Lisa Nankivil is best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings and abstract monoprints. Though her work shares formal qualities with the modernist innovations of European and American abstraction, her paintings typically feature color schemes, brushwork, and techniques based on long-established painterly traditions.

Nankivil has received numerous awards and grants, including the Jerome Foundation’s Fellowship for Emerging Artists and the Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Her work is found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Clinton Foundation, New York; Surdna Foundation, New York; U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.; General Mills, Golden Valley, Minn.; Peregrine Capital Management, Minneapolis; Reyes Holdings, Chicago; and Winston & Strawn LLP, Geneva, Switzerland, and many others.

Nankivil (b. 1958, Winona, MN) lives and works in Minneapolis, where she maintains her principal painting studio and private press.