Since the early 1970s, Lita Albuquerque has created an expansive body of work,
ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting and multi-media performance to ambitious
site-specific ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe. Often associat-
ed with the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has developed a
unique visual and conceptual vocabulary using the earth, color, the body, motion and
time to illuminate identity as part of the universal. Recent major exhibitions include
Lita Albuquerque: Early Works at Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels; Ground-
swell: Women of Land Art at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Lita Albuquerque: Liquid
Light presented by bardoLA at 59th La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2022; Light
& Space at Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; Desert X AlUla 2020, Saudi Arabia;
the 2018 Art Safiental Biennial, Switzerland; Desert X 2017; 20/20: Accelerando at USC
Fisher Museum of Art; The Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Performance and
Public Art Festival. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA and MOCA, among
others. A dedicated educator, Albuquerque has held many teaching appointments
during her tenure, and was on the core faculty of the Graduate Art Program at Art
Center College of Design for 35 years.