Born in 1983 in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Berlin.
Notions of unmasking are central to the painterly project of Lisa Jo, which mediates a process of revealing and concealing. An initial impression of flatness belies an intricately layered abstract composition, while glimpses of body parts or hints of architecture crop up only to be truncated or unraveled just as abruptly. Addressing painting’s perennial concern with its surface, there is a continuing play with negative space, destabilizing the distinction between background and foreground.
Selected solo exhibitions include Ecology of Fear, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco (2025); Trouble Every Day, Galerie Molitor, Berlin (2024); David Lewis, New York (2023); Braunsfelder, Cologne, with Laurent Dupont (2020); and Plymouth Rock, Zurich (2019). Selected group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; The Downer, Berlin; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg.
Portrait photo by Rob Kulisek
