Liz Collins works fluidly between art and design, with emphasis and expertise in fibre and textile media. Vivid palettes, dynamic patterning, and the transformation of yarn and fabric into multi-dimensional forms are some of the ways she creates pieces and environments that vary in scale, from the object-based to the immersive and architectural. Embracing abstraction, optics, and extreme material contrasts, and surrounding the viewer in vibrating colour fields, Collins explores the boundaries between painting, fibre arts and installation, intuitively laying bare expressions of energy, emotion, and the viscereality of existence.
Solo and duo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Salon, Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FLA (2026); Carriage House Living Room, AMZender, Wellfleet, MA (2026); Liz Collins: Motherlode, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (2025); Shapeshifter, Douglass Library, New Brunswick, NJ (2025); Lightning Wheel, Candice Madey, New York, NY (2024); (re)Material Culture, Milan Design Week, Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy (2024); Liz Collins: Mischief, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, England (2022); Staring Into the Sun, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Stairs: Liz Collins & Gabrielle Shelton, Candice Madey, New York, NY (2021); Taking Stock, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2020); Summit Suite, Milan Design Week, Rossana Orlandi, Milan, Italy (2019); Inside Outside, Gallery DLUL, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018); After Mentorship: Liz Collins & Anna Campbell, The Studio, Provincetown, MA (2018); Conduition, LMAK, NY (2018); Cast of Characters (installation featuring a curatorial project), BGSQD, NY (2018); Fringe, Seaport Studios, NY (2016); Energy Field, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2015-17); Having It All, Heller Gallery, NY (2014); Sitting Room, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA (2014); Distancer-Pursuer, Wanlass Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (2013); Touching the Void, Textile Arts Center, NY (2013); Textiles and Tactics, Out North Gallery, Anchorage, AK (2009); Textiles and Tactics, Out North Gallery, Anchorage, AK (2005).
Group exhibitions include Labor & Ornament, Superhouse, NY, NY (2026); American Conversations, Ogunquit Museum of Art, Ogunquit, ME (2026); Drop, Cloth, Hollis Taggart & Susan Inglett galleries, New York, NY (2025); Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2025); Picture Gallery in Transformation: Recent Gifts, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Geometries, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Design Dysphoria: Give Them the Fantasy, (co-curator and exhibitor) Gotham, New York, NY (2025); a field of bloom and hum, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2025); Warp and Weft, the Shepherd, Detroit, MI (2025); Queer Histories, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Alright, Alright, Alright.., Eric Firestone, East Hampton, NY (2024); Painting Deconstructed, Ortega y Gassett, Brooklyn, NY (2024); Golden Thread: A Fiber Arts Show, Bravin Lee Offsite, Seaport, New York, NY (2024); STRANIERI OVUNQUE-Foreigners Everywhere, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2024); The Romance of Entanglement (in the Era of the Observer's Paradox), BGSQD, New York, NY (2023); Geotex: Geometric Abstraction in Textile Art (curator /exhibitor), Collective Art + Design, Southampton, NY (2023); A Summer Arrangement, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY (2023); Library, Tappetto Volante, Brooklyn, NY (2023); Women and Abstraction:1741-Now, Addison Gallery, Andover, MA (2023); Womens Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY (2022); Counterbalance, Chautauqua Institution, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY (2021); Omniscient, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY (2021); Goodnight House, Fort Makers, New York, NY (2021); OBJECTS:USA 2020, R & Company, New York, NY (2021).
Highlights and Collections
Collin's work is in the collections of the Addison Gallery, Andover, MA; FIT Museum, New York, NY; Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; SAIC Fashion Resource Center, Chicago, IL; Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Touchstones Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. She has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Lebowitz Artist in Residence, Douglass College at Rutgers (2025-2026); LongHouse Reserve Inaugural Artist in Residence (2024); Anonymous Was A Woman grant (2023); ArtistRelief Grant (2020); Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2020).