Solo Exhibitions
Ungathered, Delta Airline Terminal, Logan Airport acquisition, 2022
Ungathered, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2021
Unsettled, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, 2020
The Wait, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018
Up and Out, Artpace, Hudson (Show) Room, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Immigrants, SG Gallery, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2016
Steps, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2014
Up and Out, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, 2013
Up and Out, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2012
They Still Cast Shadows, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
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
I Don’t Know the Details, Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, MA, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Imbued: Artists and Materials, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA, 2022
BSG at 30, Field Hospital, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, 2022
Unconfined, Fort Point Gallery, Boston, MA, 2021
Represent: New portraiture National Juried Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021
A Seat at the Table, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston, MA, 2019
Take it Outside: Works from the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2019
Art on Paper, Site Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Technique: Five Artists’ Diverse Approach to Printmaking, RSM Gallery, Boston, MA, 2019
Traveling Flat File, Boston Printmakers on-going North American traveling exhibition, 2-19
Interior Effects, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2018
Breathe and Matter, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2018
Inhabiting Words, Concord Art, Concord, MA, 2017
The Faculty Curates, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH, 2017
The River Project at the Slocum Reserve, Dartmouth, MA Public art installation, 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
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
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
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
Boston Printmakers North American Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2011
Liz Shepherd, H. Pelham Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT, 2011
On/Of/Like/About Paper, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
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
Boston Bio Labs, Ipswich, MA, 2008
Swan, Bow Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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
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, 2006z
Beyond Color: 12 Artists’ Books, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA, 2005
InBetween, William Morris Hunt Library, Boston, MA, 2005|
Time Remembered, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2004
Between the Layers: Printmaking in the 21st Century, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard, MA, 2004
Edinburgh College of Art/ SMFA Print Portfolio Exchange, 2003
Awards
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, 2017
Artist Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Artist Residency, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2016
Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2015
Finalist, Solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2015
Materials Award, Praga Industries, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA, 2007
Nominee, Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, 2006
Boit Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, MA, 2005
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
Delta Airlines, Atlanta, Georgia
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
Fiber Art Now, Excellence in Fibers VII, 2023
Fiber Art Now, Paper Made, 2023
Artscope Magazine: “Surviving the Lonliness of Covid: Liz Shepherd’s Powerful Ungathered at Boston Sculptors Gallery, 2023
Cate McQaid: What’s Happening in the Local Arts World, June 15, 2018
Boston Globe: Cate McQaid, Liz Shepherd and Michelle Lougee make the mundane memorable, June 27, 2018
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
“Liz Shepherd and Kim Bernard Exhibition” Boston Globe, February 22, 2012
Sand T Malloch, “Featured Artist: Liz Shepherd” Making the Art Seen, artSPACE@16 Online Gallery, January 6, 2010
“Reynolds Advanced Materials Gets Wonky” Artscope Magazine, November/December 2009
Preview Magazine, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Summer 2009
Stephanie Schorow, “Where words fail, artists work tackles the void” Boston Globe NorthWest, September 11, 2008
Cait McQuaid, “Pure Thoughts” Boston Globe, October 19, 2006
Cait McQuaid, “A Glimpse of Tomorrow” Today Boston Globe, June 29, 2006
Education
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA, 2006
Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2001
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2000
Professional Experience
Present
Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio, ongoing silkscreen, relief, etching, and Photoshop instruction
2008 – 2015
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
Residencies
Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, 2018
Artist Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, 2016
Artist Residency, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy, 2016