Lisa Hoke
1952–

Lisa Hoke (born 1952) is an American visual artist based in New York City and Hudson Valley, New York. She is known for colorful, immersive installations and abstract sculptures characterized by labor-intensive working processes and inventive use of repurposed consumer detritus as raw materials. Her work has often challenged notions of mastery, permanence and fixed meaning, embracing qualities such as contingency and transience. In early sculptures, she tested gravity and balance with intuitively arranged, tenuous suspensions; her later large-scale installations are created on-site and dismantled after exhibition, their materials saved for future re-use. Hoke first gained recognition in the 1990s as one of a number of sculptors that mined the domestic sphere for materials and ideas, in her case, mixing elements of formalism and postminimalism, Pop assemblage, and social, often feminist, commentary. In the 2000s, critics have compared the bright, swirling forms and textures of her installations to the varied surfaces of Antoni Gaudí and the sparkling patterns of Seurat and Klimt.

Hoke has been recognized by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Academy of Design. She has exhibited at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Holly Solomon Gallery, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, and New Museum. Her work belongs to the collections of the Whitney, Johnson Museum of Art and New Orleans Museum of Art, among others.