LIZA JO EILERS

Liza Jo Eilers is a multimedia artist who works through the double bind of popular culture’s representation of women and how it can both resist and reinforce the very ideals it claims to challenge. She questions not just what we see, but how habits of seeing have become embedded in American identity and entertainment, shaped by decades of cultural failure and its lingering aftermath.

Starland silver sash examines pleasure, performance, and the mechanics of a good time. The artist asks: What’s a good time, who’s a good time, and for whom is the good time? The paintings unfold like film, stitched from cropped images, some with interruptions of black painchert that act as censors, pauses, veils. Not all obstructions are permanent; in thermally sensitive works, the black temporarily turns transparent, revealing what lies beneath. The series explores how women are held in a constant loop of being seen and seeing themselves, flickering between intimacy and spectacle.

About the artist Liza Jo Eilers (b. 1993, St. Paul, MN, US) received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (US) in 2020. In 2024 she was the recipient of the Soho House Dreamers in Residence Grant and the Hopper Prize Grant.

The artist’s solo exhibitions include The Great American Songbook, GROVE, London (UK), 2024; Scorchers, with Andrew Ordonez, Roommate, Chicago, IL (US), 2024; Don’t blow on the soup., Material Room, Richmond, VA (US), 2023; GLORY’S, with Alessandra Norman, Yew Nork, Chicago, IL (US), 2023; The Care and Keeping of You, SULK CHICAGO, Chicago, IL (US), 2022; SLUDGE, Rainbo Club presented by M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL (US), 2021; Good Friday, Bubblez Gallery, curated by Tyson Reeder & Lauren Sullivan, Chicago, IL (US), 2021; and Cheese Dust to Dust, curated by Breanne Trammell, (South) Eastern Pole, Fayetteville, AK (US), 2020.