Liz Ferrer + Bow Ty
Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty’s work spans various mediums including digital art, tech, sculpture, music, video, and performance art. Through a queer and comedic lens, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Liz and Bow have been working professionally as a collaborative for almost a decade. Their most recent projects together are femme reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW.
Niña is a feminist reggaeton duo featuring Liz and Bow, they started this body of work to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. LIZN’BOW is a new media body of work in which they use media technology, digital tools, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize, play, and explore different social and creative possibilities.
Liz’s and Bow’s work has been featured at PAMM Museum, A.I.R, Locust Projects, Ignite Festival, Headlands Center for the Arts, MOCA North Miami, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Mad Arts Museum, Young at Art Museum, David Castillo Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Squeaky Wheel, Borscht Film Festival, Eternal Family TV, The Miami Herald, iii Points Festival, Wassaic Projects, Cunsthaus, The Koubek Center, Davey Fest, and Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo, Index Performance Art Festival Santo Domingo and Miami among others.
Liz and Bow are recipients of a Creative Capital Wild Futures Award, NEFA Development & Touring Grant, Knights Art Challenge from the Knight Foundation, Franklin Furnace Award, PAM CUT Labs Fellowship, Locust Projects WaveMaker, MIA Artist Stipend, Oolite Arts Ellies Award 2019 and 2022, LMCC Creative Engagement, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive Fellow, City Arts Corps Grant New York, a Borscht Film Festival Commission and more.
Liz and Bow have been awarded residencies and fellowships at Macdowell, Headlands, Ucross, Collar Works Elizabeth Murray Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Knight Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive, Caldera Arts Residency, Squeaky Wheel, Mana Contemporary Studio Residency, En Residencia, Tempus Projects, ACRE, La Sierra de Santa Marta Residency in Colombia,and Cannonball.