Liz Deschenes

Liz Deschenes (b. 1966, Boston) graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, ICA/Boston, the Pinault Collection, the Aïshti Foundation, the Israel Museum, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the V-A-C Foundation, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Corcoran Museum of Art, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In 2021, she participated in True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, curated by Stefan Gronert at the Sprengel Museum (Hanover), Off the Wall at SFMoMA (San Francisco) and This Inconstant World at the ICA Los Angeles. In 2020, Deschenes’ was included in Material Meanings—Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2019, she participated in Luogo e Segni, curated by Mouna Mekouar and Martin Bethenod at the Pinault Collection ­­–Punta della Dogana (Venice). In a series of two-person exhibitions with Sol LeWitt, Deschenes’ work was mounted at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (2017), Miguel Abreu Gallery and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (both 2016). Her work was the subject of a 2016 survey exhibition at the ICA/Boston. In 2015, Deschenes presented solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA and the Walker Art Center, and was included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Musee d’Art Moderne, the Centre Pompidou, and Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. In 2014, her work was featured in Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art and in What Is a Photograph? (International Center for Photography, New York). In 2013, she exhibited new work in tandem solo exhibitions at Campoli Presti (Paris and London), and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, among others. In 2012, she was included in the Whitney Biennial and had a one-person exhibition at the Secession in Vienna and a two-person exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago that she co-curated with Florian Pumhösl and Matthew Witkovsky. Previously, her work has also been exhibited at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, the Aspen Art Museum, Klosterfelde (Berlin), the Walker Art Center, the Langen Foundation (Düsseldorf), the Tate Liverpool, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Recent monographs dedicated to Deschenes’s work include Registration (Paris: Three Star Books, 2022), Liz Deschenes (Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 2016) and Liz Deschenes, Secession (Vienna: Secession, Berlin: Revolver, 2012). A survey exhibition dedicated to her work, Works: 1997-2022, is on view at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, through August 2022. Additionally, her work is currently included in the 2022 edition of the Geneva Biennale: Sculpture Garden, Shifting the Silence at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Une seconde d’éternité, at the Pinault Collection, Paris, and Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.