SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 IMPERFECTION, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 HOW PERFECT IS PERFECT?, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
2000 APOCALYPSE TWINS, (collaborative art team the "apocalypse twins"
with JillGiegerich), Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
WORKS ON PAPER, Takumi Studios, Gifu Design 2000, Gifu City, Japan
1999 WORK FROM FINLAND, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
PAINTING--NEW WORK, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
NEW PAINTINGS, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998 RECENT PAINTINGS, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA
1997 MNEMONICS, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 SMALL WORKS, 12 x 12 Gallery, Taos, NM
RECENT PAINTINGS, College of Southern Nevada, North Las Vegas, NV
1994 RECENT PAINTINGS, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1993 TETHER, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1992 PHYSICAL CURIOSITIES, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
PERSONAL MARKS, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
1991 SCHEMA, Daniel Maher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 DIARIES, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1989 LISA ADAMS, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1988 EVIDENCE, L.A. Nicola, Los Angeles, CASELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 4TH ANNUAL VIDEO MARATHON, Art in General, New York, NY
GENERATION WHY, ("You Are Here," video with Jill Giegerich as the
apocalypse twins), Occidental College, LosAngeles, CA
2001 GAS, GRASS, OR ASS: THE VAN SHOW, (collaboration with Liegh
Salgado), East Side Crawl, Los Angeles, CA
FIRST OF THE MONTH VIDEO SCREENING PROJECT, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
THE TOTALLY POLITICALLY INCORRECT SHOW, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
MISSION INTERGALACTIC, (collaborative installation with Lauren Hartman), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
DEVILED EGGS AND ANGELFOOD CAKE, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
THE PORTRAIT SHOW, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
FAULTLINES, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
THE WINTER MUSEUM, Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
2000 WORKS ON PAPER, Upstairs Gallery, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
COLLABORATIONS, the apocalypse twins (collaboration team with Jill
Giegerich) Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
VIDEO BLOWOUT!, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
CELESTIAL DETRITUS, (collaborative installation with Lauren Hartman),
the Spurgeon Experience, Santa Ana, CA
COLLABORATIONS, (collaboration with Lauren Hartman), New Image Art,
Los Angeles, CA
PERSONALS--GOING DUTCH, at the brewery project, Los Angeles, CA
and The Sandberg Institute, Hoorn, Holland
A SPOT IN THE MIND, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 BROADCAST, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
THE BIG WAVE, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 FUCK YOU, WE PAINT, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
THE BOOK OF LIES, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, The Living Room,
Santa Monica, CA and Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
NINE LOS ANGELES ABSTRACT ARTISTS, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
FIVE L A ARTISTS, Edward Giardina Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE OF DESIGN, ART & ARCHITECTURE FACULTY
EXHIBITION, Gallery 258, Beverly Hills, CA
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY, PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER,
Shasta College, Reading, CA
1997 THE BOOK OF LIES, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA
TABLE ART, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
THE BIG WAVE, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 SMOGGY ABSTRACTION: RECENT LOS ANGELES PAINTING, Haggerty
Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
DOWNTOWN COMES UPTOWN, Gallery 258, Beverly Hills, CA
DIVERSITY OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, AndrewShire Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
SMALL QUIRKY ABSTRACTIONS, Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
GREEN, Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
