EDUCATION
1989
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1986
BFA, National Deans List, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
EARLIER
Undergraduate coursework, College of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate coursework, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
Additional Studies:
2004-18
Brush Painting lessons with Mr. Ho, Taichung Taiwan; I-Hsiung Ju, New Jersey,
and Sungsook Setton, China Institute, New York
2008
New York Studio School Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Un(Common) Light, Art & History Museum Maitland, FL (duo)
2021
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2019
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
527 Madison/Mitsui Fudosan America, New York, NY
2018
Miami International Airport Galleries, FL
2017
Audience Choice, Saunders Foundation Gallery, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (duo)
Herbert H. and Barbara C. Dow Center for Visual Arts, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
AIRIE Nest, Everglades, FL
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2016
Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2013
University Gallery, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
2012
Art & Cultural Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve, Montreal, Canada (duo)
Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL (2010, 2008, 2006)
2011
Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College, Fort Myers, FL
2009
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
Da Feng Gallery, Beijing, China
Windows Project, GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008
Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2007
ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA (duo)
2004
Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL (also 2003)
Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
2001
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (duo)
1999
Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
1998
Jeffrey Coploff, New York, NY
FAIRS
2023
Untitled Art, Twelfth Edition, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
2022
INK Miami, Graphicstudio, Miami, FL
2021
IFPDA Ink Miami, Graphicstudio, Miami, FL
Intersect Aspen, Emerson Dorsch, Aspen, CO
2020
No Fair, SoHo Beach House, Miami, FL, curated by Ché Morales
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online Fall 2020, with Graphicstudio
Intersect Aspen, Emerson Dorsch (online)
2019
Untitled Miami, AIRIE Nest Gallery
CasaCor Design Fair, Miami, Eyes in the Canopy curated by Ibett Yanez del Castillo
2015
NY Pulse Art Fair, Emerson Dorsch (prize recipient)
2013
Texas Contemporary, Emerson Dorsch, Houston, TX
2012
Miami Project, Lesley Heller Gallery
Pulse Miami, Emerson Dorsch
2010
Next Art Fair, Chicago, Lesley Heller Gallery
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
When Mind Leaves Body (three-person), Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Rainbow Rococo, Katherine Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY, curator Marilla Palmer
Made in Paint, The Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, curator Jim Walsh
This Earth, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, curator Stefan Hagen
Dear March, Come In, Birdhouse, Brooklyn, curator Alexandra Rutsch Brock
2022
The BluPrnt Show, Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL, curator Robert Chambers
The Norte Maar Mural Collaboration, Project Room, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
The World Is Just So Small Now, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Fragile Rainbow, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, NY, curator Sue Spaid for ecoartspace
Pa hay okee: the land of ‘grassy water’, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, FL, curator Ombretta Agró Andruff
Passages: 8 Women Painters, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University-Camden, NJ
2021
This Earth, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, UT, curators Hikmet Sidney Loe and Stefan Hagan
Artists Draw Their Studios, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, curator Michelle Weinberg
AIRIE 20th Anniversary Exhibition, AIRIE Nest inside the Ernest F. Coe Visitors Center in Florida Everglades National Park, curator Deborah Mitchell
Power of Ten, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, curator Jane Hart
Time/Frame/Matter: Hard Light, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, curators Felecia Chizuko Carlisle and Richard Haley
Artists Draw Their Studios, Available Space at the Hudson Library, New York Public Library, curator Michelle Weinberg
2020
From Dark to Light: A Holiday Celebration at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (online)
Art in the Time of Pandemic: Best Foot Forward, Joanne Mattera Art Blog (online)
Twill I Will, Tailgate Projects, Tampa, FL
Mercedes Matter Awards Show, New York Studio School Alumni Association, JPV Gallery, NY
What We Create May Save Us, Ejecta Artspace, Carlisle, PA, curator Cynthia Reynolds
Eco Consciousness, Online exhibition juried by Eleanor Heartney for ecoartspace
Art Offscreen, Neumeraki Projects, national and international, organized by Eileen Jeng Lynch
Mother Altar (contribution to installation by Chie Fueki), Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
Drawing Challenge II, Online with Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Winter Workspace Ten Year Anniversary: Returning to the Source, Wave Hill House, NY
