About

Biography

Lisa Van Dusen (b. Detroit, Michigan) is a Palo Alto, California-based artist whose research-based practice spans drawing, installation, performance, text, video, photography, and socially engaged forms. Her work explores the social, civic, emotional, and spatial ecosystems that shape belonging, access, and connection across public and personal life.

Van Dusen’s recognition includes the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship Award, the Athena Award, selected as a Cubberley Emerging Artist Studio Artist, and Leading by Design Fellow at California College of the Arts (CCA).

She has exhibited at Avenidas, Palo Alto; the Tahoe Gallery, Garage Gallery, and Ron & Maureen Ashley Community Gallery, Incline Village; the Donna Beam Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas; the Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Los Altos Hills; and ArtLab, Palo Alto, among others. Her work is held in private collections.

Van Dusen received her A.B. in Semiotics from Brown University (1977), including studio art coursework at RISD, and her M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe (2025).