Haircut 2
by LIZZIE CONKLIN
SUBWAY SEARCH HISTORY
by LIZZIE CONKLIN
My Sister Doesn’t Look Like Me
by LIZZIE CONKLIN
Behind the Work
“These works progress from skill-building exercises to non-fiction documentation. I made Haircut 2 to practice figure painting. I made Subway Search History to guess the story of a Bob Dylan-type carrying a bouquet of flowers whom I saw on the 1. I fabricated his search history and wrote it in tape on a mirror, painted his portrait on top, and peeled off the letters to reveal the mirror again. The final artwork, My Sister Doesn’t Look Like Me, is a hand-woven silk textile that hosts a cyanotype of my sister, who was adopted two years before I was born. She has lived a parallel yet exponentially more difficult life than I. Now, as a teacher with limited time to work, the only art that I have time to make documents those I love.”
Lizzie Conklin is an artist, writer, and teacher. She graduated from Yale University in 2025 with a degree in Art and the History of Art. Her honors include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Performing or Visual Arts, a scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Robert Reed Award from the Yale School of Art, and the Bentley Award from the Yale Record Corporation. Her work is held in the collections of Yale University, The Study at Yale, and private collectors.
Her writing has appeared in Whitehot Magazine and Reductress. She lives and works in New York City, where she teaches art.
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