Lily Cox-Richard (she/her/LCR) makes sculptures and installations that take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance. LCR has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, Millay Colony, RAIR Philadelphia, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent solo exhibitions include Yvonne (Guatemala City), Artpace (San Antonio, TX), Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX).
LCR studies, forages, and practices in Tsenacomoco territory / Richmond, VA, on land that, for thousands of years, has been inhabited and cared for by Indigenous people, including the Pamunkey, Monacan, Chickahominy, and many other tribes untold and forcibly disappeared.
Education
MFA, Sculpture + Extended Media
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
BFA with High Distinction, Jewelry/Metal Arts
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Soft Fists Insist, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2021-23 Weep Holes, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 She-Wolf + Lower Figs., Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2018 Berm, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2018 Sculptures the Size of Hailstones, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
2017 If not an hongo // Si no es un mushroom, Yvonne, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2017 The Stand (Possessing Powers), Paul Mesaros Gallery at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2016 Salv., Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2016 Stringer Lode, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
2015 The Stand (Possessing Powers), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2014 The Stand (Possessing Powers), Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2014 The Stand (Possessing Powers), Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2013 Thicket, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2013 The Stand (Possessing Powers), Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2013 The Stand (Possessing Powers), Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Strike, Site:LAB at Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2011 Fruiting Bodies, The Poor Farm, Waupaca County, WI
2010 The Stand, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2008 Spark Gap, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2008 Spark Gap, Terminal, Richmond, VA
2007 At Stake and Rider, Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC
2007 At Stake and Rider, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 PRE-Fabulous, Archinofsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2005 Magic Moments, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Altered Perspectives, Platteforum Arts, Denver, CO
2001 Over-the-Road, CCAC North Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Ocean Body, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
2021 Our Secret Fire, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2021 Active-Intermission-Composite-Artifact (AICA), 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 walking with: Library of Radical Returns, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
2018 Our Going On, Moonmist, Houston, TX
2018 Venus Occults Jupiter, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY
2018 Vis-à-vis, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2018 The Dangerous Professors, Flatlands Gallery, Houston, TX
2017 Tensile Strength, SITE Gallery Silos, Houston, TX
2017 License to Deceive, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2014 Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Arterial Motives, Street Road Artists Space, Cochranville, PA
2012 First Encounters, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes About The Suburban and The Poor Farm by the Artists Who Have Exhibited There, Yale University, School of Art
2010 2010 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2010 Santo Foundation Exhibition, Fort Gondo, St Louis, MO
2009 Stone Sculpture Symposium, Steinbruch Kiefer, Fürstenbrunn, Austria
2009 …for lovers, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Absolutely Modern, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
2009 2009 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2008 Blitzfunk, Kompact Living Space, Berlin, Germany
2008 Gray Area Stake Out, Crane Building, Philadelphia, PA
2008 FourPlay, AREA Gallery, Caguas, Puerto Rico
2007 Company Picnic, Metro Space Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 The Commonwealth Bricoleurs, Off Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2007 Civilian @ G, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2006 Dynamic Field, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
2006 Debate Team, FAB Gallery at VCU, Richmond, VA
2006 Space Domestic, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2005 Medium, Area 405, Baltimore, MD
2005 Right of Way, Archinofsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2003 The Out-of-Towners, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
2001 Freestyle, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2000 Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Residencies, Honors & Awards
2023 Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2022 Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2021 MASS MoCA residency to produce work for Weep Holes, North Adams, MA
2021 VCUarts Dean’s Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019 Arts Research Institute Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2018 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, Richmond, VA
2017 Dean’s Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2017 100 W, Corsicana, TX
2017 Yvonne, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2016 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence, San Antonio, TX
2016 RAIR Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Houston Artadia Award, Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY
2015 Art Omi Residency (awarded, unable to attend)
2013 Paula & Edwin Sidman Fellowship in the Arts, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
2013 Millay Colony Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2012 Elsahara Art Residency, Dahab, Egypt (deferred)
2012 Smithsonian Artist in Research Fellowship, Washington DC
2012 Faculty Seed Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
2011 MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH
2010-13 University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 The Long Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2009 Eliza Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2009 Milos Chlupác Fellowship, Stone Sculpture Symposium, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Art
2008-10 The Core Program Residency, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
2008 VCU Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA (awarded, unable to attend)
2008 Kompact Living Space Residency, Berlin, Germany
2008 AREA Gallery Residency, Caguas, Puerto Rico
2006 Graduate Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2005 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Fellowship, Johnson, VT
2003 PlatteForum Arts Residency, Denver, CO
Articles and Reviews
Murray Whyte, Everything is scary – but don’t let it break you The Boston Globe, June 9, 2022
Susan Richmond, Lily Cox-Richard, Fieldwork: Lily Cox-Richard in Conversation with Susan Richmond, Feminist Studies, 2021
Karen Newton, River Walks: An immersive and interactive show at Vis Arts explores walking by the James Style Weekly. January 7, 2020.
