Liz Nielsen is an American photographer based in Brooklyn.

Career edit

Nielsen prefers using traditional analog photography methods with hand-made negatives and natural lighting. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago two years later.

Nielsen's photography has been featured in The New Yorker,[1] The New York Times,[2] Wall Street Journal,[3] Hyperallergic[4] ArtSlant,[5] British Journal of Photography,[6] and LensCulture,.[7]

Her work has been exhibited at Black Box Projects[8] in London, the Denny Gallery[9] in New York, Danziger Gallery in New York, and SOCO[10] Gallery in North Carolina. Nielsen and Carolina Wheat founded the Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2016, and have also co-organized the exhibition Transaction at Knockdown Gallery.

She was a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina.

References edit

  1. ^ "Liz Nielsen". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ^ Browne, Alix. "Shows of Support". T Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. ^ Chou, Kimberly. "Scaling the Gallery Walls". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ^ "9 Artists to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  5. ^ "Liz Nielsen". ArtSlant. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  6. ^ "Black Box Projects Liz Nielsen". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  7. ^ "Liz Nielsen". LensCulture. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  8. ^ "Liz Nielsen - Black Box Projects". blackboxprojects.art. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  9. ^ "Liz Nielsen - Denny Gallery". dennygallery.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  10. ^ "Liz Nielsen". SOCO GALLERY. Retrieved 2016-03-05.