Jeanette Luchese

Jeanette Luchese is an Italian - Canadian settler, visual artist, graphic designer, illustrator, educator, director, curator, rooted in abstraction creating within the disciplines of drawing, painting, fresco, printmaking, sculptures, and sound. I attended the School of Design and Visual Art, Georgian College (Barrie) and Sheridan College School of Design (Oakville), furthering studies include: 2019 Florence, Italy, OCADU's Summer Studio Master Class [June] with Nicole Collins and Anda Kubis. I live in Innisfil, Ontario Canada. Exhibiting Internationally at the Palazzo dell’Annunziata, Matera Italy and Fondacione Opera Campana-Dei-Caduti, Rovereto, Italy and regionally at numerous public galleries including the macLaren Art Centre (Barrie), Quest Art Gallery (Midland), Orillia Museum of Arts & History (Orillia) and Campus Gallery, (Barrie). A grant recipient of the Ontario Art Council and the City of Barrie Culture Department, with numerous awards.​ Recipient of the 2014 "Great Visual Arts Golden Eagle Trophy - Award of Honour, Salerno, Italy and 2015 the Kandinsky Award of Creativity, Salerno, Italy. Published in Abstract | Ext, A first approximation to abstract literature¹ by David Quiles Guilló: 'Gone Once,' page 76 (April ...

Georgian College School of Design and Visual Arts, Barrie, Ontario
Sheridan College School of Design, Oakville, Ontario
2019 OCADU Summer Studio Master Class, Florence, Italy
2009 Ontario Art Council – Artists in the Classroom

2008 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Tim Lauren
2008/04 | Instruction in working with glass, Huronia Art Glass, Barrie, Ontario
2007 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Tim Lauren
2005 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Summer Printmaking Studio, Stu Oxley
1994/93 | Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario, Ceramics, Derek Martin
1982 | Oil Painting with W.W. Gelder, Streetsville, Ontario
1980 | Portrait Painting with Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, Toronto, Ontario

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 'The Process Informs Me, Curated by Tanya Cunnington, Orillia Museum Art & History, Orillia, ON
​2019 Surviving Death, Resurrecting Memorys, PRNT Collective, Barrie, Ontario
2018 ‘The Focus and the Fray’, Curated by Sarah Elizebeth Leonard, Campus Gallery, SDVA Georgian College, Barrie, ON, Canada
2015 ‘De jávù Reconstructing the Perception’, Curated by Stephanie Nicolo, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, ON, Canada
2014 ‘The Creation of Visual Syntax’ Curated by Sarah Elizabeth Leonard, The Front Room Gallery, Barrie, ON
2014 ‘Reconstructing Reality’ Curated by Ewa Chwojko, Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery, Sutton ON, Canada
— Supported by The City of Barrie, Department of Culture (Individual Artist Grant)
2010 ‘Sensory Abstractions’ Curated by Luba Huzan, Coldwater Gallery, Coldwater ON, Canada2009 ‘Dinner Conversation’. Georgian Dining Room, Barrie, Ontario, Canada2008 ‘EMERGING’, BAC Gallery, Barrie Ontario, Canada

TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
2014 ‘Drawing? Painting? Questioning the traditional with Mary Cellucci, Double Door Gallery, Anten Mills, Ontario
2012 ‘Same and Different’ with Mary Cellucci, Le Studio Gallery, Curator Luci Dilkus, Lafontaine, Ontario Canada —OAC EA Grant
2010 ‘Reflections’ The Refl...