Born in 1984, American painter Eliza Douglas lives and works in Berlin and New York City. Her “meta-paintings”—in which she stages images drawn from artistic, fashion, consumer, and underground cultures—are one possible answer to the question of what painting can be in the 21^st century.

Her recent exhibitions include Lord of the Fucking Wasteland, Air de Paris, Romainville (2020); Sex, The Art Institute, Chicago, and Tate Modern, London (with Anne Imhof, 2019); Jewish Museum, New York (2018); Old Tissues Filled with Tears, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, and Eliza Douglas Anne Imhof, Galerie Buchholz, New York (both 2017).

Also a musician, performer, and model, she regularly performs and collaborates with German artist Anne Imhof—most recently for Natures mortes at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2021—and worked with Devendra Banhart, Antony and the Johnsons, and Matteah Baim in the 2000s.

Eliza Douglas is represented by Air de Paris, Romainville, and Overduin & Co, Los Angeles.

Photo credit: Nadine Fraczkowski