Liz Roth, MFA
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Assistant Professor
Drawing / Painting / 2D Design

Office:(405) 744-6016
Fax:(405) 744-5767
Email: liz.roth@okstate.edu
Website: http://www.lizroth.com

Liz Roth is an artist who depicts social concerns in a humorous way – whether it’s about coworkers functioning as a reluctant substitute family in the United States (Cheeseburger Soup, a series about Madison Department of Transportation workers), or how Americans perceive the relationship between beauty and weight (she completed a nude self-portrait–a-day project for six months, see www.lizroth.com). She was invited to Japan in 2003 to create art installations and public art works dealing with environmental issues.

Her most recent project, America 101, has taken her to all 50 states to create scenes emphasizing environmental losses as a result of consumerism.

During the past three years Roth has been an artist in residence at the Jentel Artist Foundation (in Wyoming), the Awagami Paper Factory (in Japan), the Kamiyama (Japan) Artists in Residence program, and the Vermont Studio Center. In Japan, she completed a painting installation, as well as an outdoor, interactive, collaborative, printmaking/book arts project. In 2001 she was one of two painters awarded the Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship. Most recently she received the generous national Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant for painting.

Her works have been acquired by many national and international collections, including the Walker Museum of Art, the Museu del Joguet in Spain, the Museum of Awa Japanese Paper, and the KAIR Contemporary Art Collection.