Aliza Shvarts

Ph.D. '20, M.A. '10

Aliza Shvartz

Aliza Shvarts is an artist, writer, and scholar who takes a queer and feminist approach to reproductive labor and language. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Tate Modern, Athens Biennale, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Galerie Maria Bernheim, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Participant Inc, Art in General, and SculptureCenter. Her writing and interviews have appeared in OctoberArtforumThe Cute-fluxArt in AmericaWhitechapel Documents in Contemporary Art: PracticeArt Journal, TDR/The Drama ReviewWomen & Performance, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. She was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP), Recess Critical Writing Fellow, A.I.R. Artist Fellow, and Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grantee. She is currently Director of the Low-Residency MFA Program and Assistant Professor of Performance at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Education

New York University

Ph.D. - Performance Studies

New York, New York

 

New York University

Master of Arts - Performance Studies

New York, New York

 

Yale University

Bachelor of Arts - English; Art: concentration sculpture

New Haven, Connecticut