Library of Light, published by Lund Humphries, 2019

Library of Light: encounters with artists and designers by Jo Joelson is structured around twenty-five interviews and four thematic essays. The interview with Liliane Lijn reveals an early fascination with light from her childhood in New York and her subsequent focus on the poetry of light, light as a language and the science of light.
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The WORD is Art, published by Thames & Hudson, 2018

Michael Petry's global overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work, including a broad range of artists; Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Liliane Lijn, Shirin Neshat and many more. Liliane Lijn's text based works are featured, including moonmeme, 1992 and ABC Cone, 1965.
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Light and Memory

Thames & Hudson, London, 2002

This catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition Liliane Lijn: Light and Memory at Rocca di Umbertide, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy, 29 June – 12 September 2002
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First Words, 2000

Lijn’s plan is to collect 2000 first words: a word for each year since the birth of Christ. The ‘children’ in question can be grownups now as long as their first word is either remembered or documented.
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Her Mother’s Voice, 1996-98

In Her Mother’s Voice Lijn asked her mother to remember her life. She then transcribed the oral tapes, endeavouring to retain the unique character of her voice. Her Mother's Voice focuses on memory and an individual's history, which is also the history of the artist and on a broader scale that of the forced exoduses and resettlements of a generation of Russian and European Jews.
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