Liz Kueneke - SPAIN
Liz Kueneke is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and art educator. Since 2004, she has been investigating the relationships that people have with their environment through the use of participatory embroidery, mapping activities and public interventions. She is fascinated by the different layers of meaning attached to the public and private spaces that we inhabit, and how the changes taking place in our cities and rural places are affecting our lives. She has been especially influenced by people such as the urban planner Kevin Lynch and the Situationists, as well as her grandmother Dorothy, a quilter, who taught her how to stitch.
She is a member of the Ibiza-based art and activist group SOS Cochichumbas, which explores the long and complicated relationship between three species: the prickly pear cactus (la chumbera in Spain), cochineal, and humans.
Born in Chicago in 1976, she received a dual degree in Fine Arts and French Literature in 1998 from Georgetown University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University (Los Angeles) in 2001. In addition to her artistic practice she also curates exhibitions and gives workshops to art and architecture students. She has lived in Spain since 2003 and has resided in Ibiza since 2009.
She has had art residencies at Hangar: Centre de Producció d’Arts Visuals in Barcelona, at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and at Sefrou Association for Multidisciplinary Arts in Morocco. She has exhibited at the Museu de Pollença in Mallorca, el Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, el Museu de l’Empordà in Figueras, The Center for Architecture in New York City, and the Zentrum Architektur Zürich in Switzerland, among others, Her project The Urban Fabric has been exhibited on four continents and was selected to be part of an exhibition in the Museum of the City in Quito, Ecuador, as part of Habitat III, the U.N.'s conference on urban sustainability in 2016. Her work has featured in six different academic papers, in Spain, Sweden, Italy and Argentina. Her work also appears in several art books such as, “Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery” published by Arsenal Pulp Press, “A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies” by University of Toronto Press, “You Are Here/NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City”, published by Princeton Architectural Press, and “Mapping Different Geographies” by Springer Publishing.
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