b. 1981 Lives and works in New York City Education 2009 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY 2008 MFA, Columbia University, Visual Arts division, NY, NY Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2003 BA, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Solo Exhibitions 2012 I Feel Your Pain and The Digital Face, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Various Small Fires, Venice, CA 2010 chase, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Lost It, NT Art Gallery, including works made in collaboration with Felicia Garcia-Rivera, Bologna,Italy Group Exhibitions/Screenings & Performances 2012 The Digital Face, Sunday Session, MOMA/PS1 Performance Dome, NY 2011 Performa Biennial 11, New York, NY I Feel Your Pain, a Performa commission for biennial of new visual art performance Ljubljana Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia Perfumed Nightmare, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY Transactions, Galería Horach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Evidence of Accumulation, video collaboration with Simone Leigh and Alicia Hall Moran, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Soft Machines, curated by Sarvia Jasso and Harmony Murphy, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY Everything Must Go!, a project with Cerámica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by José Noé Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY Flight, public performance project on the “TKTS” steps supported by the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and Times Square Alliance, Times Square, New York, NY Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield, presented by Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow, Russia), Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Champagne Urbana, The Paper Mill, Sydney, Australia Terminal Jest, curated by Stamatina Gregory and Michael Hall, Delaware County Community College in Media, PA Involuntary, curated by Neville Wakefield, fordPROJECT, New York, NY In Absentia, curated by Gillian Sneed, Pace University's Peter Fingesten Gallery, NY 2010 NADA Sculpture Garden, Canyon Ranch, Miami, FL Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY Exodus to the Civilized Wild, HMK (Hotel Maria Kapel), Hoorn, Holland Digression, curated by Jessica Shaefer, Hendershot Gallery, New York, NY Backroom, curated by Kate Fowle, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY Inspired, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Steven Kasher Gallery, NY Saturday Sessions (Flight, a performance produced for the steps organized by Chris Lew), MoMA PS1, LIC, NY Ordinary Miracles, SlaughterhouseSpace, Healdsburg, CA Be Black Baby, performance event curated by Simone Leigh, Recess, NY Seeing Voices: The Visual Voice, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ Conversions, Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY A Testbed of Futurity, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY 2009 The First Installment of chase, curated by Julie Fishkin & Matt Lucas, Heist Gallery, New York, NY Artisterium 2009, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia Lost and Found, screening and performance, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY Dallas Video Festival, The Angelica, Dallas, TX Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Prague Biennial 4: The Newest New York, curated by Lina Bertucci & Michael McKinney, Karlin Hall, Czech Republic Picture Parlor IV: Pecha Kucha Freestyle, curated by Anais Lellouche & Hajnalka Somogyi, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY EXHIBITION, 211 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY Subverted Genres, curated by Gabriela Galati and Rebecca Mirsky, Sue Scott Gallery, NY, NY Spacebuster, performance and screening event curated by the Fragmental Museum inside Spacebuster by Raumlabor, organized by Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY, NY Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Studio Program Exhibition, Art in General, NY, NY New Deal, curated by Kyle Thurman and Matt Moravec, The Art Production Fund, NY, NY Secret School 05: Food, Antena, curated by Huong Ngo and Alexander Stewart, Antena, Chicago, IL Award Winning Show, video in collaboration with Dafna Maimon, 1646, The Hague, Holland Locus, works made in collaboration with Felicia Garcia-Rivera, curated by Lauren Wolk, Gallery 51, North Adams, MA 2008 4 Artists | 4 Screens, screenings curated by Gabriela Galati, White Box, NY, NY VideoZone4 - The International Video Art Biennial, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Wet, Chashama Art Space, NY, NY Ahh...Decadence!, Art Institute Chicago Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Deadliest Catch: Hamptons, curated by Michael Sellinger, Core, South Hampton, NY Dallas Video Festival, Conduit Gallery & the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Cool, work made in collaboration with Felicia Garcia-Rivera, George Adams Gallery, NY, NY Columbia University's MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY, curated by João Ribas. 