Exhibitions

2015

Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2015

Unraveling Identity Textile Museum, The George Washington University Museum, DC

2014

Science Inspires Art; The BRAIN, New York Hall of Science, NY

2014

I'll Show You Mine, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

2014

What Would Mrs. Web Do? A Founders Vision, Museum of Arts and Design, NY

2014

BRAIN-ART Initiative, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

2014

New Directions, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2014

Women's Work, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2014

9th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014

Art of Neuroscience 2014 SFN Conference, Washington DC

2014

The Galaxy of the Brain, University of Chicago Medicine UCM, Chicago, IL

2014

Lia Cook, Neural Nets & Net Works, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, April 18-May 30 (solo)

2014

Lia Cook, Icones Jacquard, Galerie Les Drapiers, Liege, Belgium, March 14-May25 (solo)

2013

Lia Cook, Weaving and Innovation: Digital Fibers Converse with Neural Networks (solo)

2013

Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 1-April 6th (solo)

2013

Designing Modern Women 1890-1990. Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

2013

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, DC

2013

Jacquard Weaving Mythologies in Design and Arts Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

2013

Fiber Visions, Triennial Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

2013

Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2013, Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands

2013

Jacquard Mythologies, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China

2012

Bridge 11 - Lia Cook, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX (solo)

2012

Bridge 11 - Lia Cook, The Center for Craft and Design, Hendersonville, NC (solo)

2012

Sourcing the Museum The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.

2012

New Materiality Asheville Art Museum, Ashville, NC

2012

New Materiality Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2012

The French Connection Artspace and 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012

8th International Fiber Biennial Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2011

Bridge 11 - Lia Cook, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts at the College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA (solo)

2011

Bridge 11 - Lia Cook, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)

2011

Doll Sense, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)

2011

Tracking Faces, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas Lithuania (solo)

2011

Shot Through Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway

2011

Sleight of Hand Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2011

Transforming Touch River House Arts, Perrysburg, OH

2011

Craft Meets Technology Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, Louisville, KY

2011

Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1980 Craft and Folk Art Museum, LA, CA

2010

Faces and Mazes, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (solo)_

2010

Faces and Mazes, Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and University of North Texas, Denton, TX (solo)_

2010

The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, MA

2009

Dollface, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago. IL (solo)_

2009

The Embedded Portrait, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY (solo)_

2009

Faces and Mazes, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (Traveling) (solo)_

2009

Lia Cook: Large Works, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA (solo)_

2009

10th Wave III: Art Textiles and Fiber Sculpturexi, Brown Grotta Arts, Wilton, CT

2009

JacquArt, Textile Kultur Haslach, Haslach an der Mühl, Austria

2009

Form Follows Function Or Does It?, University of Little Rock, Little Rock, AR

2009

Weaving Invitational, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA

2008

From Lausanne to Beijing 5th International Fiber Art Biennale, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2008

Engendered Spaces, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM

2008

Familiar Faces, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2008

Core Memory/Peripheral Visions, San Jose Museum of Quilts &Textiles, SanJose, CA

2008

Made to Deceive: An Exhibition of Trompe L'oeil Art, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

2008

eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopedics in Art, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, exhibit for American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons 75th Annual Meeting

2008

Warped, Sonoma Jr. College Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA

2008

Fiber Philadelphia Biennial 2008, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2007

Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2007

Body and Soul: From Exploration to Expression, Osilas Gallery, Concordia College,NY

2007

Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA

2007

Textile 2007- Wide Examination, National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

2007

Craft in America - Expanding Traditions, National Tour 2007-2009, Little Rock, AR, Portland, OR, San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Oklahoma City, OK and Brockton, MA

2007

Saturn Returns: Back to the Future, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose CA

2007

Private Pleasures, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

2007

Reminiscence, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

2007

Artists of the Loom, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

2006

Design Life Now, National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY

2006

Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textile, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT

2006

Beyond Weaving: International Art Textiles, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT

2006

The Body in Fiber, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

2006

About Jacquard Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2006

The Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2006

Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY Design Life Now, National Design Triennial (December)

2006

Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, The Body in Fiber

2006

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, Re-Embodied (solo)

2005

Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA,

2004

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2004

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA , Binary Traces (solo)

2003

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

2002

LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)

2002

Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, Small Works in Fiber (Traveling to Chicago and Tokyo, Japan)

2001

The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH, Reality Check – Representational Images in Unlikely Media

2001

Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA, Fabrications

2001

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, Past Presence (solo)

2000

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, Structure & Image (solo)

2000

Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC, Remnants of Memory

1999

Bruce Galleries, California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco Campus, CA, Five Plus Five

1999

Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, Presence/Absence (solo)

1998

R. Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)

1998

Oliver Art Gallery, California College of Arts & Crafts, CA, Drop/Add

1997

Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, Family & Figuration

1996

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL, 25 Years of Contemporary Art

1996

Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA, Lia Cook: Recent Work Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Material Allusions (Traveling Exhibition) (solo)

1995

The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Lia Cook: Material Allusions (Traveling Exhibition) (solo)

1995

Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC, A Textured Language: Honoring 20 Years of Fiberarts Magazine

1994

Shaklee Building, San Francisco, CA, Woven Inspirations: Bay Area Textile Artists

1993

Ram Gallery, Oslo, Norway (solo)

1993

Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, California Dreaming

1992

The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, Craft Today USA (Traveling Exhibition)

1991

Textile Arts International, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, Interwoven Dialogues

1991

Bellas Artes Gallery, New York, NY, New Master Draperies (solo)

1990

Arts in the Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., Lia Cook (solo)

1989

Galerie Philharmonie, Liege, Belgium, Lia Cook: Crazy Quilts (solo)

1988

Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)

1987

Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Recent Drapery, Miscellaneous Dry Goods and Other High Art (solo)