Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- TEXTile, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2021
- The Wordless Library,
Seager Gray Gallery,
Mill Valley, CA - 2018
- Lucre, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 2016
- Loss for Words, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Spotlight Exhibition, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- 2015
- Ten Years in the Making, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 2014
- Lisa Kokin, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Facsimile, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Saddle Stitch, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
- 2013
- How the West Was Sewn, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
- 2012
- Raveling, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- In Another Vein, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2011
- Speaking Volumes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
- 2010
- Panacea Plus, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- 2009
- Joy of Booking, Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
- Ex Libro, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- 2007
- Lisa Kokin: Fruit of the Broom, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
- 2004
- Attachments, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Secondhand Memories: Sewn Found Photographs, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, Canada
- 2002
- Domestic Intelligence: Books by Lisa Kokin, San Francisco Public Library,
James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco, CA - 2001
- Relative Obscurity, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2000
- Salvaged Histories, Nine Gallery, Portland, OR
- Sew to Speak, Kennedy Art Center, Holy Names College, Oakland, CA
- 1999
- Lost and Found, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, BC, Canada
- Bookmaking Is Not a Crime, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
- Flea Market Economy, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1997
- Art Book Art, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Circumstances Beyond Our Control, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- My Trip to Buchenwald, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
- 1996
- Remembrance, Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar-Buchenwald, Germany
- 1995
- Fond Objects, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1994
- Tome is Where the Art Is, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, NB, Canada
- 1992
- Tales of a Nice Jewish Girl and Unearthing, Definitely Superior,
Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada and Artcite, Windsor, Ont., Canada - Remembrance, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA
- Unearthing, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 1991
- Persistent Memory, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
- 1989
- Award of Excellence Show, Surface Design National Conference, Gatlinburg, TN
- 1988
- Vestiges: Work in Fiber by Lisa Kokin, Pitt International Galleries,
Vancouver, BC, Canada - 1986
- Batiks and Drawings of Lisa Kokin, The Women’s Building, San Francisco, CA
- 1985
- The Batiks of Lisa Kokin, Centro Cultural Vergeiro, São Paulo, Brazil
- Lisa Kokin: Batiks, Espaço Universitário, Vitória, Brazil
- Daybreak: Nicaragua/El Salvador, Kunsterverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany and Kulturtreff, Erlangen, Germany
- 1984
- Daybreak: Nicaragua/El Salvador, Galerie Franz Mehring, Berlin, Germany
- The Past Will Not Return, Exploratorium, California State University,
Los Angeles, CA - Lisa Kokin’s Studio at Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
- 1983
- Fabric of the Peoples of the Americas, Casa Fernando Gordillo,
Managua, Nicaragua - 1982
- Latin America in Batik, Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Holland, Sheffield Town Hall, Sheffield, England, and Transnational Institute,
Amsterdam, Holland - 1980
- Lisa Kokin: Batiks, Laney College, Oakland, CA
- 1979
- Batiks of Lisa Kokin, Santa Fe Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
- 1976
- Batik Banners, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
- 2025
- Stitched: Contemporary Embroidery Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- 2024
- Tell Me How It Ends Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
- Surface Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
- California Jewish Open The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- The Art of MaterialsPetaluma Arts Center, Petaluma, CA
- Cultural Currency: Contemporary Art from the Reimer Collection, Myrtle Beach Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC; Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
- Past as Prelude Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2023
- Cultural Currency: Contemporary Art from the Reimer Collection Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
- Color VI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Mining/Mending, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Preview 2023, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2022
- 35 x 35, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
- Flora and Fauna, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Her Story: Honoring Our Female Artists, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community and Ourselves,
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA - 2021
- Holiday Show, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Fotofiber, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY
- 45th Anniversary of Gail Severn Gallery, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- In ConTEXT, Gail Severn Gallery,Ketchum, ID
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 2020
- Collector’s Choice: Selections from Boise Art Museum’s Collectors Forum,
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID - BAM Unpacked, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
- The Far, the Near, Aria Art Gallery (online) Tehran, Iran
- Flora and Fauna VIII, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- To Hear and Be Heard, Santa Clara University (online), Santa Clara, CA
- The Influence of the Earth, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Between Worlds, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 2019
- Unbound: the Art of Deterioration, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
- Some Assembly Required, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
- Of Things to Come, The Arts Company, Nashville, TN
- 2019 Preview, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2018
- Way with Words: The Power and Art of the Book , MCA, New York, NY
- Nature Redefined: Contemporary Explorations of the 19thCentury International Arts and Crafts Movement, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Musubu: Book Arts from Japan and the San Francisco
Bay Area,
American Bookbinder’s Museum, San Francisco, CA - Radical Invention, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL
- The Spectrum of Women, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2017
- MUSUBU: Book and Art: Tokyo: California: Urawa, Urawa Art Museum,
Urawa-ku, Saitama, Japan - Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA - By the Book, Kaller Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- New Horizons, Chicago Art Source, Chicago, IL
- 2016
- From Generation to Generation, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA - Mind over Matter, Florida CraftArt Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
- Black and White, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Intoxicating Textiles, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Found, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
- The Button Show, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
- Unbound: Altered Books in Contemporary Art, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
- 2015
- The New Textiles: Transformed, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
- Ten Years of Artists’ Books, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
- Unhinged: Book Art on the Cutting Edge, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
- ABC: Assemblage, Book Art, and Collage, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery,
Cedar City, UT - The 2015 Dorothy Saxe Invitational: Tzedakah Box,
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA - Adaptation: Turning Books into Art, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
- Body as Agent: Changing Fashion Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
- 2014
- Paronomasia, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
- CT (Un)Bound, Artspace, New Haven, CT
- Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Adaptation: Turning Books into Art, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
- Reframe: An Exploration of Memory and Nostalgia, Feature Shoot at Photovile, Brooklyn, NY
- State of Nature III, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- Annual Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
- Women's Work, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Preview 2014, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- The Uncommon Thread: Jody Alexander and Lisa Kokin San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
- 2013
- Bibliophilia, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Remains to be Seen: Alternative Process and Manipulated Photography,
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selingsgrove, PA - Interweaving, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
- Summer Salon, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Annual Group Show, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
- Materials Matter, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Dialoguing with Sacred Text: An Exhibit of Sacred Texts Past, Present and Future, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
- Preview 2013, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
- 2012
- Summer Salon: Materials, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Word-Play, Studio Quercus, Oakland, CA
- The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Femmescapes, Mills College Art Museum at 70 Park (Lenore Pereira and Rich Niles Collection), San Francisco, CA
- Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 2011
- Seager Gray Inaugural Exhibition, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- Art + Communication of Space, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
- Scrap ART, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
- Reconstructions: the Altered Book, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- Banned and Recovered, U.C. Merced Kolligian Library, Merced, CA
- 2010
- Banned and Recovered, Humboldt State University Art Gallery, Arcata, CA
- Unbound: A National Exhibition of Book Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- Boutons: Phenomène Artistique, Historique et Culturel, Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
- Secret Drawings, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
- By a Thread, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- 2009
- The Altered Book, Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
- Afterlife, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Prints on the Edge, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Second Nature: Recycled Materials Inspired by Animals, Plants and Insects,
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH - New Works/Old Story: 80 Artists at the Passover Table, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 2008
- Banned and Recovered, African American Museum and Library Oakland, CA
- The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- (Un)common: Art of Altered Objects, Department of Art and Art History,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA - Artists as Collectors, Oakland Museum Exhibits at the Oakland Airport,
Oakland, CA - 2007
- Women’s Work, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- California College of the Arts Faculty Exhibition, Oakland, CA
- Other People’s Memories, Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
- Gathering, Oakland Museum off-site exhibition, Oakland, CA
- Childish Things, 301 Bocana, San Francisco, CA
- Singularity in the Communal Tide: Culture and Identity in the Moment,
Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ - Legacies, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA
- 2006
- The First Illusion: The Transitional Object, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Nostalgia, Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA
- Menagerie: Artists Look at Animals, Museum of Craft and Folk Art,
San Francisco, CA - Eighth Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
- Spring Selections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
- The 9th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,
University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI - See Jane Run, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- Image as Object, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
- The Art of the Book, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, CA
- 2005
- Inaugural Group Exhibition, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Lisa Kokin/K.C. Rosenberg, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA - Justice Matters: Artists Consider Palestine, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
- Scents of Purpose: Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Faculty Exhibition 2005, John F. Kennedy University Arts and Consciousness Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- 2004
- Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO and Texarkana Regional Center For Visual Art,Texarkana, TX
- Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC,
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA, Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL, and Milton Hershey School Art Museum,
Hershey, PA - Hidden Treasures, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
- Inner Workings, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2003
- Is Money Money? Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Needle Art: a Postmodern Sewing Circle, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX and J.Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, College Station, TX
- Show Me the Money: the Dollar as Art, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA and Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
- 2002
- Ex Libris, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Renegade Portraits, Public Resource Center for Activism and the Arts, Washington, DC
- Refuse/Reuse/Redux, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
- 2001
- Books as Art, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
- 1010, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Eureka Fellowship Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- 2000
- Eureka, Too! Fellowship Awards 1999-2001, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Eureka Fellowship Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- Piecing It Together: A Visual Journal, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
- 1999
- The Right to Assemble, Halsey Gallery, Charleston, SC
- Piecing it Together: a Visual Journal, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- Spinal Epidural, Please! Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1998
- Alternativity: the Other Side of Christmas, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- On the Money, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX and Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 1997
- Talent 1997, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
- Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Codified Desires, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1996
- CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
- Codified Desires, In Khan Gallery, New York, NY
- Family Matters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
- 1995
- Representations of Auschwitz, Gauforum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
- The Medicine Show, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
- A Foot in the Door, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- 1994
- Redefining the Book, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Rooms for the Dead, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Book as Art VII, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
- 1993
- Hybridization: Contemporary Northern California Craft, 1975-Present,
Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA - Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- Fiber=Linear Element, San Jose City College, San Jose, CA
- 1992
- History: Truth or Consequences, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
- Domestic Ontogeny, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
- Form and Object, juried by John Perreault, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
- 1991
- Site: Western Union, Haines Annex, San Francisco, CA
- Fiberarts International ’91, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
- New Ends, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
- 1990
- Fiber Progressions, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
- On Fiber: Human Conditions, UNL Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
- Batik: The Dyeing Art Today, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH
- 1989
- Works on Paper, Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinston Beach, CA
- Paper/Fiber XII, Johnson City Arts Council, Iowa City, IA
- Pro Arts Juried Annual, juried by Mary Jane Jacob, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
- 1988
- Art of the Refugee Experience, Euphrat Gallery, Cupertino, CA
- Personal Mythologies, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
- 1987
- Punto Común/On Common Ground, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
- Women’s Foundation Awards Exhibition, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
- Viva La Vida: An Homage to Frida Kahlo, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
- 1986
- South Africa: State of Emergency, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
- 1985
- Art Against Apartheid, Heller Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- The Other America, traveling show, Stockholm, Hamburg, Rome
- 1982
- In Progress, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
- 1978
- Homage to Frida Kahlo, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA