Liss LaFleur is a queer artist and educator whose work spans multimedia production, installation, and digital art. Her practice combines extensive archival research with innovative technology, creating radical spaces for reimagining both personal and collective struggles in the 21st century.

 

In 2020, LaFleur was honored 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).

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LaFleur is the founder of the Future Feminist Lab and serves as an Associate Professor in New Media Art and Feminist Discourse at the College of Visual Art and Design at the University of North Texas. She earned her MFA as a Media Art Fellow at Emerson College where she pursued experimental documentary filmmaking and conducted research in transmedia activism as an affiliated researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. LaFleur currently lives/ works out of Texas, where she is represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas.