Prof Lisa Milroy
- Professor, Painting
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Slade School of Fine Art
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Biography
1959 Born Vancouver, Canada 1977-78 L'Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris, France 1978-79 St Martin's School of Art, London 1979-82 Goldsmiths College, University of London (BFA First Class Honours Degree) 1995- Guest Advisor Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam 2006 Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London 2008-09 Council member, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2009- Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2009-11 Member of the Learning Committee, Royal Academy of Arts 2013-17 Artist Trustee, Tate 2015-17 Liaison Trustee of Tate for the National Gallery 2016- "Hands On", lead artist, Instant Network Schools, Vodaphone Foundation (practical art workshops for schoolchildren in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya 2017- Member, TBAC 2018- Artist Trustee, Joanna Drew Travel Award
Research Summary
Still life is at the heart of my artistic practice. In the 1980s my paintings featured depictions of ordinary objects such as shoes, plates, rocks, stamps, fans, hardware, light bulbs and vinyl records, composed in either a grid or random scatter against an off-white ground. In the early 1990s my approach to still life painting shifted, leading to depictions of objects within settings. The imagery expanded to include landscape, architecture and people. As the range of imagery grew, my painting style diversified. By continually experimenting with fast and slow applications of paint, the resulting painterly innovations have allowed me to achieve within my paintings a wide range of moods and atmospheres. For the past five years, I have been developing large scale paintings that are site-specific and installation-based.
The focus of my work is the relation in painting between stillness and movement, the hand and eye, thought and action, and between presence and absence; how one looks at painting as a maker and as a viewer; and the wonder of the imaginative transformation of materials into an image or art object that has the potential to touch the viewer.
Teaching Summary
2009-present Head of Graduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art
1995-present Advisor, Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten, Amsterdam
Part-time tutor:
1995-96 Royal College of Art, Post-Graduate Painting
1993-96 Goldsmiths, University of London, Undergraduate Program
Day Visiting Tutor since 1984:
Bath School of Art and Design
Brighton School of Art
Camberwell College of Arts T
The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts
Central St Martins College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design
City and Guilds of London Art School
Manchester School of Art
Norwich School of Art and Design
Royal Academy Schools
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Sheffield College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art
Visiting Artist:
Ecole nationale de beaux-arts de Lyon, France
Skowhegan, Maine, USA
Exhibitions
Architecture of London 2019 - Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Curated by Elizabeth Scott
Drawing Biennial 2019 2019 - Drawing Room, London
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection 2018 - Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
Touring to: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Longside Gallery, Wakefield; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Treasures from the Home 2018 - Blaafarvevaerket (Cobalt Works and Mines), Norway
Hand-made 2018 - One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Still Life - Lisa Milroy and Jayne Parker 2018 - APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London, UK
A joint exhibition including 'The Oblique' (2018), digital transfer from original 16mm film, sculptural objects and photographic works.
Modern Art Revisited 2018 - Tottori Museum, Japan
Highlights from the collection of the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan. A touring exhibition to Tottori Museum, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Japan.
RA Summer Exhibition 2018 2018 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
La Reve de la Filieuse 2018 - Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
Nature Morte 2017 - Guildhall Gallery, London
Stephenie Bergman and Lisa Milroy: Tango 2017 - Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone
Against Landscape, Coniston Institute 2017 - Coniston Institute
Coniston Institute; touring to Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Horizons 2017 - CCAS de Besancon, Logement-Foyer les Cedres, France
Drawing Biennial 2017 2017 - The Drawing Room
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money 2017 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, works slsected by Lubaina Himid from the Arts Council Collection
Here and There 2016 - Mansun Farm/The Retreat, Ahmedabad, India; Parasol unit, London UK; One Off Gallery for Contemporary Art, Nairobi, Kenya,
Survey exhibition of approx 50 paintings focussing on the past 10 years of work. Explores questions of materiality, touch, presence/memory, absence. Motifs of clothing and shoes lead the way. Publication (120 pages) including essays by Dr Ziba Ardalan, Dr Hanneke Grootenboer and Briony Fer
Cloth 2016 - Kotarpur, The Retreat
Exhibition based on paintings created during residency on sabbatical leave in Ahmedabad, India, November- December 2016. With photographs by Sonah Dalal.
President's Choice, Academician's Room 2016 - Royal Academician's Room, Keepers House, Royal Academy of Arts, London
President's Choice, Academician's Room
Painting in Time Part 2 2016 - SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
An exhibition that explores performative and time-based painting, curated by Sarah Kate Wilson
RA Summer Exhibition 2016 2016 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016
Out of Hand 2016 - Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Art at the British Academy, London 2016 - The British Academy
65 Works Selected by James Welling 2015 - David Zwirner, New York, USA
Exhibition and sale to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY
Houses in the CAM Collection 2015 - Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lison, Portugal
This exhibition spans the 20th century, featuring sculptures, installations, paintings, video works and photography. Curated by Isabel Carlos and Patrícia Rosas.
Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair 2015 - Brick Lane, London, UK
Launch of Lisa Milroy: Dresses
Painting in Time Part 1 2015 - The Tetley, Leeds, UK
Co-curated by Sarah Kate Wilson
Drawing Biennial 2015 2015 - Drawing Room, London, UK
Social Fabric 2015 - Oriel Sycharth Gallery, University of Wrexham, Wales, UK
Slade Print Fair 2015 2015 - Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
A Print Fair of work by Slade staff, students and alumni in aid of raising funds for Slade scholarships and bursaries.
Slade Print Fair 2014 2014 - Slade Research Centre, UCL, London, UK
The Slade Print Fair is a fundraising event to raise scholarship funds for Slade students. The fair celebrates contemporary printmaking and will feature an exhibition, the latest Slade Edition by artist Lisa Milroy, live screen printing, a sale of original editions and more.
Post Pop: East Meets West 2014 - Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The exhibition brings together 250 works by 110 artists from China, the Former Soviet Union, Taiwan, the UK and the USA in a comprehensive survey celebrating Pop Art's legacy. (Catalogue)
Show-Off 2014 - Battersea, London
Project 6 by LeanaKateLouise, Show-Off aims to mobilise sculptures, paintings, drawings and performances in front of a seated audience, physically bringing a procession of works to directly ‘meet’ the onlookers rather than the viewer activating the work through their own movements in space.
Conjuring ideas of a catwalk, cattle market, debutant ball and auction house, art handlers will carry or direct each work on stage one by one to ‘show them off’. Each work will be professionally lit and illuminated for a limited time before being carried off stage.
The stage has been conceived and made by Gary Woodley as a design for flexible living. The stage can be reconfigured in a multitude of ways. Individual plywood units can each be moved, stacked and rotated to house each artwork in a variety of ways.
Show-Off is born from a frustration with private views. Artworks provide a context for socialising which in turn obstructs the intention of artwork as viewed object.
Grosse Geister/Artist's Room: Lisa Milroy 2014 - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Artist Room display in Kunstmuseum Bonn
Hydra 2014 - Unit 53, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK
Hands On (display) 2014 - Drawing Room, London, UK
I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart 2014 - De La Warr Pavilion
I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart is both a celebration and an exploration of painting in Britain today, presenting the recent work of twenty-one living artists whose practices span six decades.
The exhibition takes its title from the last verse of the poem Is My Team Ploughing by A. E. Housman, first published in 1896. As a conversation between a dead man and his living friend who is now with the girlfriend he left behind, it serves as an allegory for the influence of the past and its evolving significance in contemporary painting practice.
Iconic figures such as Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff are presented next to other established, mid-career and emerging artists such as Gary Wragg, Phoebe Unwin and Joella Wheatley.
Using a range of techniques, the paintings reveal intriguing and surprising connections and contrasts as well as the underlying preoccupations of the artists after long periods spent working in their studios.
The paintings have been selected to evoke an immediate response both to the works themselves and the process of painting and to encourage visitors to make their own connections between these apparently different approaches. The result is a particular perspective on painting in contemporary Britain.
Drawn Together Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 2014 - Jerwood Gallery
Exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, centres on the role of drawing in the practice of artists who have been on the selection panel of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, exploring the selectors' own drawing practice and interests, continuing the dialogue about what constitutes drawing and its importance as a medium for artists working today
Hands On 2014 - Asthall Manor, Oxford, UK
Display of drawings created as a commission for the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen 2013 - The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, UK
Party of One 2013 - Crate, Margate, UK
Party of One is a painting installation that can be performed.
