Lily Cox-Richard

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Ann Arbor, MI

Year at Millay: 2013

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Arts/Industry Program, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI (2023, 2022); Artist-in-Residence, Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Art OMI, Ghent, NY (2015); Fellow, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2012); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2011); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2005).

Website: https://www.lilycoxrichard.com/

Lily Cox-Richard (she/her/LCR) makes sculptures and installations that take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance. LCR has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, RAIR Philadelphia, and MacDowell. Recent solo exhibitions include “Yvonne” (Guatemala City), “Artpace” (San Antonio, Texas), “Diverseworks” (Houston, Texas), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas).

LCR studies, forages, and practices in Tsenacomoco territory / Richmond, Virginia, on land that, for thousands of years, has been inhabited and cared for by Indigenous people, including the Pamunkey, Monacan, Chickahominy, and many other tribes untold and forcibly disappeared.