Liz Rosenfeld


Liz Rosenfeld is an American performance, film/video and visual artist based in Berlin.
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Early life and education

Rosenfeld was born in 1979 in New York City to parents of Jewish descent. Rosenfeld received an MFA in 2005 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by an MA in Performance Studies from New York University in 2007, where they worked with the late influential queer theorists Jose Munoz as their thesis advisor.

Work

Rosenfeld makes experimental film, performance, and visual artworks, addressing "questions and desires related to a queer corporal position". They are also a published writer of queer auto- theory and poetry.They were the first Goethe@LUX artist in residence with the Goethe-Institut London in 2017. Rosenfeld's films and performances have been shown internationally at museums and other venues.
In their practice, the artist "explores questions regarding the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, past and future histories and the ways in which memory is queered." They explore cruising methodologies and take an approach to flesh as "a non-binary collaborative material" with a focus on "the potentiality of physical abundance and excess". Flesh, for them, is something that they "move with, live with, sculpt with... something that collaborating with".
For Rosenfeld, the materiality of the body and the skin are akin to the texture of film and video, beyond simple metaphor, and the artist works with "moving images as performative bodies". The immersive environment of a planetarium, for which Rosenfeld made White Sands Crystal Foxes, merges their love for the cinematic and the performative.
In 2025 Rosenfeld published their first auto- theory book, co written with Professor Joao Florencio called " Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising." This was published by Rutgers University Press as part of their Q-Public book series. This book has been well received around the world, and continues on a book tour in 2026.
Rosenfeld has also worked with and performed in the work of artists Lilly Baldwin, Shu Lea Cheang, Marit Ostberg, Meg Stuart, and others.

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