Lisa Marie Thalhammer is a visual artist. The heroines portrayed in her work deconstruct conventional notions of gender, identify and power. Thalhammer’s recent exhibitions include Sass at Transformer and Welcome to Lizard County at G Fine Arts in Washington DC and Don’t Fear for the Future Sweetness curated by SunTek Chung at Gallery 5 in Richmond Virginia. Recent art fairs include ArtDC; PULSE New York; and Aqua Art Miami Beach. Lisa Marie is a 2008 and 2007 recipient of the Young Artist Program Grant Awards and 2008 Public Art Building Communities Grant from DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include the Amsden Award, the Hollander Family Foundation Award, the Daniel Macmorris Scholarship, the Warner Ferguson Service Scholarship and the Jacobs Prize. Lisa Marie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with Honors, a Women Studies Minor and Art History Concentration from the University of Kansas in 2003.
