Liz Oakley

Liz Oakley is an interdisciplinary artist and educator with a background in puppetry. They are interested in how art can enable forms of attention that disrupt our sense of the usual and open spaces of possibility, presence, and co-creation. Recently, Liz’s performance, installation, and puppetry designs have appeared in Vancouver at the SUM Gallery, Vines Festival, Audain Gallery, SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, What Lab, and Playwrights Theatre Centre. Liz is currently the Art Studio Lead at the Gibson Art Museum. They are also an artist-in-residence in Vancouver schools with the AIRS program and an educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Liz resides Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They have an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.