Liz Armstrong
lizabeth Armstrong is an independent curator, writer, and art historian based in Palm Springs, California. From 2014 to 2018 she was Director of the Palm Springs Art Museum (PSAM); from 2009 to 2014 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia) where she started the Center for Alternative Museum Practice (CAMP). Prior to her Mia post, she served as Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport, California (2000-2008). She was also a Curator at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (1996-2000) and the Walker Art Center (1983-1996).
Throughout her career, Armstrong has been committed to innovative artists and experimental museum practices. She has a long track record of acclaimed exhibitions, catalogs, and art commissions, and has received awards from the American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC) for the best exhibition catalog of 2007, Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury; and from the International Association of Art Critics Awards for her exhibitions Peter Fischli and David Weiss and In The Spirit of Fluxus. She was in the first group of U.S. curators selected to participate in the Center for Curatorial Leadership in 2007. In 2017, she was awarded Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Minister of Culture.
Armstrong earned her M.A. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Throughout her career, Armstrong has been committed to innovative artists and experimental museum practices. She has a long track record of acclaimed exhibitions, catalogs, and art commissions, and has received awards from the American Association of Museum Curators (AAMC) for the best exhibition catalog of 2007, Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury; and from the International Association of Art Critics Awards for her exhibitions Peter Fischli and David Weiss and In The Spirit of Fluxus. She was in the first group of U.S. curators selected to participate in the Center for Curatorial Leadership in 2007. In 2017, she was awarded Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Minister of Culture.
Armstrong earned her M.A. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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