Liza Ryan was born in Virginia in 1965 and today lives and works in Los Angeles. She studied literature and photography at Dartmouth College and California State University Fullerton. Ryan has exhibited in numerous individual and group exhibitions including those at the Rijksmuseum, the Getty Center and the Biennale of Sydney. Significant public and private collections hold her work including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.