LIZ NIELSEN (b. 1975 in Ashland, WI) received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL; her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and her Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University, Seattle, WA.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Made in the Dark,” Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO; “She LOVES me...,” SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; “Romanticist,” Danziger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Edge of Forever,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Apparitions,” Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom; “Electric Romance,” 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX; “Rolling Aura,” David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; “Liz Nielsen: Forcefield” (presented by Strongroom), The Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh, NY; “I’d Like to Imagine You’re in a Place Like This,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA; and “Spooky Action,” Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY.

Recent group exhibitions include “Camera-less,” Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT; “Friends & Lovers,” Main Projects, Richmond, VA; “Clairvoyance,” SHRINE, New York, NY; “Sense of Place,” Chautauqua Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY; “Liz Nielsen & Dávid Biró: Jet Lag,” Horizont Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; “Midi de l’Art: The Borders,” Galerie MOB-ART Studio, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg;“300 Days of Sun,” Hexton Gallery,Aspen, CO;“Why I Make Art” (curated by Brian Alfred), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Who Really Cares?” (curated by Helen Toomer), Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; “Time Lapse,” Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; and “Signs of Spring,” Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant, Washington, D.C.; New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Grant, New York, NY; Residency, McColl Center for Arts + Innovation, Charlotte, NC; Finalist, Meijburg Art Prize, Unseen Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Residency, Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary; Orange County Arts Council Relocation Grant, Newburgh, NY; and the Chicago Academic Achievement Program Grant, Chicago, IL.

Nielsen lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY.