Elizabeth livingston bio
B O R N I N M I A M I , F L O R I D A 1 9 7 9
EducatioN
Boston University, Boston, MA, MFA, 2006
Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA, Fine Art, 2001
Magna Cum Laude, graduated with distinction in the major
Solo Exhibitions
Understory, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2023
Night Fell, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
Gardens and Rooms, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013
New Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
855 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2005
Selected Group Exhibitions
Studio Jamz, 46-55 Metroolitan Ave., Ridgewood, NY, 2021
Toy Boat, Artscape, New Haven, CT, 2018
The Portrait: An Open Reading, 511 Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
The 2018 Flat File: Year Five, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
No Language No Streets, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2017
Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2017
All Tomorrow’s Parties, Inaugural Exhibition, Hathaway David Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, 2016
New Space Inaugural Show, Alpha Gallery, Bosotn, MA, 2016
Reverence & Reverie, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
The Flat Files: Year Two, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY , 2014
Bedtime Stories, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014
Works on Paper, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013
Domestic Spaces, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2013
Art Miami, Alpha Gallery, Miami, FL, 2012
Summer Selections,Alpha Gallery, Boston, 2012
Small Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2011-12
Pick Two, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2011-12
Town and Country, 320 Studios, New York, NY. Curated by Republic Worldwide,
The Marketplace Gallery, Annika Connor and The Brookline Art Collective, 2011
Frame of Reference, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, 2011
Out of Line, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2011
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, presented by Alpha Gallery, 2010
Inaugural Ucross Fellows Retrospective, Ucross Foundation, WY, 2011
Ucross: 27 Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper, WY, 2010
Metropolitan Memories, Hudson County Arts Annual, Newark, NJ, 2009
Emerge 9 Exhibition, Aljira, Newark, NJ, 2008
Visual AIDS 10th Annual Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York,
NY, 2007
The South Press Printastic Printacular, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, 2007
On Paper, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA, 2007
New American Paintings MFA Edition Winners, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA, 2007
Flatfile Benefit Preview, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2007
Gallery Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2007
Speak, Memory, The Raven, Prescott, AZ, 2006
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006
MFA Thesis Exhibit, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006
Figuratively Speaking, Patricia Doran Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA, 2006
Graduate Summer Show, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2005
Arches Fourth Biennial Print Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2005
Senior Thesis Exhibit, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000
Awards/grants/residencies
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2007, Newark, NJ, 2007
Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2006
Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY, 2006
Residency, Weir Farm, Ridgefield, CT, 2006
Constantin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2004-06
Ellen Battel Stockel Fellowship, Yale University's School of Music and Art, Norfolk,
CT, 2000
John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2000
Selected Bibliography
New American Paintings, Northeast Edition 122: juried exhibition in print, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2016
Curator: Sarah Montross, Senior Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
2015 Year End Wrap Up, Artefuse, December 31, 2015
http://artefuse.com/2015/12/31/arte-fuse-2015-year-end-wrap-up-124332
Best Art Exhibits of 2015: the “Dear Readers’ Edition,” Brooklyn Magazine, December 3, 2015
http://www.bkmag.com/2015/12/03/best-art-exhibits-of-2015-the-dear-readers-edition/
A Summer of Solos, Art Collector, August 26, 2015 http://www.artcollector.net.au/ASummerofSolos
Elizabeth Livingston: Night Fell At The Lodge Gallery, Artefuse, August 21, 2015
http://artefuse.com/2015/08/20/elizabeth-livingston-night-fell-at-the-lodge-gallery-124120
Elizabeth Livingston’s Paintings Come Out of Darkness with Solo Show “Night Fell” in LES, Huffington Post, August 12, 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adrian-margaret-brune/elizabeth-livingstons-pai_b_7974756.html
Elizabeth Livingston’s Night, Visionaire, August 9, 2015 https://www.visionaireworld.com/blog/elizabeth-livingstons-night/
Dark Houses: Elizabeth Livingston, Art New England, May/June 20156
Aller Liebe Anfang by Judith Hermann. cover illustration, 2014
Isolation and Solitude, The Boston Globe, Sept. 18, 2013
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/09/17/what-area-art-galleries/MJ1XRfwlnxscW4R2coO/story.html
Dancing Around the Ephemeral, The Boston Globe, Feb. 25, 2009
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ae/theater-arts/articles/2009/02/25/dancing-around-the-ephemeral/
Beguiled by Fresh Talent, The New York Times, Aug. 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/byregionspecial2/24artsnj.html?r=1&scp=1&scp=aljira%202008&st=cse
Newark Art Exhibition is Part Swank, Part Cutting Edge, Newark Star Ledger, Aug. 3, 2008
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/08/newark_art_exhibition_is_part.html
Apocalypse, Green Mountain Review, Vol. XX, No. 1 & 2: cover art, 2007
New American Paintings, MFA Edition, 2007, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2007
Curator: Linda Norden, Associate Curator, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Mysticism and Mystery, The Boston Globe, June 15, 2006
Teaching
Adjunct Faculty, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA
Guest Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2007
Teaching Fellow, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, 2005-06
Private Commissions, portraits and murals, 1998-07