Liz Collins

Liz Collins is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans textile installation, sculpture, drawing, performance, and design. Across media and contexts, her practice challenges hierarchical distinctions between art and craft, embracing textiles as a powerful site for abstraction, political resonance, pleasure, and collective experience. Through her sustained experimentation and boundary-crossing approach, Liz Collins has played a pivotal role in expanding the possibilities of contemporary fiber-based art.
Over the past two decades, Collins has presented solo exhibitions and large-scale installations at museums and galleries in the United States and internationally. Notable solo presentations include exhibitions at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Touchstones Rochdale in the UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Rossana Orlandi in Milan, and multiple New York–based galleries. In 2025–26, RISD Museum presented Liz Collins: Motherlode, a major mid-career survey spanning more than three decades of work.

Collins’s work has been widely exhibited in significant group exhibitions, including the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa. She has participated in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, which traveled to LACMA, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Canada, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Additional group exhibitions have been presented at the New Museum, ICA Boston, BRIC, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Museum at FIT, the Drawing Center, and Museu de Arte Sao Paulo in Brazil.

Her contributions have been recognized with numerous awards and fellowships, including an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, the MacColl Johnson Fellowship, and grants from CeCArtsLink, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and Artist Relief. Collins has participated in residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Siena Art Institute, and the Museum of Arts and Design, among others. She was also an Open Sessions artist at the Drawing Center.

Collins’s work is held in major public collections, including the RISD Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum at FIT, the Mint Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), as well as in numerous private and corporate collections

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