Elizabeth Leister


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Marking, Very, Nearly, Away”, installation, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, March, 2011
“Every Body is Everywhere and Nowhere”, The Morris Gallery, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, June, 2006
“Time/Travel”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
“Vista”, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2001
“Emergency”, Pogo Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2000
“the patch you never gave me for the hole you left behind”, Noeware Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
“Kiss”, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
“Drip, Plop”, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1997
“Delusions: A Tongue In Chic Boutique”, site specific installation, 707 4th St. Philadelphia, PA, 1994

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Vox” an evening of video and performance, Craftswoman House, Pasadena, CA 2/26/2011
“Video: Recycled”, D-Block, Long Beach, CA 2/2011
TRAMPOLIM, Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória, Brasil, January 12 - 14, 2011
CSUCI Annual Faculty Exhibition, Broome Library Art Gallery, Camarillo, CA, 2009 & 2010
Malibu Annual Contemporary Art Fair, Circus Gallery, Malibu Country Mart, Malibu, CA, 2009
“Come Out & Play”, (Is Pain Your Pleasure? screening organized by Sheree Rose), Apexart, New York, NY, 2008
Media Project at Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 2007
“FO A RM video festival”, Portland Art Center, Portland, Oregon, 11/2006
“FARfetched”, video projection, The Gilmore Building, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
“Digitally Propelled Ideas”, Kellogg Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, 2004
“Tradition and Technology”, Studio Channel Islands, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 2004
“The Stray Show”, Kingsbury Place, Chicago, IL, 2002
“I Want to be Part of the Scenery”, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
“Body Dismorphia”, Hicks Gallery, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA, 9/2000
“Place of Memory: An Archeology of Site Specificity 1969 -1999”, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
“Context”, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
“I Enjoy Being A Girl”, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1997
“Getting Hitched”, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1997
“Installation & Video”, selected by Lisa Corrin, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 1997
“Domestic Violence: The Facts Are In”, PS 122, New York, NY, 1996
“Skirting the Issue: The Dress As Sculpture”, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1996
“A-Dress: States of Being”, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, 1995, (and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 1996)
“Foundations: Underwear/Under Where?” Lawrence Gallery at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, 1995
“Split Level”, Art in General, New York, NY, 1995
“Definitions of Community & Place”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 1995
“In and Around the Body”, Allegheny College Art Gallery, Meadville, PA, 1994
“Discursive Dress”, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1993
“Biennial ‘89”, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE, 1990

PERFORMANCE
“Mirror/Mirror”, live transmission performance, “Myself”, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, 2/17/2011
“Hand Drawn”, 6x6 #5: Mystery, live transmission performance, Cine Lab, Athens, Georgia, 7/7/2010
“I Can See You. You’re Not Here”, live transmission performance, Low Lives 2, multiple US locations, 4/2010
“Allan Kaprow, 18 Happenings in 6 Parts”, by Steve Roden, “guest painter”, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
“Without Risk of Excessive Loss”, multimedia performance, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, 10/2007
“Anatomy Riot #18”, “Capture”, with Rae-Shaolan Blum, SilverLake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 5/2007
“Love, Death and Betrayal”, collaborative performance with CSUCI faculty, Camarillo, CA, 4/2007

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Visual Communication, American InterContinental Univ., LA, CA, 2008 & 2009
“ARC,” grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, 2007
Faculty Development Grant, California State University, Channel Islands, 2004
William Penn Foundation in conjunction with Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for exhibition in Morris Gallery, 2003
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship, Other Genres, 2002
Window of Opportunity Award, The Leeway Foundation, 2000
New Forms Regional Grant, site-specific installation, 1993
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship, Sculpture, 1992

TEACHING
Adjunct Lecturer, Art Department, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 2003 – 2007, 2009 - present
Adjunct Lecturer, Multimedia Department, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA, 2006 - present
Assistant Professor & Co-Chair, Visual Communication Department, American InterContinental University, Los Angeles, CA 2007-2009
Assistant Professor, Digital Art & Multimedia Design Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, 2001 - 2003
Adjunct Lecturer, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1994 - 2000

LECTURES & PANELS
“The Creative Community” Channel 21 TV with David Starkey, guest artist, Santa Barbara, CA, 8/2008
Art Talk, Art at Lunch program, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 6/2006
“Freedom, Risk and Discipline”, Art Department, California State Univ. Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 9/2005
“Artists Talk”, Art History Department, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, 4/2005
“Artists Talk”, The Community Gallery at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
Panelist, Body Dismorphia panel discussion, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA, 2000
Pre College Program, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
Ellis Scholars Program, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Magna Cum Laude, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Yale Summer School of Art & Music, Fellowship, Norfolk, CT

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
“Live I” Workshop with Troika Ranch, Portland, Oregon, 2010
Grant Strategies for Artists Workshop, CCI, Los Angeles, CA 2010
3D Fundamentals, Maya, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA, spring, 2009
Introduction to Max/MSP course, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, spring 2009
Creating Digital Media for Mobile Devices, online course, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA spring, 2008
Logomotion Workshop with Simone Forti, Santa Monica, CA, 2005