Elizabeth Leister
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Every Body is Everywhere and Nowhere, The Morris Gallery at The Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 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
“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,
2007
"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 Art Center,
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 and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 1995 – 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
“Broad Street Peep Show”, site specific window installation, The
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA,1992
“DIRT”, The S.S. White Building, Philadelphia, PA 1992
“Works on Paper”, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991
“Biennial ‘89”, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE, 1990
PERFORMANCE
“Allan Kaprow, 18 Happenings in 6 Parts”, by Steve Roden, “guest
painter”, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
"Without Risk of Excessive Loss, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, 2007
“Anatomy Riot #18”, solo version of “Capture”, collaboration
with Rae-Shaolan Blum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
“Love, Death and Betrayal”, collaborative performance with CSUCI
faculty, Camarillo, CA, 2007
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Of-the-moment ‘Body’ Work”, by Edith Newhall,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 2006
“If a “Body” Catch a Body”, by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia
Weekly, June 14, 2006
“This Land is Their Land”, by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly,
September 18, 2002
“Wall Monitor”, by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, February
6, 2002
“New View”, by Nikki Roszko, Philadelphia City Paper, January 17,
2002
“Some Unusual Views of the Body”, by Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, September 10, 2000
“The Invisible Fringe”, by Edward Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
September 8, 2000
“Fringe Shorts”, by Juliet Fletcher, Philadelphia City Paper, September
7, 2000
“The Body Beautiful”, by Ellen Rosenholtz, Philadelphia Weekly,
November 17, 2000
"Context", exhibition catalogue, edited by Anne Raman, essay by Judith
Barry, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, 1999
“Women, Men Explore Issues of Femininity”, by Judith Barbour Osborne,
Art Matters, December -January, 1997
“Post-Modern Brides”, by Robin Rice, Philadelphia City Paper, January
31, 1997
“Underwear Under Where? Exhibit at Rosemont Explores Foundations”,
by Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 1995
“Uncovering Art - Less is More at Rosemont College’s Lawrence Gallery”,
by Gerard Brown, Philadelphia Weekly, May 3, 1995
“Discursive Dress”, exhibition review by Carol Emmons, New Art
Examiner, October 1994
"Philadelphia Review", by Tom Csaszar, Sculpture Magazine, September/October,
1994
“Pretty In Pink”, by Margit Detweiler, Philadelphia City Paper,
May 20, 1994
“The Dark Side of Glamour”, by Denise Cowie, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
May 12, 1994
“Discursive Dress” exhibition review by Karen Searle, Ornament
Magazine, Winter 1994
Discursive Dress, exhibition catalogue by Alison Ferris, The John Michael
Kohler Arts Center, March 1994
Hard Choices II, exhibition catalogue of Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts Fellowship recipients, November 1993
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award, Visual Communication, American
InterContinental University, LA, CA, 2008
ARC Grant, the Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, 2007
Faculty Development Grant, California State University, Channel Islands,
2004
William Penn Foundation in conjunction with Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts for 2006 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, 1993
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship, Sculpture,
1992
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Organized exhibition of video projections for FARfetched 2005, The Gilmore Building, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 2000
Denison University, Granville, OH, invited as part of the “Vail
Visiting Artists Series”, 1996
LECTURES, PANELS & INTERVIEWS
“The Creative Community” TV Show with David Starkey, guest
artist, Santa Barbara, CA, August, 2008
Art Talk, Art at Lunch program, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA, 2006
“Freedom, Risk and Discipline”, Art Department, California State
University 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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, American InterContinental University, Los Angeles, CA, 2007 - present
Adjunct Lecturer, Art Department, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 2003 - 2007
Adjunct Lecturer, Multimedia Department, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA, 2006 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Digital Art & Multimedia Design Department,
La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, 2001 - 2003
Adjunct Lecturer, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
- 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant to Simone Forti, Los Angeles, CA 2003 - 2006
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, The Milton Avery Graduate School of
the Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY, 1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Magna Cum Laude, Tyler School of Art,
Elkins Park, PA, 1986
Yale Summer School of Art & Music, Fellowship, Norfolk, CT, 1985
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
FAR - Foundation for Art Resources, Board memberLos Angeles, CA, 2004
- 2007
Small Computers in the Arts Network, Board member, Philadelphia, PA,
2001 - 2003
College Art Association 2000 - present