Cindy Lisica with artwork by Catherine Colangelo. Photo by Jan Rattia, 2017.
ABOUT:
Cindy Chou Lisica, PhD, is an Asian-American art historian, curator, professor, art travel guide, consultant and gallery owner with an eye for collaboration and active connections around the world, representing contemporary artists through gallery and museum exhibitions, public talks, and art fairs. She successfully owned and operated two previous commercial art galleries: Revision Space in Pittsburgh from 2014 to 2016 and Cindy Lisica Gallery in Houston from 2016 to 2019. Known for supporting emerging and established artists and successfully incubating the careers of rising art stars, Cindy Lisica Gallery continues to curate contemporary exhibitions and participate in art fairs across the country.
Over the last two decades, Cindy has held museum positions at The Warhol in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles, The Menil Collection in Houston, and Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, and she has co-organized and installed museum exhibitions internationally in Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo. She has curated over 50 exhibitions and served as a speaker at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, MAC Marseille (Le Musée d’Art Contemporain), The House of World Cultures in Berlin, University of Helsinki, The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and CAFA Shanghai, among other institutions. While her gallery was in Houston’s Museum District, Cindy served as a speaker on Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami at the Printing Museum, juror for the Visual Arts Alliance 35th Juried Members Exhibition, portfolio reviewer for the Fotofest Biennial 2018, and was a founding officer of the Houston Art Gallery Association. Cindy has also published several exhibition catalogs, articles, and reviews. Her most recent publication is a ten-chapter e-book, Global Perspectives in Modern Art: Turning Points of the Twentieth Century (Kendall Hunt: 2024). Her new account of the last century acknowledges the “big hits” and established traditions — and the ground-breakers who challenged them.
Dr. Lisica holds a PhD in History and Theory of Art from the University of the Arts London, an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art from California State University-Long Beach, and BA in Integrative Art from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She also holds professional certifications in the Care of Historic and Fine Art Photographs (Gawain Weaver Services), Appraisal of Japanese Woodblock Prints (International Society of Appraisers), Art and Design Reference Sources for Library and Information Scientists (Art Libraries Society, Victoria and Albert Museum), Developing Educational Practice (Centre for Learning & Teaching in Art & Design), Copyright Compliance in Art and Archives (Tate Britain), Foreign Languages at Work - Japanese (EDI Learning & Performance), and Digital Image Training for Museums (Tate Britain). She is currently Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design and has taught Study Abroad courses in Japan and France.
