LITA ALBUQUERQUE USA, b. 1946

Lita Albuquerque is a major figure in the Land Art and Light & Space Movements. She was born in 1946 in Santa Monica, California. She was raised in Tunisia, then in Paris. When she was eleven, she moved to the United-States with her family.

In 1970, Albuquerque emerged on the Californian artistic scene through the Light and Space movement. At the end of the 1970s, she gained international recognition for her ephemeral Land Art installations. Through coloured pigments in natural landscapes, she questions cartography, identity and the cosmos. The artist is interested in our place in the immensity of infinite space and eternal time.

She represented the United States in the 6th edition of the Cairo biennial, where she won the first prize. She was rewarded with three NEA Art in Public Places awards, an NEA Individual Fellowship grant, a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the 2019 Laguna Art Museum Wendt Artist of the Year Award, and MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts award. Among her recent major exhibitions, she participated in the Light and Space retrospective at Copenhagen Contemporary Denmark (2021); the exhibition Groundswell: Women of Land Art, at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (2023); the Art Safiental Biennale in Switzerland in (2018), Desert X in (2017), 20/20 : Accelerando in the USC Fisher Museum of Art, and the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival of the Getty Museum. Her artworks are held in numerous major collections, including: the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the LACMA and the MOCA.

Artist’s site: https://www.litaalbuquerque.com/.