Aliza Nisenbaum received her MFA (2005) and BFA (2001) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to, she studied psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. After her first solo exhibition in New York at White Columns in 2014, Nisenbaum quickly rose to prominence as an emerging portrait painter. Several solo presentations followed, including at institutions such as Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Tate Liverpool, Kemper Museum of Art, and most recently at the Queens Museum. She has been part of significant group exhibitions and projects, such as the 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (2023); Real Families: Stories of Change, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023); When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, ICA/Boston, which traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Cantor Center, Stanford University (20219); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Biennial of the Americas, MCA Denver (2015), among others. She is in numerous institutional collections, including Art Institute of Chicago; Arts Council, Dublin; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum Sandler Darmstadt, Germany; Rennie Museum, Vancouver; Tate, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.