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MFA, Sculpture + Extended Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

BFA with High Distinction, Jewelry/Metal Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2025, Disquiet in the Sand, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA

2022, Soft Fists Insist, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2021-23, Weep Holes, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2019, She-Wolf + Lower Figs., Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2018, Berm, Diverseworks, Houston, TX

2018, Sculptures the Size of Hailstones, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX

2017, If not an hongo // Si no es un mushroom, Yvonne, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2017, The Stand (Possessing Powers), Paul Mesaros Gallery at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

2016, Salv., Artpace, San Antonio, TX

2016, Stringer Lode, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX

2015, The Stand (Possessing Powers), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2014, The Stand (Possessing Powers), Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2014, The Stand (Possessing Powers), Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2013, Thicket, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2013, The Stand (Possessing Powers), Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

2013, The Stand (Possessing Powers), Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2012, Strike, Site:LAB at Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

2011, Fruiting Bodies, The Poor Farm, Waupaca County, WI

2010, The Stand, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

2008, Spark Gap, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA

2008, Spark Gap, Terminal, Richmond, VA

2007, At Stake and Rider, Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC

2007, At Stake and Rider, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2006, PRE-Fabulous, Archinofsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

2005, Magic Moments, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

2003, Altered Perspectives, Platteforum Arts, Denver, CO

2001, Over-the-Road, CCAC  North Gallery, Oakland, CA

2024, Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY

2024, Art at Work: Sanitation and Social Practice, All Street Gallery Chinatown, New York, NY

2024, Golden: 50th Anniversary exhibition, MoCA Arlington, Arlington, VA

2024, Makers in Place, Kohler at Design Miami / Miami Art Week 2024, Miami, FL

2024, The Arts/Industry 50th Collective, Woodlake, Kohler, WI

2021, Ocean Body, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI

2021, Our Secret Fire, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2021, Active-Intermission-Composite-Artifact (AICA), 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2019, walking with: Library of Radical Returns, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2018, Our Going On, Moonmist, Houston, TX

2018, Venus Occults Jupiter, Love Apple Art Space, Ghent, NY

2018, Vis-à-vis, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2018, The Dangerous Professors, Flatlands Gallery, Houston, TX

2017, Tensile Strength, SITE Gallery Silos, Houston, TX

2017, License to Deceive, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

2014, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism, Denny Gallery, New York, NY

2014, Arterial Motives, Street Road Artists Space, Cochranville, PA

2012, First Encounters, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

2011, Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes About The Suburban and The Poor Farm by the Artists Who Have Exhibited There, Yale University, School of Art

2010, 2010 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX

2010, Santo Foundation Exhibition, Fort Gondo, St Louis, MO

2009, Stone Sculpture Symposium, Steinbruch Kiefer, Fürstenbrunn, Austria

2009, …for lovers, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY

2009, Absolutely Modern, Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX

2009, 2009 Core Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX

2008, Blitzfunk, Kompact Living Space, Berlin, Germany

2008, Gray Area Stake Out, Crane Building, Philadelphia, PA

2008, FourPlay, AREA Gallery, Caguas, Puerto Rico

2007, Company Picnic, Metro Space Gallery, Richmond, VA

2007, The Commonwealth Bricoleurs, Off Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2007, Civilian @ G, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

2006, Dynamic Field, Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC

2006, Debate Team, FAB Gallery at VCU, Richmond, VA

2006, Space Domestic, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

2005, Medium, Area 405, Baltimore, MD

2005, Right of Way, Archinofsky Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

2003, The Out-of-Towners, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC

2001, Freestyle, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2000, Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Ryan Waddoups, “8 Standout Design Moments from Miami Art Week” Galerie Magazine, December 11, 2024

Travis Diehl, Yinka Elujoba, John Vincler, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May” The New York Times. May 2, 2024

Maya Pontone, “The Artists Sifting Through Your City’s Garbage” Hyperallergic. May 30, 2024

Murray Whyte, Everything is scary – but don’t let it break you The Boston Globe, June 9, 2022

Susan Richmond, Lily Cox-Richard, Fieldwork: Lily Cox-Richard in Conversation with Susan Richmond, Feminist Studies, 2021

Karen Newton, River Walks: An immersive and interactive show at Vis Arts explores walking by the James Style Weekly. January 7, 2020.

Andy Campbell, Austin: Lily Cox-Richard, Blanton Museum of Art, Artforum, December 2019

Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019?, Artnet News, December 21, 2019

Sean J Patrick Carney, Lily Cox-Richard’s Kaleidoscopic View on the Classical Cannon, Arti in America, October 9, 2019

Erin Keever, Lily Cox-Richard: Re-casting the Blanton’s Battle Casts, Sight Lines Magazine, August 8, 2019

Lydia Pyne, Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity, Hyperallergic, September 2, 2019

Candace Baker, Examining Whiteness at the Blanton’s Latest Exhibit, Austin Monthly, August 1, 2019

Molly Glentzer, Lily Cox-Richard brings sculpture viewers to their knees, Houston Chronicle, October 22, 2018

Laura August, From the Ground Up: Lily Cox-Richard at Diverseworks, Arts & Culture Texas, September, 2018

Laura A.L. Wellen, SHOW UP: Lily Cox-Richard, Arts & Culture Texas, December 2016-January 2017

