Liz Shepherd
liz [at] lizshepherd [dot] com
www.lizshepherd.com
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Unsettled, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, 2020
2018
The Wait, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018
2016
Up and Out, Artpace, Hudson (Show) Room, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Immigrants, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2016
2014
Steps, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014
2013
Up and Out, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, 2013
2012
Up and Out, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2012
2010
They Still Cast Shadows, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
2008
I Don’t Know the Details, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, 2008
When Is It Time to Panic, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2008
2007
I Don’t Know the Details, Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
A Seat at the Table, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston, MA
Take it Outside: Works from the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Art on Paper, Site Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Technique: Five Artists’ Diverse Approach to Printmaking, RSM Gallery, Boston, MA
Traveling Flat File, Boston Printmakers on-going North American traveling exhibition
2018
Interior Effects, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Breathe and Matter, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2017
Inhabiting Words, Concord Art, Concord, MA
The Faculty Curates, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH
2016
The River Project at the Slocum Reserve, Dartmouth, MA Public art installation, June 2015–May 2016
Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the Bombing at Al Mutanabbi Street, an on-going international traveling exhibition, 2016
Consensus, an international traveling exhibition curated by Sally Taylor, 2016
2014
Inaugural Exhibition, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art: Southern Graphics
Council International Collection, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA, 2014
Print Austin, Georgetown Arts Center, Georgetown, TX, 2014
Connections, Museo Qorikancha, Cusco, Peru, 2014
Twelve Nights, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014
Islensk Grafik/The Icelandic Printmakers Association, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014
2013
Vietnamese – American Graphic Painting Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Center, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2013
Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2013
Pedigree, Newton New Arts Center, Newton, MA, 2013
reThink INK: 25 Years at the Mixit Print Studio, Iris & Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2013
2012
Re Open, Royal Academy of Prints and Drawings, Bankside Gallery, London,England, 2012
Par Avion, Salle Conrath, Hotel de Ville, Strasbourg, France, 2012
Rethink Ink: Mixit Print Studio at 25, Boston Public Library,Boston, MA, 2012
2011
Boston Printmakers North American Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2011
Liz Shepherd, H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT, 2011
2010
On/Of/Like/About Paper, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
2009
Los Angeles Printmaking Biennial, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Barnsdall Park, Pasadena, CA, 2009
VirGO Girl!, Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2009
Plus One, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, 2009
Physical/Digital, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2009
Violence Transformed, Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA, 2009
Dual Action, Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2009
Prints of the Year, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, 2009
2008
Boston Bio Labs, Ipswich, MA, 2008
Swan, Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2008
2007
The Body of Christ, Washington Theological Consortium, Washington, D.C., 2007
Cell Signaling Technologies, Danvers, MA, 2007
The Dictionary Project, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, 2007
Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2007
2006
Simply the Best, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2006
Salt City Dozen, Syracuse University Coyne Gallery, Syracuse, NY, 2006
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2006
Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, 2006
2005
Beyond Color: 12 Artists’ Books, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005
InBetween, William Morris Hunt Library, Boston, MA, 2005|
2004
Time Remembered, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2004
Between the Layers: Printmaking in the 21st Century, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA, 2004
2003
Edinburgh College of Art/ SMFA Print Portfolio Exchange, 2003
Awards
2017
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, 2017
2016
Artist Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Artist Residency, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2016
2015
Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2015
Finalist, Solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2015
2007
Materials Award, Praga Industries, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA, 2007
2006
Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, 2006
2005
Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, MA, 2005
2004
Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 2004
Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Department of Prints, Drawings and Photography, Boston, MA
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Vietnam Fine Arts Association, Hanoi, Vietnam
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
Cell Signaling Technologies, Danvers, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Southern Graphics Council
Syracuse University Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Commonwealth Financial Management, Waltham, MA
Percussion Software, Woburn, MA
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Art in Boston–Curated by Sinclair Hitchings, Chairman, Boston, MA
Publications
2016
Eda Silva, “Boston artist re-creates large-scale work with a Texas Twist at Artpace”, San Antonio Press News, May 17, 2016
“Palette to Plate: Prints and recipes from members of the Boston Printmakers”, Boston Globe Editor’s Pick, May 29
2012
“Liz Shepherd and Kim Bernard Exhibition” Boston Globe, February 22, 2012
2010
Sand T Malloch, “Featured Artist: Liz Shepherd” Making the Art Seen, artSPACE@16 Online Gallery, January 6, 2010
2009
“Reynolds Advanced Materials Gets Wonky” Artscope Magazine, November/December 2009
Preview Magazine, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Summer 2009
2008
Stephanie Schorow, “Where words fail, artists work tackles the void” Boston Globe NorthWest, September 11, 2008
2006
Cait McQuaid, “Pure Thoughts” Boston Globe, October 19, 2006
Cait McQuaid, “A Glimpse of Tomorrow” Today Boston Globe, June 29, 2006
Education
2006
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA, 2006
2001
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2001
2000
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2000
Professional Experience
Present
Instructor, Photo and Digital Methods in Printmaking, Continuing Education, Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2005-15
President of the Board of Directors, Boston Printmakers, 2012-16
2008
Instructor, Contemporary Processes in Printmaking, Printmaking Department, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2008
2007
Instructor, Monoprint Workshops, Danforth Museum School, Framingham, MA, 2007
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, 2007