Lisa Kokin lives and works in El Sobrante, California with her spouse, the photographer Lia Roozendaal, Austin and Ollie, hercanine studio assistants, and Bindi the cat. The daughter of upholsterers, she stitches everything she can get her hands on.Kokin brings a fiber sensibility and a conceptual approach to a diverse array of materials, including fabrics, paper, metal, andshredded money. Her work is often a commentary on the world around her, often incorporating the age-old Jewish response toadversity, humor, and an empathy with the underdog, which she attributes to growing up in a secular, liberal Jewish family in whichissues of social justice were often discussed. Kokin has been the recipient of multiple awards and commissions,including a Eureka Fellowship, a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship, the Dorothy Saxe Invitational Award for Creativity in ContemporaryArts from the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Alameda County Arts Commission (multiple venues), and the Richmond Civic CenterPublic Art Interior Acquisitions Project. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Boise Art Museum, theBuchenwald Memorial, the di Rosa Preserve, Mills College, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, Yale University Art Museum, and Tiffany Co.