Education
1985 MFA in Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1983 BA (First Class Honors), Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Tempos , Fox Gallery NYC, New York, New York
2015 New Work , ArtHelix, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Sogno , works on paper, The Chester Gallery, Chester , CT
2012 A Year Long Song , Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2011 Selected Paintings and Works on Paper , Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
2009 The Color of Harmony, The Gallery at Kinderhook, Salisbury, CT
2009 Meridians , eo art lab, Chester, CT
2008 New Work , Diane Birdsall G allery, Old Lyme, CT
2007 Rhythmic Relativism , eo art lab, Chester, CT
2007 Etudes , Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
2006 Saturated , Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT
2005 Grids and Gardens , Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, CT
2005 New Work , Paesa ggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT
2004 A Chronology , Cummings Arts Center at Connecticut College, New London
2003 New Work , Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2002 The Chester Gallery, Chester, CT
2001 Recent Works, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
1991 Elizabeth Gourlay, Paintings, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotlan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 State of Abstraction, curated by Daphne Anderson Deeds, Washington Art Association, Washington, Connecticut
2018 Among Friends, DUMBO, 55 Washington St, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, Connecticut
2017 Big Idea, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2017 Abstract, curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan, The Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut
2017 Visual Impressions: Josephine Burr, Elizabeth Gourlay, Anna Helper and David Hornung, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
2017 Maniac Episode V, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2017 Becoming: 30 Hotchkiss Artists, The Tremain Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
2017 Interplay: Joseph Byrne & Elizabeth Gourlay, curated by Ann Finholt and Walter Kendra, The Annual Maxwell Shepard Memorial Invitational exhibition, The Gallery on the Green, Canton, Connecticut
2017 Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, Connecticut
2017 Black Box, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany traveling to Centre d'art Contemporain, Metz, France
2016 Laura Moriarty and Elizabeth Gourlay, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York
2016 Featured flat-file artist for HUE[S]PACE, an installation by Debra Ramsay, ODETTA Gallery, 229 Cook Street, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Dristi: A Concentrated Gaze, curated by Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Recursive Threads: Elizabeth Gourlay and Ann Stewart Conrad, The Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
2016 2nd Hand Pulled Print Exhibition, SITE:BROOKLYN, Brooklyn, New York
2016 Art & Design 20/21, Garvy Rita Art & Antiques, Boston, Massachusetts
2016 4rth National Monotype Exhibition, The Monotype Guild of New England, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
2015 Art on Paper , Gallery Molly Krom, Pier 26, New York
2015 Seeing Sound , ODETTA, flat files, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Lost Cat , Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachu setts
2015 Family Ties , 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015 Going Big , Central Booking, New York, New York
2015 Evolution of Immediacy , Ball & Socket Arts, Cheshire, Connecticut
2015 8th Annual Art & Design 20/21, Gar vy Rita Art & Antiques, Boston
2014 Second Family , curated b y Julie Torres, New York
2014 Mid - Year Exhibition : 2013 - 2014, Nat ional Academy School, New York
2014 Perception Illusion Magic, The Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
2014 Summer Sheets : Selected Works on Paper, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
2014 The Boston Internatio nal Art Fair, Garv ey Rita Art & Antiques, Boston
2013 Working It Out , The Paint ing Center, New York
2013 Creative Mischief, The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York
2013 Art Forms : An exhibition of Artist Fellowship Recipients, Constitution Pla za, Hartford, Connecticut
2013 SOLOS 2013 , The Westport Art Center, Westport, Connecticut
2013 New Work: Elizabeth Gourlay and Kevin Finklea, 91 Orange Street Gallery, Fred.Giampietro, New Haven, Connecticut
2012 Modesty : a Policy, The Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Paper New England : A 5th Anniversary Look, Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut
2011 Shared Sensibilities : Sol LeWitt and His Friends, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
2011 An exchange with Sol LeWitt , Mass Moca, North Adams, Massachusetts
2011 Abstract Principles , Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, Connecticut
