Liss LaFleur (b. 1987 Houston, TX, USA) is an American artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans moving-image, technology, installation, sculpture, and collaborative research. Weaving together complex references—queer history, pop culture, feminist archives, and speculative design—her work feels simultaneously nostalgic and future-facing. Many of her projects draw on her own upbringing as a queer person in the South, grounding broader inquiries into otherness, gender, and collective care in the twenty-first century.
A second-generation glass artist, LaFleur often pairs time-based media with craft traditions, using the fragility of materials and the poetics of technology to reconsider embodiment and identity. Recent projects explore reproductive healthcare, future feminism, and expanded definitions of family.
Her solo and collaborative projects include presentations at Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco (2023); the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2022); the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2021); and SXSW, Austin, TX (2020). Her work has also been featured at Tate Modern, London; the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea; the Nasher Sculpture Center, and other international venues.
LaFleur is the recipient of a Citizen Artist Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Center (2020), an Immersive Scholar Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2018), and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation. Residencies include the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. She received her MFA in Media Art from Emerson College in 2014, where she was a Media Art Fellow and affiliate researcher at the MIT Media Lab. LaFleur is Associate Professor of New Media Art and Feminist Discourse at the University of North Texas and the founder of the Future Feminist Lab. Her studio is based in Texas, where she is represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas and lives with her wife, flutist Britt Balk, and their two children.