The viewer enters the gallery and sees a painting consisting of a group of painted hand-sewn dresses hung on wooden stands, clustered in front of a painted backdrop. The dresses are perfunctorily made, and painted with the same pattern as the backdrop. But the fabric of each dress is different, so they read as slightly different images. To the side of the grouping is the same type of dress but with buttons on the shoulder - this is a dress that can be worn. When a performer dons this dress, she is then invited to step inside the painted zone of dresses and wander in and out of the arrangement. In the gallery, the viewer looks on as the composition of dresses grows animated. The performer completes her circuit and leaves the painted zone, returning the zone to stillness.
With Party of One Lisa Milroy continues to explore the possibilities of ‘still life’ painting, and her focus on the formation of self, identity, work, the relation between contemplation and action, and the participatory nature of painting.
Ideas City Streetfest 2013 - New Museum, New York, USA
Collaboration with US-based architectural firm Atopia's 'Pitch-Africa'; I provided the artwork of 5 hand-painted floral motifs on Rainchutes, which are re-cycled military parachutes re-configured by Atopia as water harvesters. My Rainchutes were erected in Sara D. Roosevelt Park in the Bowery, NY for the New Museum's Idea City Streetfest to highlight Pitch-Africa's campaign in North Kenya to harvest rain water. One hand-painted Rainchute was taken to the Uasoniyo Primary School in Laikipia, Kenya where Rainchutes are used to teach rainwater harvesting to children.
Cabaret Duchamp 2013 - Barbican Theatre, London, UK
I provided a Wearable Paintings (dress) costume for artist Hayley Newman during her performance "Crisis Cabaret" for Cabaret Duchamp at the Barbican Theatre. This Wearable Painting is in a set of 4.
Paul Bush Compilation: film screening at the ICA 2013 - ICA, London
"Geisha Grooming" is short animation film created by Lisa Milroy and Paul Bush, and was included in Paul Bush's film screening programme at the ICA
Looking at the View 2013 - Tate Britain, London
A thematic exhibition of works from the Tate Collection that looks at continuities in the way artists have framed a vision of the landscape over the last 300 years: how we look at 'the view', whether near or afar, high or low, inside or out. It includes 70 works of 55 artists, and follows the 2012 thematic exhibition 'Migrations".
I Am The Magic Hand 2013 - Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 10011
Group show of 5 artists selected by artist Josephine Halvorson for Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY
Colour as Material 2013 - Fafa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
This exhibition was part of an event that brought together staff and students from the Slade, Northumbria University and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in an on-going materials research collaboration. The event included a symposium on the subject of colour, for which I also contributed a paper entitled "Black and Blue".
RA Summer Exhibition 2013 2013 - The Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East 2012 - Cultural Village Foundation Katara, Doha, Qatar
The event is ‘Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East’ at the Cultural Village Foundation Katara. The exhibition features 100 works of art by 25 Royal Academicians and 25 prominent artists from across the Middle East. ‘Encounter’ enters into the spirit of engagement with the international art community and the general public by inviting these artists to exhibit side-by-side. The aim is to provide a platform for dialogue amongst practitioners working in a wide range of media – painting, sculpture, photography and video. The exhibition began in another guise in Singapore - 'Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia' - where it is currently open at LaSalle. I was on the RA selection committee for both events chaired by Paul Huxley, with Richard Wilson and Michael Craig-Martin, and have 2 paintings in the shows. Includes fully illustrated catalogue with essay by David Thorpe.
The Studio- Workshop and Myth 2012 - Staatgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Pandemonium 2012 - Hyde Park, London, UK
Commission by Artwise for the World Wildlife Foundation fundraiser in Hyde Park: a performed painting on the subject of rain.
Jerwood Collection 2012 - Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Inaugural exhibition
Art Plus Opera 2012 - Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Art auction and performance by The Royal Opera Chorus to raise funds for gallery's education work.
Act One, Seen Too 2012 - Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK
Act One, Seen Too is a painting designed for theatre space. Viewers are invited to look at the painting from the theatre seats and then experience it on stage, surrounded by its components. Seen from the auditorium, the painting is a unified composition framed by the proscenium. On stage, viewers can participate in the action of the painting and ‘perform’ it themselves.
