Biography

Liz Nielsen is a New York based artist who works as a photographic light painter in the analog color darkroom. In September/October 2016, Liz was an artist resident at the Budapest Art Factory.
In April 2016, Nielsen had a solo exhibition at Danziger gallery in New York.  In June, her light collages were in a two-person show in Cork Co. Cobh Ireland at the Sirius Art Center. Last year, Nielsen had 3 solo exhibitions: Night Garden at SOCO gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina, Magic Lantern at Laurence Miller gallery in NYC and Wolf Moon at Denny gallery in NYC. Her recent exhibitions have been reviewed in the New Yorker, Art21, Charlotte Magazine, and Beautiful Decay. Nielsen received her MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.