Liz Deschenes

Place: Boston

Born: 1966

Biography:

Liz Deschenes is an American contemporary artist and educator. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1966. Deschenes' work is situated between sculpture and image and engages with post-conceptual photography and Minimalism. Her work examines the fluidity of the medium of photography and expands on what constitutes the viewing of a photograph. Deschenes has stated that she seeks to 'enable the viewer to see the inconstancy of the conditions of display, which are always at play but sometimes hard to see.' Her practice is not bound to a single technology, method, process, or subject, but to the fundamental elements of photography, such as light, paper, chemistry, and time. She has taught at Bennington College and was a visiting artist at Columbia University's School of Visual Arts and Yale University. In 2019, she was the Wolf Chair in Photography at Cooper Union. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is a visiting artist in photography at Bard College. She lives and works in New York City.