Born 1978, Kavaje, Albania
Works in Brooklyn, NY
contact info: mail@luishtini.com
1996-2000 The Academy of Arts, Tirana, Albania
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2022 Thaw, Harkawik Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
2021 Ruminations, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2020 three summers, corbett vs dempsey, chicago, il
2019 Tempos, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2018 Body, Land, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Fused, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo
2017 A Sawdust Feast, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2016 Jinn Skin, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2015 MorphĒ, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Pared-Down, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany (TWO PERSON EXHIBITION)
2014 Some, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2013 Face Paintings, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
The Matter Of An Uncertain Future, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 New Paintings, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
2021
New Light, Encounters and Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Romancing the Surface, GRIMM Amsterdam, NL
I am afraid to own a body, Poker flats, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2020
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, chicago, il
Cosmic Meteorites & Other Burners, corbett vs dempsey, chicago, il
2019
La Pintura. Un Reto Permanente (Painting. A Permanent Challenge), CaixaForum, Barcelona | madrid, SpaiN
The Pictionary Individual, Organized by Peter Harkawik, Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
AXxoN N., Essex Flowers, New York, NY
La Peinture Abstraite, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, BE
2018
Rendezvous with an Impulse, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Vanitas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Bounty, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA
The Unseen, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
Line and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
2017
Amours Courtoises , Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR
Likeness, FUSED, San Francisco, CA
Homo Mundus Minor, T293, Rome, IT
2016
Walk Artisanal, 3716 Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
IMAGINE, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015
Let’s Get Figurative, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY
Mirror Mirror, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Other Planes of There, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2014
Remake/Remodel, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Some Thoughts about Marks, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Four Drawings of a Farmer, Bureau, New York, NY
2013 One Bed For the Occultant, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Pushing Painting Paradigm, curated by Latoya Ruby Frazier, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 Memory Leaks, Creon Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Insomnia, Peter Fengesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY
2014 - 2015 The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
2010 NYFA Painting Fellowship
2007 - Matisse Fellowship for Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
CentrAal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
2022
Murphy, Niall, Lui Shtini at Harkawik, Contemporary art Review LA, April 14, 2022
ART viewer, Lui Shtini at Harkawik, March 21, 2022
2019
dennison, carol, Mind Games Together, the reader, June 6, 2019
Contemporary Art Daily, Lui Shtini at Kate Werble, January 17, 2019
2018
Sörenson, Anna, Line and Verse @ Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Painting is Dead, February 26, 2018
Haxhijaj, ALberina, Prezantohet ne kosove puna e artistit shqiptar Lui shtini, september 11, 2018
2017
Pocaro, Alan, Lui Shtini: A Sawdust Feast, Delicious Line, November 15, 2017
Miller, Chris, Each Work A Festival of Contrasts: A Review of Lui Shtini at Corbett Vs. Dempsey, Newcity Art, November 13, 2017
Yau, John, Painstaking Spontaneity: The Paintings and Drawings of Lui Shtini, A Sawdust Feast, exhibition catalogue, October 2017
2016
Steadman, Ryan, Gimmie Shelter: Why Artists Are Using Abstraction to Hide Their Faces, Observer, June 1, 2016
Plagens, Peter, Jinn Skin: Lui Shtini, The Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2016
Kron, Cat, Critics’ Picks: Lui Shtini, Artforum, May 6, 2016
Lui Shtini at Kate Werble, Contemporary Art Daily, June 4, 2016
Yau, John, Lui Shtini’s Enigmatic Paintings, Hyperallergic, May 1, 2016
Schwendener, Martha, Gallery Guide, Soho and TriBeCa, a Cradle of Contemporary Art, The New York Times, April 21, 2016
2015
Lewis, Brent, ‘Studio: Lui Shtini, Brooklyn, 11201’, Cultured Magazine, Summer 2015, p.86. Print
Poetry Magazine, Cover for March 2015 Issue
New American Paintings, February - March Issue #116. Cover and Noteworhty artist. Print
2014 Pechman, Alexandra, ‘Four Drawings of a Farmer’ at Bureau, Art News, October 1, 2014
2013
Smith, Roberta, Museum and Gallery Listings for Dec. 27-28 and Jan. 2-4, Lui Shtini: Face paintings’ at Kate Werble Gallery, The New york Times, December 27, 2013
Smith, Roberta, Lui Shtini: “Face Paintings” at Kate Werble Gallery, The New York Times, December 20, 2013, p. C26
Zevitas, Steven, 14 Artists (+2) to Watch in 2014, The Huffington Post, December 19, 2013
Russeth, Andrew, Getting Into Bed With the Know More Games Gallery, GalleristNY, November 5, 2013
2009
Fichter, Brian, Interview with Painter Lui Shtini, Cool Hunting, March 12, 2009
Lui Shtini. Van de Weghe Fine Art, 2009. Print
LECTURES
2021 - Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, Painting Department, London
2012 - Visiting Lecturer, BFA program, NYU Stheinhardt School of Culture, New York
2011 - Visiting Lecturer, BFA program, NYU Stheinhardt School of Culture, New York