Lives and works in Albuquerque, NM
AWARDS/GRANTS
2014 Albuquerque FunD Grant for Adaptations exhibition
2011 Albuquerque Community Foundation Grant
2002 1% Public Art commission awarded for Tools of Heroism
2001 An Uncommon Legacy Foundation, New York,NY
1995 Orton Purchase Award
EXHIBITIONS * solo exhibition
2015 Site Scholars, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
the Human Drift, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Survival Tactics, Purdue University Gallery, West Lafayette, IN
2012 Survival Tactics, ISEA Conference, Albuquerque, NM
2011 dis*placement. Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2009 Sculpture As Analogy to Landscape. Curated by Steve Barry,
Albuquerque, NM
Capitalism: Fueled by Greed & Envy. SCA Contemporary Art,
Albuquerque, NM* Included collaboration culminating in a performance
of spoken word with Valerie Martinez, Jasmine Cuffee, Renee Gregorio &
Maureen Seaton.
2008 Cerca Contigua (Border Fence). Permanent Installation at The Land/An
Art Site. Albuquerque, NM*
2007 Engendered Species. California State University, Gatov
& Merlino Galleries.Long Beach, CA.
Engendered Species. Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2006 A Good Fence: 1913-2005. The Land/An Art Site,
Mountainair, NM (permanent installation)
2004 Lessons in Being. Inpost Artspace, Albuquerque, NM.* Exploring Gender
Roles. Seton Hall University, NJ, Juror, Sue Scott.
Pleasureworks II. SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA.
2003 Pleasureworks. Fort 208, Albuquerque, NM.
2002 Mark My Words: text in visual art, Magnifico, Albuquerque.
Tools of Heroism. Firestation #14, Albuquerque, NM.
commissioned by the Albuquerque 1% Arts Program.*
2001 Dirty Weekend. American Motel, HWY 66, Albuquerque, NM.
Window Project. Downtown Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM.*
Soft Feelings. Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM.
Mish-Mosh. GOICA Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Julie Sasse, Curator Tucson
Museum of Art.
Seventh Juried Graduate Exhibition. Albuquerque, NM. Jurors: Diane
Armitage, Phillis Ideal. (catalogue)
Strand. Master’s Thesis Exhibition Albuquerque, NM.*
2000 Cultural Propaganda. site-specific collaboration with
Rebecca Blankley.
Sanctioned. Albuquerque Contemporary Art Center.*
1999 Space 209. ARC Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.*
Fifth Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition. Albuquerque, NM, Jurors: Louis
Grachos Curator, Site Santa Fe & Emmi Whitehorse. (catalogue)
Trunk. University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.
1997 Lotsa Clay IV. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.
PUBLICATIONS
Wesley Pulka, Must See Show, Albuquerque Journal, Sunday Arts
Section, March 29, 2015(review/image)
Susan Wider, The Human Drift, THE Magazine, May, 2015 (review)
Diane Armitage, Landscape As Analogy, THE Magazine, November
(review)
LandART, published 2010, Radius Books.
Cheh, Carol, Pleasurework, Art Papers, July/Aug 2003, p.48 (review).
Pulka, Wesley, Exhibit Exceeds Previous Shows, The
Albuquerque Journal, Sunday Arts Section, April 22,
2001, F-3. (review/photograph)
Allan, Steven Robert, Out on the Street, Art Pics, Weekly
Alibi, Volume 9, No. 33, August 17, 2000 (review/photograph).
Lee, Jeffrey, Stone and Trailer Memory, Weekly Alibi,
Volume 8, No. 40, October 7, 1999, p. 22 (review/photograph).
Moore, S. Derrickson, Corbett Center Shines, Las Cruces Sun-News,
February 21, 1998, C-3 (review/photograph).
International Cone Box Show, Ceramics Monthly, January, 1995, p. 25-
30, illus. p. 30 (review/photograph).
CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA
Creative Core, 516 Arts, panel presenter, 2014.
Autobiography As Subject Matter, 2000, University Art
Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
Multi-media Artists,1999, University Art Museum,
Albuquerque, NM.
Queer Art: Is there an aesthetic?, 1999, panel discussion
moderated by Kay Whitney, writer for Sculpture magazine,
University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
COLLECTIONS
The Land An art site, inc. Mountainaire, NM & Albuquerque
Orton inc., City of Albuquerque Public Art Program,
Chun Woo Nam, Seoul, Korea, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
Uncommon Legacy Foundation, New York, NY
Numerous other private collections.