Biography lisa milroy

Biography

LISA MILROY (1959)
Vancouver, Canada

Lisa Milroy was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada and moved to London in 1979 to
study at St Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in
1982.

Milroy was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in 2001 and was awarded the Hugh
Cassen Drawing Prize in 2004.

She won the John Moores Prize for Painting in 1989. Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006, Milroy has travelled extensively in connection with her work, including undertaking residencies in Beijing, Taiwan and Japan, the influence of which can be seen clearly in much of her work.

Milroy is Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.

She lives and
works in London and is represented by the Alan Cristea Gallery.

Selected Solo Exhibitions include: 2010, Time and Time Again, artsdepot, London;
2009 Life on the Line, Alan Cristea Gallery, Lond