Now On View | Liz Glynn
Liz Glynn:
American Progress (after John Gast)
529 West 21st Street
Liz Glynn’s American Progress (After John Gast) (2017) is currently on view in Paula Cooper Gallery’s vitrine. The work is part of Glynn’s ongoing series The Shape of Progress, which reflects critically on United States history and the contradictory myths woven into the foundation of American identity.
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Glynn’s 2017 installation Open House is on view in Storm King, New Windsor, New York through November 9, 2026
Works from Glynn’s The Myth of Singularity (2014) are on long-term view at The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade), 2023 is included in the inaugural exhibition in the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, California
“I almost think of myself as a materialist philosopher. I work with ideas through material.”
– Liz Glynn
Available Works
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 (After dark), 2019
cast stainless steel, vinyl
29 x 34 x 6 in. (73.7 x 86.4 x 15.2 cm)
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.
All images: © Liz Glynn. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
[1] Liz Glynn, American Progress (after John Gast), 2017, copper sheeting, copper pipe, steel, 101 x 53 x 83 in. (256.5 x 134.6 x 210.8 cm). Photo: Camille Drury.
[2] Installation view of Liz Glynn, Open House (detail) at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, 2026. Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins. [3] Liz Glynn, The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade), 2023, Steel armature with aluminum wire mesh coated in jesmonite, 84" x 72" (213.36 x 182.88 cm). Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, Promised gift to Mohn Art Collective (MAC3): Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Kristina Simonsen. [4] 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), pedestal: 4 x 28 x 28 in. (10.2 x 71.1 x 71.1 cm). © Liz Glynn. Courtesy Watermill Center. Photo: Chloé Bellemère. [8] Photos by Enrico Brunetti. Courtesy American Academy in Rome, 2026.