Lizzy De Vita

Lizzy De Vita is an artist, writer, and educator who lives and works in Brooklyn. De Vita's work occupies a constellation of mediums, including performance, text, sound, drawing, installation, video and sculpture. Diverse in form, the work is unified by an underlying interest in viral moments: places where the boundaries between ourselves and others are blurred. De Vita earned her B.A. in Art History and English Literature from Barnard College and her M.F.A. in Sculpture at Yale.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Digital media
  • Drawing
  • Film/video/sound
  • Installation art
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Performance art
  • Print media
  • Sculpture
  • Visual representation

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Classes (Selected)

  • ART 2103: First-Year Studio Research Workshop

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

  • Support Structures 8th Floor Gallery, New York City (2020) 
  • Object Lessons Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NY (2019)
  • TALK BACK Flux Factory, New York City (2019)

Publications (Selected)

Selected Work

  • Two hands holding bright red nail polish as it paints another hand's fingernails with the index finger fully painted red.

    Edging (2016/19) Film still. A strangely intimate, quietly violent moment where the boundaries and expectations between a client and a manicurist are blurred.

  • Three people crowded around each other, one person standing holding a skinny bent object while two others are knelt at their feet.

    Tourniquet three people (lovers), copper, plastic tubing, clothing, conversation, scissors, plastic.

  • Solid white wall with a white window to the right with a person's profile shaded in the window.

    Lake (2019) glass, window, blinds, florescent lighting, tungsten lighting, mirroring.

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