Lisa Roet has held more than 25 solo exhibitions around the world including the National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, the Melbourne Museum, and galleries in Berlin, New York and Brussels. Her various awards and achievements include the prestigious McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Award (2005), The Kedumba Drawing Award (2005); the National Works on Paper Award (2003); and the National Sculpture Prize (2003).   She has also been the recipient of several important grants, including an Asia Link Residency at the National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2000).
Lisa has featured in the Australian Art Collector’s ‘50 Most Collectible Artists’ (2001) and is the subject of an impressive monograph by Alexie Glass.

Lisa Roet graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1987. Over the past ten years, she has also supplemented her studies with residencies at ape
research centres and major international zoos in Berlin and Atlanta, as well as field observation of apes in the forests of Borneo, Malaysia.

Particularly acclaimed are Lisa Roet: Finger of Suspicion, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park,
Melbourne (2004); Pri-Mates, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth (2004); Pri-Mates Drawing, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne (2003); The Shadow, National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2001); Pri-Mates: Hands, LIebmanMagnan Gallery, New York (2000-2001); and Sebrechts-Park, Brugge Kunst Halle, Brussels.