Act One, Seen Too is a dialogue between the magic of the still image and the immersion of live action. It was first presented at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham in Sept. 2011, co-produced by the Ikon Gallery
Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone 2012 - Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
The exhibition presented 23 paintings spanning my 30 year practice. The event included a symposium "Dark Matter" which focussed on the use of black in painting, highlighting the Slade Materials Research Project in Graduate Painting, and included presentations from Jo Volley, Co-Director of the Materials Research Project and Onya McCausland, Honorary Research Assistant. The publication 'Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone' included my essay by the same title; documentation of the exhibition and symposium; and text contributions from the Slade School of Fine Art, Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Northumbria University. The event and publication received funding from all 3 institutions, the Arts COuncil and Reuben Mackintosh
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia 2012 - Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
The event is ‘Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia' at the ICA, Singapore. The exhibition features 100 works of art by 25 Royal Academicians and 25 prominent artists from across the Middle East. ‘Encounter’ enters into the spirit of engagement with the international art community and the general public by inviting these artists to exhibit side-by-side. The aim is to provide a platform for dialogue amongst practitioners working in a wide range of media – painting, sculpture, photography and video. The exhibition began in another guise in Singapore - 'Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia' - where it is currently open at LaSalle. I was on the RA selection committee for both events chaired by Paul Huxley, with Richard Wilson and Michael Craig-Martin, and have 2 paintings in the shows. Fully illustrated catalogue with essay by David Thorpe.
Making Space 2012 - Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2012 2012 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
Included 'performance-painting' Thursday afternoons, 4-5pm in July
Artists of the Gallery 2012 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Heartbeat 2012 - 99 Art Centre, Shanghai, China
This event was a British Council funded cultural and pedagogic exchange that involved an exhibition my work at 99 Art Center, Shanghai; a residency at Shanghai University to learn aspects of Chinese ink painting; a lecture and studio critique at Shanghai University; and a platform to foster awareness of the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition in China, for which I was first prizewinner in the UK edition in 1989.
Act One, Seen Too 2011 - The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham in collaboration with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Artists for Kettle's Yard 2011 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
As fundraising towards a new education wing gathers momentum we present an exhibition of works donated by artists to Kettle’s Yard. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see some of the biggest names in contemporary art – from major sculptures by Damien Hirst, David Nash, Phyllida Barlow and Antony Gormley to sumptuous paintings by Michael Craig-Martin, Bridget Riley, Lisa Milroy, Callum Innes and Maggi Hambling, and ceramics by Edmund de Waal and Natasha Daintry.
Time and Time Again 2011 - artsdepot, London, UK
House Guest 2011 - The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
A Picture of Health 2011 - Bonhams, London (for 'Paintings in Hospitals', London), UK
British Art: Royal Academicians 2011 - Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, South Korea
RA Summer Exhibition 2011 2011 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
Improvisations 2011 - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
I made my first painting of Japanese prints in 1986 as part of the still life paintings that characterised my work during the 1980ʼs. Throughout my career, my experience of Japan has acted as a constant source of inspiration. My show Improvisations at RWEA brought together two groups of paintings that pay hommage to Ukiyo-e woodblock prints - transcriptions of Ukiyo-e prints and, stemming from these transcriptions, the Geisha series. The RWA magazine featured a detail of my painting 'Drifting, 1999' on the cover, and an article 'Lisa Milroy in Conversation with Tim Clark', Head of the Japanese Section, British Museum
Collection curated by Edward Allington 2011 - Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Painting and Sculpture 2010 - Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
In the Black 2010 - Summerfield Gallery, PIttfield Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
Jurahokusai Paysages: Oeuvres de la Collection du Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain de Franche-Conte 2010 - Musee de l'Abbaye, Sainte Claude, France
Layers: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show 2010 - Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, South Korea
Global Contemporary Artists for Artists 2010 - Rijksakademie Endowment Fund, Sotheby's Amsterdam, Netherlands
Black and White Flower Painting 2010 - Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Shouting From A Rock 2010 - Pharos Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
Secrets of the Museum Collection 2010 - Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Voyage 2010 - Galerie Xippas at Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Double Interview 2010 - Artspace Hue, Seoul, South Korea
ART: Curated by Michael Craig-Martin 2010 - Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
Eleven 2010 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2010 2010 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Rise of Women Artists 2009 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Works by some of history’s most celebrated women artists are featured in this compelling new exhibition. 'The Rise of Women Artists' charts the progress made by female artists from the 16th century up to the present day. The Walker was ahead of its time in collecting works by women artists, a fact that is reflected in the scope and diversity of the works on display.
