Liss Lafleur

Liss LaFleur

1016 Emery St., Denton, TX 76201

(832) 866-1404

b. 1987 Humble, TX USA

Education

2014 MFA Media Art, Full Tuition Fellow, Emerson College, Boston, MA 2011 BFA Studio Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2011 BA Art History, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Professional Appointments

2015 – Current Assistant Professor of New Media, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2014 – 2015 Visiting Professor of Digital Art, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 2012 – 2013 Researcher, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA

Exhibition Record

Selected Solo

2019 Fruit, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

2018 Mama, Front/Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2017 GREENER PASTURES, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (catalogue, juried by: Linda Shearer from Museum of Modern Art)

NEW FRONTIERS, B4BEL4B Gallery, San Francisco, CA

IN TRAINING, Salisbury University Galleries, Salisbury MD (catalogue, curated by: Tara Gladden)

2016 TIPS, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (curated by Danette Dufilho)

LaFleur, 1 2014 ONE WAY HOME, Hewitt & Spector Gallery, Boston, MA

2011 New Works, North Gallery, Denton, TX

Selected Group

2018 Itinerant Festival, Smack Mellon Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Hector Conange) Bread & Butter, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX FEMINUM, Landmarks Gallery, Lubbock, TX Round Hole Square Peg, Bert Greene Gallery @ LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA Round Hole Square Peg, Long Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Society of Spectacle | ArtPrize Nine, KCAD Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI CHATTERBOX, LightYear, New York, NY (curated by Erin Joyce) (Performance) BABY DON’T GO, New Museum, New York, NY (curated by Heide Hatry) Holding Next to Knowing, Sister Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (curated by Melissa McGrath) Pleased to Meet You, Open Space Gallery, Dallas, TX (curated by Caroline Belanger)

2016 CHATTERBOX, CICA Gallery, Gimpo-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea Tongues, Ties, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Queer Biennial II, Industry Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ruben Esparza) CRUISING, LA Pride Exhibition, West Hollywood, CA (curated by Nathaly Charria) Girls Just Wanna, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX (curated by Ree Willaford) Writing Lightly, Work Release Gallery, Norfolk, VA (curated by Hannah Kirkpatrick) (catalogue) 800cm3, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Artespacio Galeria de Arte, Santiago, Chile 800cm3, The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Galeria de Arte da UFES, Espírito Santo, Brazil Contemporary South, VAE Gallery, Raleigh, NC Tenderness Project, Gray Gardens Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Clara Bradley)

2015 Gendered Perspectives, Bradley University Galleries, Chicago, IL (curated by Jess Dugan) AURORA, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (curated by Aja Martin and Joshua King) STEM City Arts, Coconino Center, Flagstaff, AZ (curated by Erin Joyce) Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Visual AIDS)

2014 All Glitched Up, Tate Collectives, Tate Modern, London, England IDEAS_14, International Digital & Media Arts Assoc., Salt Lake City, UT (catalogue) MAPPING, Revere Gallery, New York, NY Inherently Queer, Makeshift, Boston, MA NONNI, Outview Film Festival, Athens, Greece NONNI, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

2013 IS (NONNI), Museum of Contemporary Art, Reykjavik, Iceland (curated by Mary Ellen Mark)

LaFleur, 2 NONNI, Society for Photographic Education Exhibition, New Orleans, LA NONNI, Boston LGBT Film Festival, Boston, MA NONNI, Barcelona International Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain NONNI, Cannes Court Metrage, Cannes, France NONNI, Salem International Film Festival, Salem, MA

2012 OAXACA XI, Alvarez Bravo Center, Oaxaca, MX (catalogue by Mary Ellen Mark) TWO GREEN MARCHES, Bright Theater (screening), Boston, MA

Commissions

2018 Silos Houston, City of Houston, Houston, TX 2017 Online Commission, New Hive, online zine with HALT Action Group 2016 Beware of Domestic Objects, Queer Biennial, Los Angeles, CA

Awards/ Grants/ Fellowships

2018 Artist-in-Residence, Immersive Scholar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

2017 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Glass, Spokane, WA Artist-in-Residence, Fieldwork, Marfa, TX

2016 Long List Recipient, Lumen Prize in Digital Art, London, England Emerging Artist Fellowship, Peripheral Vision Arts, Los Angeles, CA Artist-in-Residence, Google Creative Lab, Oakland, CA Creative and Scholarly Research Grant, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Polaroid Film Grant, 20x24 Polaroid, New York, NY

2015 Mellon Digital Initiatives Grant, Davidson College, Davidson, NC Artist-in-Residence, Digital Fabrication Residency, Spokane, WA Second Place Award, QUEEN, Contemporary South, Raleigh, NC

2014 Whitton Award for Exemplary Mentorship, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 10 to Watch Fellowship, Independent Magazine, Boston, MA Hackathon Winner, Filmgate Interactive with POV Digital, Miami, FL Hackathon Winner, POV Digital, New York, NY Riley Fund Award for Outstanding Documentary, got go Barbara Kopple, Boston, MA Professional Development Grant, College Art Association, New York, NY Artist-in-Residence, Makeshift Boston, Boston, MA

2013 Team grant, Ford Foundation, Out for Change @ MIT Media Lab Professional Development Grant, Emerson College, Boston, MA

LaFleur, 3 Semifinalist, Kodak Foundation Grant, Boston, MA First Place Award, NONNI, Salem International Film Festival, Salem, MA

Recent Lectures

2018 Artist Presentation, “Queering New Media,” College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA Artist Presentation, Proposition Series, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2017 Artist Presentation, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland Panelist, “Queering VR,” Queer Performance Art, panelist, SXSW, Austin, TX

2016 Lecture & Graduate Critiques, University of Texas @ Arlington, Arlington, TX Panelist, Queer Performance Art, panelist, Native Strategies, Los Angeles, CA Workshop & Presentation, Performing Parts Symposium, Davidson, NC

Selected Press

Hyperallergic Queering the Feminine Through a Multi-Layered Gaze https://hyperallergic.com/267665/queering-the-feminine-through-a-many-layered-lens/

Peripheral Vision Arts Lack-less Replicas and Resistant Failures: The Queer Feminist Fabrications of Liss LaFleur http://www.peripheralvisionarts.org/journal/liss-lafleur-tucker-neel

(Review) Yewth Magazine Holding is Next to Knowing http://www.yewthmag.com/blog-feed/2017/6/9/sister-gallery-holding-is-next-to-knowing-by- melissa-mcgrath-gardens-by-leander-capuozzo

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