Prof Lisa Milroy
Professor of Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art UCL
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
2019Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Curated by Elizabeth Scott
Drawing Biennial 2019
2019Drawing Room, London
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection
2018Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
Touring to: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Longside Gallery, Wakefield; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Treasures from the Home
2018Blaafarvevaerket (Cobalt Works and Mines), Norway
Hand-made
2018One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Still Life - Lisa Milroy and Jayne Parker
2018APT 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
2018Tottori 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.
La Reve de la Filieuse
2018Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
RA Summer Exhibition 2018
2018Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Nature Morte
2017Guildhall Gallery, London
Against Landscape, Coniston Institute
2017Coniston Institute
Coniston Institute; touring to Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Stephenie Bergman and Lisa Milroy: Tango
2017Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone
Horizons
2017CCAS de Besancon, Logement-Foyer les Cedres, France
Drawing Biennial 2017
2017The Drawing Room
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money
2017Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money, works slsected by Lubaina Himid from the Arts Council Collection
Here and There
2016Mansun 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
2016Kotarpur, 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
2016Royal Academician's Room, Keepers House, Royal Academy of Arts, London
President's Choice, Academician's Room
Painting in Time Part 2
2016SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
An exhibition that explores performative and time-based painting, curated by Sarah Kate Wilson
RA Summer Exhibition 2016
2016Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016
Out of Hand
2016Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Art at the British Academy, London
2016The British Academy
65 Works Selected by James Welling
2015David Zwirner, New York, USA
Exhibition and sale to benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY
Houses in the CAM Collection
2015Museo 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
2015Brick Lane, London, UK
Launch of Lisa Milroy: Dresses
Painting in Time Part 1
2015The Tetley, Leeds, UK
Co-curated by Sarah Kate Wilson
Drawing Biennial 2015
2015Drawing Room, London, UK
Social Fabric
2015Oriel Sycharth Gallery, University of Wrexham, Wales, UK
Slade Print Fair 2015
2015Slade 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
2014Slade 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
2014Saatchi 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
2014Battersea, 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
2014Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Artist Room display in Kunstmuseum Bonn
Hydra
2014Unit 53, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK
Hands On (display)
2014Drawing Room, London, UK
I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart
2014De 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.
Hands On
2014Asthall Manor, Oxford, UK
Display of drawings created as a commission for the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Drawn Together Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
2014Jerwood 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
Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen
2013The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, UK
Party of One
2013Crate, 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
2013New 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
2013Barbican 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
2013ICA, 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
2013Tate 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".
Colour as Material
2013Fafa 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
2013The Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
I Am The Magic Hand
2013Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 10011
Group show of 5 artists selected by artist Josephine Halvorson for Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East
2012Cultural 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
2012Staatgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Pandemonium
2012Hyde 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
2012Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Inaugural exhibition
Art Plus Opera
2012Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Art auction and performance by The Royal Opera Chorus to raise funds for gallery's education work.
Act One, Seen Too
2012Bloomsbury 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
Making Space
2012Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia
2012Institute 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.
Heartbeat
201299 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.
Artists of the Gallery
2012Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
RA Summer Exhibition 2012
2012Royal Academy of Arts, London
Included 'performance-painting' Thursday afternoons, 4-5pm in July
Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone
2012Gallery 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
Act One, Seen Too
2011The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham in collaboration with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Artists for Kettle's Yard
2011Kettle'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.
British Art: Royal Academicians
2011Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, South Korea
House Guest
2011The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
RA Summer Exhibition 2011
2011Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collection curated by Edward Allington
2011Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Improvisations
2011Royal 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
Time and Time Again
2011artsdepot, London, UK
A Picture of Health
2011Bonhams, London (for 'Paintings in Hospitals', London), UK
Painting and Sculpture
2010Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
In the Black
2010Summerfield Gallery, PIttfield Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
Jurahokusai Paysages: Oeuvres de la Collection du Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain de Franche-Conte
2010Musee de l'Abbaye, Sainte Claude, France
Layers: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show
2010Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, South Korea
Global Contemporary Artists for Artists
2010Rijksakademie Endowment Fund, Sotheby's Amsterdam, Netherlands
Black and White Flower Painting
2010Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Voyage
2010Galerie Xippas at Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Shouting From A Rock
2010Pharos Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
RA Summer Exhibition 2010
2010Royal Academy of Arts, London
Double Interview
2010Artspace Hue, Seoul, South Korea
Secrets of the Museum Collection
2010Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
ART: Curated by Michael Craig-Martin
2010Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
Eleven
2010Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
The Rise of Women Artists
2009Walker 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
2009Alan Cristea Gallery
RA Summer Exhibition 2009
2009Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Artist's Studio
2009Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Visual Deception
2009Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Head and Neck
2009Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, UK
Permanent installation of paintings in Head and Neck Department at Charing Cross Hospital
Mahlzeit (Essen in der Kunst)
2009Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Painted Worlds
2008Galerie Lelong, Predigerplatz 10-12, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Building Bridges: 8 Visions, One Dream
2008The 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
2008Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy
Noisy
2008Galerie Jones and Trubenbach, Cologne, Germany
September '08
2008Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
RA Summer Exhibition 2008
2008Royal Academy of Arts, London
Painted Worlds
2008Galerie Lelong Zurich, Switzerland
Everywhere You Come From
2008Pala Fuksas, Turin, Italy
Pictures Within Pictures
2008Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Making Sense
2007Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Momentary Momentum: Animated Drawings
2007Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Still life.
2007T1+2 artspace, London, UK
Black and White
2007Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Fiction@Love
2006MoCa 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
2006Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Lisa Milroy
2006New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Solo exhibition in public venue within private foundation
Lisa Milroy
2006Galerie Lelong Zurich
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Eckhard Schneider ISBN 3-906163-06-7
RA Summer Exhibition 2006
2006Royal Academy of Arts, London
Animamix, 2nd International Cartoon + Animation Festival
2006Animamix, 2nd International Cartoon + Animation Festival, Hangzhou, China
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Arrêts sur Images
2006FRAC, Montpelier, France
Drawing Two Hundred
2006The Drawing Room, London, UK
The Hermit The Shoe and The Stone
2005Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK
Lisa Milroy
2005Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Painting Fast Painting Slow
2005Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Lewis Biggs.
RA Summer Exhibition 2005
2005Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Bodies and Space
2005Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
Tenth International Film Festival, Hiroshima
2004Tenth International Film Festival, Hiroshima
Featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
John Moores Liverpool 23
2004Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Metropolis
2004FRAC Franche-comté, Autrey-les-Grey, France
Raised Awareness
2004Tate Modern, London, UK
Exhibition of commissioned drawings designed for the visually impaired. Curated by Bill Woodrow
152 Autumn Exhibition
2004Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
World Festival of Animated Films
2004World festival of Animated Films, Zagreb, Croatia
featured my animation "Geisha Grooming"
Domestic (f)utility
2004New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire, UK
Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere: Contemporary Art From the collection of FRAC
2004The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
RA Summer Exhibition 2004
2004Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Still Mapping the Moon
2004Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Catalogue: "Still Mapping the Moon" ISBN 3-929790-65-3
Anifest International Animation Festival
2004Anifest 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
Imago: 10 ans d’acquisition du FRAC Franche-Comte
2003Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lons-le-Saunier/ Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole
Focus London
2003Galerie Lelong Zurich, Switzerland
The Bigger Splash – British Art From Tate 1960 - 2003
2003Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Catalogue: "The Bigger Splash – British Art From Tate 1960 - 2003" ISBN 85-87742-27-2
Favorites
2003Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Geishas
2003Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Booklet with essay by Dawn Ades
Geishas
2003Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
The Classical World
2003Hood Museum, New Hampshire, USA
