For the past decade, Liz Glynn (b. 1981, Boston) has worked in sculpture, installation, and performance, examining the ways in which cultural objects of the past embody or confront power dynamics, social structures, and systems of value. Her work has been the subject of important one-person shows including Liz Glynn: Open House, on display at Storm King Art Center through November 2026; The Archaeology of Another Possible Future, a yearlong exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams in 2017, and RANSOM ROOM, at the SculptureCenter, New York in 2014. She is currently the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
Glynn has enacted large-scale installations and performances for the San Francisco International Airport (2019), Frieze Live (2018), Now+There in Boston (2018), the Public Art Fund in New York (2017), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013), Frieze Projects (2013), Performa 11 in New York, and the migrating public art project, Station to Station. Major group exhibitions include the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA biennial (2012), for which she was named a Mohn Award finalist; J. Paul Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time (2013); and the New Museum’s The Generational: Younger than Jesus (2009). Glynn currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, where she is a Professor at Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine.
Liz Glynn
Untitled Vessel #3 (from The Looters), 2022
glazed stoneware
11 x 9 x 11 in. (27.9 x 22.9 x 27.9 cm)
Liz Glynn
Open House, 2016
cast concrete, 26 objects: 5 arches, 8 armchairs, 4 ottomans, 6 side chairs, and 3 settees
dimension variable
Installation view, Doris F. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, NY
Photo: James Ewing, courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY
Installation view, Myth of Singularity, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, January 7 - February 11, 2017
Installation view, Liz Glynn: The Archaeology of Another Possible Future, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, October 7, 2017 - September 3, 2018
Liz Glynn
Eternal Return I, 2017
epoxy clay with acrylic
53 x 42 1/2 x 38 in. (134.6 x 108 x 96.5 cm)
Liz Glynn
Untitled (after Burgher with Frock Coat), 2014
bronze
23 3/8 x 23 1/2 in. (81.9 x 80.6 x 14 cm)
Photo: Chloé Bellemère
Liz Glynn
Pathos: Exercise XLIV, 2015
glazed stoneware
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (23.5 x 17.1 x 10.8 cm)
Liz Glynn
To See, 2016/2017
Seven 3-D printed gypsum and nylon elements on powder-coated steel
15 x 77 1/2 x 4 in. (38.1 x 196.9 x 10.2 cm) steel plate: 15 x 77 1/2 x 3/16, (38.1 x 196.9 x .4 cm)
Liz Glynn
Untitled (Tumbleweed XXIV), 2018
cast stainless steel
21 x 30 x 23 in. (53.3 x 76.2 x 58.4 cm)
Liz Glynn
Terra-Techne, 2019
cast stainless steel and terracotta
dimensions variable
Commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission for San Francisco International Airport Harvey Milk Terminal 1
Photo: Ethan Kaplan Photography
Liz Glynn
Untitled (After dark), 2019
cast stainless steel, vinyl
29 x 34 x 6 in. (73.7 x 86.4 x 15.2 cm)
Liz Glynn
Celestial Globe 44N11E (after Plato), 2013
plaster, ink, acrylic and wood
13 x 11.5 x 11.5 in. (33.02 x 29.21 x 29.21 cm)
Liz Glynn
[de]-lusions of Grandeur: The Myth of Getting It Right the First Time, April 19, 2013, performance, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Theater
Liz Glynn
III, 2010, reclaimed wooden pallets, 16 x 27 x 27 feet
Liz Glynn
RANSOM ROOM, 2014
mixed media, dimension variable
Installation view, Sculpture Center, New York
Photo: Jason Mandella
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