Born 1962 in Philadelphia. Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION


1986, M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut

1984, B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia

1982, Temple Abroad, Tyler School of Art, Rome

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2018

Lisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood, Small Paintings 1985-2018

New Paintings

2011

Lisa Yuskavage: Tragic Land

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

New Work

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

Then and Now and Later

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1989

1988

1987

1986

AWARDS


2019

Aspen Award for Art

2005

Temple University Gallery of Success Award, Temple University, Philadelphia

2000

Founder’s Day Certificate of Honor, Tyler School of the Arts, Philadelphia

1996

Tiffany Foundation Grant

1994

MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1986

Zimtbaum Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES


2023

“Lisa Yuskavage | PROGRAM,”, David Zwirner [virtual]

2022

“Shop Talk: Artists and Their Studios,”, Museum of Modern Art, [virtual]

“Inside ‘The Red Studio’: Ann Temkin with 6 Artists on Matisse | Special Episode,”, Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast [virtual]

“Artist Conversation Featuring Lisa Yuskavage and Christian Vivero-Fauné,”, University of South Florida College of The Arts, Tampa, FL

“Clear bright edges of the horizon: new perspectives Jesse Murry: Lisa Yuskavage & Jarrett Earnest,”, New York Studio School

2021

“Lisa Yuskavage in Conversation with Stephen Ellis,”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Painting Department [virtual]

“The Great Women Artists Podcast: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Podcast

“Jesse Murry: Aphorisms,”, David Zwirner

2020

“The Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment: Lisa Yuskavage and Terry R. Myers, moderated by Sophia Pedlow,”, The Brooklyn Rail [virtual]

“Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus, Lisa Yuskavage Artist Conversation with Christian Viveros-Fauné,”, University of South Florida, Institute for Research in Art [virtual]

“Phoning It In with Amy Cappellazzo & Lisa Yuskavage,”, Sotheby's [virtual]

“Unsentimental Education: Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest,”, McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers

“POWER/CULTURE Part Two: The Power of the Artist/Creator,”, The Kitchen

“Dialogue and Discourse | Once Upon a Time: Narrative in Art,”, The Jewish Museum

“The Week in Art by the Art Newspaper,”, Podcast

2019

“On Renoir: Lisa Yuskavage and Alison de Lima Greene in Conversation,”, The Clark

“Aspen Art Museum Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Aspen Art Museum

“Why Renoir Matters: A Conversation,”, Kimbell Art Museum

“Christian Viveros-Fauné in Conversation with Lisa Yuskavage,”, New York Studio School

“Lisa Yuskavage and Barry Schwabsky in Conversation,”, Nurse Bettie, New York

2018

“Lisa Yuskavage in Coversation with Christopher Bedford,”, Pratt Institute School of Art, Brooklyn, New York

“Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast – Episode 4 | Lisa Yuskavage and Tamara Jenkins,”, David Zwirner, New York

“Tell Me Something Good: Joanna Pousette-Dart, Sarah Sze, Lisa Yuskavage,”, Center for Italian Modern Art, New York

2017

“Lisa Yuskavage Talks Art with FAWC Fellows,”, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

“Contemporary Perspectives on de Chirico,”, Center for Italian Modern Art, New York

“Laughter in the Dark: A panel discussion on Philip Guston’s satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon,”, Hauser & Wirth, New York

“Contemporary Perspectives on Francis Picabia,”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

“How to See Francis Picabia – with Lisa Yuskavage and MoMA Curator, Anne Umland,”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2016

“Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri

“Spring 2016 Opening,”, Contemporary Art Musuem, St. Louis, Missouri

2015

“Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Columbia University, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage at Temple Contemporary,”, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia

“Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX: Lisa Yuskavage Interview by Angela Lynn Fraleigh; hosted by Brainard Carey,”, Yale University, Hartford, Connecticut

“Lisa Yuskavage in Conversation with Jarret Earnest,”, The Strand, New York

“The Brood / Lisa Yuskavage, Christopher Bedford / An Artist Dialogue Series Event,”, New York Public Library, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage in Conversation with Christopher Bedford,”, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

“The Artist Project: Lisa Yuskavage on Édouard Vuillard,”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“Suzanne Hudson Seminar – Artist Panel,”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage Lecture,”, BHQFU, New York

“Intimacy in Discourse,”, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York

2014

“Lisa Yuskavage: Artist Talk,”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2013

“Lisa Yuskavage and Phong Bui in Conversation,”, New York Studio School, New York

2012

“Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage on Vuillard,”, The Jewish Museum, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage with Alexi Worth: In Conversation,”, New York Studio School

