University of North Texas 
Liss LaFleur
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Studio Art
Associate Professor, Studio Art: New Media Art
2022 UNT IAA Fellow
Alum: 2011, B.A., Art History, B.F.A., Studio Art: Photography
Art Building, Room 345P
Associate Professor, Studio Art: New Media Art
2022 UNT IAA Fellow
Alum: 2011, B.A., Art History, B.F.A., Studio Art: Photography
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About
Areas of Expertise: New media art, video art, performance art, animation, digital fabrication, and queer theory.
Liss LaFleur received her M.F.A. as a Fellow in Media Art from Emerson College (2014), Boston,
Mass., and joined the College of Visual Arts and Design in the fall of 2015 at the
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. From 2012–2013 she was a media researcher
on the Ford Foundation Advancing LGBT Rights Initiative, “Out for Change: Transmedia
Organizing Network” at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Mass. She is currently an associate
professor and program coordinator of New Media Art, and an affiliated faculty member
with the LGBTQ Studies Program and Women's and Gender Studies Program at UNT.
As an interdisciplinary artist, LaFleur’s practice spans moving image, performance,
queer and feminist politics, and installation art. Her work broadly explores relationships
between gender, technology, and identity. She is a 2020-22 John F. Kennedy Center
Citizen Artist Fellow. In 2018, she was awarded an Immersive Scholar grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, to research the #MeToo movement
in the United States and translate public data into a series of immersive videos using
3D animation and conceptual art strategies. In 2019, all of the data associated with
this research was archived in the #MeToo Digital Media Collection at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, Mass.
LaFleur has exhibited, lectured, and held screenings internationally, including at
the Tate Modern, London; Cannes Court Métrage, Paris; Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology,
Berkeley, Calif.; the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; PBS/ POV Digital; the Reykjavik
Art Museum, Iceland; South by Southwest, Austin, Texas; Artespacio Galeria de Arte,
Santiago, Chile; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Wash.; Sister Gallery, Bowden, South
Australia; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea. She was
nominated for a Webby Award (2019) and has been a finalist for the Foundwork Art Prize
(2019), Art Prize (2017), the Aesthetica Art Prize (2018), the Lumen Prize (2016),
and the Edie Windsor Coding Fellowship (2019). She is a recipient of the College Art
Association Professional Development Fellowship (2014), and a pupil of documentary
photographer Mary Ellen Mark. She is represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas.
As an instructor, Liss brings a passion and enthusiasm for collaborative social engagement
and blends contemporary critical theory with professional practice to create an experiential
learning environment. Her courses are critical and multimodal, allowing students to
connect their art practice to individual research interests through cross-disciplinary
engagement. She has developed various new courses at UNT, including Performance and
Electronic Media, Expanded Cinema, and The Future Feminist Lab. Outside of the classroom,
she is an active mentor for both individual students and student organizations.
Liss is inspired by the creative and inclusive community she has found in Texas. When
she's not working and researching, she can be found outside chasing sunshine and good
coffee. She enjoys life in the Little d (Denton, Texas) with her partner, Britt, and
their pup, Delilah.