​Liz Stringer is an artist and arts administrator based in Los Angeles and received her BFA and BS from UC San Diego and her MFA from UC Irvine. She uses drawing, installation and sculpture to explore biopolitics through feminist poetic fiction. Liz actively participates in the Cold Read, an online critique group and artist collective that emphasizes care and support through writing, and currently engaged in the ongoing sixth version of INSITE.
Contact: ejstringer84@gmail.com
Instagram: surgeon_hands
EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art. University of California, Irvine
BA Visual Arts Studio. University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Science. University of California, San Diego
Certificate of Performance Museum Studies. San Diego Mesa College
Artist photo by Matt Savitsky
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 The Tellings, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
2024 The Showings, Contemporary Art Center Gallery, University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA
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TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
2025 Soft Bodies, The College of Creative Studies Art Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION
2026 VIEWPOINT: Ceramics, Grossmont College’s Hyde Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2025 Don’t Let Yourself Be Hurt This Time, Head to Head Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Mostly Thorns, UCI Burns Pinion Nature Reserve, Pioneer Town, CA
2025 Freeze, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 GLAMFA 2024: Hot For The Apocalypse, CSULB SOA At Galleries, Long Beach, CA
2023 NOMAD ii, Del Amo Crossing Complex, Torrance, CA
2023 Expanded Ecologies, BEALL Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA
2023 The Body is the House We Live In, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 After Many Sunsets, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA
2022 A line and a long gaze, Phase Gallery, LA
2022 GAMFA’22, CSULB SOA At Galleries, Long Beach, CA
2021 Shaggy Beast, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA (postponed)
2020 DXIX at OPAF, Other Places Art Fair (Virtual), San Pedro, CA
2019 sluice over the braids sweet forming, Organized by the Cold Read, ESX, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Out of The Blue, Bonita Museum and Cultural Center, San Diego, CA
2019 In-Part, Mesa Community College, San Diego, CA
2019 Blended, DAC Gallery/ECF Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Forces of Nature, San Diego International Airport, San Diego, CA
2019 Looking Forward, Looking Back, Mesa Community College, San Diego, CA
2019 Grey Matter, Ship in the Woods, San Diego, CA
2018 Indigo, University of California San Diego (UCSD), San Diego, CA
2017 TALK TALK, Ship in the Woods, San Diego, CA
2017 Can You See Us?, Something We Don’t Know Part 3, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego
2017 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by Alesssandra Moctezuma, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, San Diego, CA
2017 Untitled, Arts Aggregate, San Diego, CA
2016 Transplanted, Arts Aggregate, Carlsbad, CA
2016 FINAL MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015 Just Friends @ DATE NIGHT, Horton Plaza Mall, San Diego, CA
2015 3 x 3, ARTifact Gallery, La Jolla, San Diego, CA
2015 Friends Press, ARTifact Gallery, La Jolla, San Diego, CA
2015 My Meditations End in Reverie, UCSD Library Exhibition, San Diego, CA
2015 Round But Square, University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA
2015 Cloistered in These Living Walls of Jet, Kamil Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA
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PUBLICATIONS
2024 UCI MFA’s Challenge Institutional Display, Hyperallergic. Claudia Ross. May 23.
2024 Two Plus Minutes with an ARTeater - Meet Liz Stringer. Video.
2019 Check out Elizabeth Stringer’s work. SD Voyager: Local Stories. March 18.
2019 Sluice over the braids sweet forming, Artland Magazine. Nov 1.
2015 Artistic Display Brings Zooplankton into Focus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. May 20.
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AWARDS
2026 AMOCA’s Artist in Residence (April - September 2026)
2023 Center for Medical Humanities Scholarship
2022/2023 UCI Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant
2022 Claire Trevor School of Art Scholarship
2022 Medici Scholarship Summer Award
2015 Russell Foundation Grant
2011 Ryman Arts, Los Angeles