Lisa Anne Auerbach

Professor of Art
With Pomona Since: 2009
Lisa Ann Auerbach
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Lisa Anne Auerbach鈥檚 artwork examines the curious, do-it-yourself ways in which humans communicate with each other鈥攖hrough architecture, language and knitted symbols.

    In form, her work ranges from knitted banners, sweaters, pants and skirts, to small publications and includes photography as well as paintings. The artist uses all of these various and seemingly disparate media as an alternative distribution for ideas and language. Themes such as the declarations by psychics and tarot card readers, issues surrounding reproductive rights for women, the current fad and proliferation of hashtags in our culture, the rise of megachurches, as well as her love of cats, are all woven into the various media as a means of disseminating issues both private and public to a larger audience. 

    Research Interests

    • Small publications
    • Tracts
    • Knitting
  • Work

    Work

    Selected Solo Exhibitions

    鈥淪pells,鈥 Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014

    "Chicken Strikken," at Malm枚 Konsthall, Malm枚, Sweden, 2012

    鈥淯nited We Stand,鈥 Hammer Museum AIR: Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA, 2012

    鈥淭orn Porn,鈥 Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, 2011

    The Tract House: A Darwin Addition, jointly commissioned by the American Philosophical Society

    Museum and Philagrafika 2010: Out of Print, Philadelphia, 2010

    鈥淭ake This Knitting Machine and Shove It,鈥 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, 2009

    鈥淯MMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach,鈥 University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009

    鈥淓lection Sweater Project,鈥 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 2008

    鈥淎uerbachtoberfest,鈥 David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2007

    鈥淩ight On, Weatherman,鈥 CPK Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006

    鈥淪elf Titled Debut,鈥 Thomas Solomon鈥檚 Garage, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    鈥淎fghan Carpet Project鈥 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2015

    鈥淧arasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Culture,鈥 Kyoto, Japan, 2015

    鈥淲hitney Biennial,鈥  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2014

    鈥淭he Cat Show.鈥 White Columns, New York, NY, 2013

    "Art and Social Justice," Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, 2010

    鈥淣ine Lives,鈥 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

    鈥淐ottage Industry,鈥 Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2008

    鈥淢ake You Notice,鈥 San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008

    鈥淲ords Fail Me,鈥 Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, 2007

    鈥淥pen Walls 2,鈥 White Columns, New York, NY, 2006

    鈥淭he Workmanship of Risk,鈥 St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, Canton, NY, 2006

    鈥淕roundhog Day,鈥 Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia, 2004

    鈥淗igh Desert Test Sites 01,鈥 Joshua Tree, CA, 2001

    鈥淜amikaze,鈥 Marstall, Berlin, Germany, 1998

    鈥淲underbar,鈥 Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, 1996

    鈥淧.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now,鈥 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

    鈥淒ave鈥檚 Not Here,鈥 Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, 1994

  • Education

    Education

    1994, Master of Fine Art
    Art Center College of Design

    1990, Bachelor of Fine Art
    Rochester Institute of Technology
     

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Black and White Photography 
    • Digital Photography
    • Landscape/Placescape/Spacescape Photography
    • Photographing People
    • Junior/Senior Art Major Seminar
    • Punk: Politics, Poetics and Provocations
       
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    Ferrall Artist-in-Residence, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2014

    City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist COLA Grant, 2013

    MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Petersborough, NH, 2012

    Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 16th Biennial Competition Award, 2009

    California Community Foundation, Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2007

    Headlands Center for the Arts, Project Space Residency, Sausalito, CA, 2005