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Elizabeth Russell was born in Massachusetts, and is a painter and sculptor living and working in Berkeley and San Francisco. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, and has participated in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

EDUCATION

2016 Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1998 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, Painting, Connecticut College, New London, CT

1996 Insituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Upcoming April – May, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA, 

2017 Shape Logic, NADA New York, NY

2016 Other Echoes, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA

2004 Four Paintings, The Urban Mercantile, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 12 Artists at 1240, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 

2017 Takeover, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA 

2017 Transformed, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, CA 

2017 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure / Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 

2017 Gala Alumni Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2016 Papercuts, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA 

2016 Monster Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure / Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 

2016 West Coast Craft, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA 

2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fused Space and Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 

2016 Textstyling, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

2015 Ghost in the Hay, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA 

2015  Revolving Door, a 3:1 Project, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2015 Open House, NYSRP Studios, Brooklyn, NY 

2015 Resonant Conversations, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2015 Painting Expelled, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2015 Textile-ish, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

2014 The Walls Fall Away, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2012 (Re)Modified, Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas CA 

2012 Miniatures, The Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

2011 Modified, Art Ark Gallery, San Jose, CA

2010 Glimpse, Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA

2009 Cross Pollination, Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA 

2009 Found Objects, Fine Art Base, Sand City, CA

2007 Owning Pink, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA

2006 Home & Away, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2006 Points of Origin, Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA 

2006 Holiday Show, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

2005 Launch Party / Silent Auction, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA 

2005 Part of the Magic, Williams–Sonoma, Brisbane, CA

2004 Adaptation, Sandbox Studio, San Francisco, CA

2003 Trannie: Rhetorics of Identity in Transition, White Box: The Annex, New York, NY 

2003 After Matisse/Picasso, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

HONORS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / AFFILIATIONS

2016 Charter Resident, Minnesota Street Project Studio Program, San Francisco, CA

2016 Westcliff Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO

2016 Travel Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA