b. Palo Alto, CA
Lives and works in Houston, TX
Education
- 2000
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- 1999
Ratti Foundation Advanced Course in the Visual Arts, Como, IT
- 1990
BA, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, CA
Solo and two-person exhibitions
- 2020
Drunk Hawking, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin
- 2019
Snoopy Mitosis, Sylvia’s Sculpture Garden, Houston, TX
- 2017
Holly Hobby Lobby, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
Mr. Robust, Naming Rights, London, UK
DOG ETIKIT, BA&D, Dusseldorf, DE
Uncle Xylophone, The Vanity, Los Angeles, CA - 2014
Captain Hook at Eton, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, DE
- 2011
Johann König Gallery, Berlin, DE
- 2010
Th th th th th Snow White, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, JP
- 2010
Schürmann Berlin, Berlin, DE
- 2008
Lisa Lapinski, The Fret and its Variants, curated by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Linz Wedding Song, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - 2007
Linz Wedding Song, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
- 2006
Fine Evening, Sir!, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, DE
- 2004
Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT
Life is with People: (with Mitchell Syrop), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - 2003
Analysadnom: The Office of Doctor Vital Brazil, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Mezzanin (with Catherine Sullivan), Vienna, AU - 2001
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 2000
Armstrong Visions Solarian: Regina and Opium have Dormitive Virtue, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023
Six Scenes From Our Future, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Immediacy, Fig., Tokyo, Japan
The Devil Is A Clown, F, Houston, Texas - 2020
The Going Away Present, organized by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2018
Anna Helm, Lisa Lapinski, Hirsh Perlman, organized by Lisa Lapinski, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
- 2017
Anna Helm, Lisa Lapinski, Hirsh Perlman, organized by Lisa Lapinski, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Gallery share with Kristina Kite Gallery, Park View, Los Angeles, CA - 2016
The Soft Shoe, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
Second Wave: Aesthetics of the 80s in Today’s Contemporary Art, University of California, Riverside, ARTSblock, Los Angeles, CA
- 2014
Trieste, curated by Jay Heikes, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue)
Light Night, curated by Kristina Kite, Wallspace, New York, NY
Epiphany Conservation Trust, organized by Emi Fontana and Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles, CA - 2013
Trieste, curated by Jay Heikes, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY(catalogue)
A Point of View: Selected Gifts from Lawrence A. Rickels Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Johann König, Imersten, Vienna, AU - 2012
Fix it up too, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
- 2011
The Rose-Colored Room, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
Totem and Taboo, curated by Alexandra Waldburg Wolfegg, Elena Adugio, Bessaam El Asmarand Tido von Oppein, freiraum quartier 21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna, AU
On Forgery, curated by Andrew Bernardini and Lesley Moon, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Group show, curated by Jesse Benson and Brian Mann, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA - 2010
Neugierig, Bundestkunsthalle Bonn, DE
Lecia Dole Recio, Lisa Lapinski and Caroline Thomas, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Jewel Thief, curated by Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry, TANG Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY(catalogue)
The Mass Ornament, curated by John Rasmussen, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Darren Bader, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA - 2009
Collecting History, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The One O’Clockers: Will Fowler and Lisa Lapinski, curated by Tom Watson, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, UCLA Hammer Museum, LosAngeles, CA
1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
The Chef’s Theory Show, curated by Maha Saab, 533, Los Angeles, CA
The Secret Life of Objects, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN - 2008
Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, DE
Dogtooth and Tessellate, The Approach, London, UK
Open Space Los Angeles, curated by Daniel Hug, Meyer Voggenreiter and Kathrin Luz, Hotel Excelsior Ernst, Cologne, DE
Analytic and Synthetic Pile-up, Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Postbahnhof at the Gleisdreieck, Berlin, DE - 2007
Pure Self-Expression, curated by Kathrin Jentjens, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
Uneasy Angel–Imagine Los Angeles, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Spruth Magers Projekte, Munich, DE
Good Morning, Midnight, curated by Bruce Hainley, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
L.A. Desire (Part 2), curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, DESTUFF: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
Sculptor’s Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 2006
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, curated by Chrissie Iles and Phillipe Vergne, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Inaugural Exhibition, Johann König Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Swan is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - 2005
Hyperfocal Distance, curated by Alain Cueff, Galerie Nelson, Paris, FR (catalogue)
Yuki Kimura, Lisa Lapinski, Helen Mirra, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JP
10 Years at FAR: Generations of Art, curated by Giorgio Verzotti, Church San Francesco, Como, IT (catalogue) - 2003
Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002
crisp, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Works on Paper, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Loop, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Untitled group exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - 2001
Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mink Jazz, curated by Bruce Hainley, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lecia Dole-Recio, Lisa Lapinski, Susanna Maing, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - 2000
Upward, not Northward, Storage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
goodbye, 210 Freeway East, Pasadena, CA
fit, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Bibliography
- 2020
Diner, Eli. “Lisa Lapinski,” Artforum, May/June 2020
Dancewicz, Kyle. “What Do You Think I Am, A Messenger Boy?” In Lisa Lapinski: Drunk Hawking, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, 2020. - 2019
Lapinski, Lisa. “Is Free Will a Question?” in Morgan Fisher/Passing Time, edited by Bruce Hainley and Sohrab Mohebbi. Exh. Cat.
- 2018
Schecter, Asha. “Lisa Lapinski,” Flash Art International, vol. 51, issue 318 (Jan/Feb): 74.
- 2016
Duncan, Thomas. “The Soft-shoe at Rainbow in Spanish.” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), September 14.
- 2015
Lapinski, Lisa. “The Lizard King.” in Larry Johnson: Commie Pinko Guy, edited by Bruce Hainley, 138-149. Exh. cat. London: Raven Row.
