Liz Shepherd
1140 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02118
liz@lizshepherd.com

Education

  • MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University 2006
  • Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2001
  • SMFA Post - Baccalaureate Certificate, 2000
  • BA - Art Education, Windham College, Putney, VT 1975

Professional Experience

  • Instructor, Printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Continuing Education Department, 2005 - Present
  • Instructor, Printmaking, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, fall 2008
  • Instructor, Printmaking, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, spring, fall 2007
  • SMFA Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship (spring 2007)
  • Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Printmaking Department 1999-2006
  • Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Painting Department 2001
  • Director of Production, Jack Morton Productions 1991 - 93
  • Vice President, Larson and Rosen Meeting Producers 1981 - 84
  • Graphic Arts Manager, Children's Television Workshop 1978 - 80

Solo Exhibitions

  • Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, April/May 2013
  • 580 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Lobby, installation of Ladder (sculpture)
  • Boston Sculptors Gallery, February 2010, February 2011
  • Essex Art Center, Lawrence MA, September 2008
  • Boston Globe Metro North Profile 9/11/08
  • Sarah Doyle Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 2008
  • I Don't Know the Details Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston March/April 2007

Group Exhibitions

  • A4 Printmakers, International Print Competition, Cornwall UK, 2011
  • Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Biennial
  • Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT, March 2011
  • Group Exhibitions (cont.)
  • On/Of/Like/About Paper, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Summer 2010
  • Los Angeles Printmaking Biennial, Fall 2009
  • Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, VirGo Girl! September, 2009
  • Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA Plus One September 2009
  • Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, Physical Digital, July 2009
  • Children's Hospital, Roxbury Community College, Violence Transformed, Spring 2009
  • Jewett Gallery, Wellesley College, Dual Action, March 2009
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord NH, Prints of the Year, January - March 2009
  • Boston Bio Labs, Ipswich, MA, December 2008
  • Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, December 2008
  • Boston Sculptors Gallery New Members Show, July 2008
  • Washington Theological Consortium The Body of Christ Exhibition, November 2007
  • Cell Signaling Technologies, September/October 2007
  • The Dictionary Project, Essex Art Center, summer 2007
  • Boston Printmakers 2007 North American Biennial - Praga Industries Materials Award
  • Syracuse University Coyne Gallery, Salt City Dozen, January 2007
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Simply the Best, September 2006
  • Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, 2006
  • Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery, 2006
  • 2006 Student Annual Exhibition, SMFA, Boit Award
  • The New Landscape: Alternative Approaches: A Boston Printmakers' Members Exhibition,
  • Danforth Museum of Art
  • Edinburgh College/SMFA Print Portfolio Exchange 2006
  • Los Angeles Printmaking Society National Exhibition, September 2005
  • Beyond Color: 12 Artists' Books, FPAC Gallery, Boston, April 2005
  • Arches 2005 Biennial Student Print Exhibition, Jury Commendation
  • 2005 Student Annual Exhibition, SMFA, Boit Award
  • Masters of Fine Arts Annual, SMFA, 2004
  • Time Remembered, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, May 2004
  • Between the Layers: Printmaking in the 21st Century, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA, January 2004
  • Printmaking and Paper Show, SMFA 2004
  • Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show 2003
  • The Boston Printmakers 2003 North America Print Biennial
  • Edinburgh College/SMFA Print Portfolio Exchange 2003
  • 2002 Essex Art Center Annual, Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • Naughty Girls, Cambridge College, Summer, 2002
  • Iconoclasm, Harvard University, Spring 2002

Prizes and Awards

  • Praga Industries Materials Award, Boston Printmakers 2007 N. American Print Exhibition
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Nominee 2006
  • Boit Award 2005 SMFA
  • Arches Jury Commendation - Boston Printmakers Biennial 2004
  • Boit Award 2004 SMFA
  • 1999, 2001, 2002 Printmaking and Paper Show Prize, School of the Museum Fine Arts
  • Public/Institutional Collections
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Department of Prints, Drawings and Photography
  • Cell Signaling Technologies
  • Boston Public Library
  • Southern Graphics Council
  • Syracuse University Lowe Gallery
  • Edinburgh (Scotland) College of Art
  • Commonwealth Financial Management
  • Percussion Software
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Publications

  • Making the Art Seen http://as16online.blogspot.com/2010/01/featured-artist-liz-shepherd.html
  • Artscope Magazine, November/December 2009 Reynolds Advanced Materials Gets Wonky
  • Preview Magazine, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Summer 2009
  • Where words fail, artist's work tackles the void, Stephanie Schorow, 'Boston Globe NorthWest, 9/11/08
  • Pure Thoughts, Cait McQuaid, Boston Globe10/19/06
  • A Glimpse of Tomorrow Today, Cait McQuaid, Boston Globe 6/29/06

Memberships

  • Boston Printmakers - President of the Board of Directors
  • Boston Sculptors Gallery - Executive Committee
  • Los Angeles Printmaking Society

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