| Artist | Lisa Falkenstern | Resides | United States |
| Website | lisafalkenstern.com | Medium | Acrylic Oil Egg Tempera |
| Print Shop | lisafalkenstern.com/shop | lisa@lisafalkenstern.com | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Themes | Fantasy Steampunk Magical Realism |
About the artist
Lisa Falkenstern has been a professional painter for more than thirty years, during which she has painted almost a thousand book covers for most of the major publishers.
She is a Gold Medal winner from the N.Y. Society of Illustrators and has won many awards from such shows as the L.A. Society of Illustrators, 3×3 International, Creativity International, as well as being in the annuals of Spectrum, Creativity, Infected By Art and Print. She has won multiple Best in Show awards at the N.J. Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Jury Awards from the biennial Focus On Nature shows at the N.Y. State Museum. Lisa is in the permanent collection of the N.Y. Society of Illustrators and the N.Y. State Museum.
Lisa has illustrated the picture books The Busy Tree, published by Marshall Cavendish and My Very Own Pirate Book, published by I See Me. She is the author and illustrator of A Dragon Moves In, also published by Marshall Cavendish and Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC, published by Two Lions.
Lisa is in a book about women fantasy painters, Women of Wonder, published by Underwood Books, and she is one of featured artists in Paperbacks from Hell, a book on the art of the horror paperbacks of the 70’s and 80’s, published by Quirk Books.
She paints in oils, acrylic and egg tempera and shows her magic realist art at various galleries.
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Lisa Falkenstern is an imaginary realist painter. All her life she has been fascinated by fantasy art. Fantasy art, for her, delights the eye and intrigues the mind. Lisa uses paints and pencils to make the unreal appear to exist. She sculpts maquettes, take photographs, draw from life, all in an attempt to bring reality to what she sees in her mind and hope others will see the same.
Lisa have painted many different subjects, whatever interests her. “I love steampunk, and I love to paint anthropomorphic animals in different styles of dress”.
Press
Lisa Falkenstern paintings have been featured in two books published by Quirk Books: Paperbacks from hell and Women of Wonder published by Underwood Books.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| April 2026 | Group exhibition: ‘Yet to be announced’ | Rehs Gallery NYC, USA |
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Education
1976
Parson School of Design, New York City, NY. United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
All The Way Home, The American Artists Professional Award for Traditional Realism, Allied Artists of America 112th Exhibition
2024
127th Anniversary Open, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Juried Exhibit, Salmagundi Club, N.Y. N.Y., United States
Ellarslie Open 41 Juried Exhibit, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ. United States
All The Way Home, The American Artists Professional Award for Traditional Realism, Allied Artists of America 112th Exhibition, Juried Exhibit, Reading Public Museum, Reading PA, United States
2023
Ellarslie Open 40 Juried Exhibit, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, NJ. United States
Phillips’ Mill 94th Annual Art Show
Allied Artists of America 110th Exhibition
Allied Artists of America 110th Exhibition, Juried Exhibit, online
2022
Allied Artists of America 109th Exhibition, Juried Exhibit, online
2020
Phillustration 12, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, P.A., United States
Creativity International, Juried Exhibit, online
42nd Annual Juried Painting & Sculpture Open, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Juried Exhibit
Allied Artists of America 107th Annual Exhibition, Juried Exhibit
Ellarslie Open 37 Juried Exhibit, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, N.J., United States
Creep Up!, Up Art Incubator Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Lansdale P.A., United States
2019
Los Angeles Society of Illustration, Illustration West 58, Juried Exhibit
Infected By Art, Volume 7, Juried Exhibition
2019 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, N.J. United States
Ellarslie Open 36, Juried Exhibit, Trenton Museum at Ellarslie, Juried Exhibit, Trenton N.J. United States
Phillips’ Mill Community Association Annual Juried Art Exhibition, New Hope, P.A. United States
2018
Los Angeles Society of Illustration Show, Illustration West 57, online
Allied Artists of America Associates Juried Exhibit, Salmagundi Club, N.Y, N.Y. United States
Rituals and Identity, Ann Street Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Newburgh, N.Y. United States
Hey, Diddle Diddle; Artist Interpretation of Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, Niza Knoll Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Denver, CO, United States
Ellarslie Open 35 Juried Exhibit, Award: Best in Show, drawing category, “Springtime” The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton N.J. United States
Tales of the Sea, South Haven Center for the Arts, Juried Exhibit, South Haven, MI, United States
The Egg Show, ArtVale Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Oakland, CA, United States
Storybook Style: A Selection of Works from the Minds of Living Illustrators, Morris Museum, Juried Exhibit, Morristown, N.J. United States
The Crow Show, The Studio Door, Juried Exhibit, San Diego, CA, United States
New York Society of Illustrators Annual Show 60, Juried Exhibit, Society of Illustrators, N.Y N.Y., United States
Honorable Mention, ‘Masquerade’, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators Annual Show, Illustration West 56, Juried Show
2017
Jury Award for ‘Tulip Tree Roots”, Focus On Nature XIV, The Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Juried Exhibit, Jamestown, N.Y., United States
2016
Fables, Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends and Myths, Fe Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Sacramento, CA, United States
Artists Alive, New Hope Historical Society, Juried Show, New Hope, P.A., United States
2016 Members’ Exhibit, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, N.J., United States
Honorable Mention, ‘Sheepish’, Summer Arts Festival, Artsbridge, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, N.J., United States
Awards, Best in Show and Peoples’ Choice for ‘I Will Awake And Go Now’, NJ SCBWI Summer Conference Art Show, Juried Exhibit, Princeton, N.J., United States
The Enchanted Universe, The Galleries of The Interchurch Center, Juried Exhibit, N.Y., United States
Ellarslie Open 33 Juried Exhibit, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, N.J. United States
2015
Bronze Award for ‘Toadstool’, Creativity International Awards, online
Illustration West 54 Exhibition, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, online
Inspired By Nature, Lawrence Pavilion, Juried show, Berkeley Heights, N.J., United States
Stover Mill Gallery Award, ‘Tree Trunk’, 2015 Juried Exhibition, Stover Mill Gallery, Pipersville, P.A., United States
The Gallery Piquel Award for Imaginative Realism Painting “When Pigs Fly“, Artsbridge 21st Annual Open, Juried Show, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, N.J., United States
New Hope Art League 6th Annual Juried Art Show, New Hope, P.A., United States
