Resume

2013
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian, DC
Jacquard Weaving Mythologies in Design and Arts Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong
Triennial Zhejiang Art Museum and China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China
Rijswijk Textile Biennial 2013, Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands

 

2011
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
Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1980 Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2010
The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft
Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, MA

2009
10^th 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
Weaving Invitational, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA

2008
From Lausanne to Beijing 5th International Fiber Art Biennale, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Engendered Spaces, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
Familiar Faces, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Core Memory/Peripheral Visions, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
Made to Deceive: An Exhibition of Trompe L’oeil Art, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopedics in Art, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, exhibit for American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons 75th Annual Meeting
Warped, Sonoma Jr. College Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA
Fiber Philadelphia Biennial 2008, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

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

2006
Design Life Now, National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY, (Traveling)
Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textile, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Beyond Weaving: International Art Textiles, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
The Body in Fiber, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
About Jacquard Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2005
Cheongju International Biennale – 120 Definitions of Temptation, Cheongju City, Republic of Korea
Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW
High Fiber, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
Hypertextiles, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Recursions: Material Expression of Zeros and Ones, Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA (Traveling)
Contemporary Textile Art International Open, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
5th International Kaunas Textile Art Biennal, National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

2004
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
analog click click , Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Corporal Identity Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany  (Traveling)
Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
Kanazawa World Craft Forum Exhibition, Gallery Space, Korimbo Daiwa, organized by city of Kanazawa and the Kanazawa Crafts Council, Kanazawa, Japan

2002
Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Red Thread, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artist on the Cutting Edge, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC (Traveling)
 

2001
Reality Check – Representational Images in Unlikely Media, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
Defining Craft 1: Collecting for a New Millennium, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Once Upon A Time: Artists Examine Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
 

2000
Remnants of Memory, Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC
California Craft, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
e-textiles: aventures–tissage jacquard, Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, Le Centre des textiels contemporains de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1999
The Art of Craft: Works from the Saxe Collection, M. H. De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Warp Speed: Teaching Technology, Textile Art Center, Chicago, IL

1998
Drop/Add, Oliver Art Gallery, California College of Arts & Crafts, CA
webs://textiles & new technology, The Design Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

1997
Threads: Fiber Art in the 90’

s, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Structure & Image, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
Distinguished Faculty Award Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1ere Biennale du Lin Contemporain, L’Hotel de Sens Bibliotheque Forney, Paris, France

1996
Timeless Tradition/Present Meanings: Contemporary Art by Women Weavers, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1ere Biennale de Lin en Haute-Normandie, Lin-Majuscul, L’Hotel de Region, Rouen, France
Bridging Worlds, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia, PA, (Traveling)

1995
Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Starke Falten, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Fiber: Five Decades from the Permanent Collection of the American Craft Museum, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1994
Contemporary American Quilts Royal Hibernia Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, (Traveling)
Conversations: Textiles About Textiles, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

1993
California Dreaming, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Crafts, 1975-Present, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
Fascinatie Textiel II, Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands
ORIE’S 10th Anniversary Commemoration Exhibition of Tapestries and Sculptures of Contemporary Artists, Sogetsu Museum, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Small Works in Fiber-The Mildred Constantine Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Alcove Show # 13, Fine Craft, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1992
Craft Today USA, The Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (Traveling)
American Crafts: The Nation’s Collection, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Furniture and Fiber Art: Contemporary California Designers, The Museums at Blackhawk, University of California, Danville, CA
15th International Biennial, Contemporary Textile Art Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (Traveling)
Contemporary Silk As Art, Musee des Tissus de Lyon, Lyon, France (Traveling)
Fiber Art/ New Directions for the Nineties, Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, Manchester, NH
3rd International Textile Competition-Kyoto, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Silk As Art Textile Museum of Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain (Traveling)
Woven Structures in the Computer Age, University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND, (Traveling)
The Jacquard Project, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (Traveling)

1991
Interwoven Dialogues, Textile Arts International, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Evantail, Musee de la Tapisserie, Tournai, Belgium (Traveling)
Woven Structures in the Computer Age, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (Traveling)
In Our Hands, Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan
Perspectives From the Rim, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
New Ends, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

1990
The Definitive Contemporary American Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Heads, Threads and Treads, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Contemporary Silk as Art, organized by Intex-Art, France Downey Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1989
International Textile Competition ’89 Kyoto-Sensitivity for Textile, Proposal for a New Century, Kyoto, Japan
Strange Attractors: The Spectacle of Chaos, Rezac Gallery, Chicago IL
14th International Biennial of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Textielbiennale, Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Frontiers in Fiber, Guangzhou, China
Craft Today in America, Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, (Traveling)

