2024 Annual Benefit Dinner

Liza Lou (b. New York, NY; lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA). Throughout her decades-long career, Lou has challenged and expanded the boundaries between the fine and applied arts by introducing glass beads as a conceptual medium. Early in her career, she forged an original, Feminist-inflected vision using beads as an index of time and process in figurative, room-sized sculpture and installation works that rendered labor radically visible on both formal and conceptual registers. For the past fifteen years, Lou has turned her focus to abstraction to engage with art history while exploring the conceptual and metaphoric potential of process and repetition.

Lou’s work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; National Gallery, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, among others. Solo museum exhibitions include Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa (2018); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2013); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2011); Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (2002), and Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL (2001) among others. Rizzoli Electa recently published their second comprehensive monograph on the artist’s work with essays by Glenn Adamson, Cathleen Chaffee, Elisabeth Sherman, Carrie Mae Weems, and Julia Bryan-Wilson and Lou is the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2002) and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2011).