Liza Lou is an American

United States

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 visual artist best known for producing large-scale work in unlikely and tedious mediums, such as beads.

Lou came to prominence with the 168 square feet (15.6 m²) work "Kitchen" (1995), a to-scale and fully equipped replica of a kitchen covered in beads. The work took four years to complete and was followed with "Backyard" (1996), for which Lou enlisted the help of volunteers to recreate grass in a 525 square feet (48.8 m²) model of a backyard.

Lou won the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

MacArthur Fellows Program

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 in 2002 and is currently based out of South Africa

South Africa

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, where she owns a studio.

Recent Solo Exhibitions

• October 29, 2011-January 22, 2012: Liza Lou: Let the Light In, SCAD Museum of Art
  SCAD Museum of Art
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  . Savannah, GA.
• March 26-May 7, 2011: Liza Lou, L&M Arts. Los Angeles, CA.
• 2010: Liza Lou Drawings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Paris, France.
• October 21-November 20, 2010: American Idol Works from 1995-2010, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Paris, France.
• September 24-December 13, 2008: Liza Lou, L&M Arts. New York, NY.
• September 24-November 29, 2008: Liza Lou: Maximum Security, Lever House Lobby Gallery. New York, NY.
• March 3-April 8, 2006: Liza Lou, White Cube. London, United Kingdom.
• October 22-November 20, 2004: The Damned, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Paris, France.