1967
Born in Buffalo, NY
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
1997
MFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1989
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Liz Markus, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York
The Look of Love, ZieherSmith, New York
2010
Are You Punk Or New Wave?, ZieherSmith, New York
2009
Hot Nights At The Regal Beagle, ZieherSmith, New York
2007
What We Are We’re Going To Wail With On This Whole Trip, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm
The More I Revolt, The More I Make Love, ZieherSmith, New York
2000
White Room: Liz Markus, White Columns, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
All Fucking Summer, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach
Woods, Lovely Dark, and Deep, DC Moore Gallery, New York, curated by John Zinsser
Group Show, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, curated by Molly Rand and Pilar Vahey
Deep Cuts, Anna Kustera, New York, curated by Wendy White and David Humphrey
2012
Shizaru Gallery, London; “Bad for You”, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody
Open for the Stones, curated by Kevin Teare, Harper’s Books, East Hampton
Peripheral Nausea, organized by Dan Kopp, Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York
2011
BNA, ZieherSmith Pop-Up Gallery, Nashville, TN
Grasping For Relics, organized by Patrick Brennan, ZieherSmith, New York
2010
DE/Nature, curated by Wendy White, Jolie Laide Gallery, Philadelphia
Run And Tell That!, SUArt Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Big Picture, curated by Ryan Schneider, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York
Fuckheads: Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles
2009
Too Big To Fail, NADA/ART IN/VISIBLE SPACES, Brooklyn, NY
Real Love, The Apartment Show, Brooklyn, NY
Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith, New York
**ckheads: Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment, curated by Angela Dufresne, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque
Giving Face, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York
2008
Just It (Just Be), Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
Color Climax, curated by Joe Fyfe, James Graham & Sons, New York
Glasshouses, curated by Eddie Martinez, Werkstätte, New York
I’m On Top Of Things, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm
The Big Show, The Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Electric Lady Land, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007
The Fluid Field: Abstraction and Reference, curated by Dona Nelson, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia
Young People Are Now Spending More Time Playing Video Games Than Watching Television, fifty50 gallery, Chicago
Someday Never Comes, ZieherSmith, New York
2005
New York’s Finest, Canada, New York
2000
Re: Duchamp, Kulter Banhoff Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Meat Market Art Fair, New York
Architorture, White Columns, New York
1999
Trans, Hamburg Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
1998
Group Exhibition, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Amagansett, “Painter with a Punk (or is it New Wave?) Attitude – Liz Markus”,Hamptonarthub.com, July 4, 2012
Michael Sanchez, “Pandora’s Black Box,” ArtForum, March 2012
MiChelle Jones, "Arts," The Tennessean, July 31, 2011, image
Paul Polycarpou, (ed.), “Spotlight on ZieherSmith,” Nashville Arts Magazine, July 2011
Daniel Gerwin, “De-nature at Jolie Laide,” ArtSlant New York, December 10, 2010
Bradley Rubenstein, “Lipstick Traces,” Culture Catch, December 5, 2010
Scott Indrisek, “Big Picture,” Modern Painters, October 2010
Joey Schlank, “Curator’s Corner,” Hamptons, 32; 3, July 2-8th, 2010
Mimi Luse, “Too Big To Fail,” Art Papers, January/February 2010
Deven Golden, “Liz Markus: Hot Nights At The Regal Beagle at ZieherSmith Gallery,”Artcritical, May 14, 2009
Kimberly Brooks, “American Still Screams: The Art of Liz Markus,” The Huffington Post, March 16, 2009
Qi Peng, “Assaination: Liz Markus,” The Salt Lake City Fine Arts Examiner, March 12, 2009
New American Paintings 74, Boston: Open Studios Press, February/March 2008
Edith Newhall, “Get Thee to Elkins Park,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 2007
“Art: Liz Markus,” The L Magazine, June 20 – July 3, 2007
COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York