Dr. Elizabeth Wiet, Ph.D. is a writer, editor, and independent curator based in New York City. Interdisciplinary in both method and scope, her research focuses on feminist and queer art, time-based media, and art from the Middle East and its diasporas. Taking inspiration from writers such as José Esteban Muñoz and Saidiya Hartman, much of her scholarly and curatorial work concerns the category of the “minor,” centering artists who either inhabit minoritarian subject positions, have contributed to canonically minor movements such as Pattern & Decoration, or practice within minor mediums like performance, textile, video, graffiti, mail art, and xerography. She also maintains an ongoing interest in intermediality and the historical relationship between different mediums, particularly art and music, as well as performance and print.

She is currently Part-Time Faculty at Parsons School of Design; Editor-at-Large at Topical Cream; and Contributing Editor at Bidoun. She has curated exhibitions and programs at A.I.R. Gallery, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and The Kitchen, where she worked with artists Wade Guyton and Jacqueline Humphries to organize the exhibition Ice and Fire (2020–2021), the largest installation in the institution’s fifty-year history.

Her first book project, Maximalism: An Art of the Minor, moves across performance, sculpture, painting, literature, and film to theorize maximalism as a specifically minoritarian aesthetic by foregrounding feminist, queer, Black, Middle Eastern, and Latinx artists who have used accumulation and ornamentation as strategies for pushing back against the forces of social minimization. A second book project, still in its research stage, explores the cultural history of the Xerox machine, using the famous photocopier as an entry point into thinking about the intersections of capitalism and contagion, gender and technology, and the mechanics and ethics of replication.

Committed to preserving artist legacies in print, she provided key editorial support to Bidoun’s 2021 monograph on Iranian-American theater director Reza Abdoh, and with Bidoun, is now editing the first monograph on Lebanese-Egyptian artist Nicolas Moufarrege. In 2025, she edited Mending Body/Mending Mind, a mid-career survey of San Francisco fiber artist Holly Wong.

Her short-form writing has been published by frieze, The Quietus, Momus, Elephant, The Brooklyn Rail, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Topical Cream, IMPULSE, Public Books, TDR: The Drama Review, Bidoun, The Kitchen Magazine, and Liste Expedition. She has given invited talks at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, and delivered papers at academic conferences throughout the United States. She holds a Ph.D, M.Phil, and MA in English from Yale University and a BA (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English and Women’s & Gender Studies from Dartmouth College.