Alan Cristea Gallery Publications
2003Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Taste the Fine Art of Food and Drink
2002Museum of Reading, Reading, UK
John Moores Liverpool 22
2002The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Jerwood Painting Prize
2002Jerwood Space London, London, UK
Shortlisted for Jerwood Painting Prize. Exhibition touring to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Hier ist Dort II
2002Secession, Vienna, Austria
Words from the Arts Council Collection
2002touring UK venues
Arts Council England exhibition touring various UK museums and galleries
Variations on a Theme
2001Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Up In Smoke
2001Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque
2001Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark/Pori Art Museum, Finland
Catalogue: "Patterns-Monstring" ISBN 87-7766-111-7
The Way I See It
2001Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Shoes or No Shoes
2001Craemersklooster- Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur, Ghent, Belgium
My Generation- 40 years of contemporary collecting
2001Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Lisa Milroy
2001Tate 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
Hier ist Dort
2001Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Brave New World
2000Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Lisa Milroy Paintings
2000Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
ART works
2000Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
London
2000Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Solo exhibition in public venue
Flower Show
1999The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Un art incertain du réel: la collection du Frac Franche-Comte, Frac Bretagne
1999Frac Franche-Comte, Frac Bretagne, Chateaugiron
Lisa Milroy
1999Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Innsbruck, Austria
Solo exhibition in public gallery
Taking a Picture
1999National Portrait Gallery, London
Balade au sol mineur
1999FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Alès, France
Signature Pieces
1999Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
go away, artists and travel
1999Royal College of Art, London
Lisa Milroy Paintings
1999Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Urban
1998Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud
1998Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester and Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Catalogue: "Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud" ISBN 1 85332 187 7
Every Day, Biennale of Sydney
1998Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Catalogue: 'every day" ISBN 07313 8924 7
Paved with Gold
1998Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Voyage, de l'exotisme aux non-lieux
1998Le Musee de Valence in association with FRAC Rhone-Alpes, France
Lisa Milroy
1998Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery. Catalogue with essay by Elisabeth Lebovici
Seven Views of Marunouchi
1998Marunouchi Cafe, Tokyo, Japan
Site-specific installation of paintings in public space
Collection Nomade, les Oeuvres du Frac Franche-Comte au Maroc
1998Institut Francais, Bab el Kebir; touring to Galerie Allal El Fassi, Rabat and Institut Francais, Kenitra; Casablanca; Institut Francais; Meknes et Fes
Modern British Art
1998Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
African Safari
1998Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery of monoprints
portrait - human figure
1998Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Swizerland
Up to 2000
1998Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton
Tokyo International Forum Artwork Collection
1997Tokyo Metropolitan Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Treasure Island
1997Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Something to Say...,
1997Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, Wolverhampton
Lisa Milroy
1997Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
The Thinking Eye: An Exhibition by the Painting Faculty: The Royal College of Art
1996Gallery 7, Hong Kong
Theories of the Decorative
1996Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA
Pittura
1996Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Home and Away
1996Tate Gallery, Liverpool
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s
1996Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery and Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Craig-Martin, Davey, Fulton, McKeever, Milroy, Woodrow
1996Alan Cristea Gallery and The Paragon Press, London, UK
Classifications
1996Galerie 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
Nouvelles acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte
1996Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Being There
1996Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy
1996Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Life Patterns
1995Tate Gallery, London
Ljubljana 21st International Biennale of Graphic Art
1995Ljubliana, Slovenia
Les Images du Plaisir, FRAC des pays de la Loire
1995Hugers La Flèche Laval, France
Lisa Milroy
1995Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Loup y es tu?
1995Galerie du Frac, Montpelier, France
Travel Paintings
1995Chisenhale 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
Desenho Contemporaneo
1995Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Oporto, Portugal
Rome/Tokyo
1995The British School at Rome
Solo exhibition in public gallery. Concertina leaflet with text by Mario Codognato
Lisa Milroy
1995Hotel Huger Cercle d'Art, La Fleche, france
Solo exhibition in museum
Contemporary British Art in Print
1995Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; touring to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Tokyo Story
1994Gallery Shoko Nagai, Tokyo
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy
1994Kyoto City University of Arts
Solo exhibition in university art gallery
Cityscape
1994Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Original Painting
1994Galerie Matisse, Institut Francais, London, UK
Curated by Jonathan Watkins, Including Amikam Toren and Bernard Frize
Lisa Milroy, John Murphy: Paintings from the Saatchi Collection
1993Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Lisa Milroy
