Liss LaFleur is a queer parent and transmedia artist whose practice spans moving image, installation, and feminist politics. A second-generation glass artist, LaFleur integrates time-based media with craft traditions, using the fragility of materials and the poetics of technology to interrogate and expand notions of gender, family, and futurity. Hir multimodal projects are rooted in extensive archival research and employ technology as a generative tool, creating radical spaces for reimagining personal and collective care in the twenty-first century.

 

LaFleur’s work has been recognized with fellowships and awards from the John F. Kennedy Center, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, and has been reviewed in Slate, The Advocate, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. From botanic gardens in Houston to large-scale projections on the Brooklyn Bridge, notable presentations and screenings of hir work include Tate Modern (London), SXSW (Austin, TX), Reykjavik Art Museum (Iceland), the Smithsonian Institution (D.C.), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Telematic Media Arts (San Francisco), and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), among others. LaFleur is Associate Professor of New Media Art at the University of North Texas and founder/director of the Future Feminist Lab. Raised in Houston, TX, she holds an MFA in Media Art from Emerson College, where she was an Artist Fellow and affiliated researcher at the MIT Media Lab. 
 

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