Career
Her narrative shorts and experimental videos have screened in Berlin, Rotterdam, and many other international festivals and fine arts venues. Her video installations have been shown in Artists Space in New York, the International Cooperation Administration in Philadelphia, Cineboords in Rotterdam, and Mass Multimedia over Coax Alliance and WCMA in Massachusetts. She has also published critical writing on art and film, and has curated a number of museum exhibitions and festival programs.
Johnson has also directed three feature films, including Return (2011) and Hateship, Loveship (2013), but the majority of her work has been short films.
She is currently working on the upcoming American comedy-drama film, Elvis & Nixon. Liza was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1970.
She attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts.
She then went to San Diego to study at the University of California, San Diego, from where she got her Master of Fine Arts in 1995.