1993Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy
1993Waddington 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
Der zerbrochene Spiegel/The Broken Mirror
1993Museumsquartier Messepalast and Kunsthalle Wien; touring to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Catalogue:
Lisa Milroy
1993Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
The Saatchi Gift
1992Tate Gallery, London
Recent Acquisitions
1992Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Lisa Milroy
1992John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Lisa Milroy
1992Janner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Work from the British Collection
1992Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Drawings
1991Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
La Couleur d' Argent
1991Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
Lisa Milroy: Paintings
1991Galerie Luis Campana, Frankfurt, Germany
Solo exhibition in a commercial gallery
Carnegie International 1991
1991The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Catalogue:
Out of Limbo
1991Fundacion Luis Cernada, Seville, Spain
Lisa Milroy
1991Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Goldsmiths' College Centenary Exhibition
1991Goldsmiths' Gallery, London, UK
The British Art Show 1990
1990McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London
Lisa Milroy
1990Kunsthalle Bern
Museum solo exhibition (Switzerland). Catalogue with essay by Ulrich Loock and Interview with Lisa Milroy and Richard Wentworth ISBN 3-85780-068-2
John Moores Liverpool 16
1989The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
My painting submission "Handles" 1989 won first prize
Lisa Milroy
1989Third 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
British Art Now: A Subjective View
1989Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; touring to Fukuoka; Nagoya; Utsunomiya; Kobe; Hiroshima and Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
The Saatchi Collection at the Pierides Museum: Tony Cragg, Lisa Milroy and John Murphy
1989Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Subject: Object
1989Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK
Art of the '80s: from the Collection of the Chemical Bank
1989The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Lisa Milroy
1989Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Solo exhibition
Lisa Milroy
1989John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo exhibition in commercial gallery
Cries and Whispers: Paintings of the 1980s from the British Council Collection
1988touring Australia and New Zealand.
catalogue
Three Artists from Britain
1988Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington DC and New York, USA
Lisa Milroy
1988Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Solo exhibition. Catalogue with essay by Ian Jeffrey.
Winter '88
1988Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK
The New British Painting
1988The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; touring to Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center; Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
John Moores Liverpool 15
1987Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
I won First Prize in this national painting competition
Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s
1987Museum 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
1987Liljevalchs Art Museum, Stockholm; touring to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland as Britannia: Paintings and sculptures from the 1980s
catalogue
Lisa Milroy
1986Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Solo exhibition
Lisa Milroy
1986Khiva Gallery, San Francisco
solo exhibtion
Aperto
1986Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
No Place like Home
1986Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
Objects As Art
1986Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Au Coeur du Maelstrom
1986Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Japonisme: Japanese Reflections in Western Art
1986Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Sixth Sydney Biennale
1986Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
catalogue
John Moores Liverpool 14
1985Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
won runner-up prize
Problems of Picturing
1984Serpentine Gallery, London
Lisa Milroy
1984Fondation 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
Lisa Milroy
1984Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
first solo exhibition of career
Young Blood
1983Riverside Studios, London
curated by Michael Craig-Martin
Charterhouse Gallery
1983Charterhouse Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016
Royal Academy of ArtsPublications
The Art of Reading: A Book Lover's Gallery, Spring 2018
Illustration - 'Books', 1991
Royal Academy of Arts Desk Diary 2019
Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, this luxurious week-to-view diary features artists from the Royal Academy of Arts.
Hand-made: Paintings by Lisa Milroy (Booklet)
Introduction by Thom Ogonga. Published 2018 by One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.
Still Life (Talk)
One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya; Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth, UK; Camberwell School of Art, London, UK; Toni Onley Artist Residency, Wells, BC, Canada; RA Patrons Studio Visit’, London, UK
In Conversation: Lisa Milroy and Lubaina Himid at Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art
Hand-made – Exhibition tour and seminar discussion for GCSE Students, One Off Contemporary Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Lubaina Himid in Conversation with Lisa Milroy (Talk)
RA Enterprises: Postcard for RA Summer Exhibition 2017
Illustration - 'Shoes', 2012
RA Enterprises: Royal Academy of Arts Diary 2017
Illustration - 'Books', 1991
London in Paint
Drawing from Tate's superb collection and beyond, this stunning book presents 100 paintings from the 17th century to the present. Whether iconic or unusual, topographical or verging on the abstract, each work offers a special perspective.
Tribute: Lisa Milroy Remembers Rose Finn-Kelcey
Nature Morte Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still-Life Tradition
Michael Petry's careful curation of this exciting revamp celebrates works by emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, ...
