Aliza Nisenbaum
Born in 1977, Mexico City
Lives and works in Brooklyn, 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
2016
‘Aliza Nisenbaum,’ T293, Rome (September) - solo
Solo Exhibitions
2015
‘Naps, Daydreams, Houseplants, Weavings,’ Mary Mary, Glasgow
2014
‘Aliza Nisenbaum,’ White Columns, New York
‘Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits, Letters, Books and Flowers,’ LULU project space, Mexico City
2013
‘Aliza Nisenbaum at Immigrant Movement International,’ Queens, New York
2011
‘Aliza Nisenbaum New Paintings,’ Julius Caesar, Chicago
2007
‘Aliza Nisenbaum,’ Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2006
‘New Paintings,’ Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
‘Figuratively,’ Wilkinson Gallery, London, curated by Matthew Higgs
‘Biennial of the Americas,’ MCA Denver, Denver
‘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 Justince,’ LGCC, New York
The Last Brucennial,’ 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!’ curated by Holly Coulis, 106 Green Gallery, New York
‘Buy What you Love,’ Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York
‘Imago Mundi,’ Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
‘Young New Yorkers Benefit Auction,’ Allegra La Viola 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; Instituto Tamaulipeco 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 Honoring Susanne Ghez,’ 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, New York
‘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,’ curated by Michelle Grabner, Wisconsin
‘Why is This Here?,’ 224 Washington Av. Brooklyn NY, curated by Jennifer Salomon and Deirdre O’Dwyer
‘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, IL
2006
‘Bentnames,’ 50/50 Gallery, Chicago
‘Slowness,’ Heaven Gallery, Chicago
‘Believers,’ curated by Michelle Grabner, 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,’ curated by Susanna Coffey, 418 Clark Street, Chicago