2011 Out of Line , Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
2011 Abstracted , DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2011 Off the Grid: Selected Works on Paper by Elizabeth Gourlay and Peter Acheson, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, Connecticut
2011 Synesthesia , eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2011 Library Science , Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut
2009 Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY, eo art lab, Chester, CT
2008 183 rd Annual: An Invitational of Contemporary American Art , National Academy Museum & School of Fine Art New York
2008 Focus New Haven , PNE, Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut
2007 Blue Print , The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
2005 Work from The LeWitt Colle ction , Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2004 Crossing the Line - Elizabeth Gourlay/Zach Zau s , Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2003 The 25th Annual Drawing Center Benefit Exhibition , The Drawing Center, New York
2002 Criss - Cross: Elizabeth Gourlay, Sol LeWitt, Ken Morgan, Cary Smith, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
2001 Collecting at Paesaggio , Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut
2000 4 Painters: 4 Women, Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana
2000 Connecticut Commission on The Arts Fellowship Exhibition , Hartford
2000 Sum + Substance, Widener Gall ery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
1997 Eclectic Landscapes , Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Co n necticut
1995 The Connecticut Open , Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
1994 Measurement, Metaphor and Color, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland
1990 Contemporary Still Life , The East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Ham p ton, New York
1989 Curator’s Choice/New Directions , The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York
1988 The Drawing Show , 1988, The Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 Selections 34 , The Drawing Center, New York, New York
Awards
2012 – 13 Artist Fellowship Grant from the DECD/CT Office of the Arts
2011 Invited artist in residence, studio of Sol LeWitt, Spoleto, Italy
2007 Invited artist, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
2006 Site - specific painting, The New London Cancer Center, Waterford, Connecticut
2003 Two site - specific wall drawings, The Ashforth Company,Stamford, CT
2000 - 2001 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship Grant
1986, 1988 & 1993 Fellowship Grant at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
1982 Fellowship at Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, Connecticut
1981 & 1982 The Andrew Grant Traveling Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art
Collections
Nature Magazine
The Marriott Family
The LeWitt Collection
Agnes and William Peelle, West Hartford, CT
Alliance Capital Management
Safeco Corporation
The Ashforth Company, Stamford, CT
The New London Cancer Center, Waterford, CT
The Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, New Haven, CT
Yves Gonnet, Inc.
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Selected Bibliography
James Panero, The New Criterion, Gallery cronicle, Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay 2013 - 2015, Fox Gallery, NYC, November, 201 5.
Janis Mink, In Historical Context: Some thoughts about the work of Elizabeth Gourlay, Exhi bition catalog essay for Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay 2013 - 2015, Fox Gallery NYC, October, 2015
Brett Baker, Painters' Table, Elizabeth Gourlay: Vision Images (December 26, 2013), Painting in Connecticut (December 10, 2012) , Elizabeth Gourl ay: Studio Visit (July 2, 2012).
Richard Benari and Lauren Henkin, Backstory: Elizabeth Gourlay, Tilted Arc, a journal of art, ideas, opinion and verse. (December 16), 2013
Stephen B MacInness, Have you met...Elizabeth Gourlay?, Painter's Progress, (Novemb er 18), 2013
Gorky's Granddaughter, documentary video interview with Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy, (May), 2012
Joanne Mattera, A Connecticut Afternoon, (November), 2012
Kristin Rasich Fox, Abstract Principles at the Fairfield Art Center, FC Buzz, Arts & Culture of Fairfield County, (September 21), 2011
Sharon Butler, Elizabeth Gourlay's Simple Means, Two Coats of Paint, (October 22), 2009
John Haber, The 2008 National Academy Annual, New.York.Art.Crit, (June 12), 2008
Steve Starger, Physical Culture : Abstracts by Elizabeth Gourlay, Zbigniew Grzyb, Letty Fonteyne, Elizabeth Macdermid and Pamela Stockamore, Art New England (December 2003/January 2004)
Patricia Rosoff, What am I supposed to think? How to read the abstraction of LeWitt, Gourlay, Morgan and Smith, The Hartford Advocate (September 5), 2002
Matt Damsker, Elizabeth Gourlay Evokes Emotion From Strictured Shapes, Hartford Courant (April 30), 2000
