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SOLO EXHIBITIONS: (selected)
2006 Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, Face Maps- 2004 Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA , Binary Traces
`*** Periemeter Gallery, Chicato IL, Embedded Portraiture
2002 Arlene LewAllen Gallery, Samta Fe. NM
2001 Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY, Past Presence
2000 Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, Structure & Image
1999 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, Presence/Absence
1998 R.Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1996 Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
`**`*Washington, DC, Lia Cook: Material Allusions (Traveling Exhibition)
1995 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Lia Cook: Material Allusions (Traveling exh.)
1993 Ram Gallery, Oslo, Norway
1991 Bellas Artes Gallery, New York, NY, New Master Draperies
1990 Arts in the Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., Lia Cook
1989 Galerie Philharmonie, Liege, Belgium, Lia Cook: Crazy Quilts
`*** Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Lia Cook
`*** The John B. Davis Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, Lia Cook
1988 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
1987 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Recent Drapery, Miscellaneous Dry Goods
1985 B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Stage Curtains...Paintings
`*** Northern Illinois University, Gallery 200, De Kalb, IL
1983 Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie et d'Art Textile, Beauvais, France
1980 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC (2 person)
`*** San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected):
2006 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textiles- 2005 Cheongju City, Republic of Korea, Cheongju International Biennale - 120 Definitions of `**`*Temptation
- `*** National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW, Australia, Transformations: The Language of Craft
- `*** City Art Gallery, City College of San Francsico, CA, Artists/Friends – Dialogues
`*** Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC High Fiber
`*** GalleryOne, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI, Transitions/Translations: Innovations in Fiber
`*** SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Hypertextiles
`*** Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA, Recursion: Material Expression of Zeros and Ones (Traveling Exh.) - `*** National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania, 5th International Kaunas Textile Art Biennal
- `*** Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA, Strong Ties - Diverse Directions
- `*** JET Artworks, Washington, D.C., Go Figure
`*** Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Contemporary Textile Art International Open
2004 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder,CO
`*** Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA analog click click
`*** Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, CA High Fiber
`*** Dhal Art Center, Rapid City, SD. Challenging Traditions:Contemporary Textiles
2003 American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA, Generations/Transformations
`*** Kanazawa Invitational Exhibition, World Craft Forum, Kanazawa, Japan
`*** Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
`*** Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Museum for Contmeporary Arts and Deisgn, NY,
***`Corporal Identity - Body Language,
2002`Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, Small Works in Fiber (Traveling to Chicago, IL and Tokyo, Japan)
`*** Loring Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Threads on the Edge
`*** Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Digital Weaving and the Power Loom
`*** Bed ford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, Looming Large
`*** The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., Technology as Catalyst Traveling exhibition.
`*** Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, Defining Craft 1
`*** Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
`*** Rockford College, Rockford, IL, Unconventional Threads
2001 The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, Reality Check – Representational Images in Unlikely Media,
`*** Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA, Fabrications
`*** Charles A.Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine,WI, Once Upon A Time
2000 Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC, Remnants of Memory
`*** Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
`*** Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, Made in California 1900-2000
`*** Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, Quebec, e-textiles: aventures–tissage jacquard (Traveling to Toronto, - `**`*Vancouver, Nova Scotia,
and Australia, California through 2003)
1999 Textile Art Center, Chicago, IL, Warp Speed: Teaching Technology
`*** M. H. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, Recent Acquisitions
1998 The Design Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, webs://textiles & new technology
1997 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, Threads
`*** Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, Structure & Image
`*** California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, Distinguished Faculty Award Exhibition
`*** L'Hotel de Sens Bibliotheque Forney, Paris, France, 1ere Biennale du Lin Contemporain
1996 Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, PA, Bridging Worlds (Traveling Ex.)