2019
Florida Contemporary, Baker Museum - Artis Naples, FL, curator Rangsook Yoon
Artists Draw Their Studios, Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, curator Michelle Weinberg
Unbound: Highlights From the Stanton Storer Collection, UT Scarfone/Hartley Galleries, Tampa, FL
Parameters, LES Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY, curator Daniel Rosenbaum
Divine Interventions, Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, LI, curator Teresa Hackett
Dance With Me, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY, curator Kyle Staver
1959: Spirit of the Void, DUMBO Open Studios with Two Coats of Paint HQ, Brooklyn, NY
AIR Retrospective, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
Wraparound 17, curator Renée Riccardo for ARENA at Suite 806, New York, NY
Incise, Echo & Repeat, Abrazo Interno Gallery at the Clemente, New York, NY, curators Camilla Fallon and Kylie Heidenheimer
2018
Paradise Summit, Emerson-Dorsch, Miami, FL
Picnic, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Brooklyn Combine, Norte Maar at the Muse, Brooklyn, NY
Natural Proclivities, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY, curators Melanie Vote
Cultivate Your Own Garden, Painting Center, New York, NY, curator Patricia Spergel
Spectrum III, Art Center Sarasota, FL, curator Nathan Stiles
Local/Global, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
Women of the Research Studio, Art & History Museums Maitland, FL
2017
Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Marking Time, Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York, NY, curator Dan Rosenbaum
Flora Fantastica!, Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY, curator Jennifer McGregor
Gardens on Orchard, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Skyways, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Women Painting at MDC, Miami Dade College Kendall,FL
Tremolo, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY, curator Carolana Parlato
Open Garden, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
2016
Splotch, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Synesthesia, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
All Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
The Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, New York, NY, curator Brenda Zlamany
2015
1000 Degrees in the Shade: A Survey of South Florida Art, Design Sublime, Miami, FL
Marks Made: Prints by Female American Artists 1960-Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Into the Wild, Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Gallery, Miami, FL, curator Carol Jazzar
New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, selected by Jason Andrew and Fred Valentine, NYSS, New York, NY
Torn and Fired, Outlet Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, curator Jason Andrew
Defining Abstraction, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art
Urban Wild, Undercurrent Projects, New York, NY, curator Katie Peyton (Hofstadter)
Transcendence, Artist Pension Trust / SoHo Fuxing Road Complex, Shanghai, China
Beat Nite and Armory Weekend at Norte Maar, Bushwick, NY
2014
Summer Invitational, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Enticing Luminosity, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Inaugural Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2013
Earthward, Skylight Gallery, New York, NY
Stone Canoe (Syracuse University's Journal of the Arts) Artist Exhibition, Herbert T. Williams Gallery at the Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
To Be A Lady: Forty-five Women in the Arts, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
2012
5th Beijing Biennial, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Nomination
Fresher Paint, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York
2011
Sense of Place, Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Haywire, STOREFRONT, Brooklyn, NY
Find and Combine, Abrazo Interno Gallery at CSV Centre, NY, NY
Painting with Pictures, Part II, Artjail, NY, NY
Signs on the Road, Curatorial Research Lab/Winkleman Gallery, NY, NY
Reinventing the Landscape, A Fresh Look at Traditional and Contemporary Painting, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
New Year, New Work, New Faces, STOREFRONT, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Citational Graphologies, or a Show of Hands, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
Ab Hinc, Camp Pocket Utopia, Rouse's Point, NY
Get it Fresh! 6th Street Container, Miami, FL
New/Now, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Paper Trails, Pearce Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ
Flower (Re)Power, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Florida Contemporary, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Ocketopia, Lesley Heller Work Space, New York, NY
L'Arabesque, Bleu Acier, Inc., Tampa, FL
2009
Into the Wild, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
New/Now, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
With You I Want to Live, From the Collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Shapeshifted, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2008
Shapeshifter, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Under the Influence, Girls Club Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL
ContemporAryism, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing, China
