Liza Lou
(American, b.1969)
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Solo Exhibitions
2015
Liza Lou: Color Field and Solid Gray, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Liza Lou: Gather (One Million), Wichita Museum of Art, Kansas
2014
Canvas, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
ixube, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Solid/Divide, White Cube, Bermondsey, London
2013
Liza Lou: Color Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
2012
Liza Lou, White Cube, Hoxton Square, London
Liza Lou: Let the Light In, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2011
Let the Light In, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Liza Lou, L&M Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles [cat.]
2010
“American Idol”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
“Liza Lou Drawings”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2008
“Liza Lou”, L&M Arts, New York
“Liza Lou, Maximum Security”, Lever House, New York
2006
“Liza Lou”, 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, North Carolina
2000
American Presidents 1-43, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington DC
Liza Lou, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
1999
American Glamorama, Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall, New York
Kitchen, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
American Presidents, Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Kitchen, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie. Wyoming
1998
Liza Lou, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Portrait Gallery, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Liza Lou, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Kitchen and Back Yard, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica [exh. cat.]
Back Yard, Fundacio Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona
Portrait Gallery, P.P.O.W., New York
Most Admired Disorder, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1997
Liza Lou, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
Liza Lou, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
Liza Lou, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1996
Kitchen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Forty-two American Presidents, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Liza Lou, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Liza Lou, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1995
Socks and Underwear, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1994
Kitchenette, California State University Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Solo Performances
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
1994
Cal State Fullerton Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Group Exhibitions
2014
Stories of Espai 10 and Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sleight of Hand: painting and illusion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2013
30 Years, Salzburg Villa Kast and Halle, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
“Disaster – The End of Days”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Pantin
Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix,
The C of O Show, Kresge Gallery, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, New Jersey
La Belle est la Bête, L’Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
2012
“Lightness?”, Maison particulière, Brussels, Belgium
“Advance/Notice”, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Artist Talk”, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
“Strange Beauty : Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art”, I.D.E.A Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
“Demo”, L&M Arts, Venice, California
“The Female Gaze : Women Artists Making Their World”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, USA
2011
Memories of the Future, The Olbricht’s Collection, curated by Wolfgang
Schoppmann, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Strange Beauty: Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art, I.D.E.A Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York
2010
Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Make Craft, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Curated by Jeff
Koons, New Museum, New York, New York
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube Gallery,London, England
19th Century and Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Lust for Life, Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2009
Diana und Actaeon: Der Verbotene Blick Auf Die Nacktheit, Musuem Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf [cat.]
2008
Bizarre Perfection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
In the Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Innovations In The Third Dimension: Sculpture Of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
2007
The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York
Rockers Island—Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Death Instinct, The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2006
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY
Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Metropolitan Kiba Park, Tokyo, Japan
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
2001
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
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.]
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.]
1999
First Annual Post-Impeachment Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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 Millennium, The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia
Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita [exh. cat.]
An Embarrassment of the Riches, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington, CA [cat.]