Liz Faust is an art historian, independent curator, and a professor of contemporary art whose career is centered around weaving diverse narratives and transforming art spaces globally. She has curated over eighty exhibitions ranging from solo exhibitions of living and deceased artists.

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From 2018 to the present, she has taught at a number of academic institutions including the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the University of Cincinnati. Her courses focus on hands-on exhibition-making (with extra emphasis on disability and accessibility), interdisciplinary curatorial models, museum studies, Postmodernism, and contemporary Japanese Art. 

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She holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice from MICA and a BA in General History, Art History, and Museum Studies from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA. She has published several catalog essays and given lectures globally on a range of subjects including queer art and curating (Tokyo University of the Arts, 2023), feminist ecological art (Danger Zones: Hybrid Configurations within Reformed Landscapes, 2024), Japanese art (Stevenson University, 2019), and exhibition-making (International Center of Photography, 2022, 2024). 

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In 2019, she co-founded a commercial art gallery – Catalyst Contemporary – in Baltimore, MD. where she put a number of theoretical curatorial frameworks and community engagement into practice. 

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Faust stepped away from the gallery in 2023 to focus on her own independent practice. She is a member of the IKT: the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and most recently became the Director of Exhibitions and Curator at Goucher College. 

In 2024, Faust was featured in BmoreArt as “a Baltimore treasure.”

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