Born in 1977, Mexico City
Lives & works in New York
Education
2011 Seminar, The Form of an Archive, Jumex Collection, Mexico City
2005 MFA,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001 BFA,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1997-99 Psychology, Universidad, Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Current / Forthcoming Exhibitions
2017
Whitney Biennial, New York (G)
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis (S)
T293, Rome (S)
The Times, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (G)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
Naps, Daydreams, Houseplants,Weavings, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2014
Aliza Nisenbaum, White Room, White Columns, New York
Portraits, Letters, Books and Flowers, LULU project space, Mexico City
2013
Aliza Nisenbaum, Immigrant Movement International, New York
2011
New Paintings, Julius Caesar, Chicago
2007
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2006
New Paintings, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Intimism, James Cohan, New York
As if in a foreign country, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI
Domestic Appendices, T293, Rome
Artist in Residency Biennial, The Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee
2015
Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings, Part II, SVA Chelsea Gallery
Homeful of Hands, Josh Lilley, London
Figuratively, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Biennial of the Americas, MCA Denver Museum
White Columns Benefit, White Columns, New York
You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, 68 Projects, Berlin
2014
Work, Slopes Gallery, Melbourne
Quality of Life, Recent Rema Hort Mann Grantees, BOSI, New York
Agents of Change, ASF, Mexico City
Art and Social Justice, LGCC, New York
The Last Brucennial, 837 Washington Street, New York
2013
Aliza Nisenbaum & Tadhg McSweeney, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Holly Coulis & Aliza Nisenbaum, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2013 Grantees,Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York
Splonk!, 106 Green Gallery, New York
Buy What you Love, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit, Bleecker StreetArts Club, New York
Imago Mundi, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Young New Yorkers Benefit Auction, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York
Selective Perspectives, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Secret Life of Plants, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton
2012
XV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo Casa Redonda; InstitutoTamaulipeco para las Artes y Culturas; Galería del Sistema Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Celeya, Guanajuato
Michelle Grabner, The Inova Survey, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Resistencia, Diagrama, Mexico City
Renaissance Society Benefit Auction Honouring Susanne Ghez, Renaissance Society, Chicago Daily, collaboration between SOMA México and Beta – Local Puerto Rico, Poli-Grafic Triennial of Puerto Rico
2011
We Remembered, We Anticipated a Peacock and We Find a Peony, Patricia Treib & Aliza Nisenbaum, Golden Gallery, NewYork
Why did the chicken cross the road? Original Jokes about the Suburban and the Poor Farm by the artists who have exhibited there, Green Gallery,Yale School of Art
The Great Poor Farm Experiment III, Wisconsin
Why is This Here? 224 Washington Av. Brooklyn, New York
Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston
2010
Help Art Heal, Benefit Show and Auction, Evanston
2009
Fest Fest, Julius Caesar, Chicago
Cadaver Corpse, Gallery 1026, Philadelphia / Chicago
2008
Bauhaus Art Show, Guertin Graphics, Chicago
2007
Fifths, Swinger Gallery, Vienna
Jesse Chapman, Aliza Nisenbaum, William J. O’Brien, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Handcrafted Optimism, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn
2006
Bentnames, 50/50 Gallery, Chicago
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
Believers, Hudson Franklin, New York
2005
Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago,The University of Texas
Sarah Lobb, Aliza Nisenbaum, Noah Rorem, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Lookers, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Nova Young Art Fair, Dan Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago
2002
Patricia Treib, Aliza Nisenbaum, Luis Romero, 418 Clark Street, Chicago
Awards, Fellowships, Residencies
2015/2016
Sharpe Walentas Studio Program
Fellowship for Immigrant Women Leaders & Women’s Cabinet
Artist in Residency, University of Tennessee
2013
Rema Hort Mann award NYC Visual Arts grantee
2011
Seminar,The Form of an Archive, Jumex Collection, Mexico City
2010
SOMA Residency, Mexico City
2008
The New Museum Altoids Award for Emerging Artists, New York
2007
Richard Dreihaus Emerging Artist (nomination) Chicago
2004
Trustee MFA Merit Scholarship for the Department of Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago