Bio & CV

Lia Lowenthal is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in New York City. Working in a variety of mediums such as sculpture, fashion, drawing, and video, Lowenthal explores how social histories become reproduced through formal and functional qualities of objects, by re-imagining their use, materiality, form, and language. Working simultaneously between the artistic and commercial fashion realms, Lowenthal’s investigations are not limited to their objects but also how they’re displayed, disseminated, and contextualized.

Lowenthal is founder of LL, LLC, a conceptually-driven jewelry line, which collaborates with the historic William Spratling Workshop in Taxco, Mexico, and carried by retailers nationwide.

Born in New York City, NY
Lives and works in the Bronx, NY

Teaching Appointments
Adjunct Associate Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute, New York
Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY

Education

2015 Bard College, MFA. Photography
2006 UCLA, BA. Visual Art, German Studies

Solo Exhibitions

2017 GETHENS: Elavid II, Elnotie, and Seasugra Oz, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

2016 Long Lasting Loveliness, Moiety, Brooklyn

2015 GETHENS by LL, LLC, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn

2012 Fifteen Seconds, Art In General, New York

2010 Economic Models, Light & Wire Gallery, Los Angeles

2009 I Brush My Teeth With My Left Hand to Loosen Up, Workspace, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions

2024 Summer ‘24, 839 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Local Objects, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Via Cafe, Tif Sigfrids Gallery, Comer, GA

LtdWear5, Lvl3, Chicago

Return of the Dragons: 1998 – 2008: A Decade of Art in Chinatown, Blossom Market, Los Angeles

We Sell Lamp, Store Space, Kingston, NY

2019 ODDS, The Other MA, London

2018 Secrets, Private Places, Portland, OR Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons, Far Rockaway, NY

2017 After Bedrock, curated by Amanda Pohan, The Bakery, Brooklyn

2016 Daraprim, LG, Greene & Nostrand, Brooklyn Season 2: Against, Beside, Above, and Beyond, Haeler Echo, New York Bottom Floor, curated by Max Maslansky, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles Lacephase : continuation - International Micro Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

EAF’16 Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship Exhibition, curated by Jess Wilcox, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

2015 Flat by Fiat, LG, Brooklyn Wendy’s Subway + Aeromoto, NADA, New York Office for Doubts and Desires, P!, New York

2014 Bard MFA Thesis Show, UBS, Red Hook, NY Mental Furniture, Night Gallery, Los Angeles You-tility, Southfirst, Brooklyn

2013 Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show at the Abrons Arts Center, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY

Hides on All Sides, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

The Noodles That We Eat, Christopher Crescent & HD:Projects, New York

Lol and Evil in the Garden, Laura Hunt’s studio, Brooklyn

AB, Day 19, even later, curated by Alex Ross, The Nomas Foundation, Rome

Gymnasia 4:00am, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn

Descartes’ Daughter, curated by Piper Marshall, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York

2012 superpositions: New Wight Biennial 2012, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles Leave It To Beavers, curated by Gina Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami

2011 Circinus & Horologium, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University-Los Angeles

2010 1,095: One Year's Worth of Other People's Plates, LACMA, Los Angeles

2009 Rasta Dental, JMOCA, Los Angeles Ulli and Lucrecia’s Gruppeaustellung mit Party, curated by Ulrich Wulff and Lucrecia Roa, 533, Los Angeles

2008 General Electric, curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, Projects Projects, Los Angeles

2006 Five Easy Pieces, Bart Exposito’s studio, Los Angeles

Neo Dolce, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles

Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles

Other Projects

2017- LL, LLC, a jewelry and design company. (ongoing)

2018 Permanent installations at the Freehand Hotel, New York

Teaching & Lectures

2020 - present Adjunct Associate Professor, MFA Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Adjunct Faculty, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Faculty, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY

2019 Visiting Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Visiting Critic, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Wide Rainbow, New York
Visiting Artist and Critic, Marlboro College, Brattleboro, VT

2018 Visiting Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Visiting Artist Lecture, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas
Visiting Artist and Critic, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland
Visiting Artist and Critic, Oregon College of Arts + Crafts, Portland

2016 Visiting Artist and Critic, Parsons School of Art & Design, New York
Visiting Artist and Critic, UCLA, Los Angeles
“Katarina Burin on Janette Laverriere in conversation with Lia Lowenthal,” Haeler Echo, New York

