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BIO:

Elizabeth Livingston was born in Miami, Florida in 1979. She is a painter primarily working in oil on canvas.  Livingston majored in Fine Art at Yale University in 2001, and then went on to complete her MFA at Boston University in 2006.  She has been represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston since earning her MFA. Livingston has been the recipient of several residency and fellowship awards, including Ucross in Wyoming, Weir Farm in Connecticut, a full Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and the Aljira Emerge program in New Jersey.   She had her first solo museum show at the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum in 2015 and her work has been widely collected throughout the U.S. and Europe.  Her shows have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the Huffington Post.  She lives and works in Pelham, NY.

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Education                                              
2006        MFA, Boston University, Boston MA    
2001        BA, Yale University, New Haven CT
2000        Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk CT

Solo Exhibitions
2023        Understory, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA       
2015        Night Fell, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
                Dark Houses, Zillman Gallery, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2013        Gardens and Rooms, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2009        New Paintings, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025        Cherry Picked, Spectrum Fine Art, Seattle, WA
                Movement, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2024        Art Miami, Alpha Gallery, Miami, FL 
                All Small, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY                                                                                                                              Domestic Spaces, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA                                                                                                          Group Crit, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA 
2023        Small Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
                Wilderness IV, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2021        Studio Jamz, 46-55 Metropolitan Ave, Ridgewood, NY
2018        Toy Boat, Artspace, New Haven, CT
                The Portrait: An Open Reading, 511 Gallery, New York, NY
2017        The 2018 Flat File: Year Five, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
                No Language No Streets, Artspace, New Haven, CT
                Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2016        All Tomorrow’s Parties, Hathaway David Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2015        Reverence & Reverie, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
2014        The Flat Files: Year Two, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
                Bedtime Stories, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2013        Works on Paper, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
                Domestic Spaces, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2012        Art Miami, with Alpha Gallery, Miami FL
                Summer Selections, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
                Small Works, Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
                Pick Two, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2011        Town And Country, 320 Studios, New York, NY
                Frame of Reference, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
                Out Of Line, Artspace, New Haven, CT
                Ucross Fellows Retrospective, Ucross Foundation, WY
2010        Ucross, Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Art Residencies,  Nicolaysen Museum of Art, Casper, WY
                Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
2009        Aqua Wynwood, Art Miami represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
                Metropolitan Memories, Hudson County Arts Annual, Newark, NJ
2008        Emerge 9, Aljira, Newark, NJ
                Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
2007        Art 20, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
                New American Painting MFA Edition Winners, OSP Gallery, Boston, MA
                Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, represented by Alpha Gallery, Boston MA
2006        Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
                New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Awards                     
2007        Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2007, Newark, NJ
2006        Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2006        Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
2006        Residency, Weir Farm, Ridgefield, CT

Selected Press
2015        
“Best Art Exhibits of 2015: the ‘Dear Readers’ Edition” Brooklyn Magazine, December 3
“A Summer of Solos” by Jess Holburn, Art Collector, August 26
“Elizabeth Livingston: Night Fell At The Lodge Gallery” by Madeline Mermall, Artefuse, August 21
“Elizabeth Livingston’s Paintings Come Out Of Darkness With Solo Show ‘Night Fell’ in LES” Huffington Post, August 12
“Dark Houses: Elizabeth Livingston” Art New England, May/June

2013        
“Isolation and Solitude” The Boston Globe, September 18

2009
“Dancing Around the Ephemeral,” The Boston Globe, February 25

2008
“Beguiled By Fresh Talent,” The New York Times, August 22
“Newark Art Exhibition Is Part Swank, Part Cutting Edge,” The Newark Star Ledger, August 3

2006        
“Mysticism and Mystery,” by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, June 15

Selected Publication

New American Paintings, Northeast Edition 170 2024: juried exhibition in print, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; Curator: Amy Sherald  

Arts to Hearts Magazine, Issue 4, guest curated by Dina Brodsky, October 2023

New American Paintings, Northeast Edition 122 2016: juried exhibition in print, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; Curator: Sarah Montross  

Aller Liebe Anfang by Judith Hermann, cover, 2014

Southern Humanities Review, 2013 Summer Issue, cover

New American Paintings, MFA Edition 2007: juried exhibition in print, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; Curator: Linda Norden