A headshot of Lisi Raskin. The artist is has dark curly hair that is close cropped on this sides. They are smiling slightly and wearing a grey button down shirt.

For the last decade, Lisi Raskin has been practicing ways of being that embrace what they now understand to have always been their trans and disabled embodiment. They have reshaped their creative and curricular practices into solo and together adventures that support them as they unlearn assimilationist and settler, white supremacist patterns of relation. They focus their energy on endeavors, including art making, that are responsive and accountable to the needs of their body and community. Their forthcoming book In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation will be published by Punktum Books in 2024.

Raskin has exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunsthaus Graz, Casino Luxembourg, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Center for Curatorial Studies/Hessel Museum at Bard College, and the Rubin Museum of Art. Their web projects have been published in Triple Canopy magazine, with The Dia Foundation, in Hyperalergic, and in Creative Time Global Reports. They have built large-scale environments at the 11th International Istanbul Biennale, the 2nd Athens Biennale, and the 3rd Singapore Biennale. They have installed site-sensitive sound projects in the 1st Time Machine Biennale of Contemporary Art, D-O Ark Underground, and the Momentum 7 Biennale of Nordic Art.

Raskin received a MFA from Columbia University. They have been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Guna S. Mundheim Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin, a Quimby Foundation Grant, Mayer Foundation Grant, and the Hayward Prize from the American Austrian Foundation.

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