Landscapes of the Mind, Permanent Collection, US Embassy, Beijing, China
Into the Woods, Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, New York, NY
Aesthetics and Values 2008, The Gallery at Green Library, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Drawing Beyond the Plane, Tampa Museum of Art
Beyond Picturopolis, Art Center/South Florida, Miami
2007
Picturopolis, DACRA, Miami, FL
2006
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Fantastic Routes, Roger Smith Hotel Lab Gallery, New York, NY
Distance, Shenghua Art Center, Nanjing, China
Garden Paradise, Central Park Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
Transparent/Opaque, Hunter College, New York, NY
2005
Being There, BIAC Art Space, Beijing, China
Drawing, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
What is Drawing? Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan
Florida Focus, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
2004
Elisabeth Condon and Todd Schroeder, superior (an art space), Cleveland, OH
Visual Mnemonics, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
2003
Retrospectives, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Drawings SF/NY/LA, San Luis Obispo Center for the Arts, San Luis Obispo, CA
2002
Ewing Biennial, Department of Art & Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2001
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for the Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
1999-2003
Cooperative installation projects with Adelheid Mers, Chicago, London, Tennessee, and Florida
1999
Size Matters, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
1993
Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, NY (Catalogue)
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
2018
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant Program, New York, NY
2015
Mercedes Matter Award, New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY (also 2020)
New York 2015 PULSE Prize, Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant, New York, NY
2014
Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship, Hanban, Beijing, China
Provost Summer Research Grant, University of South Florida (2012, '09, '07, '06, '05)
2012
Creative Scholar Grant, University Research Council, University of South Florida (2009)
2011
College of The Arts Research Grant, University of South Florida (also 2010, '08)
2007
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
2008
Individual Artist Fellowship, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
2007
Individual Artist Grant, Hillsborough County, FL
2006
Artist Enhancement Grant, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
2005
New Researcher Grant, University Research Council, University of South Florida, Tampa
RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS
2024
Metcalf Creek Holler Residency, NC
Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency, New Orleans, LA
2022
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program, New Berlin, NY
2020
Tlacopac International Artist Residency, Mexico City, MX
2019
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH, Patricia Brown Specter Fellow
Graphicstudio and Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2018
Montello Foundation, Montello, NV
Ucross Foundation, Sheridan County, WY
Carrizozo Artist in Residence Carrizozo, NM
Art & History Museums Maitland, FL (also 2017)
2017
Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
2016
Everglades (AIRIE), Everglades National Park, FL
2015
Norte Maar, Jay, NY
2014
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA
2013
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
2010
Loft Nota Bene, Cadaques, Spain
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (also 2007)
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2005
Red Gate, Beijing, China
Stock 20, Taichung, Taiwan (also 2004)
1997
Shave International Artist Workshop, Somerset, UK, 1997
1994
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1992
Ox-bow, Saugatuck, MI
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017
Strange Flowers: Jimmy Wright, Chrysanne Stathacos, Judith Linhares, Jessica Weiss, Nancy Friedemann, Brece Honeycutt, Rebecca Saylor Sack, Amy Lincoln, Elisabeth Condon, Cecile Chong. Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Pour: co-curated with Carol Prusa: Kris Chatterson, Ingrid Calame, Roland Flexner, Angelina Gualdoni, Carrie Moyer, Carolanna Parlato, David Reed, Jackie Saccoccio, Carrie Yamaoka. Catalog with essays by Stephen Maine and Tyler Emerson-Dorsch. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, traveled to Asya Geisberg Gallery and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
Haiku Review by Peter Frank for Huff Post
Oil as Water, reviewed by Franklin Einspruch for artcritical
2006
Dragon Veins: co-curated with Mernet Larsen: Frances Barth, David Brody, Iona Rozeal Brown, Emily Cheng, Elisabeth Condon, Chie Fueki, Yun-Fei Ji, Suzanne Kuhn, Mernet Larsen, Sang Nam Lee, Takashi Murakami, Zhang Hongtu. Catalog with essay by Lilly Wei. University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2001
Collaborative Fusion: organized with Adelheid Mers (also contributing artists) a transgressive, cooperative exhibition featuring 14 artists and their guests with a mirror project connected via web with Shuko Wada at Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan. 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES
