Selected collections and exhibition venues:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York; Danish Musuem of Art & Design, Copenhagen, Denmark; French National Collection of Art, Paris, France; De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Renwick Gallery, National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Lia Cook: Material Allusions – traveling exhibition); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (From Lausanne to Beijing, International Fiber Art Biennial); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Transformations: The Language of Craft); Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, Lincoln Nebraska (Lia Cook: In Touch, Faces and Mazes, traveling, solo exhibition); University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (The Embedded Portrait, solo exhibition).
Recipient: Gold Medal: 5th International Fiber Art Biennial; Award, Flintridge Foundation; Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts; Fellowship, California Council for the Arts.