2011

“Dublin Contemporary – Lisa Yuskavage,”, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2010

“Artist Visions Lectures Series: Lisa Yuskavage,”, 92nd Street Y, New York

“Visiting Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston

2009

“Lisa Yuskavage,”, San Francisco Art Institute

“Lisa Yuskavage,”, School of Visual Arts, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage: A Lecture,”, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, New Orleans

2007

“Lisa Yuskavage,”, Public Art Funds Talk, New School, New York

2005

“ArtTalks: Lisa Yuskavage,”, American Federation of Arts, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage in conversation with James Rondeau,”, The Art Institute of Chicago

2004

“40th Anniversary Lecture Series: Lisa Yuskavage with Claudia Gould,”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

2003

“Visiting Artist Lecture,”, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York

2002

“Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More… On Collecting,”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2001

“Lisa Yuskavage and Johannes Vermeer,”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“Lisa Yuskavage on the Last 15 Years of Work,”, New York Studio School, New York

2000

“Modern Art Despite Modernism Panel,”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1998

“Seminars with Artists,”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1995

“13 Artists in the Studio: Lisa Yuskavage,”, Lisa Yuskavage Studio, New York

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

The Art Institute of Chicago

Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Long Museum, Shanghai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

The Rose Art Museum,u00a0Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Rubell Family Collection, Miami

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Seattle Art Museum, Washington

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

MONOGRAPHS & SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES


2022

2020

2019

2015

2007

2006

2004

2000

1996

SELECTED BOOKS & GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES


2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

Edited by Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner. Introduction and portraits by Phong Bui. Tell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews From the Brooklyn Rail.

2016

Text by Kathryn Calley Galitz, foreword by Thomas P. Campbell. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings.

Edited by Wang Wei. Texts by Xiang Jing, Pi Li, and Shirin Neshat. Interview with the artist by Jarrett Earnest. She: International Women Artists Exhibition. , (exh. cat.)

2015

Edited by Jack Flam. Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Juan RoselioneValadez. Texts by Tami Katz-Freiman and Anna Stothart. NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Suzanne Hudson. Painting Now.

2014

Edited by Joan Simon. Texts by Melva Bucksbaum, Ryan Frank, Steven Learner, Caitlin Smith, and Elisabeth Sussman. The Distaff Side. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by James Frey and A.M. Homes. Disturbing Innocence. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Anne de Boismilon. Love Story: The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Neville Wakefield. Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by Jonathan Griffin, Paul Harper, David Trigg, andu00a0Eliza Williams. The Twenty-First Century Art Book.

2013

Texts by Eleanor Heartney, Helaineu00a0Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium.

2012

Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012. , (exh. cat.)

2011

Texts by Rashid Johnson, Nate Lowman, Richard Prince, Sterling Ruby, Haim Steinbach, Ryan Trecartin et al. American Exuberance. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Ken Johnson. Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.

Texts by Ellie Bronson, Jim Dicke, and Jan Driesbach. Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by Ina Blom, Michael Bracewell, Gary Lachman, Jan Verwoert et al. Secret Societies. , (exh. cat.)

2010

Texts by Anna-Catharina Gebbers and Ellen Mara De Wachter. The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place. , (exh. cat.)

Text by James Frey. Size Does Matter. , (exh. cat.)

2009

Edited by Sandra Badelt and Beat Wismer. Texts by Bettina Baumgu00e4rtel, Maria Moog-Gru00fcnewald, Beat Wismer et al. Diana and Actaeon: The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body/Diana und Actaeon. Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by Lisa Tung and Ann Wilson Lloyd. Figuratively Seeing.

Text by Peter Friese. Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel). , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Mark W. Scala. Texts by Emily Braun, Susan H. Edwards, Mark W. Scala, and Richard Shiff. Paint Made Flesh. , (exh. cat.)

2008

Text by Eleanor Heartney. Art & Today.

Edited by Alexis Vaillant. Texts by Jean-Philippe Antoine, J.G. Ballard, Craig Buckley, Will Holder, Alexis Vaillant, et al. Légende. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Mary-Kay Lombino. Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by Douglas Fogle, Olivier Mosset et al. Qu’est-ce que la peinture aujourd’hui?

2007

Edited by Susan Davidson. Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Jared Pruzan. Contemporary Realism: The Seavest Collection.

Texts by Jennifer Cawley, Jordan Kantor, and Elizabeth Wycoff. Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958). , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Ralph Herrmanns. New York, of course.

2006

Texts by Christopher Bollen and Alix Browne. Artists.

