Lisa Anne Auerbach

Lisa Anne Auerbach makes sweaters, knitted tapestries, flags, photographs, drawings, videos, and publications, often in response to the current political moment. She explores agency and voice within chaos and cacophony. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries, flagpoles and fences in the United States and beyond. 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

“Illicit Libraries,” ADAA Fair Solo Booth, Gavlak, New York, NY, 2023

“Forever…” Campbell Hall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

“Unraveling” Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

“Sweater Parade,” Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 2022

“Libraries,” Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

“Spells,” Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014

"Chicken Strikken," at Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, 2012

“United We Stand,” Hammer Museum AIR: Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA, 2012

“Torn Porn,” 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

“Take This Knitting Machine and Shove It,” Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, 2009

“UMMA Projects: Lisa Anne Auerbach,” University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI, 2009

“Election Sweater Project,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 2008

“Auerbachtoberfest,” David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2007

“Right On, Weatherman,” CPK Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006

“Self Titled Debut,” Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

Selected Group Exhibitions

“She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space,” Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 

“Artists’ Tarot and the Archive,” Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

“Political Circus,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

“Dress Code,” Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

"Glitches, GIFs and Game Engines,” South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

“Kaleidoscope,” Workplace, London, UK

“Wrongs & RIGHTS,” Brooklyn Academy of Music Rudin Family Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“Un-Civil War,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

“Fashion is a Verb: Art Performance and Identity,” William Paterson University Galleries

“Disturbances in the Field: Art in the High Desert from Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West to HDTS,” Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV

50th Anniversary Exhibition, White Columns, NY

“We Fight to Build a Free World,” Jewish Museum, NY

“5-7-5 Project,” Ace Hotel marquee, Los Angeles, CA

”Garb,” Art Center College of Design Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA

“Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY``

“Artists and Their Books/ Books and Their Artists,” Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

"Forms and Alterations,” Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA

“This is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

“Erzählstoffe” (textiles telling stories), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden- Baden, Germany

“Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California,” Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA 

“The I-71 Project,” (billboards), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

“Wasteland,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, Paris, France

“Cut, Fold, Recreate,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

“Afghan Carpet Project” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2015

“Parasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Culture,” Kyoto, Japan, 2015

“Whitney Biennial,”  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2014

“The Cat Show.” White Columns, New York, NY, 2013

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

“Nine Lives,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

“Cottage Industry,” Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2008

“Make You Notice,” San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2008

“Words Fail Me,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, 2007

“Open Walls 2,” White Columns, New York, NY, 2006

“The Workmanship of Risk,” St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, Canton, NY, 2006

“Groundhog Day,” Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia, 2004

“High Desert Test Sites 01,” Joshua Tree, CA, 2001

“Kamikaze,” Marstall, Berlin, Germany, 1998

“Wunderbar,” Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, 1996

“P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

“Dave’s Not Here,” Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, 1994