RESUME

Lizzie Zelter

lizziezelter@gmail.com | (917) 912-0625 | lizziezelter.com

Education

2022  MFA, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY

2018  BA, Program in Literature, Magna cum Laude, Duke University, Durham, NC

Selected Exhibitions

2024 The Red Room, curated by Jacqueline Marino, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA

2024  (Solo) Wall Plates, Sala de Espera, Tijuana BC, Mexico

2024  Leucadia, Oolong Gallery, Encinitas, CA

2023  Jane Lombard Gallery Booth, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL

2023  What's New in Still Life, Portrait, Landscape, curated by John Yau, LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA

2023  Athenaeum Juried Exhibition, curated by Isabel Casso, Athenaeum Library, San Diego, CA

2023  Pallet, curated by Omar Pimienta, Estación Tijuana Libertad, Tijuana BC, Mexico

2023  Homecoming, curated by Sharon Golan, Gallery II, Tel Aviv, Israel

2022  (Solo) Lizzie Zelter: Two Paintings, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Columbia University, New York, NY

2022  Otherwise, curated by Carlota Ortiz, Ho Won Kim, and Victoria Horrocks, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2022  Noumena, curated by Sally Eaves Hughes and Emmanuel Olunkwa, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY

2022  MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Elisabeth Sherman, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY

2022  Splinters in the ongoing normal, curated by Junni Chen, Project Gallery V, New York, NY

2021  Better Late Than Never, curated by Junni Chen and Owen Duffy, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York, NY

2021  First Year Exhibition, curated by Regine Basha, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY

2021  Platform 2021 Online, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2020  Platform 2020, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

Curatorial

2025  The City of San Diego Digital Kiosk Award, Selection Committee Member

Founder and Curator at Two Rooms, San Diego, CA

Independently direct operations and curate exhibitions at a gallery and project space that promotes experimentation, critical thinking, and the creative process in the San Diego/Tijuana bi-national region

2025 Visions for Civic Gardens, Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard

2025 Present Tense, Kirstyn Hom and Sibyl Rubottom

2025 Backtrack, Maddie Butler and Enrique Ciapara

2024 Bookshop, co-organized with Lang Books

2024 O Petravia, Roman de Salvo

2024 Slow Dance, co-curated with Jacqueline Marino, Max Lofano and Joshua Moreno

2024 Server Host Not Found, co-curated with Harvest & Gather, Victor Castañeda H and Lissa Corona

2024 Salvaged Remix, Ana Andrade and Matthew Taylor Williams

2023 La Leyenda Negra, Luis Alonso Sánchez

2023 Shape Shifting, Sylvia Fernández and Jamie Franks

2023 Poker Night, co-organized with Beck Haberstroh

2023 Without love in the dream it’ll never come true, Becca Ford and Tessie Salcido Whitmore

2023 Stone Soup, Deanna Barahona, Doris Bittar, Maddie Butler, Marisa DeLuca, Christian Garcia-Olivo, Heige Kim, Maru López, Sofia Lutteroth, and Luis Alonso Sánchez

Grants & Fellowships 

2024-25  Creative Communities San Diego
Received funding for curatorial projects that engage San Diego’s diverse arts and culture communities

2022  Columbia University Dean's Project Grant

Investigated national identity, architecture, and legal systems across US-Mexico border region

2021-22  Columbia University Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fellowship 

Envisioned and coordinated weekly lecture roster and studio visits with visiting mid-career artists across disciplines for MFA Visual Arts program

2021  Columbia University Teaching Fellowship

Assisted professors in undergraduate coursework for Spring and Fall semesters

2017-18  Duke Engage Independent Grant 

Received funding to conduct legal and cultural research at a migrant center in Palermo, Italy

2016-18  Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Student Board Fellow & Gallery Guide

Created and led bi-weekly conversational tours to K-12 groups, adults, and seniors on the museum’s collection and temporary exhibitions 

2016  Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship

Operated museum functions and provided guided tours in English and Italian in Venice, Italy 

Teaching

2023  Oil Painting: Observational and Abstracted Place, Athenaeum Art Center, San Diego, CA

2023  Worldbuilding S/M/L: Experiments in Mixed Media, Athenaeum Art Center, San Diego, CA

2021  Painting II: Representation into Abstraction with Gregory Amenoff, Columbia University, New York, NY

2021  Drawing I: NYC as Muse with Nicola Lopez, Columbia University, New York, NY

Lectures

2025  Artists and Galleries in the San Diego/Tijuana Region, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

2024  Artist Talk for Teen Art Collective, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

2024  Visiting Artist, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

2024  Artist and Gallery Talk, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

2022  Artist Talk, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Press

2024  San Diego Magazine, The Best of San Diego Arts & Culture

2024  San Diego Magazine, Artist Lizzie Zelter Makes the Familiar Strange in New Exhibit

2024  HereIn Journal, Lizzie Zelter with HereIn

2023  Boston Art Review, New Expressions of Traditional Genres at LaiSun Keane

2023  Curator Talk with John Yau at Laisun Keane, Boston MA, Nov 4, 2023

2023  Artdaily, ‘What's New In Still Life, Portrait, and Landscape' curated by John Yau now on view

2023  Columbia Visual Arts News Archive, Paintings by Lizzie Zelter '22 Selected to Display at Cafe Nous

2023  La Jolla Light, New La Jolla gallery holds first exhibit with a vision of an artist-led space for community and collaboration

2023  HereIn Journal, Gallery Spotlight: Two Rooms

2022  Hyperallergic, Highlights from Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition

2022  E-flux Education, 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition