Artist and Educator
Lisa Spiros was born in New York City, where she is currently teaching jewelry making, as she has for the past twenty five years. Some of the schools she has taught at include Parsons School of Design, New School for Social Research, New York University for fifteen years, and The State University of New York at New Paltz. She has been invited as a guest lecturer and visiting artist by The Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and the Hiko Mizuno College Art in Tokyo, Japan. Spiros received her B.F.A. in Metals from The State University at New Paltz, NY and attended graduate school for three years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.
Spiros maintains a personal jewelry studio in upstate, New York, where she makes Minimalist stainless steel jewelry and architectural metalwork. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at museums such as; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. National Museums of Scotland, National Museum of Wales, Crafts Council of Great Britain, The Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria, Laforet Museum, Tokyo Japan.
Most recently, the Museum of Arts and Design made their second acquisition of her Jewelry work, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City acquired a piece of hers for their permanent art collection through The Department of Nineteenth Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. The piece was part of the museum exhibition “Unique by Design” Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection.