Lisa Lapinski (born in 1967 in Palo Alto, California) is an American visual artist who creates dense, formally complex sculptures which utilize both the language of traditional craft and advanced semiotics.
In a review of her work published in ArtForum, Michael Ned Holte noted, "At such moments, it becomes clear that Lapinski's entire systemic logic is less circular than accumulative: What at first seems hermetically sealed is often surprisingly generous upon sustained investigation.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial exhibition, Day for Night, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne.
Lapinski received the American Center Foundation grant for exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2007.
The prevalence of faces, cartoon silhouettes, swastikas, Stars of David, Christian crosses, corporate logotypes, and many less specific geometric figures (circles, triangles, checkerboards, and frets), which themselves contain symbolism of nature, science, or machinery, lend her sculptures and drawings a representational dimension that teeters between scientific reference and abstract decoration.