HANGING, Griffin Linton Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
1995 SIX ROADS TO ABSTRACTION, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
MUSES, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
WORKS ON PAPER, Farid Chaib Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
FLOWERS, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 GET BACK, Kohn/Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BIG LITTLES, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(AB STRACKíSHUN), William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
LISA ADAMS/ROD BAER: ALEATORIC CIRCUMSTANCES, Pierce College,
Woodland Hills, CA
DRESSED TO THE NINES, Daniel Maher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
THE WORLD OF CUPS, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
OTHERS AMONG OTHERS, Wierzbowski Gallery, Houston, TX
ARTIST AS VISIONARY, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
INTIMATE IMAGES II, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
1993 LEE ARTHUR STUDIO, New York, NY
UNCOOPERATIVE ABSTRACTION, Project Box, Los Angeles, CA VISUAL
VOICES/PERSONAL SYMBOLS, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
BETWEEN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
ALMOST MONOCHROME PAINTINGS, Studio Raid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
THE ELEGANT, THE IRREVERENT AND THE OBSESSIVE: DRAWING IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,California State University Fullerton,
Fullerton, CA and Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SPATIAL RELATIONS, Lanning Gallery, Houston, TX
ASPECTS OF PAINTING IN LOS ANGELES, College of Creative Studies,
UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 LAX, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A SMALL SHOW, 1539 Welseley, Los Angeles, CA
BRIGHT, 1539 Welseley, Los Angeles, CA
SYMBOLOGY, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
SMCDAA, Conejo Valley Arts Museum, Thousand Oaks, CA
GREATEST HITS, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
NEW L.A. ABSTRACTION, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
PAINTERLY GESTURE, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
NSTINCTS OF INTUITION, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
LISA ADAMS AND KEN HURBERT, Glendale Community College,
Glendale, CA
RISING STARS OF THE WEST, 5th Street Fine Art Gallery, Reno, NV
BANK SPACE, Randall Scott Gallery/TBA, Santa Monica, CA
1991 ART CENTRAL, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los
Angeles, CA
1991 OPEN, Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
PACIFIC PRINTS, Amfac Plaza Gallery, Honolulu, HI and East Hawaii
Cultural Center, Hilo, HI
SMALL PAINTINGS, Boise State University Gallery, Boise, ID
1990 HEAL THE BAY SURFBOARD INVITATIONAL, James Corcoran Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
PRINTMAKERS ë90, Artspace Gallery, North Las Vegas, NV
PAINTERS, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AN EASTERNERíS EYE ON THE WEST, THE COLLECTION OF RYO TSUKIOKA,
Daniel Maher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 BEHIND THE PAINTINGS: A STUDY OF LISA ADAMS, collaboration
with Rod Baer, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SIX ARTISTS, LJ Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1988 LOS ANGELES ORGANIC ABSTRACTION, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1987 STAFF AND FACULTY COLLECT, University of California Irvine, Irvine,
CA
1985 SOHO CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, New York, NY
1984 EAST VILLAGE ARTISTS, Dramatas Personae Gallery, New York, NY
TO THE ASTONISHING HORIZONS, LAVA, ë84, Los Angeles, CA
CIRRUS CELEBRATES LOS ANGELES ART, Cirrus Gallery, CA
ART FORGERIES, Public Image, New York, NY
YOUNG NEW YORK LANDSCAPE ARTISTS, Cirrus Gallery, CA
1982 RENTAL DIVISION, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, CA
1980 SO CAL ACADEMIA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los
Angeles, CA
BINGE WORK, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

INSTALLATIONS/PRODUCTIONS/SPECIAL PROJECTS

2001 A ROOM INSIDE A PIE, envelope project organized by Mark Housley,
Los Angeles, CA
EVA WU, video
2000 APOCALYPSE TWINS WEBSITE, http://www.apocalypsetwins.com
WEST VALLEY BRANCH LIBRARY, public art project in collaboration with
poet Martha Ronk, Reseda, CA
TWO GIRLS PLAY HORSE, (performance with Lauren Hartman), Side
Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
I AM UNARMED, the apocalpyse twins (collaboration team with Jill
Giegerich), T-shirt project for the Democratic National
Convention, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Author, FM* (Los Angeles: Peeps Island Press)
JUNIPERO SERRA BUILDING, (text piece) public art project in
collaboration with poet Martha Ronk, Los Angeles, CA
1997 THE BOOK OF LIES, (cover design) artist book of multiples produced
by Eugenia Butler
1994 ARTBREAKING, (featured guest) hosted by Charlie Finch, WBAI radio,
New York, NY
1993 ART CAR, commissioned by BMW of North America, ART/LA 93
1989 WHOíS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (featured painting), written and
directed by Edward Albee, Dolittle Theater, LA,CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2001 Muchnic, Suzanne; "Tower of Independent Power," LOS ANGELES
TIMES, April15
2000 Tgelaers, Theo; "Personals, Part 2, Look-A-Like," exhibition
cataloque essay, September
O'Brien, John; "Personals," exhibition cataloque essay, March
Woodard, Josef; "A Spot in the Mind" at I-5 Gallery, ARTWEEK, March,
Vol. 31, No. 3
1999 Lasarow, Bill; "Lisa Adams," ART SCENE, October
Pence, Elizabeth; "Lisa Adams: Forensic Tapestry-Recent Work At New I
mage Art," COAGULA ART JOURNAL, June
1998 Schoenkopf, Rebecca; "Art", ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY, October 30
1996 Grandovec, Helena; "Prispldoba Je Univerzalni Jezik", VERCER, June 1
Scarborough, James; "Smoggy Abstraction", exhibition catalogue essay,
August
1995 Wilson, William; "Art Reviews", LOS ANGELES TIMES, November 25
Curtis, Cathy; "Two Roads Worth Taking to Abstract New Worlds", LOS
ANGELES TIMES, November 3
Brown, Betty; "Muses", Armory Center for the Arts, exhibition catalogue
essay, November
Kuromizu, Nobuko; "Architects & Artists in Southern California", MODERN
LIVING, September
OíBrian-Fratto, Draza; "Lisa Adams: In the Realm of the Feminine", LAS
VEGAS WEEKLY, March 22
1994 Becker, Shizuyo; "From Abroad", BIJUTSU TECHO, March
Bidrawn, Les; "Objects in Motion", EUROPEAN CAR MAGAZINE, April
Cutajar, Mario; "The Anxiety of Modern Painting", ARTWEEK, October 20,
Vol. 25, No. 20
DiMichele, David; "Recent Paintings at William Turner Gallery", COAGULA
ART JOURNAL, November
Gleason, Mat; "When Painting Goes Beyond Dogma" (cover story),
COAGULA ART JOURNAL, November
Gyulai, Monica; "The Fear Factor", LOS ANGELES TIMES, January 9
Kapitanoff, Nancy; "A Space of Their Own", LOS ANGELES TIMES,
October 14
Scarborough, James; "A Survey of ART/LA94", ARTWEEK, January
Scarborough, James; "Lisa Adams, Lari Pittman", ART PRESS, November
1993 Webb, Michael; "Box Tops", LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY
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Easley, Ben; "Faith in Abstraction Colors Almost Monochrome", COAGULA
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Michael W; THE INDEPENDENT, Santa Barbara, March 18
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1992 Lasarow, Bill; ARTSCENE, February, Vol. 11, No. 6
ART NOW Gallery Guide, Museum News, December (reproduction)
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essay, December
DiMichele, David; "Back To Abstraction", ARTWEEK, June
DiMichele, David; "Conceptualiam's Ironic Legacy", VISIONS MAGAZINE
Lizza, Richard William; "New L.A. Abstraction", exhibition catalogue
essay, April
Kapitanoff, Nancy; LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR, May
Robins, Cynthia; "Devilish Advocate", SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER,
IMAGE MAGAZINE, May
1991 Wolfe, Wynn; VISIONS MAGAZINE, Autum
Webb, Michael; ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, April
1990 Wilson, William; LOS ANGELES TIMES
1989 Krantz, Les; CALIFORNIA ART REVIEW
Geer, Suvan; LOS ANGELES TIMES
1988 Frank, Peter; "Pick of the Week", L.A. WEEKLY, December
Kazanjian, Dodie; "Hollywood Herald", HOUSE AND GARDEN, October

GRANTS/AWARDS
2002 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, The Julia and David White Artistsí Colony,
Costa Rica
2000 ARTISTSí RESOURCE FOR COMPLETION GRANT, The Durfee
Foundation
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, World Design City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
1999 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland
1997 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Pont Aven, France (not realized)
INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR, University of California, Los Angeles
Extension
1996 FULBRIGHT PROFFESSIONAL SCHOLAR AWARD TO SLOVENIA
1993 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS EXCHANGE TO JAPAN, finalist
1992 BRODY ARTS FUND FELLOWSHIP
1991 FULBRIGHT PROFESSIONAL SCHOLAR AWARD, finalist

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
ANNE AYRES, Los Angeles, CA
CLAUDETTE LUSSIER, Los Angeles, CA
CHARELES BRICENO, Alhambra, CA
TOM MAHEW, Los Angeles, CA
BRUCE CHURCHILL, Los Angeles, CA
PATTI MARCUS, Los Angeles, CA
LADDIE JOHN DILL, Venice, CA
DR. NANCY MOSS, Los Angeles, CA
BETTY AND BRACK DUKER, Pasadena, CA
HIROSHI MURATA, Taos, NM
HELEN EPSTEIN, Los Angeles, CA
LESLIE PAM AND ANN CHRISTIE, Los Angeles, CA
JUDITH FRIEDMAN, Playa Del Rey, CA
JOAN QUINN, Beverly Hills, CA
JAMES GERHARD, San Diego, CA
REN RIDOLFI, Pacific Palisades, CA
RAY GIDDEON, Los Angeles, CA
BARRY AND KAREN SCHNEIDER, Los Angeles, CA
ANNE LASSELL, Pasadena, CA
RAY LIOTTA, Encino, CA
ED LEFFINGWELL, New York, NY
GARY KARRASS, Santa Monica, CA
HERBERT GLASER, Beverly Hills, CA
PETER HOLDEN, Los Angeles, CA
JONI AND MONTE GORDON, Los Angeles, CA
MEL AND GAE SHULMAN, San Francisco, CA
HENRY HOPKINS, Los Angeles, CA
SALLY SIRKIN LEWIS, Los Angeles, CA
LESLIE HOLZER, Tesuque, NM
GEORGE AND GRETEL STEPHENS, Pasadena, CA
PATRICIA HONKAWA, Los Angeles, CA
MELANIE SUGGS, Washington, DC
KWACK HOON, Pacific Palisades, CA
RYO TSUkIOKA, Los Angeles, CA
CRAIG KAUFFMAN, Los Angeles, CA
PAM AND MEL WEINER, Los Angeles, CA
METKA KRASOVEC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
CARL WYANT, Los Angeles, CA
BRUCE EVANS, Los Angeles, CA
ROBERT PARKER, Los Angeles, CA
JOHN AND LYN FISCHBACH, New Orleans, LA
BRIAN POLLACK, Los Angeles, CA
IVAN MORLEY, Los Angeles, CA
MARSEA GOLDBERG, Los Angeles
SUE TSAO, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
EDWARD ALBEE FOUNDATION, Montauk, NY
HOWREY AND SIMON, Los Angeles, CA
ARATEX, Burbank, CA
NIPPON STEEL USA INC., Los Angeles, CA
LAGUNA MUSEUM OF ART, Laguna Beach, CA
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL, Scottsdale, AZ
ELI BROAD, Los Angeles, CA
JOHNSON FAIN PARTNERS, Los Angeles, CA
JEFFERY DANIELS & ASSOC., Los Angeles, CA
SHERATON HOTEL, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
FREDERICK FISHER & PARTNERS, Santa Monica, CA
TAJIMA CORPORATION, Los Angeles, CA
GIFU PREFECTURE GOVERNMENT, Gifu City, Japan
FREDERICK R. WEISMAN MUSEUM, Malibu, CA
RUSSO COMPANY LTD., Tokyo, Japan
HARRAHíS CASINO, Atlantic City, NJ


CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS

2001 A MATTER OF STRUCTURE, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
A BORROWED DAY, exchange show with Luna Gallery, Berilin, Germany
and Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
2000-01 CRAZY SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ART, co-director, Santa
Monica, CA
2000 WEIRD BENT, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
LAUREN HARTMAN, GESTHE II, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
1999 BLACK MOUNTAIN WEST FIRST ANNUAL STUDENT AND FACULTY
EXHIBITION, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 COMING AND GOING, Edward Giardina Contmeporary Art, Santa Ana,
CA
1996 EUROPEAN LIGHT & SPACE, Academy of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1995 SENIOR JUROR, Los Angeles National Juried Art Exhibition, Los
Angeles, CA
JUROR, Long Beach Arts Association, Long Beach, CA
1994 OFF BEATS, National Council for Jewish Women, NCJW Art Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
1993 ECCENTRIC ABSTRACTION, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
1992 DEATH BY CHOCOLATE, The Art Store Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
1991 RELENTLESS CURIOSITY, Sam Francis Gallery at the Crossroads School
for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1999-02 Advisory Board Member, LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION,
Los Angeles, CA
1988-02 Member, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION, New York, NY
1996-02 Member, FULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION, Washington, DC
1998-99 Member, BEYOND BAROQUE, Venice, CA
1994-96 Board Member, SIDE STREET PROJECTS, Santa Monica, CA
1994-96 Board Member, LARABA (Los Angeles River Arts and Business
Association). Los Angeles, CA
1992-94 Board Member, DOWNTOWN ARTS PARTNERSHIP, Los Angeles,
CA