Benson, Jesse. The Benefit of Friends Collected, Volume 2. 126-27, 130-131. Los Angeles: Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism. - 2014
Prince, Mark. “Lisa Lapinski,” Flash Art International, vol. 47, issue 296 (May/June): 124-125.
Heikes, Jay, ed. Trieste. Exh. cat. Rome: Federica Schiavo Gallery; New York: Marianne Boesky Gallery; Amsterdam: Grimm Gallery, 2014.
Stockholder, Jessica and Ian Berry, eds. The Jewel Thief. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Tang Museum, 2014. - 2013
Cecchinato, Micaela. Schlaglichter 4. Berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst. Berlin: Springer VS, 2013: 68-9
- 2011
Shimizo, Minoru. “An Inconclusive Progression: Lisa Lapinski’s Exhibition Th th th th th Snow White.” Bijutsu techno, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha (Jan. 2011): 204-205.
Maak, Niklas. Totem and Taboo: Complexity and Relationships between Art and Design. Exh. cat. Vienna: Schelbrugge, 2011. - 2009
Lapinski, Lisa. “Raider’s Blanket.” Special Project: Mr. Peanut, Haim Steinbach on Mike Kelley. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Overduin and Kite, 2008.
Editors of Phaidon Press. Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009. - 2008
Holte, Michael Ned. “Lisa Lapinski.” Artforum, no. 3 (November 2008): 345.
Lapinski, Lisa. “Artists’ Artists: Larry Johnson.” Artforum, no. 4 (December 2008): 104.
Simpson, Bennett. MOCA: Focus, The Fret and Its Variants. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.
Campagnola, Sonia. “Live from Los Angeles.” Flash Art, no. 263 (November- December 2008): 76.
Zeitz, Lisa. “Im Backsteinsalon der Zeitgenossen.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 September 2008: 43. - 2007
Muhle, Maria. “Von leichter Hand.” Texte zur Kunst, no. 65 (March 2007): 173-74.
Lapinski, Lisa. “The Irrelevance of his Homosexuality to the Work of Dean Sameshima.” Numbers. Exh. cat. Berlin: Peres Projects, 2007.
Voltz, Aurélie. “Lisa Lapinski.” Flash Art, no. 253 (March-April 2007): 130.
Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: ‘Good Morning, Midnight.’" The New York Times, 27 July 2007, B30.
Sonnenborn, Katie. "Good Morning, Midnight." Frieze, no. 110 (October 2007): 275.
Falconer, Morgan. “Good Morning, Midnight.” Artreview, no. 14 (September 2007): 130. - 2006
Rosenberg, Karen. “Ready to Watch.” New York Magazine (27 February 2006): 46-48.
Iles, Chrissie and Philippe Vergne, eds. Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night. Exh.cat. New York: Whitney Museum, 2006.
Roussel, Noëllie. “Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere.” art press, no. 322 (April 2006): 43.
Canning, Susan. “Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night.” Art Papers (May-June 2006): 48-49.
Myers, Terry R. “Freezer Burn: Spoiling for a Fight at ‘Day for Night.’” Modern Painters (May 2006): 103.
Spaid, Sue. "Whitney Biennial 2006.” artUS, no. 14 (July-September 2006): 24.
Lapinski, Lisa. “Nicolau Vergueiro.” In Nothing Up the Sleeve, Exh. brochure. Glendale: Glendale College Art Gallery, 2006. - 2005
Cornand, Brigitte. “On a vu ça, ça et ça.” Radio interview (with Paul Sietsema and Alain Cueff), broadcast on Radio Nova, Paris, 20 March 2005.
Cueff, Alain. Hyperfocal: Five from L.A. Exh. cat. Paris: Galerie Nelson, 2005.
10 Years at FAR: Generations of Art, Exh. cat. Milan, Italy: Charta, 2005.
Djerouet, Sandrine. “Los Angeles: Light on a New Generation of Artists.” Art Junction, no. 49 (January-February 2005): 14. - 2004
Lapinski, Lisa. “Analysandom: A Play.” art US, no. 2 (April-May 2004): 46-47.
- 2003
Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2003.” Artforum 42, no. 4 (December 2003): 136-37.
Pagel, David. “Tongue-in-Cheek Freudian Chic.” Los Angeles Times, 28 November 2003, E32. - 2002
Intra, Giovanni. “Lisa Lapinski: Sculpturicide.” Artext, no.76 (spring 2002): 50- 55.
- 2001
Knight, Christopher. “Twiggy Turrets: Lisa Lapinski.” Los Angeles Times, 30 November 2001, F27.
“A ‘Snapshot’ of Los Angeles Artists.” Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2001, F1, F4.
Ferguson, Russell and Ise,Claudine, Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001.
Lapinski, Lisa. “Frank Lloyd Wright: 8 Letters” and “Nerve Shelf Things.” Wrong, no. 3 (summer 2001): 10-13, 17.
Untitled. Xtra 4, no. 4 (spring 2002): 10, 29.
Tumlir, Jan. “Snapshot: UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.” Artforum 40, no. 2 (October 2001): 155.
Von Schlegell, Mark. “Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles.” Artext, no. 75 (November 2001 –January 2002): 76-77. - 2000
Steinbach, Haim. Haim Steinbach. Exh, cat. Milan: Edizioni Charta; Milan: Fondazione Antonio Ratti, 2000: 85.
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
- 2016
Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University, Houston, TX
Arts Initiative Fund Grant, Rice University, Houston, TX
Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Rice University, Houston, TX - 2012
Faculty Initiative Fund Grant, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- 2004
Guggenheim Fellowship
Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX