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Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About Lisa Milroy
- Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects placed in lines or patterns.
- She has also produced a number of different series including landscapes, buildings, portraits and geishas in incongruous settings.In 1977, aged 18, she went to Paris to study at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
- In 1978 she moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art.
- She gained her BFA at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1982. Her first solo exhibition was in 1984 which was based on still life.
- In 1989 she won the John Moores Painting Prize.
- Milroy is currently Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.
- She gained election to membership of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005 and was appointed Artist Trustee of Tate from 2013-2017.
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