Lisa Yuskavage

BIOGRAPHY
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LISA YUSKAVAGE
1962 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Lives and works in New York
   
Training  
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
  Lisa Yuskavage: New Work, David Zwirner, New York, New York
  Lisa Yuskavage: New Work, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York 
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 NY: New Perspectives, with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan
  Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
  Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
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, 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
   
Awards  
2005 Temple University Gallery of Success Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Founder’s Day Certificate of Honor, Tyler School of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996 Tiffany Foundation Grant
1994 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1986 Zimtbaum Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts