Liss LaFleur
Liss LaFleur (she/her/hir) is an American artist, educator, and activist. Through interdisciplinary arts-based research, she explores queer identity and the future of feminism. Her work has been widely exhibited and screened, including at: the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; SXSW; on PBS/ POV Digital; the Reykjavik Art Museum, IS; TATE Modern, UK; Galeria de Arte, Santiago, Chile; the Hearst Museum at Berkeley University; the Museum of Glass, US; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea.
LaFleur has received awards and fellowships from the John F. Kennedy Center, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the College Art Association, and the Ford Foundation. She has been a finalist for the Foundwork Art Prize (2019), Art Prize (2017), the Aesthetica Art Prize (2018), the Lumen Prize (2016), and a Webby Award (2019). In 2020, her work was acquired into the #MeToo Digital Media Collection at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard. LaFleur earned an MFA as an Arts Fellow from Emerson College in Boston, MA and is currently an Associate Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. She is currently represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas.
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