Liz Jaff lives and works in New York City. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at Widmer Theodoridis Gallery, Switzerland, The Art Complex Center, Tokyo, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Montserrat College of Art, Robert Henry Contemporary, Sugarlift x High Line Nine, and Hubweek, the innovation Festival founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She creates intricate constructions which use formal structures, pattern and repetition to talk about perceptions of time and the role of memory in shaping experience. Storytelling, poetry, personal narrative and performance are important influences and subjects. Her body of work includes installations, objects, and works on and of paper. Large scale sitespecific installations are created using repeated components which serve as building blocks or units which respond to the unique architectural characteristics of a space. These are theatrical and immersive. The resulting environments have a dreamy escapist quality which suggest transformative portals or curtains, fairytales and treasure hunts. The “Cut Out” works are made with layered sheets of paper plotted with grids of circles which are cut and folded to create sculptural reliefs. These are ruminations or daydreams, the repetition of a single thought or sensation- a smell, a person, a feeling, a memory. They are vehicle to count time and remember. Education 1989 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting Solo Exhibitions 2020 Sugarlift x High Line Nine, New York, NY2018 Dust, Widmer Theodoridis Gallery, Eschlikon Switzerland2017 Wallflower, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY2014 Overboard, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY2011 Works, RHV Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY2009 Hedge, Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, NY Diagramming a Fold x400, Kris Graves Projects, Brooklyn, NY Group Exhibitions 2019 Particulate Matters, Project Artspace, New York, NY Art on Paper, Public Art Project in association with Frosch and Portmann Gallery Room 105, Widmer Theodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland2018 Change Without Change, Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2017 Subtle Formations, Kean University, Union, NJ Hubweek, MIT, Harvard and Boston Globe, City Hall Plaza, Boston, Mass Mapping Bushwick, In case Projects, Brooklyn, NY Volta NY, New York, NY Art.Now.2017, Hearst Galleries, New York, NY2016 Bits and Pieces, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY I Will Go On…., Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey, NJ Bushwick Tales, Venus Knitting Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Surface 3, curated by Renee Riccardo, Brooklyn, NY2015 Volta 11, Basel, Switzerland Behind the White Walls, BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bridge, Contemporary Art Center of Rochester, Rochester, NY Volume 2, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY2014 Wrap Around 5, Arena @Suite 806, curated by Renee Riccardo, New York, NY Behind the White Walls, BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY Paper Constructions, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ2013 Paddle 8 Auction, Aid for Aids International, New York, NY2011 Time in Children’s Art Initiative, New York, NY2009 Hero Gala, Aid for Aids International, New York, NY2008 Paper, The Art Complex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan2007 Applied Arts, School of Visual Arts, Amagansett, NY2000 Against an Infinite Horizon, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York, NY1999 Small Things, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY1998 Utz, Lennon Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY Drawings, G.W. Einstein Gallery, New York, NY Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta Art, Gramercy, New York, NY1996 Works on Paper, Kagan Martos Space, New York, NY1995 Group Show, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY1990 Architect’s Gallery, Warren, RI Awards National Museum for Women in the Arts, 2019 Women to Watch NomineeOlivetti Scholarship for study abroad Publications 2011Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper, R Klanten, B Meyer, Die Gestalten Verlag/ 2011-04-30/ ISBN-10;3899553332012Paperworks, Wang Shaoqiang, Ginko Press, ISBN-10;158234326 Press A Poem for Sunday, The Dish, Alice Quinn, October 11, 2014The Art and Craft of Paper, Arts In Bushwick, Willow Goldstein, May 1, 2015Liz Jaff: In the Folds of Paper: An American Sculptor, Entrada Magazine, Rosa Berland, May 28, 2015Liz Jaff at Volta 11, Installation Magazine, June 2015Brooklyn Bridge, Iran Daily, September 8,2015Spatial Preoccupations, Rochester City Newspaper, Rebecca Rafferty, September 9, 2015Brooklyn Bridge Art Exhibit at RoCo, Democrat and Chronicle, Robin Flanigan, September 16, 2015New York Artists, Fortuna Magazine, Japan, September 2015Marathon Art, Newbury Port News, Will Broaddus, January 7, 2016Double Play at Montserrat Galleries, The Patriot Ledger, Keith Powers, January 28, 2016I will Go On…. , Artscope, Molly Hamill, February, 26, 2016Artist Feature, Couture Flowers Magazine, Rosa Berland, Spring/Summer 2016Observations Up & Down, Brooklyn Magazine, Paul D’Agostino, June 16, 2016Whether We Dance or Not, Arts in Bushwick, Etty Yaniv, March 18, 2017Volta Top Ten, Wide Walls, March, 2017HUBweek Change Maker:Liz Jaff, November 3. 2017Profile, Milieu Magazine, Spring 2020