Liz Nielsen

Exchange Topic: Artist Representation with Galleries & Public Art
July 2023

Liz Nielsen is an experimental photographer based in Newburgh, New York, USA. Her photographs are made without a camera and can be described as light paintings or photograms. She works in the analog color darkroom exposing light sensitive paper and processing it through traditional photographic chemicals. Nielsen received an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2004, her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997. Liz has exhibited her work extensively including recent solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Her photograms have been featured at international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, AIPAD New York, Unseen Amsterdam, and Landskrona Foto in Sweden. Nielsen has been reviewed in Artforum, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Guardian, the London Financial Times, LensCulture, Vogue UK, and  FOAM magazine among others.

Liz Nielsen is represented by Miles McEnery gallery in NY, SOCO gallery in Charlotte, NC, Black Box Projects in London, and she also works with galleries in Los Angeles, Denver, and Budapest.