Liss Platt is a multimedia artist who works in photography (digital as well as traditional), video, film, installation, performance, artist’s books, web art, and any combination thereof. The issues and ideas she investigates usually dictate which ‘tools’ she uses and what form the works take. The use of everyday objects, imagery, and residual media (such as analog photography) make the resultant artworks accessible through familiarity and seek to build an emotional connection to viewers by engendering feelings of nostalgia. At the same time, they also encourage audiences to reconsider assumptions about what objects and forms are appropriate as art while encouraging contemplation of often taken-for-granted aspects of our everyday life.

Liss Platt’s work has been exhibited and screened in North America and internationally, including solo exhibitions at The McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton, ON), University of Waterloo Art Gallery (Waterloo, ON), Rodman Hall Art Centre (St. Catherines, ON), and Stride Gallery (Calgary, AB). Her performance work has been featured at AXENÉO7 (Gatineau, QC) and Struts Gallery (Sackville, NB), and her film/video work has screened widely, including Documenta Madrid, Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival, San Francisco Documentary Festival, and NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival. In 2012 she received a City of Hamilton Arts Award in Visual Arts (a career achievement award for established artists). In 2016 her documentary, Dark Horse Candidate, was chosen Best Feature Documentary at the 38th Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, IL. Platt is a member of the queer art collective, Shake-n-Make. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario and is a Professor of Multimedia at McMaster University.