SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004 – 2005
Landscape Painting, solo show, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany

2004
Presence of Light, group show, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
AIM 24, group show, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Devilish, Delicious, Decadent, 3-D Invitational, University of Akron, Akron, OH

2003 – 2004
New Installations, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA

2003
Landslide, group show, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Six Projects @ LIU, group outdoor show, Brooklyn, NY
Liza McConnell & Chris Gose, two-person show, Gettysburg College
Acme Art Company, installation, Columbus, OH

2002
48 Hours of Art-Making, group show, B.K. Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH
Absorbing Excess, co-curator/artist, group show, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH

2001
Pictures & Projects, solo show, Columbus, OH
Some Space Between, group show, Skylab, Columbus, OH

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2004
Headlands Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Sausalito, CA
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Omaha, NE
Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, Bronx, NY

2003
The Mattress Factory Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
Smack Mellon Studios Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2002 – 2004
Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency, Wendover, UT

2002 – 2003
Ohio Arts Council 2003 Individual Artist Grant
Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency, Wendover, Utah

2002
Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY

2001
Edith Fergus Gilmore Thesis Grant, The Ohio State University

2000
Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, The Ohio State University

EDUCATION

2001
The Ohio State University, Master of Fine Art, Sculpture

1995
Cornell University, Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

‘AIM24 – Artists in the Market Place’ Julia Herzberg, ArtNexus 54:3, Oct 2004, pp 176-177

‘Seeing the Light’ Timothy Cahill, Albany Union Times, Sunday September 12, 2004

‘ANIMATE: Johnston Foster and Liza McConnell’ Horace Brockington, NY Arts, Volume 9, No. 5/6, May/June 2004

‘Art Review; A Chance to Fill Up on Visual Treats’ Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times, April 25, 2004

‘Landslide’ John Hawke, Artseen, The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 2003

‘Mattress Factory Installations Open Up Different World of Art,’ Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Oct 26, 2003

‘From Ice Storms to Bike Gears’, Alice Winn, Pulp, Volume 02, Issue 34

‘Model/IdeaLandscape’ Spector Magazine, Leipzig, Germany, Volume 3, 2003

‘Two Exhibits Display Creative Methods Of Reusing Materials’, Bill Mayr, Columbus Dispatch, Aug. 15, 2002

‘Remains of the Day’, Tracy Zollinger Turner, Columbus Alive, Aug. 2002 

‘Leftovers Blend in Fresh Imaginative New Ways’ Jaqueline Hall, Review, Columbus Dispatch, August 18, 2002