Liz Faust is an art historian, independent curator, and a professor of contemporary art whose career is centered around weaving diverse narratives and transforming art spaces globally. She has curated over eighty exhibitions ranging from solo exhibitions of living and deceased artists such as: Kei Ito, Marja Pirilä, William Christenberry, and William S. Dutterer; and group shows featuring: Jess T. Dugan, Tommy Bruce, Isao Hashimoto, Wendy Maruyama, Jerrell Gibbs, Qinza Najm, and Kate Kretz.
From 2018 to the present, she has taught at a number of academic institutions including the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the University of Cincinnati. Her courses focus on hands-on exhibition-making (with extra emphasis on disability and accessibility), interdisciplinary curatorial models, museum studies, Postmodernism, and contemporary Japanese Art.
She holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice from MICA and a BA in General History, Art History, and Museum Studies from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. She has published several catalog essays and given lectures globally on a range of subjects including queer art and curating (Tokyo University of the Arts, 2023), feminist ecological art (Danger Zones: Hybrid Configurations within Reformed Landscapes, 2024), Japanese art (Stevenson University, 2019), and exhibition-making (International Center of Photography, 2022, 2024). She is currently working on a new book tracing modern to contemporary Japanese art.
In 2019, she co-founded a commercial art gallery – Catalyst Contemporary – in Baltimore, MD. where she put a number of theoretical curatorial frameworks and community engagement into practice.
Faust stepped away from the gallery in 2023 to focus on her own independent practice and most recently, she is a member of the IKT: the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
In 2024, Faust was featured in BmoreArt as “a Baltimore treasure.”
