Lisa Bulawsky’s practice is driven by questions concerning the nature of time as evidenced in the natural world, through public histories, and the lived experience of individuals. She’s interested in vast and intimate timescales, the marks we make on the world and those made on us. Her work manifests in a range of activities including works on paper, participatory projects, and temporary public art.
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LISA BULAWSKY, born 1962, Sunnyvale, CA
Lisa Bulawsky is a visual artist widely recognized for her works on paper, installation, and temporary public projects. She has enjoyed an active studio practice and career since the 1990s and is known for her creative research exploring subjectivities of time and histories through the intrinsic properties of print media. Bulawsky’s works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally, including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (as part of the Fifty-Fifty art collective); the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in Roanoke, Virginia; the Dalarnas Museum in Sweden; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; among many others. Books featuring her work include “Printmaking at the Edge” (2006), “Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes” (2009), and “American Print Makers” (2014). She has received numerous grants and awards including a MacDowell Fellowship, an individual M-AAA NEA Fellowship for painting and works on paper, the Marvin Bileck Artist-in-Residence award at Bowdoin College, and the Francis Niederer Artist-in-Residence award at Hollins University. Her prints are in many collections including the Spencer Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp, Belgium. Bulawsky earned her Bachelor of Arts in studio art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her Master of Fine Arts with honors from the University of Kansas. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis since 1996 and received an Emerson Teaching Award in 2005, a Founder’s Day Award for distinguished faculty in 2013, among other academic honors. She was chair of the MFA in Visual Art program from 2020-2024 and is currently Professor of Art and the Director of Island Press in the Sam Fox School.