1988
Pictorial and Narrative Fibers, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, TX, (Traveling)
Material Departures, Walter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Theatre Municipal d’ESCH au Grand Duche du Luxembourg
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (Traveling)
Contemporary Woven Work: America & Abroad, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Five in Fiber, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC

1987
Grand Prix Des Metiers D’Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present, Fresno Arts Center & Museum, Fresno, CA,
Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, (Traveling)

1986
Material Images: 15 Fiber Artists, Bowling Green State University, OH
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1985
Layering an Art of Time and Space, Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM

1984
The Flexible Medium: Art Fabric From the Museum Collection, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Vibrant Structures, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX (Two Person)

1983
Fiber: The Artist’s View, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY

1982
Jacquard Textiles, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Jacquard Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Repeated Exposure, Photographic Imagery in the Print Media, Nelson Gallery of Art, Akins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO
Art and/or Craft: U.S.A. & Japan, California Design/Hokuriku Broadcasting Stations, Kanazawa, Japan (Traveling)
The Pattern Show, The American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1981
Celebration 25, Anniversary Exhibition, The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1980
Filaments of the Imagination, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Illusive/Structure, Fresno Art Museum, CA

1973, 1975, 1977
6th, 7th, and 8th International Biennial of Tapestry, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

View Museum Collections

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (2016)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2007)
China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (2007) (see more)
de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Denver Art Museum, CO (2011)
Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
La Quadrilatére, Beauvais, France
The George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, NC (2007)
Honolulu Museum of Art, HI (2016)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (2008)
Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (see collected works and history)
National Permanent Collection US Embassy, Moscow
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (2005)
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2016)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, NSW, Australia (2005)
The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
US GSA, Frank Hagel Federal Building, Richmond, CA
US GSA, Joseph F. Weis Jr. United States Courthouse, Pittsburgh, PA. (Installation June 2006)
Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China (2013)

 

ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS

American Craft Council Library Digital Collections

 

AWARDS & SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS

2022         Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship, American Craft Council
2018          Doctorate of Fine Arts Honoris Causa, California College of the Arts
2012          Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF)
2011          Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists grant for Artistic Innovation
2010          Artist Residence TREND group, Transdisciplinary Research in Emotion, Neuroscience and              
                  Development, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2008          Gold Medal Award, Lausanne to Beijing 5th International Fiber Art Biennale Exhibition, Beijing, China
2007          Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant
2003          Artist’s Fellowship Grant, California Arts Council
2000          Flintridge Foundation Fellowship
1998          Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1997          Fellow, American Craft Council
1996          Distinguished Faculty award, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1995          Master of the Media for Fiber, James Renwick Alliance
1994          French Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1993          United States-Mexico Creative Artists’ Residency, National Endowment for the Arts
1992-93    Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1990          Artist’s Fellowship Grant, California Arts Council
1989          Excellence award, International Textile Competition ’89, Kyoto, Japan

 

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS

2020
Lecture, “Mind and Touch”, 2020 China-USA Technology and Innovation in Fiber Art, hosted by Tsinghua University, China & University of the Arts, Philadelphia (Virtual Exhibition & Symposium)

2019
Lecture, “Mind and Touch”, 19th ETN Conference, Textiles Zentrum Haslach (view catalogue)

2017
Lecture, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Lecture, “Jacquard Projects: Woven Faces and Neural Networks”, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Lecture, Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Lecture, Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
Lecture, Keynote Speaker,”Cerebral Touch & Neural Networks”, Make 2017 Symposium, Cork, Ireland

2016
“Woven Face and Neural Networks”, Doris Duke Theater, Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
“Weaving and Digital Innovation”, St. Francis College, Creative Tech Week, New York, NY
MCD Speaker Series, “Lia Cook”, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
Archive Panel, Textile Society of America, 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, GA

2015
Lecture, “Woven Faces Project- Art and Neuroscience” 2015 AICAD Symposium, CCA, San Francisco, CA

2014
LASER Lecture “Woven Faces and Neuro Nets”, UCSF, San Franciso, CA

2013
Lecture, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China
Lecture, Keynote Speaker, Symposium, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Harris Lecture, “Lia Cook”, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI

2012
Lecture, “Faces, Mazes and Fiber Tracts”, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Cover Image, “Point of Touch, Bathsheba”, Sensation and Perception, Jeremy Wolfe Ed.
Lecture, “Navigating the Maze: Neuroscience and Fiber Connections”, MFAH, Houston, TX
Lecture, “Lia Cook”, Textile Museum, Washington D.C.

