Liz Rosenfeld
Liz Rosenfeld is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer.
Liz’s research, entitled "Cannibalizing Queer: Between Consumption and Solidarity in Queer Contemporary Art", questions how queer subjects cannibalize each other. Cannibalism, a metaphor in this context, refers to branding, labelling, extracting, and gentrifying identities, creating palatable, sellable, and sociable bodies between fringe subjects. Placing focus on how contemporary queer identity politics have led to the devouring of bodies, erasing queer potentiality. This practice-led research proposes and expands the urgency for coalition and coalescing between queer subjectivities beyond the identities that are expected of us from both within and outside queer frameworks.
Liz Rosenfeld is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working with the practices of kinship, performance, moving images, drawing, printmaking and auto-theoretical writing. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, edging questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto-theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s).
Liz's inaugural book "Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising," co-authored with Professor João Florêncio, was released in April 2025 by Rutgers University Press and has held numerous book events across The United States, Europe and Australia.
Liz has shown work in international museums and venues including Venice Performance Art week 2026, Lenbachhaus in Munich,Future Ritual London, Temperance Hall in Melbourne, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Forum Expanded Program of the 2022 Berlinale, Anti-festival, Bärenzwinger Berlin, Mousonturm, Tanzhaus nrw, Kampnagel, 2019 Bergen Assembly, Berlinischer Galerie, Mapa Teatro, Sophiensæle, The Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, The Gorki Theater, Arts Admin, Galerie Emanuel Layr, The Tate Modern, The Hammer Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum, The Barbican Centre, The CAC- Glasgow, Tramway, The Stedelijk Museum, The C/O Gallery, and The Deutsches Historisches Museum.
Liz's 360 degree immersive planetarium film was nominated for the Teddy Award/ Best Experimental Short at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. Liz was nominated for the 2022 Shortlist Live Anti Festival award. Liz served as the inaugural Goethe- Institut Artist in Residence at LUX Moving Image in 2017.
Liz’s short films are represented by Video Data Bank and LUX Moving Image. Liz received an MFA in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, followed by an MA from The Department of Performance Studies at New York University in 2007.