L'Arte le Perdene Peso (book cover illustration)
Bookcover illustration for L'Arte le Perdene Peso, Mario Fortunato, Bompiani RCS Libri, Italy
Ra Enterprises: Greeting Card
Illustration - 'Butterly' 2004
The Pleasure of Painting
A Living Repository of Still Life
On the Pleasure of Painting (Talk)
Chelsea Arts Club, London; Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon; University of Northumbria, Northampton; Turps Banana, London; Hazlitt Annual Day School, UCL
Colour as Material
Exhibition and symposium "Colour as Material" at Fafa Gallery and Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Collaborative material research project between Slade, Northumbria University and Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. My paper entitled "Black and Blue"
Dark Matter
Solo exhibition "Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone" at Gallery North, Northumbria University; symposium "Dark Matter' at Northumbria University: a collaborative material research project between Slade, Northumbria University and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Hlesinki. My paper entitled "Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone".
Dark Matter, Chapter: Ivory Lamp Mars Vine Bone
London Review of Books (cover illustration)
cover design for Vol. 34 No 4, Feb 23, 2012
SteamCream (product design)
Design of two SteamCream tins to launch international design project for SteamCream
Jonathan Watkins in Conversation with Lisa Milroy (Talk), Barber Institute of Fine Art in collaboration with Ikon Gallery
Lisa Milroy: Improvisations - Interview with Tim Clark, Japanese Section, British Museum
Lisa Milroy: Still Life (Talk)
Chelsea College of Art, London; Bengal Art Lounge, Dhaka; University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Shanghai University, China
Radio interview, Nicosia, for 'Shouting From A Rock', at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Cyprus
William Feaver: In Conversation with Lisa Milroy, Prince's Drawing School Lecture Series, London
Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy (book cover illustration)
Book cover illustration for academic study by Paisley Livingston, Oxford University Press
The Way of the World (2009, ISBN: 978-9-0771932-2-6)
essay contribution "Layers"
Sacred Made Real, Henry Moore Institute/National Gallery (Talk)
Lisa Milroy: Slade Contemporary Art Lecture series, UCL
Bodies/Objects/Rituals (Talk), Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Kimono (product design - clothing)
limited edition clothing design for the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Pintura Além da Pintura (Talk) Painting Conference and Workshop, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Painting Fast Painting Slow, Chapter: Lisa Milroy Interviewed by Lewis Biggs
Interview with Lewis Biggs for catalogue "Painting Fast Painting Slow" on the occasion of my solo exhibition at Alan Critea Gallery, London 2005
Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study (book cover illustration)
Book cover illustration for academic study by Paisley Livingston, Clarendon Press, Oxford
Lisa Milroy, (Keynote Speech) Skowhegan, Maine
Lisa Milroy (Talk), Taipei Artists’ Village, Taiwan
John Moores Liverpool 23
text for my painting "Togetherness" 2003 in John Moores 23 exhibition catalogue. This painting was purchased by Southampton City Art Gallery for their Collection.
The Eye, 30 minute programme by Illuminations
Beautiful South Solid Bronze - Great Hits (Cover design)
Interview with Sascha Hastings for ‘The Arts Today’ programme on CBC
Lisa Milroy – Canadian Artist in London, Radio One (Interview)
Tate Enterprises: 'Flowers' (product design - fridge magnets)
Millenium Royal Mail Postage Stamp
I won a 2000 D&AD Silver Award for the Most Outstanding Illustration in Graphic Design for my contribution
World Health Organisation (poster design)
Campaign for smoking cessation
Neidere Gangarten (book cover illustration)
book cover illustration for novel by Renate Schostack, Ammann Verlag AG, Switzerland
ArtWORKS
Poster design for smoking cessation campaign by World Health Organisation
Lisa Milroy Kunsthalle Bern, Chapter: En Regle: Interview with Richard Wentworth
Interview with Richard Wentworth for catalogue "Lisa Milroy" on the occasion of my solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, 1990
RA Enterprises: Royal Academy of Arts Diary 2012
RA Enterprises: Royal Academy of Arts Diary 2008
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier's annual Greeting Card
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier France has acquired my painting 'Tablecloth, 2016' for their Collection and used an image of it for their official 2018 seasonal greeting card, delivered to their international network online and through the mail as a postcard.