Bio

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Elizabeth Albert is a visual artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn, New York and an associate professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, where she teaches in the Department of Art and Design and the Institute for Core Studies.  Her paintings and works on paper have been exhibited nationally, and she has received fellowships from the NEA/ Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Furthermore Grants in Publishing.  She is an active member of NYC H2O and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, where she has been volunteering with her students since 2010. She has recently written and illustrated her first children's book.

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Teaching Positions

 

2014 -             Associate Professor, St. John’s University, Institute for Core Studies, Department of Art and Design    

2002-2013    Assistant Professor, St. John’s University, ICS, Department of Art and Design

1995-2001     Adjunct Assistant Professor, St. John’s University, ICS, Department of Art and Design

2018 -              Associate Professor, St. John’s University Global Studies, Rome

2000-2007   Coordinator/Assistant Professor, St. John’s University Global Studies, Paris, Ste. Croix

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Selected Exhibitions, Presentations and Publications

 

2022    Creatures Great and Small, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY

2022    Elizabeth Albert, Harbor, 490 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2022    Fragile Rainbow, Williamsburg Art and Historical  Center, Brooklyn, NY

2020    Drawn from the Collection, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL

2019     Adaptation to Extremes, Lake George Arts Project, NY

2018     Waterfront, The Gotham Center for New York History, NY

2017      Inspired by the Water’s Edge, Brooklyn Historical Society, NY

2017      Silent Beaches, The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

2016      Silent Beaches, The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY

2016      Silent Beaches at Swale. Pier 6, Brooklyn, NY

2016      Silent Beaches, Untold Stories. Poet’s House, New York, NY

2016      Silent Beaches, Untold Stories. Greenlight, Brooklyn, NY

2014      Mash-Up, Islip Museum, NY

2012      Garbage Barge Revisited, Islip Museum, NY

2012      Collage/Assemblage Centennial, Int’l Museum of Collage, Assemblage, TX

2012      Wildly Human, Swarthmore College, PA

2010     Heads or Tails, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

2009    Quixotic Beast, Under Minerva Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009    Wild Things, Annmarie Garden Art Center, Smithsonian Inst., MD

2008    Visual AIDs Benefit Exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery, NY

2006    Into the Woods, John Raimondi Gallery, Boston, MA

2005     How Bad Do You Want It, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2005     26 Painters, John Raimondi Gallery, Boston, MA

2004     Group Exhibition, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY

2002    What Happened in Lime Mills, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001     From the Ashes, C.U.A.N.D.O., New York, NY

2000    Elizabeth Albert: Recent Works, Kauffman Gallery, Lincoln, Center, NY

2000    Group Show, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY

2000    Ex qui site, Jan Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2000    The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY     

 

Print:

 

2016    Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront, Damiani, 2016

2016    Elizabeth Albert: Paintings, Post Road Literary Journal, March, 2016, Iss. 30      

2011     Elizabeth Albert, Vellum, no. 7/2011 and no.6/2011

2011     Contemporary Connection, Scholastic Art Magazine, Vol. 42 No.1, p. 11

2009   Elizabeth Albert: Paintings, Post Road Literary Journal, December 2009, Iss. 18

2009   Sleeping Fish Literary Journal, Calamari Press

2008   Ins & Outs Magazine, Gallery Section

1994    The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Exhibition Catalogue, The Drawing Center

 

Web:

 

2012    Party Barge in Deep Decline, Underwater New York, http://underwaternewyork.com

2011     Ink, Underwater New York, http://underwaternewyork.com

2011    USA (United States Artists) Projects,  http://www.usaprojects.org/user/elizabethalbert

2011     BAC (Brooklyn Arts Council), http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/registry/23264

2010    BRIC Arts Media, Contemporary Artists’ Registry http://registry.bricartsmedia.org/profile.php?aid=5339

2010    PS 1 MoMA Studio Visit Site, http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/elizabeth-albert

2010    The Drawing Center Viewing Program, Elizabeth Albert

2009    Grantee Image Collection, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

2009    Quixotic Beast, Vellum on Line 11/2009*

2008    Artists’ Registry, Artists Space

2007    Artists’ Registry, Art in Context

 

Grants/Awards/Fellowships

 

2016   The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship

2016   Furthermore Grants in Publishing, a Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund

2004   The MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship

1999   The Byrdcliffe Artist Residency Program

1997   The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Fellowship for Painting

1996   NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship/Mid Atlantic Division

 

Bibliography

 

“Book Notes – ‘Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront’”. Largehearted Boy, January 9, 2017

Lucy Cohen Blatter, Some of the Most Interesting Parts of NYC are Underwater”. Brick Underground, January 12, 2017

Sam Roberts, “The City That Leaps from the Page”. The New York Times, December 1, 2016

Rain Embuscado, “The Art Books Our Editors Are Reading This Fall”. Artnet news, October 14, 2016

Allison Meier, “New York City’s Silent Shores”. Hyperallergic, September 29, 2016

“To Do: September 7-21, 2016”. New York Magazine, September 5, 2016

Brian Lehrer, “New York City’s Forgotten Beaches”. WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show, September 2, 2016

Clare Trapasso, “Waterfront Stories”. The Daily News, September 9. 2013

Jen Carlson, “Stunning Photos Throughout Time Trace NYC’s Relationship with its Waterways”, Gothamist, September 4, 2013

Christopher Knight, “'Chain Letter' at Shoshana Wayne Gallery”, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2011

Lily Simonson, “Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshanna Wayne Gallery”, Art   21 Blog, July 28th, 2011 http://blog.art21.org/2011/07/28/looking-at-los-angeles-curators-gone-viral-chain-letter-at-shoshana-wayne/

Doug Gruse, “Subconscious Sagas” The Post-Star, November 9, 2010

Nelly Reifler, “Elizabeth Albert: Paintings”, Post Road Arts Annual, Issue #18 2/2010

NYARTS, “Tips and Picks”, September 2006

Lance Esplund, “Learning Curve”, Modern Painters, Summer 2002

Lisa Curtis, “Facing Disease”, The Brooklyn Papers, Volume 25 No. 4, January 28, 2002

Arnold Walfred, “Simply Grand”, NYARTS, Vol. 7 no. 3, 2002

Ken Johnson, “The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead”, The New York Times, January 21, 2000

 

Collections

 

The Butler Institute of American Art, OH

Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL

Naples Museum of Art, FL

Davis Gallery at Hobart and William Smith College, NY