Elizabeth Mooney is a visual artist that explores the construct of landscape through painting, printmaking, and kinetic sculpture. She is interested in the pace of our collective experiences in landscape; specifically with consideration to equity, resilience, and beauty. She lives and works in Boston, MA and is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
EDUCATION
MFA Painting and Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BFA Painting and Printmaking, Art Institute of Boston , Boston, MA
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 In the Meantime, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2022 Elizabeth Mooney: New Works, The Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
2022 In the Weeds, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 What Comes Around, Carol Schlosberg Gallery at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2020 New England Bio Labs, Curated by Art Focus, Rowley MA
2018 In Due Time, work by Elizabeth Mooney, MUSA Collective, Boston, MA
2014 Artist In Residence Exhibition, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2013 Supra Natural, Kala Arts Institute and Berkeley Central, Berkeley Central Passage, Berkeley, CA
2010 Shifting Panoramas, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 new work, Elizabeth Mooney, ArtSTRAND, Provincetown, MA
2009 Passing Through, Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Artist’s Choice, Michael Mazur & Elizabeth Mooney, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Works on Paper by Lamontagne Gallery, Jameson & Thompson, Boston, MA
Harmony, Chautauqua Institution, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua NY (forthcoming in June)
2024
Passion for Paper, Chautauqua Institution, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua NY
Kind of Open, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
2023
Bold: Challenging Norms, Igniting Dialogue, MassArt xSOWA, Boston, MA
Then and Now, Lunder Art Center, Lesley University, Cambridge MA
Raw Emotion II, Jameson & Thompson, Gallery Tempo, curated by Alison Judd, Boston, MA
Luminous Elsewheres, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2022
The Ever Given, Flotilla Flotilla, Pittsburgh, PA
Raw Emotion I, Jameson & Thompson, Gallery Tempo, curated by Alison Judd, Boston, MA
#ARTWORKSHERE, #ARTSTAYSHERE, Scollay Sq Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
2020
Q’20, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA
2019
Prints From Campus: Selections from Faculty Teaching in New England, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Amalgamation, Wedelman Art Gallery, Lasalle College, Newton, MA
2018
Pattern in Place, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Let’s Dance, Basement Projects DTSA, Santa Ana, CA
M+1, MUSA Collective, Boston, MA
Stillness:Transformation, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Defrost the Cake, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2017
Origin Story, MUSA Collective, Allston, MA
2015
Breaking Ground, Lunder Art Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014
Off the Wall/Fresco Painting, curated by Walter O’Neil, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
From the Ruin of the Real, curated by Celine Browning, Howard Art Project, Boston, MA
From the Ruin of the Real, curated by Celine Browning, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Artist of the Month Sticker Book, Exhibition in Print, Curated by John Gonzales, March Volume
2012
Sitelines Beard and Wheil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
2011
Pittsburgh Biennial, curated by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art and the Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
8 Hour Projects, curated by Darren Lee Miller and Colleen Toledana, Bohman Art Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
Rust Melt: New Pittsburgh Abstractions, curated by Julie Leidner and Elizabeth Mooney, Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Shadow Shop, A project curated by Stephanie Syjuco, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010
Mutual Migration, Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association And Museum, Provincetown, MA
2009
Annual Biennial, Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Infinity, UnSmoke Art Space, Braddock, PA
Mixed Metaphor and Obsession, Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2008
MFA Selections, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
No Presents Please, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, Redwood City, CA
2007
LTC + 1, M1 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Zonal Confluence, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
Evidence, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Us and Them, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006
Small Works, Gallery 402, O.I.A, New York, NY
Opening, Drawing Room, Portland, ME
2005
New Prints 2005 / Spring, Selected by Kiki Smith, IPCNY, New York, NY
2004
Works on Paper, Time Warner Gallery, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA
Bino Scapes, Kunst Projekt, Berlin, Germany
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Fellowship Award
2020 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award Recipient
2013 Artist Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2010 Artist Grant Recipient, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
2009-2010 Visual Arts Fellowship, Provincetown Fine Arts Works Center, Provincetown, MA
2001 & 2003 Invitational Residency with RosenClaire (Rose Shakinovsky & Claire Gavronsky), Montespertoli, Italy
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Painter, printer, sculptor Elizabeth Mooney to talk journey, process for Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series, The Chautauquan Daily, July 17, 2024.
“Elizabeth Mooney; Episode 10”, I Like Your Work Podcast, November 17, 2018.
Boston Voyager Magazine, Boston’s Inspiring Stories, Meet Artist Elizabeth Mooney, May 22, 2018.
Neal, Patrick, “Contemporary Fresco that’s Off the Wall”, Hyperallergic, 10 November 2014.
Bigman, Alex, “Supra Natural”, East Bay Express, April 2013.
O’Driscoll, Bill, “The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ leg of the Pittsburgh Biennial offers art evoking a chaotic world” Pittsburgh City Paper, 5 October 2011.
Thomas, Mary, “Pittsburgh Biennial is living large at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 19 October 2011.
Shaw, Kurt. “Pittsburgh Area Artists Display their Visions of the Rust Melt.” Pittsburgh Tribune, 31 Aug 2011.
Dollar Bank, Federal Savings Bank. “Art Affects” 3 River Arts Festival Video, June 3, 2011.
Shaw, Kurt. “Review – Exhibits at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, a collection of viewpoints.” Pittsburgh Tribune, 2 June 2010.
Thomas, Mary. “Art Reviews: Exhibit creates cool spot to explore at Center for the Arts.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2 June 2010.
September/October 2008 issue, New York Arts Magazine, Featured Artist, “Elizabeth Mooney: Optical Allusions”.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor; Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA - current
Visiting Assistant Professor; College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA
Visiting Lecturer; Wellesley College, Wellesley MA