Liz Rosenfeld

Liz Rosenfeld (born 1979) is an American performance, film/video and visual artist based in Berlin.

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 theorist José Esteban Muñoz 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".

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". was nominated for a Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale 2022 – Shortlisted for the ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival Live Art Prize 2022