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Biography
- 1977
Born Mexico City, Mexico
- 1997-99
Psychology, Universidad, Iberoamericana, Mexico
- 2001
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 2005
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
- 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum, Liverpool, United Kingdom (forthcoming)
- 2019
Coreografías, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Art of the Underground Public Commission, London, United Kingdom - 2017
A Place We Share, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Alisa Nisenbaum, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland - 2015
Naps, Daydreams, Houseplants, Weavings, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2014
Aliza Nisenbaum, White Columns, New York, NY
Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits, Letters, Books and Flowers, LULU project space, Mexico City, Mexico
Solo presentation at NADA with LULU gallery, Miami, FL
- 2013
Aliza Nisenbaum and Tadhg McSweeney, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Aliza Nisenbaum, Immigrant Movement International, Queens, NY
Holly Coulis and Aliza Nisenbaum, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI - 2011
We Remembered, We Anticipated a Peacock and We Find a Peony, Patricia Treib and Aliza Nisenbaum, Golden Gallery, New York, NY
Aliza Nisenbaum New Paintings, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL - 2009
You Talk Greasily, Allison Katz with Aliza Nisenbaum, Kasia Kay Projects, Chicago, IL
- 2007
Aliza Nisenbaum, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
- 2006
New Paintings, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Nine Lives, The Rennaisance Socity, Chicago
Figurative Painting, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (forthcoming)
Histroias da Dança, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (forthcoming)
Someday Is Now: Women, Art and Social Change, New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT (forthcoming)
Portraits Forever, Tajan, Paris, France
Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion, New York, NY
When Home Won’t Let You Stay, Migration Through Contemporary Art, The Cantor Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN - 2019
When Home Won’t Let You Stay, Migration Through Contemporary Art, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
The Warmth of Other Suns, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C organized in conjunction with the New Museum
City Prince/ess DHAKA, LAGOS, MANILA, MEXICO CITY and TEHRAN, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Let me Tell you a Story, Arts Club London, London, United Kingdom - 2018
One Day at a Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Visible Women, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
10, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
The Lulelial II: A Low Hanging Fruit, Lulu, Mexico City - 2017
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The New York Times, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
American Genre: Contemporary Painting, ICA at MECA, Maine
The Florine Stettheimer Collapsed Time Salon, organized by Jeffrey Deitch, Armory Fair, New York, NY - 2016
Intimisms, curated by Aliza Nisenbaum and David Norr, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
As if in a Foreign Country, Galerie Nachst St. Stephen Rosemary Schwartzwalder, Vienna, Austria
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffmann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist in Residency Biennial, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Domestic Appendices, Aliza Nisenbaum, Patrizio Di Massimo, Marco Palmieri, T-293, Rome, Italy - 2015
Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings Part II, curated by Phong Bui SVA Chelsea gallery, New York, NY
Homeful of Hands, Josh Lilley, London, UK
Figuratively, curated by Matthew Higgs, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Biennial of the Americas, MCA Denver Museum
White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany - 2014
Work, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Quality of Life, Recent Rema Hort Mann Grantees, BOSI, NY
Agents of Change, ASF, Mexico City, Mexico
Art and Social Justice, LGCC, New York, NY
The Last Brucennial, New York, NY - 2013
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2013 Grantees, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
Splonk! Curated by Holly Coulis, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Buy What you Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Collateral Event of the 55 Venice Biennale
Young New Yorkers Benefit Auction, Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York, NY
Selective Perspectives, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Secret Life of Plants, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ - 2012
XV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. The Biennial traveled to the following venues in Mexico:
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
Michelle Grabner, the Inova Survey, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Resistencia, Diagrama, Mexico City
Renaissance Society Benefit Auction Honoring Susanne Ghez, Chicago, IL
Daily, collaboration between SOMA México and Beta- Local Puerto Rico, Poli-Grafic Triennial of Puerto Rico - 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
The Great Poor Farm Experiment III, curated by Michelle Grabner, Wisconsin
Why is This Here?, 224 Washington Av. Brooklyn NY, curated by Jennifer Salomon and Deirdre O’Dwyer
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston MA - 2010
Help Art Heal, Benefit Show and Auction, Evanston IL
- 2009
Fest Fest, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Cadaver Corpse, Gallery 1026, Philadelphia and Chicago, IL - 2008
Bauhaus Art Show, Guertin Graphics, Chicago, IL
- 2007
Fifths, Swinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Jesse Chapman, Aliza Nisenbaum, William J. O’Brien, Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, with Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
Handcrafted Optimism, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL - 2006
Bentnames, 50/50 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Believers, curated by Michelle Grabner, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY - 2005
NADA Art Fair Miami Beach, with Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago, The University of Texas
Sarah Lobb, Aliza Nisenbaum, Noah Rorem, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lookers, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Nova Young Art Fair, Dan Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL - 2002
Patricia Treib, Aliza Nisenbaum, Luis Romero, curated by Susanna Coffey, 418 Clark Street, Chicago, IL
Press
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December 17,
2020Artlyst -
December 22,
2020The Guardian -
December 4,
2020Bazaar Art MexicoEl Arte de Insta -
October 20,
2020The Guide Liverpool -
September 1,
2020Art in America -
August 10,
2020Studio International
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April 27,
2020Vogue -
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2019The New York Times -
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2019Twilight Talks -
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2019Frieze -
September 9,
2019Artnet18 Things Not to Miss in New York Art World This Week -
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2019The New Yorker -
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2019The Brooklyn Rail -
May 1,
2019Studio International -
April 17,
2019Frieze -
March 13,
2019The St. Regis MagazineUp Close and Personal -
April 13,
2018Artsy -
November 1,
2017Artforum -
October 6,
2017Star Tribune -
October 1,
2017ArtforumOpenings: Aliza Nisenbaum -
August 17,
2017T Magazine -
March 1,
2017ArtReview -
February 1,
2017Vogue