Lily Cox-Richard earned her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, and BFA in Jewelry/Metal Arts from California College of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), and the Hudson River Museum (New York). She has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, Millay Colony, and the MacDowell Colony.

Lily Cox-Richard is the recipient of the 2015 Houston Artadia Award.