Liz Shepherd
88 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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 2002-‘06
  • Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
         Painting Department 2001
  • Teaching Assistant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
         Printmaking Department 1999-00
  • 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

Exhibitions

  • Boston Sculptors Gallery, Solo Show, February 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 and 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
  • Essex Art Center, Lawrence MA, Solo Exhibition, September 2008 – Boston Globe Metro North review 9/11/08
  • Boston Sculptors Gallery New Members Show, July 2008
  • Sarah Doyle Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI, May 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
  • Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston March/April 2007 - solo exhibition: I Don’t Know the Details
  • 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, Danforth, MA 2006
  • 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
  • InBetween, William Morris Hunt Library, Summer 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
  • Printmaking and Paper Show, SMFA 2003
  • 2002 Essex Art Center Annual, Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • Student Annual Exhibition, SMFA, March 2002
  • Printmaking and Paper Show, SMFA, April 2002, Prize awarded
  • Naughty Girls, Cambridge College, Summer, 2002
  • Iconoclasm, Harvard University, Spring 2002
  • 2000 Post-Bac Show, SMFA

Prizes and Awards

  • Praga Industries Materials Award at Boston Printmakers 2007 North 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

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

  • 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 Sculptors Gallery
  • Boston Printmakers
  • Los Angeles Printmaking Society

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