Life on the Line 2009 - Alan Cristea Gallery
RA Summer Exhibition 2009 2009 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Artist's Studio 2009 - Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Visual Deception 2009 - Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Head and Neck 2009 - Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, UK
Permanent installation of paintings in Head and Neck Department at Charing Cross Hospital
Mahlzeit (Essen in der Kunst) 2009 - Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Painted Worlds 2008 - Galerie Lelong, Predigerplatz 10-12, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Building Bridges: 8 Visions, One Dream 2008 - The Today Museum, Beijing, China, organised by the Red Mansion Foundation, Great Portland Street, London
Building Bridges: Eight Visions, One Dream was an official exhibition for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Cultural Programme and included six of my paintings in a group show of eight British artists. All work in the exhibition was based on individual research trips to China funded by the Red Mansion Foundation during 2005/6, and produced in the following period to 2008. My research trip involved travel to Xian, Shanghai, Beijing, Guilin, Suzhou and Huangzhou. Fully illustrated catalogue with essay by Michael Bracewell.
Votes for Women 2008 - Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy
Noisy 2008 - Galerie Jones and Trubenbach, Cologne, Germany
Pictures Within Pictures 2008 - Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, Colorado, USA
RA Summer Exhibition 2008 2008 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
Everywhere You Come From 2008 - Pala Fuksas, Turin, Italy
September '08 2008 - Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Painted Worlds 2008 - Galerie Lelong Zurich, Switzerland
Making Sense 2007 - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings 2007 - Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Black and White 2007 - Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Still life. 2007 - T1+2 artspace, London, UK
Lisa Milroy 2006 - Galerie Lelong Zurich
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Eckhard Schneider ISBN 3-906163-06-7
Lisa Milroy 2006 - New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Solo exhibition in public venue within private foundation
Fiction@Love 2006 - MoCa Shanghai, China
featured oil paintings related to comic art. Catalogue: "Fiction@Love" ISBN 7-80703-449-1/J-35
Programme Video a Centre George Pompidou 2006 - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Animamix, 2nd International Cartoon + Animation Festival 2006 - Animamix, 2nd International Cartoon + Animation Festival, Hangzhou, China
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
RA Summer Exhibition 2006 2006 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
Drawing Two Hundred 2006 - The Drawing Room, London, UK
Arrêts sur Images 2006 - FRAC, Montpelier, France
Lisa Milroy 2005 - Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Painting Fast Painting Slow 2005 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Lewis Biggs.
Bodies and Space 2005 - Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
RA Summer Exhibition 2005 2005 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Hermit The Shoe and The Stone 2005 - Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK
Anifest International Animation Festival 2004 - Anifest International Animation Festival, Trebon, Czech Republic
featured the animation "Geisha Grooming". Touring to: World Festival of Animated Films, Zagreb, Croatia; Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 10th International Film Festival, Hiroshima, Japan; NFB Cine Roboteque, Montreal, Canada; Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
World Festival of Animated Films 2004 - World festival of Animated Films, Zagreb, Croatia
featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Tenth International Film Festival, Hiroshima 2004 - Tenth International Film Festival, Hiroshima
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Metropolis 2004 - FRAC Franche-comté, Autrey-les-Grey, France
Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere: Contemporary Art From the collection of FRAC 2004 - The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Still Mapping the Moon 2004 - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Catalogue: "Still Mapping the Moon" ISBN 3-929790-65-3
John Moores Liverpool 23 2004 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
152 Autumn Exhibition 2004 - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Raised Awareness 2004 - Tate Modern, London, UK
Exhibition of commissioned drawings designed for the visually impaired. Curated by Bill Woodrow
Domestic (f)utility 2004 - New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2004 2004 - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Geishas 2003 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Booklet with essay by Dawn Ades
Geishas 2003 - Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Focus London 2003 - Galerie Lelong Zurich, Switzerland
The Classical World 2003 - Hood Museum, New Hampshire, USA
The Bigger Splash – British Art From Tate 1960 - 2003 2003 - Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Catalogue: "The Bigger Splash – British Art From Tate 1960 - 2003"
ISBN 85-87742-27-2
Imago: 10 ans d’acquisition du FRAC Franche-Comte 2003 - Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lons-le-Saunier/ Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole
Favorites 2003 - Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Alan Cristea Gallery Publications 2003 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Hier ist Dort II 2002 - Secession, Vienna, Austria
Words from the Arts Council Collection 2002 - touring UK venues
Arts Council England exhibition touring various UK museums and galleries
Jerwood Painting Prize 2002 - Jerwood Space London, London, UK
