Liza Lou has had numerous solo gallery exhibitions around the world, including
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, (2023); Lehmann Maupin, London, (2021); Seoul, (2019); New York, (2018); and Hong Kong, (2017); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (2016); Paris, (2014 and 2010); White Cube, London, (2014, 2012, 2006); L&M Arts, Los Angeles, (2011); New York, (2008); Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, (2018); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2015); Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2013); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2011); Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany, (2002); Bass Museum of Art, Miami, (2001).
Group exhibitions include Everything Gets Lighter, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); Des Moines Art Center, Transform Any Room, Des Moines, Iowa, (2023); Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, (2022); Less is More, Museum Voorlinden, Wassar, Netherlands (2019); Less is a Bore, ICA Boston, Boston, MA (2019); We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, (2018); Pulling at Threads, Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2018); SUPERPOSITION & Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2018); 19th Century and Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (2010).
Public Collections include the National Gallery, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Hill Foundation, New York; New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, Francois Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
Lou is the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award. In 2023 Rizzoli Electa published a comprehensive monograph on the artist’s work with essays by Glenn Adamson, Cathleen Chafee, Elizabeth Sherman, Carrie Mae-Weems, and Julia Bryan-Wilson.