Lisa Yuskavage Filadelfia, Estados Unidos, b. 1962

One of the most original and influential artists of the past three decades, Lisa Yuskavage (b. 1962) creates works that affirm the singularity of the medium of painting while challenging conventional understandings of genres and viewership. At once exhibitionist and introspective, her rich cast of characters and their varied attributes are layered within compositions built of both representational and abstract elements, in which color is the primary vehicle of meaning.

Born in Philadelphia, Yuskavage received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, in 1984 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1986. The artist’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2000); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2001); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2006); The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2020); and the Baltimore Museum of Art (2021). In 2025, an exhibition of drawings by Yuskavage was on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. A monograph of the artist's work was published in 2026 as part of Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists Series, with texts by Ariel Levy, Barry Schwabsky, and Lena Dunham.

Work by Yuskavage is held in prominent institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Yuskavage lives and works in New York.