Education
Sarah Lawrence College
School of Visual Arts
State University of New York, BA in Liberal Arts
Otis College of Art and Design, MFA in Painting
Bio and Affiliation
Lisa Oxley is an artist who defines her practice as rooted firmly in painting while working across the disciplines of drawing, installation, and time-based media. Her work often explores the relationship between painting and architecture; language and image, as well as how a painting is received perceptually in its space.
Oxley did her undergraduate work at Sarah Lawrence College and School of Visual Arts, and received a BA in Liberal Arts from State University of New York and an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been awarded artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Verge Center for the Arts, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland.
Her recent installation, Terra Nullius takes up painting as an architectural intervention, painting as an image, and painting as a site for dialogue. The title refers to a term in international law, which translates as "Nobody's Land" or "nobody's thing", used to designate a territory not subject to the sovereignty of any state.
In addition to teaching at Otis, she has taught Painting, Drawing, Critical Theory, and Art History courses at U.C. Davis and USC Roski School of Art and Design.
oil on canvas, 48" x 60"
oil, flashe on canvas, 20" x 16"
oil on panel, wood, sandbags, 7' x 24'
charcoal on paper, 46" x 50"
charcoal on paper, 47" x 50"
oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
Awards and Honors
- Otis Faculty Development Grant, 2024
- Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2019
- Academic Enrichment Fund, University of California, Davis, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Studio Residency Award, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA 2016
- Otis Institutional Grant Recipient, Otis College of Art and Design. 2011 & 2012
- Artist in Residency Bursary Grant, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. 2004
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations:
- 2024 "Imagination and Collage", College Art Association panel, CAA Conference, Chicago, Ill.
- 2023 Association of Hysteric Curators, Artist Talk and Studio Visit
- 2019 Claremont Graduate University MFA Department, Visiting Artist Lecture and Studio Visits
- 2017 Verge Center for the Arts, Artist Talk
- 2016 UC Davis, Graduate Seminar Critique
- 2015 The Windward School, Visiting Artist Lecture/Presentation
- 2009 George Billis Gallery, Artist Talk
Professional Accomplishments and Exhibitions
- 2024
- "A Racket of Banshees" , The Art Museum, SUNY Postdam, N.Y.
- "The Drawing Show", Gallery SADE, Los Angeles
- 2023
- Goddesses and Monsters, Ladies' Room, Los Angeles, CA
- Electric Ladyland, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- The First 10 Years, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA
- 2022
- Garden, Ladies' Room, Los Angeles, CA
- Collect for Choice, The Binder of Women
- Two Big Things in a Borrowed Space, Los Angeles, CA
- 2021
- Garden, Ladies’ Room LA, Los Angeles, CA
- Nomad, organized through Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2020
- Ephemeral, Artspace 1616, Sacramento, CA
- 2019
- Woodland, Inverness County Center for the Arts, Novia Scotia
- Dispersed Transmissions, curatorial collaboration with Robin Hill, Another Year in LA
- 2018
- The Vision Machine, 3307 Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
- 2017 T
- erra Nullius, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA (solo show)
- Plus One, Museum of Broken Relationships, Los Angeles
- 2016
- The Night Opens/La Nuit S'ouvre, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Gallery Tally (in collaboration with Micol Hebron), LACE, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
- Odyssey, 10 Years of The Torrance Art Museum, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- Proposal, Katz's Deli, Santa Monica, CA
- 2014
- Not Knowing, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA
- 20 x20, Artra Curatorial, Vast Space Project, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Mirror Mirror, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
- MAS (Ltd. Ed), Artra Curatorial, San Francisco, CA
- (en)Gendered (in)Equity: Gallery Tally (in collaboration with Micol Hebron), For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Not Knowing, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA
- 2013
- MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 12 Sidelong Glances, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
- 2012
- Boom MFA Invitational, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
- Yes, and.... Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design. Los Angeles
- Seven Types of Ambiguity, GFA Studio. Los Angeles
- 2011
- The Time Has Come for a Strategic Investment in and Deployment of Creativity as a Productive Stimulus for Our Region, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
- 2010
- On Paper, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2009
- Elegant Psychedelic, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2008
- Mixing Memory and Desire, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles (solo show)
- Neo-Realism, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2007
- Sketching Solutions, Glen Irani Studios, Venice, California
- 2005
- a beautiful place, Galeria Pèrgamon Quatre, Barcelona, Spain (solo show)
- 2004
- Fauna, Mas Art, Barcelona, Spain
- 2003
- Lisa-Lights, Espai S/N, Can Serrat Arts Center, Barcelona, Spain (solo show)
- 2001
- as is, Galeria Carmen Claramunt, Barcelona, Spain (solo show)
- obert per obres, Galeria Pèrgamon, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
- Selected Artists, Helix Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Partenaire-Sintoma, Galeria Maeght, Barcelona, Spain
Clients and Employment History
- 2019- present Part-time Lecturer, USC Roski School of Art and Design
- 2016-2022, Visiting Lecturer, UC Davis Department of Art and Art History