Exhibitions

2015

Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

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

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

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

Art of Neuroscience 2014 SFN Conference, Washington DC

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

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

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

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

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

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

2014

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

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

2013

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

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

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

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

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

Fiber Visions, Triennial Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2013, Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Jacquard Mythologies, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China

The French Connection Artspace and 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

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

New Materiality Asheville Art Museum, Ashville, NC

New Materiality Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

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

2012

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

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

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

2011

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

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

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

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

Shot Through Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway

Sleight of Hand Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Transforming Touch River House Arts, Perrysburg, OH

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

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

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

2010

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

Weaving Invitational, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA

2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engendered Spaces, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM

2008

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

2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

Private Pleasures, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

Reminiscence, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

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

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

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

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

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

2006

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

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

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

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

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

2005

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

2004

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

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

2003

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

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

2002

LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)

2001

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

Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, CA, Fabrications

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

2000

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

Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC, Remnants of Memory

1999

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

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

1998

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

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

1997

Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA, Family & Figuration

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

1996

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

1995

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

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)

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

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)