Artist Spotlight: Liz Glynn
Available Works
Liz Glynn
Untitled (After dark), 2019
cast stainless steel, vinyl
29 x 34 x 6 in. (73.7 x 86.4 x 15.2 cm)
Liz Glynn
Pathos: Exercise XLIV, 2015
glazed stoneware
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (23.5 x 17.1 x 10.8 cm)
Liz Glynn
Untitled Chair with Arms (Open House), 2016
cast concrete
44 x 43 x 33 in. (111.8 x 109.2 x 83.8 cm)
Liz Glynn
Untitled Vessel #4 (from The Looters), 2022
glazed stoneware with ceramic decals
7 1/2 x 14 x 9 in. (19.1 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm)
Liz Glynn
Untitled (Burgher with extended arm), 2014
bronze
sculpture: 70 x 26 x 23 1/4 in. (177.8 x 66 x 59.1 cm)
“I almost think of myself as a materialist philosopher. I work with ideas through material.”
– Liz Glynn
Now on View
Liz Glynn
American Progress (after John Gast), 2017
Liz Glynn: Open House
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
On view until November 9, 2026
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade), 2023 is included in the inaugural exhibition of the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA.
Works from Liz Glynn's The Myth of Singularity (2014) are on long-term view at The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York.
Liz Glynn, 2025-26 Rome Prize Winner
Glynn is the 2025-26 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. During the nine-month residency, Glynn focused on a new project, titled The Spoils: A Countermonument, and will present the works in the 2026 edition of the Vulcana festival, on view July 17-19.
For the past decade, Liz Glynn (b. 1981, Boston) has worked in sculpture, installation, and performance, examining the ways in which cultural objects of the past embody or confront power dynamics, social structures, and systems of value. Her work has been the subject of important one-person shows including Liz Glynn: Open House, on display at Storm King Art Center through November 2026; The Archaeology of Another Possible Future, a yearlong exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams in 2017, and RANSOM ROOM, at the SculptureCenter, New York in 2014. She is currently the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.
[1] Klaus Ottmann: "Robert Grosvenor as an American", in: Robert Grosvenor, exhib. cat. Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Fundação de Serralves 2005, Porto 2005, p. 18.
[2] In 1968, Robert Grosvenor was also involved in the important Minimal Art exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
[3] Cf. Ulrich Loock: "Perfect Ambiguity", in: Robert Grosvenor, exhib. cat. Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Fundação de Serralves 2005, Porto 2005, p. 23.
[4] Cf. Hans-Ulrich Obrist: "Hypervolume in Hyperspace", in: Mousse Magazine, No. 52, February-March 2016, pp. 162-175, here: p. 167.
[5] Cf. for example Charlotte Posenenske: "Statement", in: Art International, 12, 5 (May 1968), p. 50.
All images: Installation view, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2025 © Robert Grosvenor, documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH. Photo: Andrea Rossetti