Liz Hirsch

Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts and Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies

Education

  • Ph.D., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2021
  • MA, Art History, Hunter College, CUNY, 2013
  • BA, Art History and Social Science, Sarah Lawrence College, 2006

Bio and Affiliation

Dr. Hirsch completed her PhD in 2021 with a dissertation titled "Inevitable Associations: Art, Institution, and Cultural Intersection in Los Angeles, 1973-1988," which examines artist networks, cultural intersections, and manifestations of community in bicentennial Los Angeles. Broader research interests include legacies of conceptual art, contemporary urbanism, and artist identity in the twilight of the welfare state. She has presented her research at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston University, CUNY, SECAC (forthcoming), and in a virtual symposium organized by scholars from the University of Warsaw and the University of Bern. She was a Teaching Fellow in History + Theory at SCI-Arc (2018-2020), and has taught the history of art and architecture at Los Angeles City College, San Francisco State University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and the Spitzer School of Architecture. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, ARTnews, Artforum, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She has contributed to books published by the Dia Art Foundation, The Jewish Museum, Miles McEnery, and Gagosian. She is a co-founder of 839, a contemporary art gallery run out of a 1924 bungalow in Hollywood.

Liz Hirsch

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