Aliza Nisenbaum's Portraiture of the Pandemic

This winter Tate Liverpool presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Europe by NY-based artist Aliza Nisenbaum (b. 1977, Mexico). Bringing together new and existing work, the exhibition will run from December 15, 2020, to June 27, 2021. At its center will be a new commission of portraits of people from Liverpool who have been key workers during the COVID-19 crisis, consisting of two new large-scale group portraits and eleven individual portrait works on paper.

Influenced by the Mexican mural movement and its depiction of social history, Nisenbaum creates paintings that often focus on different members of a community and with the current global health crisis in mind will focus on NHS staff from Merseyside hospitals for her new commission.