Bio

Lily Cox-Richard (she/her/LCR) makes sculptures and installations that take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance.

LCR has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, Artpace, RAIR Philadelphia, Kohler Arts/Industry, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent solo exhibitions include Yvonne (Guatemala City), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX), MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), and Institute of Contemporary Art (Richmond, VA).

LCR studies, forages, and practices in Tsenacomoco territory / Richmond, VA, on land that, for thousands of years, has been inhabited and cared for by Indigenous people, including the Pamunkey, Monacan, Chickahominy, and many other tribes untold and forcibly disappeared.