Liz Collins

Liz Collins is an artist based in New York City known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric, yarn and other materials and techniques associated with textile media. Whether in the form of textile, painting, drawing or installation, Collins frequently explores the dichotomy of structure and entropy—qualities inherent to textile that speak to the fissures present in broader architectural, political and social structures.

Collins’ work has recently been on view in the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke and presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. In 2025, Collins will have a mid-career retrospective at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI with an accompanying monograph.

Collins has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Touchstones Rochdale, UK (2022); Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2015); Knoxville Museum of Art, TN (2005); and Candice Madey, NYC (2024), among others. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (2023, 2020); LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY (2023); Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY (2022); Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NYC (2021, 2017, 2014); Museum of Arts and Design, NYC (2018); Drawing Center, NYC (2019, 2018); BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2019); New Museum, NYC (2017); Museum at FIT, NYC (2013); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2015); and Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2011).

Collins’ honors include an Anonymous Was A Woman Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts & Artist Relief grants, Drawing Center Open Sessions as well as residencies at Civitella Ranieri, Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Yaddo, Haystack, Museum of Arts and Design and Stoneleaf. She is currently a queer art mentor in visual art and a member of the Female Design Council.