Based in Detroit, Michigan, Lisa Waud is a botanical installation artist, focused on large-scale, multi-sensory, immersive works incorporating biophilic elements. Lisa’s installations utilize plants and flowers to explore themes of the space between living and decaying, nature as a cleansing reset, and joy from beauty. Lisa is committed to producing art events that are pointedly inclusive for collaborators and spectators, and accessible to all humans, with a focus on projects celebrating the beauty of underrepresented and marginalized people. 

Past installations include FLORA festival in Cordoba, Spain, flower house Detroit, the fierce urgency of now, hiberna flores, and the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Lisa’s projects have been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Martha Stewart, Hyperallergic, Colossal, Designboom, The Jealous Curator, Globe and Mail, Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News, Detroit Art Review, Crain’s Detroit, Black Magazine, Washington Post, and Travel + Leisure. 

Lisa has lectured at TEDxDETROIT, Milwaukee Art Museum, Cranbook Art Museum, Broad Museum, Henry Ford Museum, Cleveland Botanic Garden, Intermitten Tech Conference, Slow Flowers Summit, and David Klein Gallery in Detroit. Lisa has received grants from Goldman Sachs, Kresge Art Foundation, the Belle Foundation, New Economy Initiative, and the Awesome Foundation.

www.lisawaud.com