Lisa Yuskavage
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Biography
Born 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lives and works in New York, New York.
EDUCATION
1986
M.F.A. Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1984
B.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982
Temple Abroad, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2010
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London, England
2009
Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner, New York, New York
2007
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London, England
2006
Lisa Yuskavage, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico [catalogue]
Lisa Yuskavage: New Work, David Zwirner, New York, New York, concurrent with
Lisa Yuskavage: New Work, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York [catalogue]
2004
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London, England
2003
Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
2002
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi at The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London, England
2001
Lisa Yuskavage, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
Lisa Yuskavage: Watercolors, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2000
Lisa Yuskavage, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*
1999
Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi, London, England
1998
Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
1997
Lisa Yuskavage, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1996
Lisa Yuskavage, Boesky & Callery, New York, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California*
1994
Lisa Yuskavage, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Lisa Yuskavage, Luhring Augustine, New York, New York
Lisa Yuskavage: Watercolors, Elizabeth Koury, New York, New York
1993
Lisa Yuskavage, Elizabeth Koury, New York, New York
Lisa Yuskavage, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1990
Lisa Yuskavage, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio [catalogue forthcoming]
2010
Between Picture and Viewer: The Image in Contemporary Painting, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York
Face to Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Denver, Colorado
Size Does Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York*
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009
30th Anniversary, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Bad Habits, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, New York
Figuratively Seeing, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts*
2008
Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York*
Bad Painting Good Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria*
Diana and Actaeon: The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf,
Germany*
Female Forms and Facets: Artwork by Women from 1975 to the Present, Central Connecticut State
University Art Galleries, New Britain, Connecticut
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, New York
Happy Vacation, Thrust Projects, New York, New York
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York*
Paint Made Flesh, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee [itinerary: The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.; The Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York]*
Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La
Jolla, California
2007
America Today: 300 Years of Art from the USA, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China [itinerary: Shanghai Museum and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China]
Artist Collaborations: Fifty Years of Universal Limited Art Editions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts*
Multiplex: Directions in Art 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Paper, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
The Present: The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
The Other Side #2: Radical Pursuits: Delights in the subversive and sublime, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York
2005
Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York Laguna\’s Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
“Post” and After: Contemporary Art from the Brandeis Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts
2004
5th International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations, Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
She’s Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, New York
2003
de Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Self Portraits, Deitch Projects, New York, New York
Skowhegan Faculty Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Stephen Greene: Painter and Teacher, Addison Gallery, Andover, Maryland
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California*
Terrible Beauty, Roebling Hall, New York, New York
2002
The 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York*
Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece*
Go Figure, LUXE, New York, New York
Visual Jury 2002 Exhibition, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2001
Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Arts, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York,
furor scribendi: Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California*
Naked Since 1950, C&M Arts, New York, New York
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting, Organized by Independent Curators International with guest curator Ingrid Schaffner [itinerary: Western Art Gallery, Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]*
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2000
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York*
The 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
2000 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York*
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York, New York*
Go Figure, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Connecticut
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
A Plurality of Truths, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York*
Salon, Delfina Project Space, London, England
Twisted: Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands*
Works on Paper 2000, American Ambassador’s Residence, The Slovak Republic*
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
1999
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists From the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California*
Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas*
The Nude in Contemporary Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut*
The Passion and the Wave, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey*
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Time of Our Lives, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York*
1998
From Here to Eternity, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York
Now and Later, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
People, Places, and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut*
A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, California*
Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia [itinerary: Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio]*
Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London, England*
1997
My Little Pretty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois*
The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan, New York, New York
Project Painting, Lehmann Maupin and Stephano Basilico Galleries, New York, New York*
SLAD, Apex Art, New York, New York Women’s Work in Contemporary Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina*
1996
Adicere Animos, Cesena-Cesenatico, Bologna, Italy*
Early Learning, L & R Entwistle Ltd., London, England
Heart\’s Desire, Judy Ann Goldman, Boston, Massachusetts
Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, New York
Norfolk \’96, Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
Rome Invitational, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Tailor\’s Dummy, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
What I did on my summer vacation, White Columns, New York, New York
1995
Diverse Group, Apex Art, New York, New York*
Gang Warfare, The MacKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Not Not (Who\’s There?), E.S. Vandam, New York, New York
An Offering to San Simeon, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Pictura Immedia, Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Kunstlerhaus and Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria [itinerary:
Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary]*
Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I Don’t Really Mind), Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago, Illinois*
1994
Don\’t Postpone Joy or Collecting Can Be Fun, Austrian Cultural Center, New York, New York
I, Myself, and Me, The InterArt Center, New York, New York
New Work, Johan Jonker Galleria, Amsterdam, The Netherlands NY/NL: XX, Gemeenteligh Helmont Museum, Helmond, The Netherlands
Out West and Back East: New Work from New York and Los Angeles, The Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica, California
Up the Establishment, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
1993
Figure as Fiction, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio*
Medium Messages, Wooster Gardens, New York, New York
Mr. Serling\’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
Yale Collects Yale, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut*
1992
The Anti-Masculine, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Koury, New York, New York
Little Men/Little Women, White Columns, New York, New York
A Paper Trail, Berland/Hall Gallery, New York, New York
1991
FIAR International Exhibition [itinerary: Rome, Italy; Milan, Italy; Paris, France; London, England; New York, New York; Los Angeles, California]*
Fine Arts Work Benefit Show, Twining Gallery, New York, New York
1989
Juried Show \’89, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summitt, New Jersey
1988
Emerging Artists, WWAC Gallery, Westport, Connecticut
Twenty Artists Choose Twenty Artists, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1987
New Work, New Talent, New Haven, Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1986
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
