Liz Nielsen is an American photographer based in Brooklyn.
Nielsen prefers using traditional analog photography methods with hand-made negatives and natural lighting. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago two years later.
Nielsen's photography has been featured in The New Yorker, [1] The New York Times, [2] Wall Street Journal, [3] Hyperallergic [4] ArtSlant, [5] British Journal of Photography, [6] and LensCulture. [7]
Her work has been exhibited at Black Box Projects [8] in London, the Denny Gallery [9] in New York, Danziger Gallery in New York, and SOCO [10] Gallery in North Carolina. Nielsen and Carolina Wheat founded the Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2016, and have also co-organized the exhibition Transaction at Knockdown Gallery.
She was a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina.