BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

M.F.A. 1994 Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. B.F.A

1990 Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI

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

Printed Matter, New York, NY

2007 David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Art Positions/Gavlak at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL

2006 Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL

"Right On, Weatherman," CPK Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 "Self Titled Debut," Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 "Nine Lives," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Prescriptions," Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"The Tract House," Threewalls, Chicago, IL

"Craftwerk 2.0," Jönköpings County Museum, Sweden

2008 "The Station," Miami, FL

"Hello Liberty," The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

"Cottage Industry, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

"The Way That We Rhyme," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"Fare una Scenata / Making a Scene," Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy

"Vested Interest," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

"Make You Notice," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francicso, CA

2007 "Read Me," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

"Words Fail Me" Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

"High Desert Test Sites 07," Joshua Tree, CA

"Common Threads," Confederation Centre for the Arts, Prince Edward Island , Canada

"Pass It On: Connecting Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture," A & D Gallery, Columbia, College, Chicago, IL

2006 "Open Walls 2," White Columns, New York, NY

"Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Fair Exchange," LA County Fair, Pomona, CA

"Locale," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Miss America," (with Aleksandra Mir), Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Interstate," Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Queens, NY

"High Desert Test Sites 5," November, 2002-May, 2006, Joshua Tree, CA

"The Workmanship of Risk," St. Lawrence University Art Gallery, Canton, NY

2005 "Political Textile Show/Knitknit Release," ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL

2004 "Publish and Be Damned," Cubitt, London, England

"Groundhog Day," Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane, Australia

Knitknit at Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA

1998 "Kamikaze," Berlin, Germany

1997 "Ten Los Angeles Artists," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Her Eyes are A Blue Million Miles (Version),"Three Day Weekend, London, England.

1996 "Wunderbar," curated by StephenSchmidt-Wulffen, Hamburg Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany

"246," Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

"246," Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Los Angeles Visits P-House in Tokyo," Three Day Weekend, Tokyo, Japan

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

"Smells Like Vinyl," Roger Meriens, New York, NY

1994 "Thanks," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA

"Dave's Not Here," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA

"Red Rover, Red Rover," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA

"Gorgeous Politics: 8th Annuale," LACE, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATION PROJECTS

2008 Charted Patterns for Sweaters That Talk Back, published by Printed Matter, NYC.

2007 Unicycle Shop, published by Onestar Press, Paris

2006 Road Bike Road Notes (Socrates Sculpture Park, Interstate)

2005 Everyday Hiking (with the Interlopers HC)

American Stuccolow (with Louis Marchesano)

Last Week in The Project Space

2004 Saddlesore

RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, COMMISSIONS

Durfee Artists Completion Grant, 2008

Yurt for V-Day, February, 2008, NYC

California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2007

Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito July/August 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY-PERIODICALS

Stryker, Mark. "Artists and Their Art: Lisa Anne Auerbach." Detroit Free Press, July 5, 2009.

Ward, Alie. "Bike Night at the Hammer Museum." Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/theguide/events-and-festivals/la-et-bikenight15-2009apr15,0,1062454.story

Byron, Jacquie. "Knit... With Grit: Politics and the Knitting Needle." Get Creative (Australia), May 2009. Pp 12- 17.

Zohn, Patricia. "Culture Zohn: Lisa Anne Auerbach and Jenny Holtzer: Art Meets Politics Over Words." Huffington Post, March 13, 2009.

Vogel, Carol. "Wish You Were Here." New York Times, March 19, 2009.

Kongsbak, Kirja. "Strik Kan Gøre en Forskel." GavStrik Winter, 2008: 4-5. Fuller, Daniel. "Comics of Salvation." Art On Paper November/December, 2008: 14-16.

Solberg, Tone. "Politikk og strikk." Aftenposten November 28, 2008: 40-44.

Gersten, Lana. "Political Stitch: Knitting for Obama." The Forward October 16, 2008: 2.

Oksenhorn, Stewart. "Poli-Knits: Lisa Auerbach fashions a message in sweaters." Aspen Times October 4, 2008: 27-28.

Berardini, Andrew. "Lisa Anne Auerbach: Auerbachtoberfest." Art Review January, 2008.

Polgreen, Erin. "Art Space: Body Count Mittens Project." In These Times, April, 2007: 41.

Warren, Ellen. "Making Trouble." Chicago Tribune Magazine April 1, 2007: 15.

Witchel, Leigh. "Extreme Knitting." Knit.1 Magazine Spring, 2007.

Harvey, Doug. "StreetSignism." LA Weekly November 17-29, 2006.

Pagel, David. "A passionate red-state manifesto." Los Angeles Times July 7, 2006

Holte, Michael Ned. "Preview: From California To the New York Island." Artforum Summer, 2006.

Gschwandtner, Sabrina. "USA Knitting Today." Rowan Magazine Spring/Summer 2006.

Bollen, Christopher. "Modern Art's Three Hot Trends." Domino March, 2006.

Dambrot: Shana. "Lisa Anne Auerbach: Fear No Sweater." FiberArts Magazine Jan/Feb 2006.

Armstrong, Liz. "The Crafty Protester." Chicago Reader October 22, 2004.

BIBLIOGRAPHY-BOOKS & CATALOGUES

Jackson, Suzyn. Knit It Together. Voyageur Press, 2009. Pp. 52-55.

Subotnick, Ali. Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2009. Plested, Lee. Common Threads. Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, 2008.

Wills, Kerry. The Close-Knit Circle: American Knitters Today. Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2007. p.72.

Chambers, Kristin. Cottage Industry. Baltimore: The Contemporary Museum, 2008. Pp. 28-35.

Searle, Karen. Knitting Art. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2008. 104-111.

Sabrina Gschwandtner. KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects from Knitting's New Wave. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007.

Tatsos, Irene. Fair Exchange Pomona: Millard Sheets Gallery, 2006.

SELECTED WRITINGS

"DDIY: Don't Do It Yourself," Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 6, Fall, 2008.

"Manifestoes in Miniature," Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 20, 2008.

"My Favorite Thing about the War on Terror is Making Sweaters about the War on Terror," KnitKnit 7, Winter, 2007

"Knitting for the New Millenium: A Manifesto," KnitKnit 6, Winter 2005

"A Text about High Desert Test Sites", (with Andrea Zittel), Artforum, Summer, 2005.

"How to Knit a Geodesic Hat," KnitKnit 4, 2004