2011
Lecture, “Lecture- “Lia Cook : Mapping the Emotional Brain”, SCC Pittsburgh, PA
Juror, Fiber Focus 2011, Art St. Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Lecture, “Lia Cook: Session “Rewind into the Future”, 16th ETN Conference at Kaunas Textile Biennial, Kraunas, Lithuania
Lecture, “Woven Faces, Mapping the Emotional Brain” with Greg Siegle, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

2010
Lecture, “Faces, Mazes and Neural Networks”, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Canada
Lecture, First Encounter of the  Iberoamerican Textile Network. Costa Rica (upcoming)
Lecture, “Lia Cook: Faces and Mazes”, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Lecture, “Lia Cook: Faces and Mazes”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

2009
Key Note Speech, “CCA BFA and MFA Programs”, “twist” Profiles and Perspectives in European Textile Studies, Kunst Universität Linz, Linz Austria
Lecture, “Lia Cook: The Embedded Portrait” University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Lecture, “Networking Session” ETN conference, Haslach an der Mühl, Austria
Panelist, ETN conference, Haslach an der Mühl, Austria
Workshop, “Colloquium with Lia Cook”

Textile Kultur Haslach, Haslach an der Mühl, Austria

2008
Lecture, “Textiles of CCA” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond Virginia

2007
Paper, “Jacquard Adventures”, International Symposium: The Jacquard Loom in Contemporary Textile Art and Education, Fondazione della Seta Lisio, Firenze, Italy
Lecture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Paper,”Weaving, New Technology and Content”, on panel “When is Technique Central to Meaning?”, College Art Association, 95th Annual Conference, New York, NY
Artist page in “The Object of Labor: Critical Perspectives on Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production”, Editors Joan Livingstone and John Ploof. MIT Press
Lecture, “Binary Traces: Maps and Mazes”, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA,

2006
Lecture, “Lia Cook”, Salt Lake City Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Lecture, “Textile Education in the US”, Symposium, Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2005
Lecture, “Lia Cook”, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Lecture, “Lia Cook”, Symposium, Transformations: The Language of Craft conference, Canberra, NSW, Australia
Panelist, “Contemporary Fiber Art: Perspective from the Inside”, Symposium, The James Renwick
Alliance, Washington, DC
Lecture, “Lia Cook”, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

2004
Lecture, “Ed Rossbach”, Symposium, Textile Society of America, Oakland, CA
Lecture. “Lia Cook”, Skidmore College, NY

2003
Lecture, “Ed Rossbach”, Symposium, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
Lecture, YLEM/Artists Using Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA
Studio tour, College of Environmental Design Alumni Association, UC Berkeley, CA

2002
Lecture, “Zeroing in on Touch: Drapery, Skin and the Body” for Symposium ‘Drapery in Visual Culture: Contexts, Clothing, Corporealities’, National Gallery, London, England
Lecture, Santa Fe, NM

2001
Lecture, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

2000
Paper, “The Sensual Image: Weaving in the Digital Age”; Panelist, “Textiles: Real, Metaphoric, and Virtual in the 21st Century”, College Art Association 88th Annual Conference, New York, NY

1998

Lecture, “The Past is Prologue.” Textile Society of America Symposuim Proceedings. 157. Digital Commons, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

1993
Lia Cook. “Emerging West Coast Artists”. Fiberarts. Jan/ Feb, Vol 19, No. 4.

1991
Lia Cook. “Fiber National 1991 Juror’s Statement”. Fiber National 1991 (catalogue). Adams Art Gallery.

1990
Lia Cook. “Ed Rossbach as Educator: A Personal View”. Ed Rossbach: 40 Years of Exploration and Innovation in Fiber Art. Edited by Anne P. Rowe & Rebecca Stevens. Textile Museum. Lark Books. Washington, DC

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024
Wurm, Jan, with Elizabeth Addison and Carol Benioff. “Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project – The Nineties.” pp. 20–21. June 2024.

2023
Wurm, Jan, with Elizabeth Addison and Carol Benioff. “Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project – The Eighties.” pp. 22–23. April 2023.

