Cohen, April 5
Chicago Reader , Lost in a Sea of Shapes, Fred Camper, September 19
Surface Design Journal , A Phenomenology of Dirt, William Easton, Spring
commissions
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri
collections
Public and Museum Collections
Bio Science Research Building , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cranbrook Art Museum , Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of the Arts , Detroit, Michigan
Oakland University Art Gallery , Rochester, Michigan
James A. Michener Collection , School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Johnson County Community College Collection , Overland Park, Kansas
Museum of Arts and Design , New York, New York
Wellcome Trust Permanent Collection and Public Exhibition , London, UK
Hallmark Cards, Inc. , Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Informax, Inc ., Bethesda, Maryland
Stowers Institute for Medical Research , Kansas City, Missouri
The Sigal Corporation , Washington, D.C.
TIAA-CREF Collection , St. Louis, Missouri
Xerox Corporation , Washington, D.C.
lectures
SCAD, Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Savannah, Georgia
Lecture Series, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Friends of Modern Art Lecture Series, Detroit Institute of the Arts
Art Now Lecture Series , University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Cleveland Institute of the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Smoke and Mirrors, Materializing Language Lecture Series / Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Dong-A University, Pusan, South Korea
Seoul City University, Seoul, South Korea
Hong Ik University, Seoul, South Korea
teaching
Teaching History
Artist-in-Residence, Head of Fiber Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Professor/Department Chair, Fiber Department, Kansas City Art Institute
Short Term Guest Teaching
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, Summer Faculty
OCAC, Portland, Oregon, Visiting Faculty
Haystack, Deer Isle, Maine
Pratt Fine Art Center, Seattle,Washington
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Graduate level “Lab”, Spring
University of Washington, Seattle, Extension Course, Winter
Vermont College, Montpelier, MFA Visual Art Program, Regional Artist Advisor
Maine College of Art, Portland, MFA Studio Arts Program, Visiting Faculty




















