Top Searches

Liz Hirsch

Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences, Creative Action, Interdisciplinary Studies

Education

  • Ph.D., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
  • MA, Art History, Hunter College, CUNY
  • BA, Art History, Sarah Lawrence College

Bio and Affiliation

Liz Hirsch serves as Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art/Media Studies and Area Head, Art History. Dr. Hirsch completed her Ph.D. in 2021 from the CUNY Graduate Center with a dissertation titled "Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973–1988," which examines artist networks, cultural intersections, and community formations in postwar Los Angeles.

Her research focuses on conceptual art and its afterlives, performance art ecologies, alternative art spaces, and the political economy of contemporary art, with broader interests in urbanism, subcultural aesthetics, and DIY publishing. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, ArtAsiaPacific, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Frieze, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She has contributed to volumes published by Dia Art Foundation, The Jewish Museum, Hassla Books, and Gagosian.

She has presented her research at the Getty Research Institute, the CAA Annual Conference, SECAC, Boston University, the CUNY Graduate Center, UC Riverside, and in a virtual symposium organized by scholars from the University of Warsaw and the University of Bern. She is also the co-founder of 839, a contemporary art gallery based in Los Angeles. 

She is at work on her first book, High Performance: Publishing and the Social Life of Art in Los Angeles, 1978-1997, under contract with the Rethinking Art’s Histories series at Manchester University Press.

Liz Hirsch

Awards and Honors 

Publications 

Books

Edited Volume and Catalog Contributions

Essays & Reviews