丽莎·露（Liza Lou）以使用无数玻璃珠创作而闻名，她精心编织出大型雕塑及环境，并将其打造成一个统一的整体。她的作品的特点在于其诱人的、甚至是魔幻的物质性与创作过程中的密集劳动交织时衍生的张力，该张力体现于制作过程和她的创作主题中。正如露形容：「你在用珠子创作之前，它本来已经有很多内在意涵 － 关于美丽、关于价值的珍贵、甚至是关于劳动。它们是精心制成的，有自己的价值。」她模糊了美术和工艺之间的界线，让观众同时在视觉奇观及批判性思考的层面上体验她的作品，突显出劳动资本化，及其与性别、艺术家自身身份的关系。
为了更加贴近工匠，她亦大量地在不同环境进行社会参与创作，包括南非德班和印度孟买的珠饰组织、洛杉矶的社区团体和巴西贝伦的女子监狱。艺术家解释：「我对集体劳动的想法很感兴趣，当中包括妇女的团结性，及每一针每一线的团结性 [......] 我希望我们的作品是过程的一个记录。这是关于工作的作品。」极简主义的连续性和严谨性呈现于这些作品中，尤见于她近期的单色珠子画，但其形式主义因手工的美学而变得复杂。她的作品的美和人性，存在于它们的小缺陷和微妙变化中，它们成为创作过程中时间和劳动的遗物。
卢1969年生于纽约，在洛杉矶生活及工作。她於1996年崭露头角，当时她一比一房間大小的珠子雕塑作品《厨房》在纽约新当代艺术博物馆（New Museum in New York）展出。这个破格的作品，现成为了惠特尼博物馆的永久馆藏，它象征了5年的孤独劳动，呈现了她作品的物质性和社会关怀等基本原则，并奠定她其后的艺术实践。2005年，她在南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔建立了一个工作室，与当地精通传统珠饰工艺的祖鲁族妇女合作。最近，她创立了「分离共同」（Apartogether）社区艺术项目，作为在新冠疫情期间促进连结和创意的桥梁。卢曾在不同机构举办个展，包括巴塞罗那的米罗美术馆（Fundació Joan Miró）（1998年）、迈阿密巴斯艺术博物馆（Bass Museum of Art）和阿斯彭艺术博物馆 (Aspen Art Museum)（1998年）、德国杜塞道夫艺术宫博物馆（Museum Kunstpalast）（2002年）、奥斯陆的海尼·翁斯塔艺术中心（Henie Onstad Kunstsenter）（2002年）、乔治亚州的萨凡纳艺术与设计学院（Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia）（2011年）、圣地亚哥当代艺术博物馆（Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego）（2013年）、以及纽约帕切斯学院的紐伯格美術館（Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase）（2015年）。2013年，她荣获匿名女性奖（Anonymous was a Woman Award），亦曾获得麦克阿瑟奖（2002年）。
i see you, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2021
Desire Lines, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, London, UK
Both Sides, Now, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2019
Liza Lou: The River and the Raft, Lehmann Maupin Gallery & Songwon Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2018
Liza Lou: Classification and Nomenclature of Clouds, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Liza Lou: ingxube, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong
2016
The Waves, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Blue Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2015
Liza Lou: Gather (One Million), Wichita Museum of Art, Witchita, KS, USA
Color Field and Solid Grey, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, USA
2014
Canvas, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
ixube, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Solid/Divide, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
2013
Liza Lou: Color Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
2012
Liza Lou, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, UK
2011
Let the Light In, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, USA
Liza Lou, L&M Arts Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010
American Idol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Liza Lou Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008
Liza Lou, L&M Arts, New York, NY, USA
Liza Lou, Maximum Security, Lever House, New York, NY, USA
2006
Liza Lou, White Cube, London, UK
2004
The Damned, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2002
Testimony, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
Liza Lou, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Leaves of Glass, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2001
Liza Lou II, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA
Trailer, Southeastern Contemporary Art Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2000
American Presidents 1-43, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington D.C.
Liza Lou, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
1999
American Glamorama, Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall, New York, NY, USA
Kitchen, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
American Presidents, Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Kitchen, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, USA
1998
Liza Lou, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Liza Lou, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Kitchen and Back Yard, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Back Yard, Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Portrait Gallery, P.P.O.W., New York, NY, USA
Most Admired Disorder, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1997
Liza Lou: American Presidents 1-42, Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY,; California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA,; Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
1996
Kitchen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Forty-two American Presidents, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
Liza Lou, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA, USA
Liza Lou, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA
Liza Lou, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, USA
1995
Socks and Underwear, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, USA
1994
Kitchenette, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA
2025
The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Bakewell, UK
2022
Grow. The Tree in Art, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2019
Making Knowing: Craft in Art. 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Boston | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Lexicon, The Language of Gesture in 25 Years at Kemper Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Less is More, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Comeback, Kunsthistorische Renaissance in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2018
SUPERPOSITION & Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Memory Palace, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, UK
Gold, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Pulling at Threads, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Or, Mucem, Marseille, France
2017
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
All Things Being Equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Screens: Virtual Material, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA
2016
Women’s Work, National Gallery, Iziko Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
Passing Through Minnesota, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Home Land Security, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA
Material Considerations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015
Painting @ the Very Edge of Art, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Storrs, CT, USA
Edge of Silence, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Patterns of Abstraction, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
ENDLESS, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Other People’s Memories, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014
Stories of Espai 10 and Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Surfacing On, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sleight of Hand: Painting and Illusion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2013
30 Years, Salzburg Villa Kast and Halle, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Disaster - The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Pantin
Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex, Art Museum, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
The C of O Show, Kresge Gallery, Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Mahwah, NJ, USA
La Belle est la Bête, L’Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
2012
Lightness?, Maison particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Advance/Notice, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Artist Talk, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Strange Beauty : Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art, I.D.E.A Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Demo, L&M Arts, Venice, CA, USA
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2011
Memories of the Future, The Olbricht’s Collection, cur. Wolfgang Schoppmann, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Strange Beauty: Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art, I.D.E.A Space, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Make Craft, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, cur. Jeff Koons, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
19th Century and Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Lust for Life, Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
2009
Diana und Actaeon: Der Verbotene Blick Auf Die Nacktheit, Musuem Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Bizarre Perfection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
In the Land of Retinal Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, USA
Innovations In The Third Dimension: Sculpture Of Our Time, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA
2007
The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, NY, USA
Rockers Island—Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Death Instinct, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2006
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Metropolitan Kiba Park, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Translation, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Over + Over: Passion for Process, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, USA
2004
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Splat, Boom, Pow: Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA; Wexner Center for the Arts, OH, USA
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2003
Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Art Museum, Brown Fine Arts Center, Northhampton, MA, USA
Perpetual Bliss, Galerie Thaddaeaus Ropac, Paris, France
Skulptur03, Max Gandolph-BIbliothek, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Shine, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002
Melodrama, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia/Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain; Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Bingo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2001
Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Give and Take, organized by Serpentine Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2000
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Sharing Exoticism, Biennale de Lyon d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999
First Annual Post-Impeachment Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1998
Site Specific, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1996
A Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Art for the New Millennium, The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Subversive Domesticity, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, USA
An Embarrassment of the Riches, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
France
Fondation Cartier Pour I’art Contemporain, Paris
Germany
Thomas Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin
Greece
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Iran
Honart Museum, Tehran
Italy
François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Mexico
La Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
Spain
Fundación Privada Sorigué, Lleida
USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
De Young Museum/Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hill Foundation, New York, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2013
Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Award
2002
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1996
Virginia Groot Foundation Award