1995 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings
`*** Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland, Starke Falten
1994 The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, Conversations: Textiles About Textiles
1993 Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, California Dreaming
`*** The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
`*** Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands, Fascinatie Textiel II
`*** Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, -The Mildred Constantine Col
`*** Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Alcove Show # 13
1992 National Museum of American Art, , Washington, DC, American Crafts
`**`*The Nation's Collection
`*** Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 15th Intr. Biennial,
`*** Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, 3rd International Textile Competition- Kyoto
`*** Textile Museum of Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, Contemporary Silk As Art (Traveling Exhibition)
1991 University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND, Woven Structures in the Computer Age
`*** Museum Industriekultur, Nurnberg, Germany, The Jacquard Project (Traveling Exhibition)
`*** Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, Perspectives From the Rim
`*** Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, New Ends
1990 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt
`*** Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Heads, Threads and Treads
1989 Kyoto, Japan, -Sensitivity for Textile, Proposal for a New Century
`*** Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, 14th International Biennial
`*** Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands, Textielbiennale
1988 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
`*** National Academy of Science, Washington, DC
1987 Fresno Arts Ctr. & Museum, CA, Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists,
1986 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Fiber R/Evolution
`*** Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Selections from the Permanent Collection
1985 Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM, Layering an Art of Time and Space
1984 National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, The Flexible Medium: Art Fabric
`*** Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI,
1982 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI, Jacquard Textiles
`*** Nelson Gallery of Art, Akins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, Repeated Exposure, Photographic - `**`*Imagery
in the Print Media
1981 University of North Dakota Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: (selected)
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United States GSA Comission for Federal Courthouse in Pittsburgh PA. 2006
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW, Australia, 2006
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 2005
The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
American Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
French National Collection of Art, Paris France
Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):
- Currently Professor of Art, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
- 2005 Lecture, "Lia Cook", Symposium, Transformations: the language of craft conference, Canberra, NSW, Australia
2004 Lecture, "Ed Rossbach", Symposium, Textile Society of America, Oakland, CA
2003 Lecture, "Ed Rossbach". Symposium, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
2002 Lecture, Zeroing in on Touch: Drapery, Skin and the Body for Symposium ‘Drapery in Visual Culture: `**`*Contexts, Clothing, Corporealities’, National Museum, London - 2000 Paper, "The Sensual Image: Weaving in the Digital Age"; Panelist, "Textiles: Real, Metaphoric, and Virtual
`**`* in the 21st Century", College Art Association 88thAnnual Conference, New York, NY
1991 Artist in Residence, Jacquard Project, Muller-Zell, Germany
1990 Artist in Residence, Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio, Florence, Italy
AWARDS & SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS:
- 2003 California Arts Coucil Fllowship
2000 Flintridge Foundation Fellowship
1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1996 Distinguished Faculty Award, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1994 French Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1993 United States-Mexico Creative Artists' Residency, National Endowment for the Arts
1990 Artist's Fellowship Grant, California Arts Council
1992 Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- 2005 National Gallery of Australia. Transformations: The Language of Craft. Canberra, NSW, Australia.
`**`*Exhibition catalogue.
* Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005. 120 Definitions of Temptation. Cheongju City, Republic of Korea. `**`*Exhibition catalogue.
* Carol Westfall. "Lia Cook”. Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot. Winter 2004/05 Vol. XXXVI NO 1 Issue 141.
2002 THE Magazine, October, "Lia Cook", review by Jon Carver
2002 Lia Cook: Portfolio Collection, essays by Meridith Tromble, Jenni Sorkin, Telos Art Publishing 2002
2002 Technology as Catalyst, Exhibition Catalogue, Textile Museum, Washington, DC
2002 Drapery, Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture, Gen Doy, London /New York I.B.Tauris
2002 American Craft, April/May, "Review: Lia Cook", Sigrid Wortman Weltge.
2001 The Art of Lia Cook-Presence/Absence: the Digital & the Hand, Video by Elizabeth ScheI.V.Studios & Lia `**`*Cook, Co-Producers, Berkeley, CA.
2000 Remnants of Memory, Exhibition Catalogue, Ashville Art Museum, Ashville, NC
2000 Textileforum, Sept, “Structure & Image”, essay by Lia Cook
2000 Flingtridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists, "Making Sense of Touch" essay by MeredithTromble, `**`*Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
1999 New Art Examiner, July/August, review by Jenni Sorkin.
1996 American Craft, April/May, “Lia Cook/Material Allusions” essay by Chiori Santiago.
1996 Fiberarts, Jan/Feb, "Lia Cook Revisited: A Radically Fresh Approach to Art Criticism" essay by Chelsea `**`*Miller Goin.
1995 Lia Cook: Material Allusions, Exhibition Catalogue, Oakland Museum of California, CA
Gallery Representation: Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
Illinois
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY