ALIZA NISENBAUM
BIOGRAPHY
Born Mexico City, Mexico 1977. Lives and works in New York City, New York.
Education:
MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005
BFA, The school of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001
Psychology, Universidad, Iberoamericana, Mexico 1999
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2024
“Aliza Nisenbaum: New Paintings and Drawings,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, May 4 – June 28, 2024
2023
“The Three Divas of Traviata at Gallery Met,” The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY, September 15, 2023 – September 1, 2024
“Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido,” Queens Museum, Queens, NY, April, 23 2023 – September 10, 2023
2022
“Spotlight: Aliza Nisenbaum, The FLAG Art Foundation,” New York, NY, April 13 - May 7, 2022
“The Ones Who Make it Run Delta Terminal C, LaGuardia Airport,” Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport, New York, NY, June 1, 2022 – Ongoing
2021
“AQUÍ SE PUEDE (HERE YOU CAN),” Atrium Project, Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 19th, 2021 – July 31st, 2022
2020
“Aliza Nisenbaum,” Tate Liverpool, UK, December 15, 2020 – September 5, 2021 (cat.)
“Flora, Drawings by Aliza Nisenbaum,” Anton Kern Gallery, NY, September 9 – October 24, 2020
2019
“Coreografías,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, September 13 – November 2, 2019 (cat.)
“Art of the Underground Public Commission,” London, UK, April 10 – September 16, 2019
2017
“A Place We Share,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, September 28, 2017 – April 15, 2018
Solo Presentation, Frieze New York, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland, May 5, 2017 – May 7, 2017
2015
“Naps, Daydreams, Houseplants, Weavings,” Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland, June 13 – August 1, 2015
2014
“Aliza Nisenbaum,” White Columns, New York, NY, November 8–December 20, 2014
“Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits, Letters, Books and Flowers,” LULU project space, Mexico City, Mexico, June 16 – July 13, 2014
Solo presentation, NADA, LULU gallery, Miami, FL, December 4 – 7, 2014
2013
“Aliza Nisenbaum and Tadhg McSweeney,” Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, November 7 – 30, 2013
“Aliza Nisenbaum at Immigrant Movement International,” Queens, NY, 2013
“Holly Coulis and Aliza Nisenbaum,” Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, 2013
2011
“We Remembered, We Anticipated a Peacock and We Find a Peony,” Patricia Treib and Aliza Nisenbaum, Golden Gallery, New York, NY, October 20, 2011 to November 18, 2011
“Aliza Nisenbaum New Paintings,” Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL, March 6 – 27, 2011
2009
“You Talk Greasily, Allison Katz with Aliza Nisenbaum,” Kasia Kay Projects, Chicago, IL, February 13 – March 28, 2009
2007
“Aliza Nisenbaum,” Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 2007
2006
“New Paintings,” Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 1 – April 30, 2006
2005
NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, with Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL, December 1 – 4, 2005
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023
“Friends and Lovers,” FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, Ocotber 6, 2023 – January 20, 2024
“50 Paintings,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, November 17, 2023 – June 23, 2024
“Real Families: Stories of Change,” The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, October 6, 2023 – January 7, 2024 (cat.)
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR, 2023
“The Democracy Collection: Advocacy through Art, Art in Embassies Program,” Lisbon, Portugal, June 6 – July 11, 2023
“Soft and weak like water,” 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, April 7 – July 9, 2023
“In New York, Thinking of You,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, April 1 – 29, 2023
2022
“Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths,” Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, October 23, 2022 – September 20, 2023 (cat.)
“A New Way to Travel: Delta Air Lines x Queens Museum at LaGuardia Airport,” LaGuardia Airport, New York, NY, June 1, 2022 – April 16, 2023
“Pictus Porrectus,” Art & Newport, Isaac Bell House, Newport, RI, July 1 – October 2, 2022
“Reflections on Perception,” Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, April 9 – September 11, 2022
2021
“Picturing Motherhood Now,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, October 16, 2021– March 13, 2022 (cat.)
