Liz Rae Heise-Glass is a writer, editor, and art historian based in the American Midwest. A native of California, Liz graduated with a BA in American Studies from Scripps College, Claremont, before completing an MA in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts. From 2011-2013, she was the Assistant Curator at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), and from 2013-2015, she served as a fellow in the Visual Arts department at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). Following her time in Minnesota, Liz worked in academic publishing in the digital space, working with faculty and staff at Brown University to develop innovative scholarly publications.

Over the past decade, Liz has edited exhibition catalogues and contemporary art publications for institutions including the Wattis, the Walker, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Hunter College Art Galleries. From 2013-2017, she was the managing editor of The Exhibitionist, a journal dedicated to curatorial practice and exhibition histories. In 2018, Liz was a curator-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Creativity in Alberta, Canada. Liz is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at Ohio State University, where she works on artist’s music, performance art, new media, and conceptual practices. Her dissertation project focuses on a group of innovative American artists working at the edges of popular music, performance art, and video in the late 1970s and 1980s.