Andy Campbell, Austin: Lily Cox-Richard, Blanton Museum of Art, Artforum, December 2019
Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019?, Artnet News, December 21, 2019
Sean J Patrick Carney, Lily Cox-Richard’s Kaleidoscopic View on the Classical Cannon, Arti in America, October 9, 2019
Erin Keever, Lily Cox-Richard: Re-casting the Blanton’s Battle Casts, Sight Lines Magazine, August 8, 2019
Lydia Pyne, Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity, Hyperallergic, September 2, 2019
Candace Baker, Examining Whiteness at the Blanton’s Latest Exhibit, Austin Monthly, August 1, 2019
Molly Glentzer, Lily Cox-Richard brings sculpture viewers to their knees, Houston Chronicle, October 22, 2018
Laura August, From the Ground Up: Lily Cox-Richard at Diverseworks, Arts & Culture Texas, September, 2018
Laura A.L. Wellen, SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard, Arts & Culture Texas, December 2016-January 2017
“Alex Potts in Conversation with Lily Cox-Richard: The Stand (Possessing Powers)” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Summer 2016
Kristina Olson, “Rapt Attention: A Conversation with Lily Cox-Richard” ARTPULSE, Spring 2015
Nicholas Hartigan and Joan Kee, “Lily Cox-Richard: On the Powers of Taking a Stand” Art Journal, Winter 2013
Molly Springfield, “Lily Cox-Richard” The Studio Visit, 2011
Kriston Capps, “Dynamic Field” The Washington City Paper, December 8, 2006
Jessica Dawson, “Space Domestic in McLean” The Washington Post, June 24, 2006
Susan Sobeloff, “Metal to the Middle” Trucker’s News Magazine, June 2002
Publications
Weep Holes by Lily Cox-Richard, artist monograph with contributions from Denise Markonish, Patricia Kaishian, Billy Dufala, Christophe Theunissen, Sarah Margolis-Pineo, and Johanna Hedva, Mass MoCA, 2022
Soft Fists Insist, Hirschl & Adler, 2022
Artpace at 25: 25th Anniversary Publication, Artpace, 2020
Raw Powers, introduced by Karen Lemmey, Archives of American Art Journal, Spring 2018
On Whose Back? Thoughts on Lily Cox-Richard’s Stringer Lode at She Works Flexible, by Wendy Vogel, She Works Flexible Press, 2016
Hammered Lead & Poems, with Davy Knittle, BookMachine (Houston) onestar press, 2014
“Portfolio: The Stand (Possessing Powers)” Art Journal, Winter 2013
Thicket, 2013, self-published book
“Lightning Wireless” Curious Spring 2008, VCUarts Publication
“Souvenir” Curious Spring 2007, VCUarts Publication
Commissions and Special Projects:
2023 Commemorative Fountain, Kohler, WI (upcoming)
2022-23 Billboards in North Adams, MA
Lectures, Visits, Activities
2022
Time of Now, workshop, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2021
Invited Contributor: 45 Library, a collection of speculations by artists, designers, and architects on the subject of the presidential library for the 45th president. 45library.com
2020
Closing events: walking with, Artist-led public walks, meditation and activations, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
2019
Gallery talk with collaborator Michael Jevon Demps, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Gallery talk with Michael Jevon Demps, Enjoli Moon, and Kenny Rivero, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Artist Talk and conversation with Curator Claire Howard, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Visiting Artist, MFA program, University of Texas at Austin
2018
Thinking in Aggregate, conversation with Cymene Howe, Rodger Moore, and Laura August, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Visiting Artist, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
2016
Visiting Artist, School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Reading and Conversation with Tung-Hui Hu, author of A Prehistory of the Cloud, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
Gallery Conversation with Wendy Vogel, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX
Co-chair of the session Expanded Fieldwork: Art and Research-based Practice
College Art Association Conference, Washington, DC
Gallery talk with curator Karen Lemmey, on the exhibition Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2015
Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN
Lily Cox-Richard: Possessing Powers, The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2014
The Stand: Possessing Powers, presenter in the colloquium: The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist, Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Visiting Artist, Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Lily Cox-Richard: Possessing Powers, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2013
Thicket, Panel Discussion with Lane Relyea, Jamie Jones, and Clare Croft, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Gallery Conversation with art historian Alex Potts, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Possessing Powers: Studio Premonitions and the Time Travel of Things, presenter on the session (Re)imagining the Unknown: Contemporary Perspectives on Expansion, Invention, and Representation in the 19th Century, Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, NC
The Stand: Possessing Powers, presenter on the session Sexing Sculpture, College Art Association Conference, New York, NY
Guest Critic, final critiques, Sculpture, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2012
This Nameless Spectacle, Panel Discussion with Y. David Chung and Osman Khan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Artist Talk, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
2011
Lecture, Art & Design Perspectives series, Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Visiting Artist, Thesis Exhibition Critiques, Print Media Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2010
Gallery Conversation with Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curator Emily Neff, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, Sculpture, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist, Guest Reviewer for MFA Thesis exhibitions, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St Louis, MO
Visiting Artist/Lecture, Art Department, American University, Washington, DC
2009
Artist Talk, Stone Sculpture Symposium, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Art, Salzburg, Austria
Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Visiting Artist/Lecture, Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, Rice University, Houston, TX