2011 Visiting Artist, California State University-Los Angeles

Awards, Grants, & Residencies

2023 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant Nominee

2020 Future Generation Art Prize Nominee

2018 Artist-in-Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2016 Socrates Emerging Artist Fellowship

2015 Espace Quark Emerging Artist Prize Nominee

2015 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant Nominee

2012- Bard College Fellowship & Scholarship

2010 Vermont Studio Center Residency

2009 Mountain School of the Arts

2006 Jackie Hicks Memorial Scholarship

2005 UCLA Travel Grant, German department

2006 UCLA Merit Scholarship, full scholarship

Publications

2025 Artist book with Ligature Press, NY (forthcoming)

2019 LL, LLC Quarterly Report #1, self-published

2017 Emerging Artist Fellowship 2016, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

2015 99: Neologisms, edited by Raimundas Malašauskas, CAC Vilnius, Lithuania
Wendy’s Subway + Aeromoto, Publication Studio, Portland, OR LL, LLC Lookbook, self-published, in conjunction with the “GETHENS by LL, LLC” exhibition at 321 Gallery, Brooklyn

2013 AB, Day 19, even later, (catalog) curated by Alex Ross, The Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy

2012 superpositions, (catalog) New Wight Biennial 2012, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 The Mountain School Reader, published by the Tate Modern in conjunction with the “No Soul for Sale” exhibition, London, UK

2008 Yellow Book, curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2023

Conti, Samantha. “Martine Rose Is Ready to Step Onto the Florence Streets, and the World Stage, at Pitti Uomo.” Women’s Wear Daily, online, January 10, 2023.
Brain, Eric. “Martine Rose on Her FW23 Pitti Uomo Debut.” Hypebeast, online, January 12, 2023.
Espy-Jones, India. “Martine Rose's 1980s Reverie at Pitti Uomo.” Office Magazine, online. January 13, 2023.

2021

Kilbane, Brennan. “Comedians Jacqueline Novak and Kate Berlant on the Healing Power of Friendship.” Photographed by Philycia J. L. Munn, September 2021.

2020

Hahn, Rachel. “This Artist Wants to Make Her Work— And Her Wardrobe— More Accessible.” Vogue.com, February 11, 2020.
Sakai, Nagi. “It’s a Wrap.” PUSS PUSS Magazine, April 2020.
Hernandez, Leslie. “Interview with Lia Lowenthal, Founder of LL, LLC.” ARO, April 2020.
PIN-UP Magazine, Summer 2020.

2019

Falquez, Camila. Cover Image, “Rosalia.” Herrera, Isabelle. The FADER, Summer 2019
Velsey, Kim. “Artist’s Studio: How About The Living Room?” The New York Times, December 1, 2019.

2018

Holland, Mary. “These 3 New Destinations Will Make You Rethink Hotel Design.” Architectural Digest (online), February 6, 2018.
Beecher, Amy. “Episode 20: Lia Lowenthal,” The Amy Beecher Show, New York (online, August 10, 2018)

2017

Wilcox, Jess. “EAF 16 Artist Profile: Lia Lowenthal,” Socrates Sculpture Park, socratessculpturepark.org

2016

Copenhafer, David. “The Space Between: A Profile of Cammisa Buerhaus,” Hyperallergic.com (July 6, 2016)
Lynch, Scott. “Highlights from the Socrates Sculpture Park Exhibit,” Gothamist.com (October 2, 2016)
Christian, Lyndsay. “Rising Artists Featured at Socrates Sculpture Park,” NY1 (October 6, 2016)
Chiragdin, Neil. “Socrates turns over a new leaf for fall,” Queens Chronicle (October 13, 2016)
Walker, Ameena. “Socrates Sculpture Park Transformed Into A Contemporary Art Gallery,” Curbed.com (October 13, 2016)
Maslansky, Max. “Riffin’ with Lia Lowenthal,” Riffin’, KCHUNG Radio, Los Angeles (December 5, 2016)
Meier, Allison. “Christopher Walken Heads, Winged Feet, and Other Sculptures Alight Along the East River,” Hyperallergic.com (July 6, 2016)

2015

“Flat by Fiat,” LG, ART BLOG ART BLOG (February 2015)

2014

“I’m Not Sure, This Is An Arduous Terrain,” Paletten Magazine (Fall 2014)

2012

“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker (April 25 – May 1, 2012)
“Consider The Beaver,” Artinfo (May 2012)
"La vida de las mujeres en diversas prácticas artísticas," El Nuevo Herald, (June 2012)
“Studio Visit with Lia Lowenthal,” ART BLOG ART BLOG (March 2012)