Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist and writer, recognized for her ephemeral and permanent works created in landscapes and public spaces. A leading figure of the Light and Space movement in 1970s California, she became known for her poetic pigment-based interventions in the desert. Her work explores humanity’s place within the vastness of time and space, seeking to make the concepts of contemporary cosmology accessible. She represented the United States at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale, where she received the grand prize. Her work Stellar Axis, supported by the National Science Foundation, resulted in the largest ephemeral artwork ever created on the Antarctic continent. She has also received several distinctions, including three Art in Public Places awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the 2019 Wendt Artist of the Year award from the Laguna Art Museum, and the Distinguished Women in the Arts award from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Her recent exhibitions include Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Museum, Desert X 2017, the Art Safiental Biennial 2018, Desert X AlUla 2020, Light & Space at Copenhagen Contemporary, as well as Groundswell: Women of Land Art at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Her works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.