Liz Glynn

Liz Glynn creates sculpture, large-scale installations, and participatory performances that use historical narratives, cultural artifacts, and monumental architecture to explore the potential for change in the present tense. Her practice functions as a form of materialist philosophy: activating sculptures through performance, shifting materials to trace changes in value, and embodying the rise and fall of empires through cycles of action and object production.

Her solo exhibitions include The Archaeology of Another Possible Future at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2017); The Myth of Singularity at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2015); RANSOM ROOM at SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2014); and exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2017, 2015, 2014). She has also presented cycles of performances including [de-]lusions of Grandeur – Monumentality and Other Myths at LACMA (2015–16); loving you is like fucking the dead at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2011); and black box, a platform featuring more than 60 artists as part of the Getty Research Institute’s Pacific Standard Time (2012). Her first major public art project, Open House, was commissioned by the Public Art Fund for Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York City (2017), and was later presented in Boston by Now + There (2018).

Glynn’s work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Barbican Centre, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Petit Palais, Paris; the LUMA Foundation, Arles, France; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, where it was included in Made in L.A. (2012); and the New Museum, New York, where it was featured in the museum’s inaugural triennial Younger than Jesus (2009). She has participated in residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida; and Artpace, San Antonio, Texas.

She is the recipient of a Creative Capital Emerging Fields grant, as well as grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and the California Community Foundation. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, as well as the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. Glynn is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, frieze, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, Cabinet, Even Magazine, The Guardian, and Vanity Fair, among others. Before joining the faculty at UC Irvine, Glynn taught as a visiting lecturer at Harvard College, UCLA, ArtCenter College of Design, and Otis College of Art and Design. She received her B.A. from Harvard College in 2003 and her M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 2008.

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