Text by Adam Lindemann. Collecting Contemporary.

Texts by Emily Braun, Kenneth E. Silver, Kenneth Wayne et al. Modigliani and His Models.

Edited by Andrea Bruciati and Alessandra Galasso. London Painting Codes. I codici della pittura. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Charlotte Mullins. Painting People: Figure Painting Today.

Texts by E. Cicelyn and M. Codognato. People. Volti, corpi e segni contemporanei dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Maria Elena Buszek. Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture.

2005

Texts by Kent Logan and Dean Sobel. Post Modern Portraiture from the Logan Collection. , (exh. cat.)

2004

Text by Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. Modern Art. , [third edition]

Text by Mark Coetzee. Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection.

Text by Robert Storr. 5th International Biennial SITE Santa Fe. Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Robert Rosenblum. The Charged Image: From the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer. , (exh. cat.)

2003

Texts by David Ebony, Jane Harris, Frances Richard, Martha Schwendener, Sarah Valdez, and Linda Yablonsky. CURVE The Female Nude Now.

Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Texts by Dan Cameron, Jessica Morgan, Ralph Rugoff et al. Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. , (exh. cat.)

2002

Texts by Katerina Gregos, Jo Anna Isaak, Lynne Tillman et al. Fusion Cuisine. , (exh. cat.)

Texts by Jennifer Ambrose, William H. Gerdts, Nancy Hall-Duncan, and Anne Lanford. The Great American Nude.

SAM Collects: Contemporary Art Project.

2001

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Arte Contemporaneo Internacional. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Toby Kamps. Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art.

Texts by Werner Muensterberger, Ingrid Schaffner, and Fred Wilson. Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Eliza Williams. Zoo.

2000

Text by Philip Brookman. 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor. , (online exh. cat.)

Texts by Maxwell L. Anderson et al. Whitney Biennial. , (exh. cat.)

Greater New York: New Art in New York Now. , (exh. cat.)

Edited by Peggy Zeglin Brand. Beauty Matters.

The Figure, Another Side of Modernism. , (exh. cat.)

Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture.

Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap Guldemond. Twisted. Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting. , (exh. cat.)

Works on Paper 2000. An Exhibition in the Residence of the American Ambassador. , (exh. cat.)

1999

Text by Daniela Salvioni. Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection. , (exh. cat.)

Text by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi. Negotiating Small Truths. , (exh. cat.)

1998

Texts by Dan Cameron et al. Cream: Contemporary Art and Culture.

Text by Joachim Pissarro. Then and Now: Art Since 1945 at Yale. , (exh. cat.)

1997

Project Painting. , (exh. cat.)

1996

1995

On Beauty. , (exh. cat.)

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 1995 Awards.

Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I Don’t Really Mind). , (exh. cat.)

1994

Texts by Mary Ann Caws, Elizabeth Finch, Ingrid Schaffner,u00a0and Charles Simic. The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. , (exh. cat.)

1993

1991

SELECTED ARTICLES, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS & ARTIST’S WRITINGS


2023

“This is not a studio, this is a studio!”

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

R.P. “Review.”

Yuskavage, Lisa. “Dennis Freedman.”

Bryan Miller, Sarah. “Pushing Boundaries: Contemporary Art Museum exhibitions use chipboard, explosions to make their point.”

Rosenblatt, Pam. “On being bold: the Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood exhibition at Brandeis University’s the Rose Art Museum.”

2015

Bedford, Christopher. “Sightlines: Progeny.”

2014

2013

2012

Landi, Ann. “Double Exposure.”

Lebowitz, Cathy. “Cathy Lebowitz interviews JA [Josefina Ayerza].”

Schjeldahl, Peter. “Odd Twins: Lisa Yuskavage and Edouard Vuillard.”

Kleeblatt, Norman L. “Looking at Art: Seeing Double.”

2011

Indrisek, Scott. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner.”

Mollart, Sophie. “Lisa Yuskavage: Make a Wrong a Right.”

Nathan, Emily. “Lisa Yuskavage: Something Like Sirens.”

Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Year in Art: De Kooning Keeps Happening.”

Viveros-Faunu00e9, Christian. “The Best Art Shows of 2011: Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner.”

Wolin, Joseph R. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner.”

““Lisa Yuskavage’s Playground of Earthly Delights.”

2010

Carlin, T.J. “Lisa Yuskavage: Studio Visit [interview].”

Sherwin, Skye. “Artist of the week 85: Lisa Yuskavage.”

Sinclair, Charlotte. “Naked truth.”

2009

Carlin, T.J. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner.”

Coulter, Gerry. “Lisa Yuskavage.”

Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review: Lisa Yuskavage, David Zwirner.”

“Francis Bacon.”

2008

2007

Herbert, Martin. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi.”

2006

Lancaster, Jake. “Cultural Stimuli in NYC: Artwork by Lisa Yuskavage.”

Rosenberg, Karen. “An Afternoon in Chelsea.”

Rousseau, Bryant. “Artist Walk: Lisa Yuskavage.”

u201cFall preview. “Strip shows.”

2005

2004

SITE Santa Fe. “Lisa Yuskavage.”

Ou2019Reilly, Sally. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, greengrassi.”

Rosenberg, Karen. “Conversation: Lisa Yuskavage and Tamara Jenkins.”

Honigman, Ana Finel. “The good, the bad and the ugly.”

Kastner, Jeffrey. “Deviation Standard: Jeffrey Kastner on SITE Santa Fe.”

2003

Avgikos, Jan. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery.”

Boucher, Brian. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery.”

Horyn, Cathy. “Critic’s Notebook: Fashion and Art Embrace, if not Passionately.”

Valdez, Sarah. “Naked Truths.”

“Lisa Yuskavage.”

“Lisa Yuskavage: new paintings.”

2002

Holmes, Pernilla. “The Royal Treatment.”

Koroxenidis, Alexandra. “Through the Eyes of Women.”

2001

Schappell, Elissa. “Hot Type.”

Chen, Aric. “Bust a Move.”

Combs, Whitney. “Balthus RIPs.”

Fabianich, Eric. “Lisa Yuskavage.”

Siegel, Katy. “Passages: Balthus Remembered; Katy Siegel talks with Lucian Freud, Lisa Yuskavage, David Salle, and John Currin.”

Glueck, Grace. “Art in Review: Naked Since 1950, C&M Arts.”

Gopnik, Blake. “Mr. President, Give Your House a New Look.”

Tep, Ratha. “Busty Babes.”

Thomas, Michael. “Egad! I Met Marc Rich, Long Ago in Switzerland.”

Vine, Richard. “Paint Strippers.”

Lotozo, Eils. “Essentials: Art.”

Viveros-Faunu00e9, Christian. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, Institute of Contemporary Art/Marianne Boesky Gallery.”

Wasserman, Burton. “Duly noted: Three at ICA.”

Martiniu00e8re, Cu00e9cile. “Lisa Yuskavage: Toutes en rondeurs.”

2000

Kino, Carol. “Dealings with the Whitney Biennial.”

Melada, Geoffrey W. “Blonde Ambition.”

Saltz, Jerry. “My Sixth Sense.”

Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Corcoran Exhibit Is Varied Metaphor.”

Fabbri, Anne R. “Not ‘Easel’ly Forgotten: Three Thought-Provoking Exhibitions open at ICA.”

Fallon, Roberta. “The Body Shop.”

Fowler, Maria. “A Walk on the Wild Side at the ICA.”

“Artist’s Work Has Taken Her Far, but Is Planted in Her Juniata Roots.”

1999

“Lisa Yuskavage.”

“Lisa Yuskavage [artist portfolio].”

Arning, Bill. “The Nude in Contemporary Art: Body Politics.”

Decker, Andrew. “Art’s Next Wave.”

Russo, Giuseppe. “Z la formica, la mongolfiera, il senso del mondo e l’arte contemporane.”

Schwendener, Martha. “Review: Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery.”

1998

Burns, Anna. “Children and Sexuality in the Visual Arts.”

Jones, Ronald. “The Best of 1998: Lisa Yuskavage, Marianne Boesky Gallery.”

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery.”

1997

Hill, Shawn. “Sex and Sensibility.”

McQuaid, Cate. “Sexualized Salami.”

1996

Feldman, Hannah. “The Lolita Complex.”

Kandel, Susan. “Review: Yuskavage’s Works Embark on a Psycho Sexual Adventure.”

Pall, Ellen. “The Do-It-Yourself Dealers.”

Boccella, Kathy. “Artist’s Voluptuous Paintings Are Big Attention-Getters.”

1995

Connors, Thomas. “Review: Youth Culture Killed My Dog (but I don’t really mind).”

1994

Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting.”

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Up the Establishment, Sonnabend Gallery.”

“Lisa Yuskavage.”

1993

Lloyd, Ann Wilson. “Where Are They Now [interview]?”

1992

1988

Watkins, Eileen. “Gladstone Exhibition Showcases ‘Realism’ with Interesting Results in Various Forms.”

1986

Campbell, Julie Freeman. “Fellows: 1986-1987.”