Liza Johnson (born December 13, 1970) is an American film director, producer, and writer.
Johnson was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1970. She attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1992. She then went to the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA in 1995.
Her narrative shorts and experimental videos have screened in Berlin, Rotterdam, and many other international festivals and fine arts venues. Her video installations have been shown in Artists Space in New York, the ICA in Philadelphia, Cineboords in Rotterdam, and Mass MoCA and WCMA in Massachusetts. She has also published critical writing on art and film, and has curated a number of museum exhibitions and festival programs. Along with her collection of short films, Johnson has directed five feature films, including Return (2011), Hateship, Loveship (2013), Elvis & Nixon (2016), and ' (2024).
In 2025, Netflix released Shondaland's The Residence, of which Johnson served as director for the first four episodes.
Short film
Feature film
Television