Born in Siberia, Russia
Lives in Los Angeles, California
2012 BA, UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
2018 MFA, California State University in Long Beach
Awards and Residency
2017 Now Space LA gallery collaborative residency with Emily Marchand.
2016 CSULB School of Arts Scholarship Award
2016 F*ART CSULB Fiber Department juried exhibition award, Long beach CA
2015 Windes Corporate Gallery Award, Long Beach, CA
Art Lab Symposium-Residency, Academia Luciana, Civitella D’Agliano, Italy
2014 Visiting artist at Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Feed Us Fund Us Art Grant
2011 Steward and Linda Resnick Scholarship
2009 Stiefel & Dockweiller Foundation Scholarship
Selected Solo and two-person Exhibitions
2018 Hepl Yourself, Lena Wolek, MFA thesis exhibition, Merlino, CSU Long Beach
2017 Brittle Peace, Emily Marchand and Lena Wolek, Now Space, Los Angeles
2017 Unslick, Gatov Gallery at CSULB, Long Beach, CA
2017 Arbitraitor's Clauset: Egyptian Arts & Antiques, Beverly Hills, CA
2014 Dancing and Dueling: Lena and Joe Wolek, SAC Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2014 A-Wearness, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Santa Monica College Theater, Santa Monica ,CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Other Places Art Fair, Emily Marchand and Lena Wolek & Now Space in San Pedro, CA
2017
Everything Must Go, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fair, Brickell City Centre, Miami, Florida
Peace Love and Light, Kunstraum Dreieich, Frankfurt, Germany
Image.I, Dalton Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
Selfreliance, Now Space LA, Los Angeles, CA
Red on Red: Faux Sho, Balcony Coffee Company + Coffeemode, LA
Feminist Video Art Festival, The Situation Room gallery, Los Angeles. CA
Cross Town Traffic, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spy vs Spy. Joe and Lena Wolek. Disassembled Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ANDLAB, Brewery Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA
SoCalMFA 2017, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
Insights, University Art Museum, Long Beach CA,
Videohouse, Deslave Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico.
Black and White, Deutsche Bildung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Three-Two-One, ArtFlash, featured in Soul Sanctuary on Abbot Kinney, Venice, CA
Grab Bag Pop Shop, Grab Bag Studio, Long Beach, CA
Verge, LOFT at South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA
Three-Two-One, Artflash at Venice, Venice, CA
FUtopia, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Boiling Process 5: Mythodologies, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2016
Faux Shaw, DADA II, MuzeuMM gallery , Los Angeles
Hysterical Fiction, Estudio LAs Nieves, Bogota, Colombia
Shift and Fade, BLAM Projects gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Our Masters, Egyptian Art and Antiques gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Post Waste, LOFT at South Bay Contemporary gallery, San Pedro, CA
Hysterical Fiction, La Estacion Arte Contemporaneo, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Cats-in-Residency, Worcester Art Museum, MA
Concrete, BLAM Projects gallery, Los Angeles,CA
Call-and Response, Leo Freedman Gallery, CSUF, Fullerton, CA
Doppelganger, Torrance Art museum, Torrance CA
Academia Luciana, Tiny Griffon gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Ufology, Outpost Projects, Yucca Valley, CA
F*ART, Gatov Gallery, California State University, Long beach, CA
Birds, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Running Away from Home, 1748 Adams Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2015
Value Scale, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
MASque Attack, Temporary Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Uncanny, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hysterical Friction: TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Boiling Process 3, Mexicali Rose Gallery, Mexicali, Mexico
Texas National 2015, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
['''''''shelf''''''''life'''''''] 1748 West Adams, Los Angeles, CA
Boiling Process 2: LA X TJ, Jaus Gallery, Los angeles, CA
MAS Attack, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2014
The Cats-in-Residence Program, 356 Mission Rd. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack 7, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa MonicaCA
Impermanence, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
ANOTHER Cats Show, 356 Mission Rd. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Summus, Minan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Transit, SAC Arts at Santora Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
ArtCrasher, Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
6x6x2014, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
MAS Vegas, VAST Space projects, Henderson, NV
To Klingon or Not to Klingon: Project LALO. Campbell Works Gallery, London , UK
4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
C-Note, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Small Works, Southwest Art Canter, Atlanta, GA
Portal, Nextspace@Amplify, Venice, CA
Please Don’t Wake Me, Little Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
The Planter Show, ForYourArt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
EMMEFFAY #5, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hillel 8th Annual Juried exhibition, Hillel, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Department of Art juried exhibition, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
UCLA Department Scholarship exhibition, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Cultural Abstraction, Contemporary Figurations, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, California
Summer Soul Sis, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles
Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry? The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Hillel 7th Annual juried exhibition, Hillel, UCLA, Los Angeles
Best in Show, UCLA Department of Art, Undergraduate Gallery, Los Angeles
UCLA Department of Art Juried exhibition, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
2010
Think Green, Santa Ana College Main Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
UCLA Department of Art juried exhibition, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
2009
117, Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica
Intimate Oddities, 18 Street Art Center Gallery, Santa Monica
Seminal Transmissions, McNish Gallery, Oxnard, CA
2008
Upstairs Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
So Fly, Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
