A follow up to A Field Guide to Color, the Color Meditation Deck offers over 500 prompts for folks to explore creating their own color meditations.
chroma japan !
Christine Buckton Tillman and my chroma dreams have come true. I have co-curated a show including Libby Black, Mitra Fabian, Aurora Robson, and Remi Nakai which will be viewable at the Koumi Machi Museum (near Nagano) from July 5 - September 7, 2025
I have been continually making installations based on my Senninbari piece for both private and institutional collections.
lisa solomon
is an oakland, california based mixed media artist, author, educator, and occasional curator
who has been teaching [at Bay Area Colleges and classes around the world] for 20+ years. As a Hapa she continually explores ideas, spaces and materials that are in-between. A self declared color geek, she is profoundly interested in bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, creating community, and making a living as a creative.
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the latest news + exhibitions
Authentic Obsessions Podcast
The fabulous Molly Meng and I had a conversation about glues, color, process, discipline and other fun stuff. Listen Here.
F@ck off // Group Show at Walter Maciel Gallery
January 25 - March 1, 2025. Curated by Monica Lundy and Walter Maciel, a group show that grapples with the consequences and fear surround the return of President Trump. Pieces from my photo series on Japanese Internment are included. Installation views here.
Group exhibition at 120710 Gallery Berkeley
Curated by John Colle Rogers and Gemma Szusterman. This group exhibition opens March 1, 2025 from 4-8pm and runs through the 22nd of March at 120710 gallery. I will be exhibiting 3 new mended targets
Amime // Solo Exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery
September 7th - October 26th 2025, an exhibition that explored the Japanese pattern AMIME - a fishing net. The pattern lives on everything from kimonos to dishware and symbolizes good fortune. Several large scale installations as well as a series of prints, paintings and drawings were on view. The exhbition was featured on art daily.
Kiku no hana // art kiosk
extended to be up through October 1, 2024 in the Art Kiosk in Redwood City - 2208 Broadway - I explored how Executive Order 9066 affected residents of San Mateo County. The exhibition is free and available to view 24/7. Read about the thoughts behind the pieces here.
Remembering Ruth Asawa
Five contemporary artists create new work in response to the artist Ruth Asawa and The Garden of Remembrance, a memorial to Japanese American incarceration during WWII located on the SFSU campus. Featuring: Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Tina Kashiwagi, Paul Kitagaki, Jr., Lisa Solomon, TT Takemoto. The catalog features essays from Lewis Kawahara, Weston Teruya, and Patricia Wakida. February - April 2024. This exhibition was reviewed in the SF Examiner and there is a corresponding interview with Weston Teruya here. Catalogue Available This exhibition traveled to the Fine Arts Gallery at San Diego State University from Feb-April 2025
CHROMA installation in SF Chinatown
Christine Buckton Tillman and I created 5 panels of a chroma installation piece for 2023's Edge on the Square second annual art Festival - entitled Under the Same Sun.The pieces will be on view in the windows through May of 2024
A Beautiful Mess
Beginning in Feb. 2021 at the Bedford Gallery and travelling through 2025 - it will open at the Dennos Musum of Art September 27, 2024 and be on view until January 5, 2025. Please see the group exhibition portion of my CV for upcoming and past venues
Solo exhbition San Luis Obispo Museum
Cellular Memory at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Curated by Emma Saperstein and on exhibit from June 2 and thru August 28, 2023. A mini retrospective of several bodies of work, along with a newly commissioned large french knot piece installed in an Amime [Japanese Fishing Net] pattern. This exhibition was reviewed in the SLO New Times and also LA Weekly
entitled "But Where Are you From From?" is the work I've been creating over the pandemic. All about my identity and this very question I've been asked my whole life I've made 21 self portraits outfitted in places people have assumed or asked if I've from (above is Mongolia) and 5 life size color portraits in the clothing of my actual ethnic heritage. This show closed Dec. 23rd 2022 and was reviewed in Atillery Magazine. All the work is now viewable on my Portfolio Page.
Stunning photos of the Hermosa Beach home that houses a blue knot installation were featured in July's edition of Wallpaper Magazine
The WPA is alive and well
The amazing Jackie Sumell of Solitary Gardens asked me to create a poster for her prisoner's apothecary project that won WPA support. This was such an honor and thrill. You can see/download and read all about the USDAC's continuing support of artists and social justice projects HERE.
Spirituality & Health Magazine asked me to write a short piece on the genesis of #ColorMeditation . If you haven't heard the story before - check it out ! I also did a follow up piece on Color Meditation for Anxiety.
Since 2016 I have been curating and organizing small art and good auctions on instagram that raise money for people and organizations doing good in the world - from the ACLU, to World Central Kitchen, to food banks, COVID relief, the San Jose Sewing Academy and beyond, it is our hope that these small stones will make larger ripples.