Liz Deschenes. Photography

Liz Deschenes “is a photographer who, in the best modernist tradition, pushes against the basic terms by which photography is conventionally defined,” writes curator and critic Matthew Witkovsky. Indeed, Deschenes uses extreme exposure and photogram techniques (images made without a camera) to create unique, shifting surfaces that frequently function as sculptural or architectural objects.

Deschenes has exhibited her work regularly since receiving her BFA in 1988 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. She has most recently mounted solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, and Campoli Presti, London and Paris. ICA Boston presented the first comprehensive survey of her photographs, organized by Eva Respini, in 2016. Her work is represented in the collections of such institutions as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.