Liz Nielsen’s photographs are made without a camera and can best be described as light paintings or photograms. In an analog color darkroom, Nielsen uses the original form of photography to record light of various wavelengths on light-sensitive material developed through chemicals. With this technique, she references the Canonical genre of still life, yet grounded within futuristic landscapes. Lost and without scale, her subjects harness the possibility of life beyond carbon forms in the presence of vibrating light.

Liz Nielsen lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Nielsen has mounted solo exhibitions at SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, NC (2024); Danziger Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2023); Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Black Box Projects in London, UK (2022), and elsewhere.

She has participated in group shows such as Clairvoyance at Shrine Gallery in NewYork, NY (2023); The Borders at Marc Minjauw Gallery in Brussels, Belgium (2023); 300 Days of Sun at Hexton Gallery in Aspen, CO (2023); Why I Make Art, at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York, NY (2022); Who Really Cares? at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, NY (2021); Time Lapse at Fridmans Gallery in Beacon, NY (2021); and many others.

Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Financial Times, LensCulture, Vogue UK, FOAM magazine, and other publications.