Selected Exhibitions
Landscape Painting, solo show, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany 2004-05
Presence of Light, group show, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA 2004
AIM 24, group show, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY 2004
Devilish, Delicious, Decadent, 3-D Invitational, University of Akron, Akron, OH 2004
New Installations, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA 2003-4
Landslide, group show, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2003
Six Projects @ LIU, group outdoor show, Brooklyn, NY 2003
Liza McConnell & Chris Gose, two-person show, Gettysburg College 2003
Acme Art Company, installation, Columbus, OH 2003
48 Hours of Art-Making, group show, B.K. Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH 2002
Absorbing Excess, co-curator/artist, group show, Ohio Art League, Columbus,
OH 2002
Pictures & Projects, solo show, Columbus, OH 2001
Some Space Between, group show, Skylab, Columbus, OH 2001

Residencies & Awards
Headlands Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Sausalito, CA 2004
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Omaha, NE 2004
Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) Program, Bronx, NY 2004
The Mattress Factory Residency, Pittsburgh, PA 2003
Smack Mellon Studios Residency, Brooklyn, NY 2003
Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency, Wendover, UT 2002-4
Ohio Arts Council 2003 Individual Artist Grant 2002-3
Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY 2002
Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency, Wendover, Utah 2002-3
Edith Fergus Gilmore Thesis Grant, The Ohio State University 2001
Graduate Student Alumni Research Award, The Ohio State University 2000

Education
The Ohio State University, Master of Fine Art, Sculpture 2001
Cornell University, Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture 1995

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



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