
Born 1969 New York City
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Fellowships and Awards
2005 PEW Charitable Trust, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Grant
2002 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Liza Lou, L&M Arts, New York
2006 White Cube, London
2004 The Damned, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2002 Testimony, Deitch Projects, New York
Liza Lou, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Leaves of Glass, Henie Oslo Kunstsenter, Oslo [exh. cat.]
2001 Liza Lou II , Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Trailer, Southeastern Contemporary Art Center, Winston-Salem
2000 Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington
Liza Lou, Akron Art Museum, Akron
1999 American Glamorama, Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall, New York
Kitchen, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
American Presidents, Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Kitchen, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie
1998 Liza Lou, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
Portrait Gallery, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Liza Lou, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Kitchen and Back Yard, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica [exh. cat.]
Back Yard , Fundacio Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona
Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers
California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido
1996 Kitchen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Forty-two American Presidents, Quint Gallery, La Jolla
Capp Street Project, San Francisco
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit
1995 Socks and Underwear, Franklin Furnace, New York
1994 Kitchenette, California State University Art Gallery, Fullerton
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
2007 The Death Instinct, The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2005 Translation, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Over + Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover
2004 Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, [exh. cat.]
Splat, Boom, Pow: Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; ICA, Boston and Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio [exh. cat.]
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, [exh. cat.]
2003 Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Art Museum at the Brown Fine Arts Center, Northhampton [exh. cat.]
Perpetual Bliss, Galerie Thaddaeaus Ropac, Paris
Skulptur03, Max Gandolph-BIbliothek, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Shine, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam [exh. cat.]
2002 Melodrama, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Basque; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia/Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada and Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Vigo, [exh. cat.]
Bingo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier, Paris [exh. cat.]
Give and Take, organized by Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London [exh. cat.]
ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki [exh. cat.]
Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
2001 Sharing Exoticism, Biennale de Lyon d'art Contemporain, Lyon [exh. cat.]
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei [exh. cat.]
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles [exh. cat.]
2000 Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, [exh. cat.]
1999 First Annual Post-Impeachment Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
1998 Site Specific, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
1996 A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, [exh. cat.]
Art for the New Millenium , The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia
Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita [exh. cat.]
Solo Performance
2003 Smith College Art Museum, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northhampton, 7 November
Carnegie-Mellon University Art Museum, Watson Performance Festival, Philip Chosky Theatre, Pittsburgh, 7 September
CCA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Watson Performance Festival, San Francisco, 8 April
2002 Deitch Projects, New York 13, 21, 28 October
Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Center Stage Theatre, Santa Barbara,
12 July
Les Deux Cafés, Hollywood 21, 22 June
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany 21 April
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