2024
ART UP: Lia Cook Studio
R. Todd Kerr, Berkeley Times, Vol. 14, No. 2 , pg. 1 and pg. 14, January 25, 2024
2023
8 local women artists with ‘staying power’ show their work at Berkeley gallery
Gabrielle Selz, Berkeleyside, August 24, 2023
SHOH Gallery Presents Staying Power: Women Artists Forging Through the Decades
R. Todd Kerr, Berkeley Times, Vol. 13, No.16 , August 24, 2023
2022
Bringing the Remote Artist Interview Home – Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project (watch video interview here)
Jan Wurm, Voices of Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 11, November 23, 2022
Bay Area Womens’ Legacy Project in Career Documentation for the Visual Artist
Joan Mitchell Foundation, November, 2022 (full workbook)
Lia Cook: 2022 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship Recipient (watch video here)
American Craft Council, American Craft Magazine, Fall 2022
The Convergence of Handcraft and Technological Innovation: New Trends in Fiber Art
Yue Song, Surface Design Journal, Spring 2022
Awarded the 2022 Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship by the American Craft Council
Watch American Craft Council Video
World Wide Weaving
Beatrijs Sterk, Textile Forum Blog, March 2022
Cross-country Exhibition News: New Mexico, Minnesota, New York, Connecticut (featuring Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science)
ArtTextSytle, Browngrotta Arts, February 2022
2021
An Artist Evolves: Lia Cook’s Five Bodies of Work
ArtTextSytle, Browngrotta Arts, July 2021
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women to Show at SAAM
Robinson, Megan. Art and Object, February 10, 2021.
2020
Contemporary Textiles Find a Home in America’s Heartland (English translation)
Współczesna tkanina artystyczna znajduje schronienie w sercu Ameryki (original Polish)
Pepich, Bruce. Powidoki, Issue 4, 2020 (Poland).
Integracja sztuki i nauki w dobie sztucznej inteligencji
Cygan, Włodzimierz. Powidoki, Issue 4, 2020 (Poland).
How I Got into Weaving – Lia Cook
Harvey-Brown, Stacy. The Loom Room, September 2020.
Volume 50 Artist Focus: A Beautiful Mind: Lia Cook weaves empirical cerebral data into works of textile art
ArtTextSytle, Browngrotta Arts, September 2020
Catalog Lookback: Chronicling the Canon – An Online Exhibition on Artsy
ArtTextSytle, Browngrotta Arts, August 2020
Embodied Craft in Lia Cook’s Textiles and «The Lady of Shalott»
Krasner, James. Aisthesis, Volume 13, Issue 1, June 2020. Firenze University Press.
Socially Distant Studio Visits: Lia Cook
Caroline Kipp, May 14, 2020
2019
LACMA Decorative Arts and Design Acquisitions Committee (DA²) acquires Tunnel Four
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Unframed, August 2019
Line by Line: Craft Histories in the Archives of American Art
Mary Savig. American Craft Inquiry, Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2019
2018
Lia Cook: Weaving her way into Art History
Donna Seager, December 2018
Lia Cook – Inner Traces
Beatrijs Sterk, Textile Forum Blog, December 2018
Mapping the Mind: Uncommon Threads by Lia Cook (PDF) / ISSU digital publishing version
Paul Liberatore & Donna Seager (Seager Gray Gallery), September 2018
Art Out and About: US
ArtTextStyle, Browngrotta Arts, June 2018
Lia Cook \\ Studio Visit
Elise Morris, The Studio Work, May 2018
2017
Lia Cook: Artist Showcase
Digital Weaving Norway, January 4, 2017
2016
Lia Cook: Labyrinth and Bridge
FlexiblePower (China), May 2016
Lausanne Tapestry Biennial: Nomad Tapestries
Surface Design Journal, Summer 2016
Ten things that wow in new Fresno Art Museum fiber arts show
May 20th – August 28th, 2016 | Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Artsy: In a California Group Show, 16 Artists Take On Seemingly Every Material
January 30th – March 24th, 2016 | Seager Grey Gallery, Mill Valley CA
Emotional Response to Photo vs Weave (summary)
Weaving Emotional Response – Combining Art with Data Visualization (full study)
Bradley Shanrock-Solberg, Data Visualization Research
2015
The Aesthetics of Digital Weaving: Tactile Sensibility in the Art of Lia Cook and Grethe Sørensen
Maleyne M. Syracuse | Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Parsons The New School for Design (Read Abstract)
Toms Pauli Fondation- Twentieth-Century Textile-Art Collection
March 24th – May 29th, 2016 | Lausanne, Switzerland: see more
2014
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. presents The BRAIN
2013
Textile Art – a tactile interface in a digital world, Stacy Harvey-Brown. November 2013.
Mining for Gold in Museum Collections, Bruce W. Pepich. Surface Design Journal, Winter 2013.
Halfseen in Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
McQuaid, Matilda. March 2013
Lia Cook: Weaving & Innovation
Digital Fibers Converse with Neural Networks: University of Wisconsin, Madison Exhibition Catalog
Ruth Davis Design Gallery
Mapping Emotion: Lia Cook’s Scientific Approach to the Handmade California College of the Arts
2011 – 2012
Textile News: Lia Cook’s Work in the Lab — Measuring Art’s Emotional Impact
Art Text Style, Browngrotta Arts, 2011
Art Beat Review: Bridge 11 (video)
Capsule Art Reviews: Bridge 11
Craft in America: Filming & Lia Cook Lecture | Houston, TX
PBS Craft in America “Crossroads”: Lia Cook Segment and Shorts (video)
Center for Contemporary Craft | Pittsburgh, PA
April 15 – Oct 22, 2011
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft | Houston, TX
February 4 – May 13, 2012
UNC Center for Craft, Creativity & Design: Asheville, NC
July 26 – November 29, 2012
Arts & Culture TX Review Lia Cook: Bridge 11
Smithsonian Awards 15 Artist Research Fellowships
About Face Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery: Kaunas Lithuania
Lia Cook COOK (video): Kanaus Biennial Textile ’11
Fiber Artist Lia Cook Art & Neuroscience
Lia Cook 25 at 25 at SOFA NY Countdown
Lia Cook Weaves Photographic Magic at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Houston Press
Lia Cook The French Connection Blog
An Investigation: Woven Faces & Neuroscience Textile Forum Magazine, Issue 4
Lia Cook’s Work in the Lab — Measuring Art’s Emotional Impact Textile News
Lia Cook’s Computerised Jacquard Weaving The Golden Fingers
2010
Lia Cook: On the Loom of Contradiction American Craft Magazine
Looking at Lia Cook through the Maze fibreQUARTERLY Volume 6 Issue 2
Looking at Lia Cook through the Maze fibreQUARTERLY (video)
Facing the Maze Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot
2009
Hello Craft: Haunting Eyes
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery: Touch: Faces & Mazes (video)
Don’t Make that Face: The Weavings of Lia Cook (Judith Leeman), in Faces and Mazes: Lia Cook exhibition catalogue
2006
Exhibition Review: Lia Cook: Re-Embodied