Photo at Nasher Sculpture Center by Kevin Tadora, 2022
Liss LaFleur (b. Houston, TX, USA) is an artist, educator, and scholar whose work explores the intersections of gender, technology, and culture. Drawing from extensive archival research, her interdisciplinary feminist practice spans multimedia production, installation, sculpture, and performance. Using technology as a poetic medium, LaFleur creates radical spaces that reimagine personal and collective struggles in the 21st century.
In 2020, LaFleur was recognized as a Citizen Artist by the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., celebrated for embodying the values of service, justice, freedom, courage, and gratitude through her art. Her accolades include awards and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation. Her work has been featured in Slate, the Advocate, Hyperallergic, and the Brooklyn Rail, with notable presentations at institutions such as 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).
LaFleur is the founder of the Future Feminist Lab and an Associate Professor in New Media Art and Feminist Discourse in the College of Visual Art and Design at the University of North Texas. Prior to this role, she served as a visiting professor of art and digital studies at Davidson College. LaFleur earned her MFA as a Media Art Fellow (2014) at Emerson College where she pursued experimental filmmaking and conducted research in transmedia activism as an affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Her studio is currently based in Texas, where she is represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas, and resides with her wife and two children.
Above: Video by Onstead Institute + Tamarind Studio about LaFleur's studio practice
Short Bio
American, lives in Texas
Liss LaFleur is visual and conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes video, performance, 3D animation, fiber, and glass. Drawing from an extensive set of references—queer theory, modernism, technofeminism, and personal history—she synthesizes multiple disciplines in immersive installations. The artist holds an MFA Emerson College and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Texas. She is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas, TX and has received a Citizen Artist Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Center (2020) and an Immersive Scholar Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in (2018).