About Liz Collins:

Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in textile media. Liz’s solo exhibitions and installations have been presented in New York City at Museum of Arts and Design, LMAK, Heller, BGSQD, Candice Madey, NADA, Collective, and Spring Break art fairs. Outside of New York, Liz has done shows and projects at the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, AMP (Provincetown, MA), Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), Gallery DLUL (Ljubljana), and Rossana Orlandi (Milan). Liz’s work has been included in group exhibitions in New York City at Leslie Lohman Museum, Museum of FIT, New Museum, MoMA, the Drawing Center, BRIC, Smackmellon, Asya Geisberg, Sargent’s Daughters, as well as at September Gallery (Hudson, NY), NoLAB ( Istanbul), Kristin Hjellegjerde (Berlin), LACMA, LAMAG (LA), and Addison Gallery (Andover, MA). Collins’ honors include an Anonymous Was a Woman Fellowship, a USA Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts & ArtistRelief grants, Drawing Center Open Sessions and residencies at Siena Art Institute, MacDowell, Yaddo, Haystack, Museum of Arts and Design, and currently a subsidized studio at the Two Trees Cultural Subsidy Studio Program in Brooklyn. In 2020, the Tang Museum published Liz Collins Energy Field, Collins' first major publication.

Liz Collins is represented by Candice Madey

Career backstory:

Liz received a BFA and MFA in Textiles at RISD in 1991 and 1999. Upon graduating from RISD with her MFA, she launched her own knitwear focused fashion label with a runway presentation in New York during fashion week. She spent the following four years growing her company, designing, producing, showing, and selling clothing for the international fashion market. Her collections received lots of media attention and Collins developed a following for her innovative knitwear.

In 2003 Liz joined the RISD Textiles faculty, during which time she moved into making art and consulting/design development for other brands. Her fashion label shifted into a project based endeavor, with occasional forays into capsule collections. In 2013, Collins left her faculty position at RISD in order to more fully pursue her art and design career. She has since taught at SAIC, MICA, Pratt, Parsons, and Moore College, and has been a visiting artist and critic at many art and design schools.

Liz has received many awards and accolades including a United States Artist Target Fellowship, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship, and a CeCArtsLink Grant that supported her producing a KNITTING NATION performance/ installation in Zagreb, Croatia.