2007 Infinitu et Contini: Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistances, curated by Denise Carvalho, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY I LOVE NEW YORK, 33 Bond Gallery, NY, NY Body, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy 2006 MASH, curated by David Hunt, Design District, Miami, Florida Scenic Detour, Red Saw, Newark, NJ On Tenterhooks, Christopher Henry Gallery, NY, NY The Matthew Barney Show, Jack the Pelican Presents, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY PodArt 2, curated by Heather Stephens, Fine Art in Space, Long Island City, NY Native Spirit, Supreme Trading, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2005 Codependent, curated by Amy Davilla, The Living Room, Miami, FL The Divine Body, curated by Bruce Ferguson, Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY 100 Artists For a Museum, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy. 2004 Northwest Annual, curated by Ken Lum, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 2003 OfficeOps, Brooklyn, NY, Collaborative Show and performance. Camera Club of New York, New York, NY Bibliography 2012 Martinez, Alanna. "Liz Magic Laser, She's So Hot Right Now". Artinfo.com, March 28 Fishkin, Julie. "The Art of Banking: A Talk With Liz Magic Laser". Sadie Magazine, issue 18. Winter. Laser, Liz Magic. "The Interview". Art in America, March Duray, Dan. "Liz Magic Laser Doesn’t Care for Interviews". GalleristNY.com. March 2. "Liz Magic Laser Exhibition". NYArtBeat.com. March. "A conversation between Liz Magic Laser and Maurizio Cattelan". Muse, Spring/Summer Glover, Ian. "Artist Profile: Liz Magic Laser". rhizome.org. February 9. 2011 Smith, Roberta. “Substance and Spectacle”. The New York Times. December 16. Sutton, Benjamin. "Performa 11: Liz Magic Laser Feels Our Pain, Even if Politicians Don't ". The L Magazine. Novemebr 15. Valdez, Amanda. “Liz Magic Laser” (interview). Bomb Magazine's BOMBLOG.com. November 30. Smith, Roberta. “So Big, Performa Now Misses the Point”. The New York Times. November 25. Rosenberg, Karen. “Liz Magic Laser's Political Theater of the Absurd”. nytimes.com. November 14. Hirsch, Faye. “Performa Playbill: Liz Magic Laser”. artinamericamagazine.com. November 14. Rosenberg, Karen. “What's Performing at Performa”. nytimes.com. October 24. Steinhauer, Jillian. “Liz Magic Laser Feels Your Pain”. The New York Observer. November 8. "Performa 11, Bigger than Ever". Artnet Magazine. September 13. Miller, Michael. "Repeat Performance". The New York Observer. September 15. “Evidence of Accumulation: Goings on About Town”. The New Yorker. September 12. Kimball, Whitney. “Endless Love: Liz Magic Laser's 'I Feel Your Pain'”. Art Fag City. November 15. "InterAct: a reenated interview", text project with Christopher Y Lew. Art Journal. May. Boucher, Brian, "in-Flight Movie: Liz Magic Laser in Times Square". Art In America. May. Gaebe, Carly. “Body Conscious: Soft Machines at the Pace Gallery”. artinamericamagazine.com. July 22. 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"Greater New York". Frieze. October. Cashdan, Marina. “Ten (Plus One) Emerging Artists of 2011”. huffingtonpost.com. Dec 31. Campbell, Stewart. "Liz Magic Laser at Derek Eller Gallery". Art Lies. Fall/Winter: p 96. Carlin, TJ. "Liz Magic Laser: chase". Art Review. September. Davis, Ben. "The Emerging Consensus". ArtNet.com. September 3. Hamrah, AS. "Bad Influences, Bad Personalities". n+1, August 23. Hirsch, Faye. “Greater New York MoMA PS1”. Art in America. September. Cotter, Holland. "Liz Magic Laser at Derek Eller Gallery". The New York Times. June 25. Saltz, Jerry. "Check Your Balance Here". New York Magazine. June 7. Saltz, Jerry. "Sincerity and Irony Hug it Out at PS1's Greater New York". New York Magazine. June 7. "Liz Magic Laser at Derek Eller Gallery: Goings on About Town". The New Yorker. June 14 & 21. Citron, Beth. "Liz Magic Laser at Derek Eller Gallery: Critic's Pick". artforum.com. June 1. Sickler, Erin. "Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser". Art 21 blog. May 27. Robinson, Walter. "MOMA the Kid". artnet Magazine. May 20. Indrisek, Scott. "Liz Magic Laser". ARTINFO.com. June 17. Catton, Pia. "A Fête for the Whitney". The Wall Street Journal. June 11. Piercey, Catherine. "Paint, Photo, Print: Four Artists Reinterpret BCBG Dresses for the Whitney's Art Party". Vogue. May 27. Slonin, Jeffrey. " RSVIP: BCBG Sponsors Kooky Fun Whitney Museum Art Party". Luxist. June 10. 2008 Genocchio, Benjamin. "In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works". The New York Times. September 28. del Prete, Elisa. "LIZ MAGIC LASER NT Art Gallery, Bolgna". Arte e Critica (Rome). May. Perra, Daniele. "TALENT: FOTO Liz Magic Laser". Kult (Milan). May. "Arte & Mercato: Photoshock," Art Maggio (Italy). May. Kasper, Chris. "Infinitu et Contini:Repeated Histories, Reinvented Resistances". Art Papers. Spring. Pearse, Emma. "Culture Vulture: Artists Liz Magic Laser and Felicia Garcia-Rivera Get Cold Feet". nymag.com. August 13. 2007 Pepe, Federico. Le Dictateur (Italy), six photographs from "Lost It" project. Summer. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Foundations of Art and Design, photograph cited in Art History textbook. 2006 Chakrabandhu, Prima. Daybed Magazine (Thailand). February. Loyst, Cynthia. City TV, Toronto, Canada. Artist's profile broadcast. Fall 2005 Rosenberg, Mark. Design Times Creative Source (South Africa), November McLeod, Kevin. Mastermind. NY, NY. 2004 Kangas, Matthew. "Still annual but, alas, barely Northwest". Seattle Times. October 29. Sperber, Katharina. Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin (Frankfurt, Germany). September 1. Egner, Eugen. Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin (Frankfurt, Germany). September 9. Grants & Awards 2011 Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY Times Square Arts, New York, NY, funding for public art project 2010 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, New York, NY 2009 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY 2008 The Brown Foundation Fellowship to attend Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture The Brevoort Eickemeyer Grant to attend Columbia University The Hayman Visual Arts Gift to attend Columbia University 2003 The Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Prize, Wesleyan University Go to top