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Grant Recipient

Nava Lubelski

WNC Craft Futures Cohort

2025

Bio of the Artist

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Nava Lubelski was born and raised in New York City and lives in Asheville, NC. Lubelski's work has been exhibited widely at museums such as the Queens Museum of Art; the Museum of Arts & Design in NYC; the San Diego Museum of Art; the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Oslo; the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC; and the Asheville Art Museum. She has shown solo or semi-solo with Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC; LMAKprojects in New York; OH&T Gallery in Boston; P|M Gallery in Toronto; Luis de Jesus in Los Angeles; and Margaret Thatcher Projects in NYC. Additional solo/group exhibitions have included numerous universities, commercial galleries, and small museums nationally, as well as venues in Stockholm, Sydney, and Berlin.

Lubelski's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the (Toronto) Globe and Mail, Artforum, ArtNews and the Village Voice. She was the subject of a feature in American Craft and has been included in many international contemporary art books, such as Radical Decadence and De Fil en Aiguille. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Center for Craft, and the North Carolina Arts Council. Lubelski received a degree in Russian Literature and History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.

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Asheville, NC

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$15,000

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