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The artist's photographic works of her land art installations span from intimate layered photo-drawings in the Sol Star Grid series created around her installation at the Pyramids in Giza in 1996, to her large scale triptych memorializing her major urban Land Art installation bringing a nuanced feminist intervention to the grandiose obalisque at the Washington Monument in DC in 1980.
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. In early 2024 she held a solo show, Early Works, at La Patinoire that brought her Land Art indoors for the first time in Europe.
Albuquerque represented the United States in the 6th edition of the Cairo biennial, where she won 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.
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Sol Star
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Lita Albuquerque layered graphs, symbols, honeycomb structures and a replica of the map of the stars she created in situ for her Sol Star desert performance at the Pyramids in Giza in 1996 to create a set of 5 photo-drawings - an ode to alternative conceptions of power and the connection between earth and the heavens.
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The Washington Monument Project
Lita AlbuquerqueWashington Monument Project : The Red Pyramid, 1980/2023Archival pigment print on paper104,3 x 155 cm (chacun)
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The Washington Monument Project: The Red Pyramid was produced in 1980 on the National Mall in Washington, DC for the International Sculpture Conference. The exhibition centers on a unique composition of photographs and a sculpture in copper and pigment, reanimating this ephemeral performance work that transmuted the iconographic Washington Monument from a symbol of imperial strength to an ode to a different sort of power: cosmic, spiritual and timeless.
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Man and the Mountain II
Man and the Mountain II (1979) was another major ephemeral Land Art installation that exists now in the artist's photographs. To create the site-specific work, pigment was blown over a five hundred foot circumference on the Mojave Desert floor. Art historian William L. Fox describes Albuquerque's intentional harmony with nature, the ephemerality of her interventions as well as her use of color to be part of the artist's uniquely feminist contribution to the history of Land Art. Alongside Judy Chicago and Patricia Johanson, Albuquerque’s introduction of color was “a deliberate choice to counter the monochromatic earthworks by the men,” and “feminize land art,” Fox wrote. -
Rock and Pigment
1978/2023Once again in the Mojave Desert, this 1979 natural pigment-based ephemeral installation was created on a dry lake bed. In a technique that Albuquerque would repeat throughout her practice, the rocks were placed in alignment to the stars overhead to reflect the cosmos. The artist claims as her signature "the relationship between earth and sky."
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Recent Exhibitions and News:
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LITA ALBUQUERQUE | GROUNDSWELL WOMEN OF LAND ART
GROUP EXHIBITION 23 September 2023 - 7 January 2024Lita Albuquerque was one of 12 female artists included in the major retrospective Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Texas, USA. Using materials like earth,... -
LITA ALBUQUERQUE | COPENHAGEN CONTEMPORARY
GROUP EXHIBITION 3 December 2021 - 22 September 2022Lita Albuquerque was one of the artists presented in the major retrospective on the Light and Space Movement at Copenhagen Contemporary. Light & Space features both historical and new works... -
LITA ALBUQUERQUE | MOCA
GROUP EXHIBITION 15 January 2023Lita Albuquerque is included in the group exhibition Long Story Short at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, curated by Anna Katz and open from January 15th, 2023 through... -
LITA ALBUQUERQUE | LAND
SOLO EXHIBITION 22 June 2024Lita Albuquerque will create a new iteration of her iconic 1978 site-specific land art work Malibu Line on June 22 and 23, 2024 in Malibu, California. The installation is curated... -
LITA ALBUQUERQUE | LE QUOTIDIEN DE L'ART
PRESS 3 April 2024Lita Albuquerque is featured as the Image du Jour in the Quotidien de l'Art journal. Stéphanie Pioda writes on The Sacred According to Lita Albuquerque. Watching Lita Albuquerque (b. 1946)... -
LITA ALBUQUERQUE | NEW YORK TIMES
PRESS 19 June 2024In the New York Times, Jori Finkel writes on Lita Albuquerque's newly recreated Land Art work Malibu Line. Lita Albuquerque made a strange sort of painting in 1978 that changed...
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LITA ALBUQUERQUE | PERFORMANCE
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