Biography
Lois Bielefeld is a series based artistworking in photography, audio,video, and installation. Her work continually asks the question of what links routine and ritual to the formation of identity and personhood. Born in Milwaukee, WI,Loishas, she lives now in Alameda (San Francisco Bay area) with her wife.
Lois Bielefeld has her BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Besides photography, she feels passionate about traveling, hiking, eating, swimming and bicycling adventures.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, the Museum of Wisconsin Art,and The Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Lois has shown at The International Center of Photography in New York City and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. In 2015 Lois had a artist residency in Bourglinster, Luxembourg through the Museum of Wisconsin Artand the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture. Bielefeld is represented by Portrait Society Gallery.