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 and spent her childhood in Tunisia, Paris and the US.

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 colored 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.

Among her major recent exhibitions are the Light and Space retrospective at Copenhagen Contemporary Denmark (2021), Groundswell: Women of Land Art, at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (2023), and the Venice Biennale.

She represented the United States in the 6th edition of the Cairo biennial, where she won the first prize. She has been awarded MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts award along with three NEA Art in Public Places awards, an NEA Individual Fellowship grant, a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, among many other honors.

Her works are held in numerous major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA and MOCA.