Elizabeth Nelson was born in New York City, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and received a master’s degree in art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She moved to a farm in northern Vermont and was part of that working farm for forty years. She has shown paintings in many venues in Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. She is represented in galleries and private and public collections in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and California. She has won two Vermont Public Art commissions for eight paintings and her work is part of the Vermont State Art Collection. She was awarded a residency in Vermont at the Studio Center for Vermont Artist’s Week in 2000 and was part of the Of Land and Local residencies of Burlington City Arts VT in 2015. She was awarded a residency in Reykjavik, Iceland from SIM, The Icelandic Artists Association, for the month of May 2017 and the month of October 2018.

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Individual Shows

Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin VT 2024 159 North Main, Barre VT 2024 Pierson Library, Shelburne VT 2024 Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne VT 2023 (Featured artist)

The Front, Montpelier VT 2023 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester VT 2022 Axel’s Gallery Waterbury VT (two person show) 2022 Towle Hill Gallery (2 person show) Corinth VT 2010. 2022 AVA Gallery and Art Center Lebanon NH 1993, 2022
Catamount Arts, Open to Landscapes (4 person show) St Johnsbury VT 2021,
Patricia Carega Gallery Center Sandwich NH 2021
Satellite Gallery Lyndonville VT 2021
Morse Block Deli Barre VT 2019
TW Wood Gallery Montpelier VT 2018
Sterling College Craftsbury VT 2018
The Ice Fishing Shanty Gallery West Glover VT 2018
Barre Opera House Barre VT 2018 Catamount Arts, Seasonal Expressions St. Johnsbury VT 2018,
Highland Center for the Arts Greensboro VT 2017-2018
River Arts Morrisville VT 2017 Parker Pie Gallery West Glover VT 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2021
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Arts Lebanon NH 2017
Spotlight Gallery Montpelier VT 2016
Catamount Arts Center, Rankin Gallery St. Johnsbury VT 2016
Craftsbury Community Care Center Craftsbury VT 2012, 2016
University of Vermont Medical Center Burlington 2016
Innovation Center of Vermont Burlington VT 2012, 2013, 2015
Burlington International Airport Burlington VT 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
The Bees Knees Morrrisville VT 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
Trustee’s Room Sterling College Craftsbury VT 2014
National Life Building Montpelier VT 2014
Vermont Metro Gallery Burlington VT 2014
Catamount Arts Gallery St. Johnsbury VT 1998, 2002, 2013
Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild & Gallery St. Johnsbury VT 2013
Downs Racklin and Martin, Burlington VT 2012
Furchgott + Sourdiffe Gallery, (featured artist) Shelburne VT 2011
White Water Gallery, East Hardwick VT 2011
Art in the Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier VT 2000, 2010
The Lodge at Woodloch Hawley PA 2010
Claire’s Hardwick VT 2010, 2012
Governor’s Corridor Montpelier VT 2010
Maple Ridge Gallery Newark VT 2010
The Art House Craftsbury Common VT 2009
Cobella Design Portland OR 2008
Sean & Nora’s Barre VT 2008
Grannis Gallery, Burlington VT 2007
Staver Locomotive Portland OR 2007
Roche + Bubois Portland OR 2006
Vermont Law School South Royalton VT 2004
Tamarack Gallery East Craftsbury VT 2001
Office of Mental Health Waterbury VT 1999
Office of the Agency of Human Services Waterbury VT 1999
Chaffee Center for the Arts Rutland VT 1997, 1999
Helen Day Art Center Stowe, VT 1996
Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College Lyndonville VT 1995
Beside Myself Gallery Arlington VT 1990
Passapartout Gallery Winooski, VT 1989

Residencies

SíM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland October 2018
SíM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland May 2017
Of Land and Local: Elmore State Park, Burlington City Arts VT 2015
Of Land and Local exhibit: Shelburne Farm 2015 Vermont Studio Center Johnson VT 2000

