Liz Nielsen
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BIO
Liz Nielsen (b. 1975, Ashland, Wisconsin) received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and her BA from Seattle University, Seattle, WA. Nielsen completed residencies at the McColl Center for Arts + Innovation, Charlotte, NC; and at the Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary. Nielsen’s innovative practice upends the traditional method of analog photography. Working in the color darkroom, she exposes light sensitive paper and processes it through conventional photographic chemicals, creating chromogenic photograms and light-paintings by way of camera-less photography. Her compositions of rich, liquid color become a record of the path of radiant energy as it moves over and through her works. Taking shapes from landforms, her photograms depict an evanescent moment of an unnamed place, giving rise to conversations of temporality, transformation, and the physical world.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Danziger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom; 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX; Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA; David B. Smith, Denver, CO; and Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY. Her photograms have been featured at international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, and Unseen Amsterdam. Nielsen has been reviewed in Artforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, the London Financial Times, LensCulture, Vogue UK, and FOAM Magazine among others. The artist lives and works between Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY.
