‍ ‍Bio: Liza Faktor is an artist and independent curator. She curated over twenty exhibitions and festival programs on the intersection of photography, moving image, performance and emerging media, lectured and taught workshops in the US, the UK, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, UAE, Australia and Russia. She has worked with Dutch Resistance Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Detroit Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, IFP Made in New York Media Center among other venues. Currently she is a Programming and Development Lead at Curatorial Exhibitions.

PHOTO FARM is pleased to announce that Ms. Faktor has been selected as the recipient of the Inaugural PHOTO FARM Artistic Research Award. Established in 2026, the PHOTO FARM Artistic Research Award operates by nomination only and celebrates artistic excellence while advancing PHOTO FARM’s dedication to the intersection of the arts and ecology. Ms. Faktor’s ongoing curatorial inquiry, Roots, delves into the traumas, memory, and resilience of the forest ecosystems—in the context of climate emergency, violence against humans and nonhumans, survival and healing. The project addresses our forced separation from the entanglement with the natural world, our role as visitors, witnesses and participants in the fate of the environment, and our path to healing through unity with all living beings. Her curatorial project is closely connected to her own artistic practice and her recently completed project After Us, exploring similar issues.