Selected Juried and Invitational Shows

The Current, Stowe Vt 2022, 2023, 2024 Axel’s Gallery Waterbury VT Holiday exhibit 2022-2023 Caspian Arts, Greensboro VT 2012 - 2023 Gems and Giants Bryan Memorial Gallery Jeffersonville VT 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023 Ebb and Flow Bryan Gallery Jeffersonville VT 2019 Spotlight Gallery of the Vermont Arts Council: Northeast Kingdom Artists, Montpelier VT 2019
Annual Arts Connect, Catamount Arts Gallery, St Johnsbury 2016-2019, 2021
Connections, Edgewater Gallery, Stowe VT 2018
Artists to Watch: Spotlight Gallery, Vermont Arts Council Montpelier VT 2018
Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich NH 2008 - 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
Of Land and Local/VT Metro Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT 2017
SIM Resident Artists, May, Reykjavik Iceland 2017, 2018
Land and Light and Water and Air, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2000 through 2024
The Sky’s The Limit, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2018
Traveling Artists, Bryan Gallery 2017
The Miller’s Thumb Greensboro VT 2000- 2006 2008---2022
New Vistas, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016
After The Harvest, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016
1-2-3 Math and Art SPA Barre VT 2016
Encountering Yellow, SPA, Barre VT 2016
Farm to Table, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016
River Works II, River Arts, Morrisville VT
Generations, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2015
Romancing the Garden, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2015
SPA, Barre VT Amore, 2015
Catamount Arts, Second Tuesday Group Show 2014
Claire’s, Selections from 2nd Tuesday Art Group, Hardwick VT 2013 Maltex Building Burlington VT 2012-2013-2014, 2023
Gruppe Gallery, Jericho, VT 2013, 2015
Trees, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2011
Second Tuesday, Castleton College, Castleton VT 2011
Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, Shelburne VT, New York NY, Manchester VT 2009
N.A.W.A., New York NY 2009
Maple Ridge Gallery Newark VT 2009
2nd Tuesday, AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH 2009
Kiesendahl + Calhoun, Pleasantville NY 2009
Art of Vermont: The State Collection: Bryant Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, Bennington Museum, Brattleboro VT, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland VT, Goodrich Library, Newport VT, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT 2009 -2011
Art in the Vermont Supreme Court Retrospective, Montpelier, VT 2008
Altered Reality, Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT 2007
Finish This, Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT 2007
Whitewater Gallery, East Hardwick VT 2007, 2014
Pepper Gallery, Boston MA 2007

1990-2007
Behind Closed Doors, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
ArtHop, Burlington VT
Chaffee Center for the Arts, Rutland VT
Vermont Selections, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT and St. Michael’s College, Colchester VT
Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury VT 2000-2007
Catamount Arts, St.Johnsbury VT
Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Irasburg VT
ARA Show, T.W.Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT
Over and Under, T.W.Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT
Office of the Auditor of Accounts, Montpelier VT
Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT
Basin Harbor Invitational Show, Basin Harbor VT
Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown NY
Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton VT
Generations A.I.R.Gallery, NY, NY
Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Artists of the Garden, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT
Reflections, Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes VT
Scissors, Paper, Stone: Toward the Cutting Edge, Lexington KY
Susquehanna Art Society 11th Biennial Exhibit, Sellingsgrove PA
Vermont Women Artists Gallery North Star, Grafton VT
Mowing The Mountains, Burlington VT
Vermont Memory Maps: Brattleboro Museum and Johnson State College
Vermont Council on the Arts, Office of the Govenor
Passpartout Galley, Winooski VT
Vermont Artists, Helen Day Arts Center, Stowe VT

Public Art

Royalton/Bethel Department of Public Safety
Permanent installation: Four Paintings of the Central Vermont Landscape, Royalton VT 2006
Derby State Police Barracks: Permanent Installation; Four Paintings of Northern Vermont, Derby VT 2003
Finalist: Caledonia Courthouse, St. Johnsbury VT 2000
Finalist: Permanent Installation, Emory Hebard Building, Newport VT 1998

Awards

2019 First Prize 4th Annual Arts Connect: Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT 2018 The Blanche E. Colman Award, Boston MA
2017 Honorable Mention, Arts Connect, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT
2017 Second Prize The Color of Light Edgewater Gallery Middlebury VT
2012 Third Prize, Land and Light, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
2011 Third Prize, Trees, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
1998, 1992,1991: Cavanaugh/Kowalisky Prize, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland VT
1995 Award, Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT
1993 Jury Prize, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton VT

Collections

University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington VT Burke Mountain Hotel and Conference Center, West Burke VT 2015
Jay Peak Resort and Conference Center, Jay VT 2012
Peggy and Max King, Pittsburgh PA
The Waskowmium Collection, Burlington VT
Scott Hoyt, New York, NY
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tanglewood MA
The Federal Reserve in Boston
Ellen Braithwaite and Stephen Schaffran, Richmond CA
The Carver’s Guild, West Groton MA Liz Canner and Alex Bartlet, New York, New York
The New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, Montpelier VT
The Clarina Howard Nichols Center Morrisville VT

Represented by:

The Front Montpelier VT Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich NH
Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery Shelburne VT The Satellite Gallery, Lyndonville VT The Bank Street Gallery, Littleton NH

Education

Rhode Island School of Design, 1963 B.S.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967 M.A.T.

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