2022
Wurm, Jan, with Maria Porges, Elizabeth Addison, and Carol Benioff. “Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project – The Seventies.” pp. 18–19. February 2022.
Neckles-Ortiz, Shervone, and Kay Takeda, ed. Bay Area Womens’ Legacy Project in “Career Documentation for the Visual Artist.” p. 51. Joan Mitchell Foundation, November, 2022 (full workbook)
Savig, Mary, with Nora Atkinson and Anya Montiel. “This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Exhibit Catalog. 2022.
Song, Yue. “The Convergence of Handcraft and Technological Innovation: New Trends in Fiber Art,” pp. 18–23. Surface Design Journal. Spring 2022

2021
Sorkin, Jenni. “Art in California.” Thames & Hudson Publishing. October 2021.
Prin, Rémy. “Le Textile et l’Image,” pp. 234–235. Parole et Patrimoine Publishing. February 2021.

2020
Wurm, Jan, with Elizabeth Addison and Carol Benioff. “Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project – 2020.” pp. 18–19. December 2020.
Katz, Anna (editor), et al. “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985.” Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and Yale University Press (Exhibition Catalogue). 
Sidore, Michaela. “The Art is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries.” Schiffer Publishing.

2019
Savig, Mary. “Line by Line: Craft Histories in the Archives of American Art”. American Craft Inquiry, Volume 2, Issue 2.

2018
Seager, Donna. “Lia Cook: Weaving her way into Art History.” December 7, 2018
Liberatore, Paul and Donna Seager. “Mapping the Mind: Uncommon Threads by Lia Cook.” (Catalogue)
Sterk, Beatris. Lia Cook – Inner Traces.Textile Forum Blog, December 2018
Boehner, Patrick. “Lia Cook: Combining Imagery and Touch Through Fiber Art.” Magpie Aesthetic. October 2, 2018.

2017
Purdue, Seiko. “Coded Threads: Textiles & Technology”. Western Washington University, September 2017. (Catalogue)
Lutz, Leora, et al. “Cerebral Touch: Lia Cook 1980-Now”. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. (Exhibition Catalogue)

2016
Sterk, Beatrijs. “Lausanne Tapestries Biennial, Nomad Tapestries 2016“. Surface Design Journal, Summer 2016.
Photo + Craft. “Lia Cook: Fibers in the Brain, Pixels in the Weave”. February 14, 2016
Donald Munro. Review: “10 Things that wow in new Fresno Art Museum Fiber Arts Show”. http://www.fresnobee.com/entertainment/performing-arts/article77242832.html. May 15, 2016

2013
Harvey-Brown, Stacey. “Textile Art – a tactile interface in a digital world“. November 2013 (dissertation)
Geraldine Craig, Mark Nelson. “Lia Cook: Weaving & Innovation: Digital Fibers Converse with Neural Networks”. (catalogue)
Orbán, Anna-Maria. “Amprente culturale în arta fibrelor”. Muzeuli National al Literaurri Române, 2013,  pp. 202-203.
Pepich, Bruce W. “Mining for Gold in Museum Collections“. Surface Design Journal, Winter 2013, pp. 40-44. 

2012
Geoff Smith. Review: Lia Cook “Bridge 11”. www.artsandculturehouston.com/review-lia-cook-bridge-11/. March 1, 2012

2011
Browngrotta Arts, Textile News: Lia Cook’s Work in the Lab — Measuring Art’s Emotional Impact. Art Text Style. April 11, 2011.
Kate Smith. Exhibition Review – The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft. The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 4-Issue3-November 2011, pp. 343-348
Glem Adamsen. Shot Through-Textile and Photography. Retrospective Catalog, Hordaland Art Centre. 2011
Janet Koplos. Thinkers and Perceivers. Catalog. Society for Contemporary Craft. 2011
Kyle MacMillan. Later Textiles and Motherwells Get Their Due at DAM. http://www.denverpost.com/art/ci_19402414. Nov. 25, 2011

2010
Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf. “Makers: A History of American Studio Craft.” The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Lia Cook, An Investigation: Woven Faces and Neuroscience. Textileforum 4/2010 December
Victor Cassidy. “Unpredictable Results”. Fiberarts Volume 36 number 5
Wendy Weiss. “Facing the Maze”. Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot Winter 2009/2010. (article)

2009
Textile Kultur Haslach. Thinking Different: Thinking JacquArt. Haslach an der Mühl, Austria
Robert Hillstead Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Faces & Mazes: Lia Cook. (catalogue)
     Leemann, Judith. Don’t Make that Face: The Weavings of Lia Cook (catalogue article)

2008
From Luasanne To Beijing: 5th International Fiber Art Biennale Catalogue (catalogue)
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. An Exhibition of  Orthopaedics in Art. (catalogue)
Suzanne Baizerman. Image, Structure, and Emotion: Lia Cook’ s Recent Work. Surface Design Winter, 2008.