Shortlisted for Jerwood Painting Prize. Exhibition touring to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
John Moores Liverpool 22 2002 - The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Taste the Fine Art of Food and Drink 2002 - Museum of Reading, Reading, UK
Lisa Milroy 2001 - Tate Liverpool
Major solo survey show in national museum. Comprehensive catalogue with essays by Lewis Biggs, Fiona Bradley and Jean-Pierre Criqui ISBN 1-85437-343-9
The Way I See It 2001 - Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Hier ist Dort 2001 - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque 2001 - Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark/Pori Art Museum, Finland
Catalogue: "Patterns-Monstring" ISBN 87-7766-111-7
Shoes or No Shoes 2001 - Craemersklooster- Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium
My Generation- 40 years of contemporary collecting 2001 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Up In Smoke 2001 - Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
Variations on a Theme 2001 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Lisa Milroy Paintings 2000 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
London 2000 - Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Solo exhibition in public venue
ART works 2000 - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Brave New World 2000 - Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Lisa Milroy 1999 - Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Innsbruck, Austria
Solo exhibition in public gallery
Lisa Milroy Paintings 1999 - Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Flower Show 1999 - The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Un art incertain du réel: la collection du Frac Franche-Comte, Frac Bretagne 1999 - Frac Franche-Comte, Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron
Taking a Picture 1999 - National Portrait Gallery, London
go away, artists and travel 1999 - Royal College of Art, London
Signature Pieces 1999 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Balade au sol mineur 1999 - FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Alès, France
Seven Views of Marunouchi 1998 - Marunouchi Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
Site-specific installation of paintings in public space
African Safari 1998 - Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery of monoprints
Lisa Milroy 1998 - Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Elisabeth Lebovici
portrait - human figure 1998 - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Swizerland
Voyage, de l'exotisme aux non-lieux 1998 - Le Musee de Valence in association with FRAC Rhone-Alpes, France
Urban 1998 - Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Paved with Gold 1998 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Up to 2000 1998 - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton
Every Day, Biennale of Sydney 1998 - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Catalogue: 'every day" ISBN 07313 8924 7
Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud 1998 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Catalogue: "Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud" ISBN 1 85332 187 7
Collection Nomade, les Oeuvres du Frac Franche-Comte au Maroc 1998 - Institut Francais, Bab el Kebir; touring to Galerie Allal El Fassi, Rabat and Institut Francais, Kenitra; Casablanca; Institut Francais; Meknes et Fes
Modern British Art 1998 - Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Lisa Milroy 1997 - Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Treasure Island 1997 - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Tokyo International Forum Artwork Collection 1997 - Tokyo Metropolitan Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Something to Say..., 1997 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton
Being There 1996 - Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1996 - Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s 1996 - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Classifications 1996 - Galerie Art & Essai, Universite de Rennes, France; touring to Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Catalogue: "classifications" published by PUR - Presses Universitaires de Rennes
The Thinking Eye: An Exhibition by the Painting Faculty: The Royal College of Art 1996 - Gallery 7, Hong Kong
Theories of the Decorative 1996 - Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA
Nouvelles acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte 1996 - Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Pittura 1996 - Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Home and Away 1996 - Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Craig-Martin, Davey, Fulton, McKeever, Milroy, Woodrow 1996 - Alan Cristea Gallery and The Paragon Press, London, UK
Lisa Milroy 1995 - Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1995 - Hotel Huger Cercle d'Art, La Fleche, france
Solo exhibition in museum
Rome/Tokyo 1995 - The British School at Rome
Solo exhibition in public gallery. Concertina leaflet with text by Mario Codognato
Travel Paintings 1995 - Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Solo exhibition travelling to UK public galleries. Catalogue: "Lisa Milroy Travel Paintings", with essay by Max Wechsler. Supported by The Arts Council of England and the Canadian High Commission, London
Loup y es tu? 1995 - Galerie du Frac, Montpelier, France
Desenho Contemporaneo 1995 - Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Oporto, Portugal
Life Patterns 1995 - Tate Gallery, London
Ljubljana 21st International Biennale of Graphic Art 1995 - Ljubliana, Slovenia
Contemporary British Art in Print 1995 - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; touring to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Les Images du Plaisir, FRAC des pays de la Loire 1995 - Hugers La Flèche Laval, France
Tokyo Story 1994 - Gallery Shoko Nagai, Tokyo
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1994 - Kyoto City University of Arts
Solo exhibition in university art gallery
Cityscape 1994 - Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Original Painting 1994 - Galerie Matisse, Institut Francais, London, UK
Curated by Jonathan Watkins, Including Amikam Toren and Bernard Frize
Lisa Milroy 1993 - Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1993 - Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1993 - Waddington Galleries, London and Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany
Solo exhibition: collaboration between London commercial gallery and German museum. Catalogue: 'Lisa Milroy", German/English with essay by Julian Heynen, trans. Michael Robinson. Catalogue: 'Rocks, Crowds, Cities and Flowers", monoprints by Lisa Milroy ISBN 3-926133-25-2
Lisa Milroy, John Murphy: Paintings from the Saatchi Collection 1993 - Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Der zerbrochene Spiegel/The Broken Mirror 1993 - Museumsquartier Messepalast and Kunsthalle Wien; touring to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Catalogue:
Lisa Milroy 1992 - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy 1992 - Janner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
The Saatchi Gift 1992 - Tate Gallery, London
Work from the British Collection 1992 - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Recent Acquisitions 1992 - Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Lisa Milroy 1991 - Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Out of Limbo 1991 - Fundacion Luis Cernada, Seville, Spain
Carnegie International 1991 1991 - The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Catalogue:
Drawings 1991 - Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
La Couleur d' Argent 1991 - Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
Lisa Milroy: Paintings 1991 - Galerie Luis Campana, Frankfurt, Germany
Solo exhibition in a commercial gallery
Goldsmiths' College Centenary Exhibition 1991 - Goldsmiths' Gallery, London, UK
Lisa Milroy 1990 - Kunsthalle Bern
Museum solo exhibition (Switzerland). Catalogue with essay by Ulrich Loock and Interview with Lisa Milroy and Richard Wentworth ISBN 3-85780-068-2
The British Art Show 1990 1990 - McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London
Lisa Milroy 1989 - Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Solo exhibition
Lisa Milroy 1989 - Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Plymouth Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK
Travelling UK solo museum exhibition. Catalogue with essays by Lynne Cooke and David Plante ISBN 0-906047 81 7
Lisa Milroy 1989 - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
British Art Now: A Subjective View 1989 - Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; touring to Fukuoka; Nagoya; Utsunomiya; Kobe; Hiroshima and Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Art of the '80s: from the Collection of the Chemical Bank 1989 - The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
The Saatchi Collection at the Pierides Museum: Tony Cragg, Lisa Milroy and John Murphy 1989 - Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Subject: Object 1989 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK
John Moores Liverpool 16 1989 - The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
My painting submission "Handles" 1989 won first prize
Lisa Milroy 1988 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Solo exhibition. Catalogue with essay by Ian Jeffrey.
Cries and Whispers: Paintings of the 1980s from the British Council Collection 1988 - touring Australia and New Zealand.
catalogue
The New British Painting 1988 - The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; touring to Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center; Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Three Artists from Britain 1988 - Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington DC and New York, USA
Winter '88 1988 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK
Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s 1987 - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; touring to Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; Nemzeti Galeria, Prague, Czech Republic and Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
Catalogue: " Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s" ISBN 7162-83-6
ART Brittiskt 1980-tal 1987 - Liljevalchs Art Museum, Stockholm; touring to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland as Britannia: Paintings and sculptures from the 1980s
catalogue
John Moores Liverpool 15 1987 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
I won First Prize in this national painting competition
Lisa Milroy 1986 - Khiva Gallery, San Francisco
solo exhibtion
Lisa Milroy 1986 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Solo exhibition
Sixth Sydney Biennale 1986 - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
catalogue
Aperto 1986 - Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Japonisme: Japanese Reflections in Western Art 1986 - Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Au Coeur du Maelstrom 1986 - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Objects As Art 1986 - Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
No Place like Home 1986 - Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
John Moores Liverpool 14 1985 - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
won runner-up prize
Lisa Milroy 1984 - Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
first solo exhibition of career
Lisa Milroy 1984 - Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Part of celebratory exhibition programme (including Cesar and Julain Opie) for the opening of Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain. Catalogue essay by Stuart Morgan
Problems of Picturing 1984 - Serpentine Gallery, London
Charterhouse Gallery 1983 - Charterhouse Gallery, London
Young Blood 1983 - Riverside Studios, London
curated by Michael Craig-Martin