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