Liz Deschenes is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in France, the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Museum of Art and the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Center in Washington, D.C. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, most recently including solo shows at Campoli Presti in Paris and London, Secession, Vienna, Sutton Lane, Brussels, and Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York. Her first solo presentation at an American museum will take place at the Walker Art Center in 2014. Deschenes' work has been included numerous group exhibitions including "What is a Photograph?", curated by Carol Squiers at the International Center of Photography in New York, "Cross Over. Photography of Science + Science of Photography" at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. 

January 1st, 1966 in (Age 58)