“Tales of Manhattan,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, July 8 – August 20, 2021
“Senses of Brown,” curated by César García-Alvarez, Armory Access: Curated (Online Viewing Room), June 3 – 13, 2021
“an ego of her own,” kaufmann repetto, New York, NY, November 5 – December 18, 2021
“an ego of her own,” kaufmann repetto milano, Milan, Italy, October 7 – November 13, 2021
2020
“NOW ON VIEW AT 16 EAST 55TH STREET,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, December 9 – 23, 2020
“Old Technology,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, June 29 – August 21, 2020
“Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, October 1, 2020 – January 24, 2021
“100 Drawings from Now,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY, October 7, 2020 – January 17, 2021
“Nine Lives,” Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, September 12 – November 15, 2020
“New Americans,” Palo Alto Center, Palo Alto, CA, September 12 – December 13, 2020
“Historias da Dança,” Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, June 25 –November 5th, 2020
“Portraits Forever,” Tajan, Paris, February 25 – June 27, 2020
“Catalyst: Art and Social Change,” Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, NY, February 2020 – August 2021
2019
“When Home Won’t Let You Stay, Migration Through Contemporary Art,” ICA Boston, October 23, 2019 – January 26, 2020; Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 23 –August 23, 2020; The Cantor Center, Stanford University, February 5 – May 30, 2021
“City Prince/ess DHAKA, LAGOS, MANILA, MEXICO CITY and TEHRAN,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, June 21 – September 9, 2019
“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., organized in conjunction with the New Museum, New York, NY, June 22 – September 22, 2019
“Stains on a Decade,” Josh Lilley, London, UK, June 6 – August 3, 2019
“Let me Tell you a Story,” Arts Club London, London, UK, January 14 – April 14, 2019
2018
“One Day at a Time,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 14, 2018 – March 11, 2019
“Visible Women,” Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, April 14 – November 11, 2018
“10,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, January 12 – February 14, 2018
“The Lulelial II: A Low Hanging Fruit,” Lulu, Mexico City, MX, February 6 – April 1, 2018
2017
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 17 – June 11, 2017
“The New York Times,” The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, June 1 – August 11, 2017
“American Genre: Contemporary Painting,” ICA at MECA, Portland, ME, July 20 – September 15, 2017
“The Florine Stettheimer Collapsed Time Salon,” organized by Jeffrey Deitch, Armory Fair, New York, NY, March 2 – 5, 2017
2016
“Intimisms,” co-curated by Aliza Nisenbaum and David Norr, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, June 23 – July 29, 2016
“As if in a Foreign Country,” Galerie Nachst St. Stephen Rosemary Schwartzwalder, Vienna, Austria, 2016
“A Change of Heart,” Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 – July 16, 2016
“Artist in Residency Biennial,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 2016
“Domestic Appendices, Aliza Nisenbaum, Patrizio Di Massimo, Marco Palmieri,” T-293, Rome, Italy, 2016
2015
“Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings Part II,” curated by Phong Bui, SVA Chelsea gallery, New York, NY, 2015
“Homeful of Hands,” London, UK, October 15 – December 1, 2015
“Figuratively,” curated by Matthew Higgs, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK, July 17 – August 14, 2015
“Biennial of the Americas,” MCA Denver Museum, Denver, CO, July 14, 2015 – August 30, 2015
“White Columns Benefit,” White Columns, New York, NY, May 2 – May 20, 2015
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany, January 24 – April 11, 2015
2014
“Work,” Slopes Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2014
“Quality of Life, Recent Rema Hort Mann Grantees,” BOSI Contemporary, New York, NY, 2014
“Agents of Change,” ASF, Mexico City, MX, 2014
“Art and Social Justice,” LGCC, New York, NY, 2014
“The Last Brucennial,” New York, NY, March 7 – April 4, 2014
2013
“The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2013 Grantees,” Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
“Splonk!,” curated by Holly Coulis, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 13th - October 13th, 2013
“Buy What you Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit,” Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY, 2013
“Imago Mundi,” Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, August 28 – October 27, 2013
“Young New Yorkers Benefit Auction,” Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
“Selective Perspectives,” Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, May 30 – June 17, 2013
“The Secret Life of Plants,” Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ, May 5, 2013
2012
“XV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial,” Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo Casa Redonda; Instituto Tamaulipeco para las Artes y Culturas; Galería del Sistema Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Celeya, Guanajuato, 2012
“Michelle Grabner, the Inova Survey,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, July 27 – September 23, 2012
“Resistencia,” Diagrama, Mexico City, MX, 2012
“Renaissance Society Benefit Auction Honoring Susanne Ghez,” Chicago, IL, 2012
“Daily,” collaboration between SOMA México and Beta- Local Puerto Rico, Poli-Grafic Triennial of Puerto Rico, 2012
2011
“Why did the chicken cross the road? Original Jokes about the Suburban and the Poor Farm by the artists who have exhibited there,” Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, October 21 – November 11, 2011
“The Great Poor Farm Experiment III,” curated by Michelle Grabner, The Poor Farm, Little Woof, WI, 2011
“Why is This Here?,” curated by Jennifer Salomon and Deirdre O’Dwyer, 224 Washington Ave, Brooklyn NY, 2011
“Chain Letter,” Samson Projects, Boston MA, July 16 – August 16, 2011
2010
“Help Art Heal,” Benefit Show and Auction, Evanston, IL, 2010
2009
“Fest Fest,” Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL, September 26, 2009
“Cadaver Corpse,” Gallery 1026, Philadelphia and Chicago, IL, 2009
2008
“Bauhaus Art Show,” Guertin Graphics, Chicago, IL, 2008
2007
“Fifths,” Swinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2007
“Jesse Chapman, Aliza Nisenbaum, William J. O’Brien,” Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL, July 7 – August 4, 2007
NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, with Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL, December 5 – 9, 2007
“Handcrafted Optimism,” Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2007
“Group Show,” Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, March 8 – April 14, 2007
2006
“Bentnames,” 50/50 Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2006
“Slowness,” Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2006
“The Believers,” curated by Michelle Grabner, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY, 2006
2005
“Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago,” The University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2005
“Sarah Lobb, Aliza Nisenbaum, Noah Rorem,” Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005
“Lookers,” Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005
“MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2,” The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2005
“Nova Young Art Fair,” Dan Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL, 2005
2002
“Patricia Treib, Aliza Nisenbaum, Luis Romero,” curated by Susanna Coffey, 418 Clark Street, Chicago, IL, 2002
Selected Lectures and Talks:
2023
“Painting from Life,” Art21, Online.