“Alex Potts in Conversation with Lily Cox-Richard: The Stand (Possessing Powers)” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Summer 2016

Kristina Olson, “Rapt Attention: A Conversation with Lily Cox-Richard” ARTPULSE, Spring 2015

Nicholas Hartigan and Joan Kee, “Lily Cox-Richard: On the Powers of Taking a Stand” Art Journal, Winter 2013

Molly Springfield, “Lily Cox-Richard” The Studio Visit, 2011

Kriston Capps, “Dynamic Field” The Washington City Paper, December 8, 2006

Jessica Dawson, “Space Domestic in McLean” The Washington Post, June 24, 2006

Susan Sobeloff, “Metal to the Middle” Trucker’s News Magazine, June 2002

Field Notes. Water Sprouts and Remains (an unfolding) Fountain: Lily Cox-Richard; Illustrations: Rachal Duggan. An illustrated guide with a series of reflection prompts, published by John Michael Kohler Art Center, 2024

Weep Holes by Lily Cox-Richard, artist monograph with contributions from Denise Markonish, Patricia Kaishian, Billy Dufala, Christophe Theunissen, Sarah Margolis-Pineo, and Johanna Hedva, Mass MoCA, 2022

Soft Fists Insist, Hirschl & Adler, 2022

Artpace at 25: 25th Anniversary Publication, Artpace, 2020

Raw Powers, introduced by Karen Lemmey, Archives of American Art Journal, Spring 2018

On Whose Back? Thoughts on Lily Cox-Richard’s Stringer Lode at She Works Flexible, by Wendy Vogel, She Works Flexible Press, 2016

Hammered Lead & Poems, with Davy Knittle, BookMachine (Houston) onestar press, 2014

“Portfolio: The Stand (Possessing Powers)” Art Journal, Winter 2013

Thicket, 2013, self-published book

“Lightning Wireless” Curious Spring 2008, VCUarts Publication

“Souvenir” Curious Spring 2007, VCUarts Publication

2024, Water Sprouts and Remains (an unfolding), Sandy Sachse Gratitude Fountain at John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

2022-23, Billboards in North Adams, MA

2024, Gallery Conversation: Lily Cox-Richard, Jade Doskow, Slinko, sTo Len, and Tom Finkelpearl, moderated by curator Gabriela D’Addario. Closing event for Art at Work: Sanitation & Social Practice, All Street Gallery Chinatown, NYC

2024, Artist Talk, Arts/Industry 50th Anniversary Event, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2023, Visiting Artist Program (VAP) Lecture Series and studio visits, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA

2022 “Assuming Breakage” workshop, Time of Now Festival MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2021, Invited Contributor: 45 Library, a collection of speculations by artists, designers, and architects on the subject of the presidential library for the 45th president. 45library.com

2020, Closing events: walking with, Artist-led public walks, meditation and activations, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2019, Gallery talk with collaborator Michael Jevon Demps, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2019, Gallery talk with Michael Jevon Demps, Enjoli Moon, and Kenny Rivero, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2019, Artist Talk and conversation with Curator Claire Howard, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2019, Visiting Artist, MFA program, University of Texas at Austin

2018, Thinking in Aggregate, conversation with Cymene Howe, Rodger Moore, and Laura August, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2018, Visiting Artist, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2018, Visiting Artist, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX

2016, Visiting Artist, School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

2016, Reading and Conversation with Tung-Hui Hu, author of A Prehistory of the Cloud, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX

2016, Gallery Conversation with Wendy Vogel, She Works Flexible, Houston, TX

2016, Co-chair of the session Expanded Fieldwork: Art and Research-based Practice

2016, College Art Association Conference, Washington, DC

2016, Gallery talk with curator Karen Lemmey, on the exhibition Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

2015, Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN

2015, Lily Cox-Richard: Possessing Powers, The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2015, Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, TX

2014, The Stand: Possessing Powers, presenter in the colloquium: The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

2014, Visiting Artist, Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

2014, Visiting Artist, Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2014, Lily Cox-Richard: Possessing Powers, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2013, Thicket, Panel Discussion with Lane Relyea, Jamie Jones, and Clare Croft, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2013, Gallery Conversation with art historian Alex Potts, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2013, Possessing Powers: Studio Premonitions and the Time Travel of Things, presenter on the session (Re)imagining the Unknown: Contemporary

2013, Perspectives on Expansion, Invention, and Representation in the 19th Century, Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, NC

2013, The Stand: Possessing Powers, presenter on the session Sexing Sculpture, College Art Association Conference, New York, NY

2013, Guest Critic, final critiques, Sculpture, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX

2012, This Nameless Spectacle, Panel Discussion with Y. David Chung and Osman Khan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

2012, Artist Talk, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC

2011, Lecture, Art & Design Perspectives series, Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2011, Visiting Artist, Thesis Exhibition Critiques, Print Media Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2010, Gallery Conversation with Museum of Fine Arts Houston Curator Emily Neff, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

2010, Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, Sculpture, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX

2010, Visiting Artist, Guest Reviewer for MFA Thesis exhibitions, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St Louis, MO

2010, Visiting Artist/Lecture, Art Department, American University, Washington, DC

2009, Artist Talk, Stone Sculpture Symposium, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Art, Salzburg, Austria

2009, Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, School of Art, University of Houston, Houston, TX

2009, Visiting Artist/Lecture, Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, Rice University, Houston, TX