ABOUT

Liss LaFleur is an transmedia artist whose practice spans moving image, queer and feminist politics, and installation art. Hir projects are multimodal and develop out of extensive archival research, utilizing technology as a poetic tool to provide a radical space for reconfiguring and reimagining personal and collective struggles in the 21st century.

LaFleur has received awards and fellowships from the John F. Kennedy Center, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Hir work has been reviewed in Slate, the Advocate, Hyperallergic, and the Brooklyn Rail. From botanic gardens to large-scale projections on the Brooklyn Bridge, notable presentations and screenings of hir work include the TATE Modern (London), SXSW (Austin, TX), the Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland), the Contemporary Art Museum (Houston, TX), Telematic Media Arts (San Francisco, CA), and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), among others.

LaFleur is an Associate Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas, where she is also the founder and director of the Future Feminist Lab. She was raised in Houston, TX and holds an MFA in Media Art from Emerson College where she was an Artist Fellow and affiliated researcher exploring transmedia activism at the MIT Media Lab.