Lisa Lapinski

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