Lisa Sigal is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Philadelphia and received her BFA from Tyler School of Art. She then attended Skowhegan and went on to get her MFA in apinting from Yale University.

She has has solo shows at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, LAX Art in LA, Samson Projects in Boston, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, White Columns in NYC and many more.

She’s been in group shows too numerous to name, but a few include the New Museum, P.S.1, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artists Space, Painting Center, Art i n General and many more.

Her work has been covered in Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Time Out, The New York Times and many others. She has won the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NYFA Grant, amongst others.

Lisa is also the co-founder and co-curator, with Nova Benway, of Open Sessions, a program for artists run by The Drawing Center.

Brian met up with Lisa at her Gowanus studio and they spoke about public art, old Soho days, gentrification, music and her current show at Miller Contemporary.