luisa lambri
biography
Luisa Lambri was born in 1969 in Como, Italy. She lives and works in Milan and Los Angeles.
Luisa Lambri’s discrete photographs occupy a unique space between photographic abstraction and the spatial exploration of architecture. They are pared down to the most reductive elements and inspire a transcendental perception of light and space. Her signature style is marked by an emphasis on lines and grids as well as an extreme subtlety of color. Frequently working in series, she isolates details such as corners, doors and windows and different qualities of light to build personal and intimate readings of environments. It is possible to perceive in them references to abstract geometric painting of the early twentieth century, the Light and Space movement of Southern California, Brazilian Neo-concretism, and Minimalism.
Luisa Lambri was born in 1969 in Como, Italy. She lives and works in Milan and Los Angeles.
Luisa Lambri’s discrete photographs occupy a unique space between photographic abstraction and the spatial exploration of architecture. They are pared down to the most reductive elements and inspire a transcendental perception of light and space. Her signature style is marked by an emphasis on lines and grids as well as an extreme subtlety of color. Frequently working in series, she isolates details such as corners, doors and windows and different qualities of light to build personal and intimate readings of environments. It is possible to perceive in them references to abstract geometric painting of the early twentieth century, the Light and Space movement of Southern California, Brazilian Neo-concretism, and Minimalism.
Lambri studied at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Milan and received her PhD from the Department of Visual Arts, Music and Theater at the University of Bologna. Her work has been exhibited at the 1st Cleveland Triennial (2018), the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial (2018), the 12th and 9th Venice Architecture Biennials (2010 and 2004), the 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010), and the 50th and 48th Venice Biennials (2003 and 1999). Her work will be the subject of a survey show at PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2020) and she has had solo exhibitions at the Met Breuer, New York (2017), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2012), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), the Baltimore Museum of Art (2007), the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2006), the Menil Collection, Houston (2004) and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (2000). Group shows include exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2019), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2019), Tate Modern, London (2018), the Jewish Museum, New York (2016), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), among many others.
Lambri’s work is included in several museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City among others.
images
The Met Breuer
Untitled (The Met Breuer, #03), 2016
Pigment print
90 × 72 cm
Untitled (The Met Breuer, #05), 2016
Pigment print
90 × 72 cm
Untitled (The Met Breuer, #07), 2016
Pigment print
80 × 90 cm
Ambiente Spaziale
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #01), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #02), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #03), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #04), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #05), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Untitled (Ambiente Spaziale, #06), 2012
laserchrome print
94 × 79.5 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, #04), 2008
Laserchrome print
74,9 × 63,5 cm
Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, #13), 2008
Laserchrome print
74,9 × 63,5 cm
Untitled (Centro Galego de Art Contemporánea, #12), 2008
Laserchrome print
74,9 × 63,5 cm
Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, #16), 2008
Laserchrome print
116 × 95,7 cm
Untitled (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, #17), 2008
Laserchrome print
116 × 95,7 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Untitled (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, #15), 2008
Laserchrome print
74 × 58,41 cm
Untitled (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, #11), 2008
Laserchrome print
82 × 68,4 cm
Untitled (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, #35), 2008
Laserchrome print
78 × 65,8 cm
Sheats-Goldstein House
Untitled (Sheats-Goldstein House, #04), 2007
Laserchrome print
98 × 79,5 cm
Untitled (Sheats-Goldstein House, #08), 2007
Laserchrome print
108 × 87,9 cm
Untitled (Sheats-Goldstein House, #10), 2007
Laserchrome print
108 × 87,9 cm
Rachofsky House
Untitled (Rachofsky House, #01), 2007
Laserchrome print
76,9 × 95 cm
Untitled (Rachofsky House, #02), 2007
Laserchrome print
76,9 × 95 cm
Teatro Regio
Untitled (Teatro Regio, #02), 2007
Laserchrome print
40 × 48 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino
Untitled (Teatro Regio, #03), 2007
Laserchrome print
40 × 48 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino
Untitled (Teatro Regio, #05), 2007
Laserchrome print
40 × 48 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino
Untitled (Teatro Regio, #07), 2007
Laserchrome print
40 × 48 cm
Photo: Copyright Fondazione Teatro Regio di Torino
Gropius House
Untitled (Gropius House, #10), 2005
Gelatine silver print
25 × 20 cm
Casa das Canoas
Untitled (Casa das Canoas #12), 2003
laserchrome print
99 x 115 cm
Untitled (Casa das Canoas #13), 2003
laserchrome print
99 x 115 cm
Untitled (Casa das Canoas #16), 2003
laserchrome print
93.8 x 105 cm
Casa da Baile
Untitled (Casa de Baile, #01), 2003
Laserchrome print
73,9 × 85 cm
Untitled (Casa de Baile, #02), 2003
Laserchrome print
73,9 × 85 cm
Untitled (Casa de Baile, #03), 2003
Laserchrome print
73,9 × 85 cm
Ministerio de Educacion
Untitled (Ministerio de Educacion, #02), 2003
Laserchrome print
118 × 143 cm
public exhibitions
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Cleveland
Marlon de Azambuja and Luisa Lambri
14.7 – 30.9.2018
Photo: © The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Cleveland
Marlon de Azambuja and Luisa Lambri
14.7 – 30.9.2018
Photo: © The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Commissioned by FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Cleveland
Agnieszka Kurant: End of Signature, 2018
14.7 – 30.9.2018
Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles
Met Breuer
New York
Breuer Revisited: New Photographs by Luisa Lambri
1.2 – 21.5.2017
Met Breuer
New York
Breuer Revisited: New Photographs by Luisa Lambri
1.2 – 21.5.2017
Met Breuer
New York
Breuer Revisited: New Photographs by Luisa Lambri
1.2 – 21.5.2017
Carnegie Museum of Art - Forum 57
Pittsburgh
Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
18.2.2020
Carnegie Museum of Art - Forum 57
Pittsburgh
Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
18.2.2020
Carnegie Museum of Art - Forum 57
Pittsburgh
Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto
18.2.2020
The Menil Collection
Houston
Luisa Lambri: Locations
19.3 – 24.7.2004
press
publications
Kramlich Residence and Collection
Hatje Cantz
Berlin
2019
Luisa Lambri: Portrait
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston
2012
Interiors
Ivorypress
Madrid
2011
Locations
D.A.P.
New York
2004
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
California
2013