“Empowering the Individual”, Identity and the Artist’s Narrative,” Art in Embassies Program, Lisbon, Portugal
“To Hold and Behold: Queens, Lindo y Querido Panel Discussion”, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Queens, Lindo y Querido Painting Workshops: Color with Aliza Nisenbaum,” Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Aliza Nisenbaum in Conversation with Pablo León de la Barra, moderated by Hitomi Iwasaki,” Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Aliza Nisenbaum: Queens, Lindo y Querido featuring Nisenbaum, Gaby Collins-Fernandez with Stephanie Adams-Santos,” The Brooklyn Rail online
2021
“In Conversation, Aliza Nisenbaum and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.,” The Renaissance Society and the Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Complex Issues: Painting the NHS,” Aliza Nisenbaum in conversation with Tom Kalin, Introduced by Dean Carol Becker, Columbia University, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
2020
“Symposium Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art 1925-1945,” Whitney Museum, NY
“(At Home) On Art and Community: Artist Talk with Aliza Nisenbaum,” Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
“Tate Trustee conversation with curators Tamar Hemmes and Kasia Redzisz,” Tate Museum online
“LA MOCA trustee conversation with curator Mia Locks,” MOCA online
“Mixed Media Immigrant Artist Panel at MICA,” Baltimore, MD
2019
Artist Lecture, Tufts, Middlesex County, MA Artist Lecture, Brandeis, Waltham, MA
Visiting Artist, Painting Department Final Reviews, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Migration in Art, with Massimiliano Gioni, Nari Ward, and Aliza Nisenbaum with Dorothy Kosinsky and moderated by Natalie Bell,” The New Museum, New York, NY and Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Artist Conversation with Oliver Basciano, Central St. Martins, London, United Kingdom
2018
Artist Lecture, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT Artist Lecture, VCU, Richmond, VA
2017
“LAB on Relation,” The Kitchen, New York, NY Artist Lecture, Copper Union, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, The New York Studio School, New York, NT
Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Artist Lecture, LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY
“Dialogue and Discourse: Constructing Identities: Modigliani and Cultural Appropriation,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, MCAD
“Roundtable Discussion: Art as Community Platform, Transforming Practices of Engagement,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
“VALS”, MFA in Visual Arts Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA
“Panel Discussion: American Art in a Global Context, along with curator of the Whitney Biennial, Chris Lew, Donna DeSalvo, William Pope L. and Azad Raza,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Lecture: Education initiative, WECAN,” Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2015
“Now? Now!” Museum of Contemporary Art, Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
“Biennial of the Americas: The Visibility of Immigration, Aliza Nisenbaum," Biennial Pavilion, Denver, CO
Artist in Residence Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2014
“Panel: Melanie Smith, Martin Soto Climet, Chris Sharp, and Aliza Nisenbaum, in conjunction with the exhibition Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits, Letters, Books and Flowers”, LULU Project Space, Mexico, MX
Visiting Artist Lecture, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2007
Visiting Artist Lecture, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Public Collections:
Adler Hey Children’s Hospital (on long term loan from TATE), Liverpool, United Kingdom
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
ICA Boston, Boston, MA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
KRC Collection, Voorschoten, Netherlands
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Museum Sander Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Norwich Castle Museum, United Kingdom
The Perimeter, London, United Kingdom
The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia
Tate, United Kingdom
University of Chicago Booth School of Business Art Collection, Chicago, IL
UCSB ADA Museum Omeka, Santa Barbara, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Awards, Residencies, and Fellowships:
2024
Creative Capital Creative Capital Award
2023
La Napoule Art Foundation Artist in Residence
2021
Queens Museum Artist in Residence (2021-2023)
Hirshhorn Gala Honoree
2020
Tate Liverpool Artist in Residency Remote commission due to covid restrictions
2019
Art on the Underground Residency
The Phillips Collection Gala Honoree
Tate Americas Honoree
2017
Minneapolis Institute of Art Residency
Columbia University Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Development Award
2016
LMCC, Process Space Artist Residency Program
2015
Sharpe Walentas Studio Program
NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Fellowship for Immigrant Women Leaders, and Women’s Cabinet
University of Tennessee Artist in Residency
2013
Rema Hort Mann Visual Arts Award Grantee
2010
SOMA Residency