2007
Jo Luria and Stephen Fenton. Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects. Clarkson Potter (May 2007).
Grounds For Sculpture. Spring/Summer 2007 Exhibitions. Hamilton, NJ. (catalogue for Reminiscence)
Lia Cook. Artist page in “The Object of Labor: Critical Perspectives on Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production”Eds. Joan Livingstone and John Ploof. MIT Press. January 2007
Deborah Valoma. Lia Cook: In the Folds-Works from 1973-1997. BrownGrotta arts. (monograph)
Dialogue With the City: Works of Art From 1936 to 2006. United States Post Office and Courthouse, Pittsburg, PA. (catalogue)
Sara Wykes. Rise of the Quilters. MercuryNews.com 09 December 2007: n. pag. (review)
Kaunas Art Biennial. Textile 07. Lithuania. (catalogue)
Oakland Museum. Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA. (catalogue)
John Motley. Craft In America: Expanding Traditions. PortlandMercury.com 26 July 2007

2006
Salt Lake Art Center. Material Culture: The Fine Art of Textile. Salt Lake City, UT (catalogue)
Tarble Arts Center. The Body in Fiber. Eastern Illinois University. Charleston, IL (catalogue).
Barbara Bloemink, Brooke Hodge, Ellen Lupton and Matilda McQuaid. Design Life Now: National Design Triennial. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. NY (catalogue).
Jo Luria and Suzanne Baizerman, California Design. Chronicle Books. San Francisco, CA.
Matthew Kangas. Craft and Concept: The Rematerialization of the Art Object. Midmarch Arts Press,
New York, NY.
BrownGrotta Arts. Beyond Weaving: International ArtTextiles. Wilton, CT (catalogue).
Chandler Center for the Arts. Tied Together: Textile art in the 21st Century. Chandler, (catalogue).

2005
National Gallery of Australia. Transformations: The Language of Craft. Canberra, NSW, Australia (catalogue).
Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2005. 120 Definitions of Temptation. Cheongju, Republic of Korea (catalogue).

2003
United Embassies Hanoi. Art in Embassies Program. Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
Museum of Fine Arts. Threads on the Edge: The Daphne Farago Fiber Art Collection. Boston, MA (catalogue).
American Textile History Museum. Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art. Lowell, MA (catalogue).

2002
Portfolio Collection, Lia Cook. With essays by Jenni Sorkin & Meridith Tromble. Telos Art Publishing Co. Winchester, England. September 2002.
Gen Doy. Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture. pp. 202-207. I.B. Tauris. London, New York.
Textile Museum. Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge. Washington, DC (catalogue).

2001
Friends of Art and perservation in Embassies. Gift to the Nation. Washington, DC
A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for The Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship
Program. With essays by Nancy Princenthal, Jennifer Dowley, introduction by William Ivey.
Harry N. Abrams, NY

2000
Ashville Art Museum. Remnants of Memory. Ashville, NC (catalogue).
Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists 1999/2000. Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA (catalogue).

1998
Allison Ferris. Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings. John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI (catalogue).
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art. Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC
Ocvirk et al. Art Fundamentals. 8th Edition. Brown & Benchmark (MacGraw-Hill Higher Education).
Alison Ferris. Conceptual Textiles/Material Meanings. John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI (catalogue).

1997
Hand Workshop Art Center. Structure & Image. Richmond, VA (catalogue).
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts. Threads: Fiber Art in the 90s. Summit, NJ (catalogue).
College of Marin. The Continuous Thread. Kentfield, CA (catalogue).

1996
Lydia Van Gelder. Ikat II. Unicorn Books & Crafts, Inc. Petaluma, CA
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. 25 Years of Contemporary Art. Chicago, IL (catalogue).
E. Bruce Goldstein. Sensation and Perception. 4th Edition. University of Pittsburgh. Pacific Grove, CA. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company (book cover).
Shirley E. Held. Weaving: A Handbook of the Fiber Arts. Third Edition. Ft. Worth, TX. Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

1995
Oakland Museum of California. Lia Cook: Material Allusions. Oakland, CA (catalogue).

 

EDUCATION

1973 University of California, Berkeley, MA, Art and Design
1965 University of California, Berkeley, BA

TEACHING

1976-Present       Professor of Art, Emeritus, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA