Lisa Lipinski

Lisa Lipinski is art historian and specialist in the fields of modern and contemporary art. She teaches courses in the history and theory of photography, 19th and 20th-century art in Latin America, the United States, and Europe, and Art Historiography. She has taught seminars on the history of exhibitions, the art of Marcel Duchamp and the Harlem Renaissance. Her education research is focused on pedagogy and assessment in higher education, and developing students’ skills in research and writing.

She has worked in major art museums: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Phillips Collection and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She provides regular guest lectures on art and diplomacy for the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State. Dr. Lipinski is also a licensed D.C. tour guide and a member of the Guild of Professional Tour Guides, Washington, D.C.

Current Research

• She is currently working on a book titled: Made in America: American Art and American Identity at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
   

Publications

Published essays in museum catalogs on Pierre Bonnard and 19th-century American and French painting, as well as Spanish and Flemish paintings in the Prado, including:

• The possible in the life and work of René Magritte, Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, edited by Vlad Glăveanu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
• Surrealism, Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, edited by Vlad Glăveanu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
• René Magritte and the Art of Thinking (Routledge Press, Research in Art History, 2019)
• "Encouraging American Genius: Creative Exchange at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art + Design," in Academics, Artists, and Museums, eds. Clare Kunny and Irina Costache (forthcoming from Routledge Press, Museum Studies Series, 2018), co-author with Sarah Cash
• Del Greco a Goya: Obras Maestras Del Museo del Prado (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2012)
• Senderos al Impresionismo / The Journey to Impressionism (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 2008)
• An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection by Eleanor Jones Harvey (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2007)
• Bibliography, provenance, and exhibition histories for the catalogue, Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late (The Phillips Collection, September 2002)

Education

BA Humanities, Michigan State University
MA Art History, Michigan State University
PhD Art History, University of Texas at Austin

Professional Organizations

• College Art Association, member
• Guild of Professional Tour Guides, Washington, DC, member
• She is also a licensed Washington, DC professional tour guide