PlantNew, 2024 (top);
Triptych: Upstarts (second) L to R: Spring Upstart (2023), Bark Ferns (2022), Ferni Aloe Maple (2022);
Bark New, 2022 (third);
Ferni Maple Lily (in progress), 2022 (bottom)
Current and Upcoming Exhibits:
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery
Washington, DC
May 24 2024 – October 27, 2024
Crazy Too Quilt / Collection / See More / Feature in Art and Object by Megan Robinson
Crazy Too Quilt / Collection / See More / Feature in Art and Object by Megan Robinson
Beyond: Tapestry Expanded
American Tapetstry Alliance
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University
Greencastle, IN
Aug 26 – Dec 8, 2024
Ways of Seeing – Impact: 20 Women Artists to Collect
Browngrotta Arts
Wilton, CT
September 21 – 29, 2024
Cut from the Same Cloth: Textile & Technology
Palo Alto Art Center
Palo Alto, CA
January 18 – April 6, 2025
Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Boston, MA
July 22, 2023 – July 28, 2025
Recent Media:
• Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project: Artist Feature / The Nineties
• ART UP: Lia Cook Studio Berkeley Times Cover & Feature by R. Todd Kerr
• Catalog Excerpt: Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, Psychological and Neuroscientific Study of Emotions in Textiles by Denise Evert (2023)
• Awarded the 2022 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship by the American Craft Council / Watch Video
• Lia Cook: Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project
• Interview with Jan Wurm for “Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project” / About the interview series in Voices of Contemporary Art Journal
• Su Series video by Browngrotta Arts
• Virtual Exhibition clip of China Symposium
• Watch a video introduction and short studio tour
• The Loom Room: How I got into Weaving – Lia Cook
•Lia Cook – Inner Traces (Textile Forum Blog)
• A Beautiful Mind: Lia Cook weaves empirical cerebral data into works of textile art ( ArtTextStyle Artist Focus)
• “Le Textile et L’Image” by Rémy Prin (published 2021). View pages 234–235
• Lia Cook: Weaving her way into Art History
• Mapping the Mind: Uncommon Threads by Lia Cook
The Art of Lia Cook: Presence/Absence the Digital and the Hand, film by Elizabeth Sher (produced in 2000 and recently digitized)