New Jersey City University, NJ
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA
DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
CUNY Lehman College, New York, NY
Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY
Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Boca Raton Museum, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Art & History Museums Maitland, FL
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL
Trestle Gallery/Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Georgia State University, Statesboro, GA
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Mesaros Visiting Artist, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
California College of the Arts, New York Studio Program, NY
Montclair State University, NJ
Boston University, Boston, MA
Maryland Institute College of the Arts, Baltimore, MD
Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Expatriate Professional Women’s Society (EPWS), Chi Art Museum at K11, Shanghai, China
M on the Bund, Shanghai, China
Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
Feng Chua University, Taichung, Taiwan
National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taichung, Taiwan
University of Texas at San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
New School University, New York, NY
Teaching Institute of Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA
SELECTED TEACHING
2020-2022
Faculty, Yellow Chair Salon, Brooklyn, NY (via Zoom)
2017-2019
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Painting & Drawing, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2018
MFA Mentor, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA
2009-2014
Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2003-2008
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2002, 2003
Artist in Residence (Spring term both years), Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
2001
Artist-Teacher, MFA Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, Montpelier, VT
Artist in Residence, Department of Art, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
AFFILIATIONS
2017-2020
Board Member, Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2023
Florida Art in State Buildings public art commission, Judy Genshaft Honors College Cafe, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Montello Foundation Waypoint Site, three miles north of Montello, NV
2022
Mural Project, a group of three murals in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn (Crescent St., Pine St., Highland Park Handball court) sponsored by Norte Maar Collaborative Projects in the Arts, partially funded by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and 37th District, East Brooklyn, NY
20212019
Metropolitan Transit Authority, Astoria Line (N, W), Ditmars Station, Queens, NY
2017
ASF3 International Arrival Atrium, Tampa International Airport, Tampa, FL
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Perez Museum, Miami, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Martha and Jim Sweeny Collection of Contemporary Prints by American Women, Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program, Beijing, China
Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection/Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
Conoco Phillips, Houston, TX
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NJ
Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL
Marshall Center Collection, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Lennar Foundation Cancer Center, City of Hope, Irvine, CA
Lawrence Public Library, Lawrence, KS
M-Restaurant Group Glamour Bar, Shanghai, China (closed 2022)
Roger Evans Collection, London, UK
Photo Amanda Marie Mason, 2023
BIOGRAPHY
Elisabeth Condon's paintings have been recognized by a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, and Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. They reside in the permanent collections of Tampa Museum of Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, Hudson River Museum, United States Embassy Beijing, and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Extending her vision of synthetic landscape into the urban environment, Condon's public art works include Urban Idyll, commissioned by MTA Art & Design Percent for Art for the NYCT Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station in Queens and Lattice Views, commissioned by Norte Maar in Brooklyn's Highland Park.
For eleven years Condon served as Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She holds an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, where she grew up a second generation native. Condon currently lives and works in New York, NY and Tampa, FL.
STATEMENT
My paintings approach landscape as an artificial construction, simultaneously real and fake. They layer disparate paint applications and sources, scavenging references from vintage wallpapers, glam rock nightclubs, and scrolls.
When I was growing up décor doubled as God, the wallpaper patterns in my childhood home surrounding and surveilling me. Horizon lines and single point perspective dissolved in endless repeats. Now, releasing the flowers and lattice into flows of color complicates the unfolding of time. Lattice becomes a form of calligraphy, the weave sure, well-practiced. Pattern and pour negotiate spilling and cleanup, flatness and volume. Taking cues from both nature and décor, my paintings dissolves inside and out, figure and ground, even linear time.