Liz Deschenes
Biography
Liz Deschenes (Boston, 1966) lives and works in New York.
Since the early 1990’s, Liz Deschenes has produced a body of work that emancipates photography from its conventional definition as a document and explores the material condition of the medium and its processes. Making use of the medium’s most elemental aspects, namely paper, light, and chemicals, Deschenes creates shifting surfaces that function as sculptural or architectural rather than photographic objects. The artist’s carefully calibrated installations probe disparate histories of image production, abstraction and exhibition making while collapsing the attributed roles of the viewer and the artwork.
Her work was included in several solo exhibitions such as Liz Deschenes at Gravity’s Pull at Hôtel Le Lièvre #4: Liz Deschenes & Louise Lawler at Campoli Presti in Paris (2021)
She has had several group shows such as Nineteenth-Century Photography Now at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles (2024); Expanded Visions : Photography and Experimentation at CaixaForum in Madrid (2023); PRINT MATTERS, YEAH! , curated by Christophe Boutin, Serralves Foundation, Porto; Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirschhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.(2023); For the People of Paris at Campoli Presti in Paris (2022); Une seconde d’éternité, Pinault Collection at Bourse de Commerce in Paris (2022); Plages at Campoli Presti in London (2017).
Her work is currently on view in Space at The Pierre Lorinet Collection in Singapore; FRAMES PER SECOND (SILENT) at Eastman Museum in NY.
Her work is included in the permanent public collections of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Le Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee.
