Liz Collins is a NYC-based artist known for her dynamic fiber works that range in scale and form. Using a vivid palette and bold patterning, she works across mediums to create pieces that span from object-based works to immersive, architectural installations. Her practice bridges the functional, decorative, and expressive, embracing optics, texture, color, and dimensionality to translate her experience of the world as a place of wonder and cosmic energy. Collins has collaborated with design brands on functional textile collections and has produced large-scale public artworks, installations, and performances.
Her solo exhibitions and installations have been held at LMAKgallery, BGSQD, Candice Madey, the Tang Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, and Heller Gallery in New York; AMP in Provincetown, MA; the Knoxville Museum of Art; Luis de Jesus in Los Angeles; Rossana Orlandi in Milan; and Touchstones Rochdale in England; among others. Group exhibitions include presentations at ICA/Boston, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Museum at FIT, the New Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, MoMA, and the Drawing Center, as well as at galleries such as Sargent’s Daughters, Addison Gallery, September Gallery, LACMA, and the LA Municipal Art Gallery.
Collins’ accolades include a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship, as well as participation in the Drawing Center Open Sessions and the Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program. She has held residencies at the Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Haystack, Yaddo, and the Museum of Arts and Design.
Currently, her large-scale tapestries are on view at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Additionally, six of her works are featured in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with the exhibition traveling to MoMA in 2026. In 2025, Collins’ mid-career retrospective will take place at the RISD Museum, accompanied by a monograph. She is a Queer Art Mentor, serves on the exhibitions committee at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and is represented by Candice Madey gallery in New York.
In residence in 2018, she created new art pieces to be shown at a solo show at LMAK Gallery. These pieces are part of Collins' ongoing exploration of energy, fluidity, and emotional states, which were most recently on view in a full-room installation at the New Museum in the "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon" exhibition in 2017-18
