Aliza NisenbaumMexican American, born 1977
Works from the Permanent Collection
Kemper Museum Streetcar
Details of Aliza Nisenbaum's painting Dálida and Michael (Serennata del Tres Cubano) are featured on the 2024 Kemper Museum Streetcar. Nisenbaum is known for her brightly-colored paintings and community-based approach to portraiture. She has exhibited her work across the world, working with locals in each city as her subjects—including transit workers on the London Underground for a collaboration with the Tate Modern and airport workers as part of the Queens Museum collaboration with the new La Guardia Airport in New York.
Dálida and Michael (Serennata del Tres Cubano) is part of Aliza Nisenbaum’s series of portraits spotlighting individuals connected to Kansas City salsa music and dance communities commissioned for the 2021 Atrium Project, Aliza Nisenbaum: Aquí Se Puede (Here You Can).
Aliza Nisenbaum
Artist Talk
August 19, 2021
In the News
- Aliza NisenbaumThe New Yorker, 2023
- ‘It’s Like Finding a Home’: Watch Aliza Nisenbaum Explain How Painting Can Become a Tool of Community BuildingArtnet, 2023
- Painting From Life: Aliza NisenbaumPBS Art21, 2023
- ‘Ask Me What I’m Painting’: The Changing Role of the Artist in ResidenceThe New York Times
- Go to the New La Guardia for the ArtCurbed, 2023
- ‘Aliza Nisenbaum: Aquí Se Puede (Here You Can)’ at Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKC Studio, 2022
- Kansas City's salsa community dances into the spotlight at Kemper Museum of Contemporary ArtKCUR, 2022
- Aliza Nisenbaum: Can Painting Be a Form of Social Practice?Frieze
