SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Elizabeth Gourlay: Color, Chords, and Threads, The New Britain Museum of American Art, Delamar, West Hartford, CT, 2023 - 2024
Elizabeth Gourlay : Eclectic Threads, Landers House, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2022 - 2023
Elizabeth Gourlay and Richard Ziemann, The Chester Gallery, Chester, CT, 2022
Unexpected Windows, solo exhibition, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT, 2022
Duende, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, 2019
Interplay: Joseph Byrne & Elizabeth Gourlay, The Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, 2017
Elizabeth Gourlay and Laura Moriarty, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, 2016
Recursive Threads: Elizabeth Gourlay and Ann Stewart Conrad, The Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, 2016
Tempos, Fox Gallery NYC, New York, NY, 2015
New Work, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Sogno, The Chester Gallery, Chester, CT, 2013
A Year Long Song, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2012
Off the Grid: Selected Works on Paper by Elizabeth Gourlay and Peter Acheson, Brickwalk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT, 2011
Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT, 2011
The Color of Harmony, The Gallery at Kinderhook, Salisbury, CT, 2009
Meridians, eo art lab, Chester, CT, 2009
New Work, Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2008
Rhythmic Relativism, eo art lab, Chester, CT, 2007
Etudes, Diane Birdsall Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2007
Saturated, Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT, 2006
Grids and Gardens, Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, CT, 2005
New Work, Paesaggio Fine Art, Hartford, CT, 2005
A Chronology, Cummings Arts Center at Connecticut College, New London, CT, 2004
Crossing the Line-Elizabeth Gourlay | Zach Zaus, Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2004
New Work, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 2003
Recent Work, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 2001
Recent Paintings & Works on Paper, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT, 2000
Paintings, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1992
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
This is the Future of Non-Objective Art, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
White Columns, Artist Registry, New York, NY
2023
Our Vision is Clouded, Warbling Collective, London, UK
Interstice, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
White Columns, Artist Registry, New York, NY
2022
Cool & Collected, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Summer Faculty Exhibition, RISD, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Mind’s Eye, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Among Friends, Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, New York, NY
2021
OMG Art Faire, Kingston NY, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Everything That Is, Here All Along, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Open Studio with Petra Nimtz, Diane Dwyer, Janice La Motta and Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, Woodstock, NY
Covimetry, curated by Mark Starel, Digital Exhibition at The Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020
Let the Sky Soak In, Elizabeth Gourlay, Stephen Maine and Margaret Lanzetta and Janna Watson, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
The Blues, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Sublime Line, Readywipe Gallery, Holyoke, MA
All Together Now, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
A Few of our Favorite Things, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Postcards from the Edge, benefit exhibition for VisualAids, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Radiant, Elizabeth Gourlay, Anne Russinof, Audrey Stone, ODETTA Gallery, New York, NY
Thrive, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT
Among Friends, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, New York, NY
2018
Mesmerize, Elizabeth Gourlay, Stephen Maine, Carol Salmanson and Audrey Stone, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
State of Abstraction, curated by Daphne Anderson Deeds and Jacquelyn Gleisner, Washington Art Association & Gallery, Washington, CT
Direct Contact, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Editions and Artists' Book Fair 2018, Anthony Kirk Editions, @ The Tunnel, New York, NY
Dataatadata: 3-Sphere, flat files at ODETTA gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Chain Reaction: Artists select Artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Among Friends, DUMBO, 55 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY
ICFF Fair, exhibiting with Kenise Barnes Fine Art, The Jacob K. Javits Center, New York, NY
Mighty Minis, curated by Suzan Shutan, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT
2017
Big Idea, The Painting Center, 547 West 27th, New York, NY
Abstract, curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan, The Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Visual Impressions: Josephine Burr, Elizabeth Gourlay, Anna Hepler and David Hornung, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Maniac Episode V, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Becoming: 30 Hotchkiss Artists, The Tremain Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
Mighty Minis, Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall, CT
Black Box, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany traveling to Centre d'art Contemporain, Metz, France
2016
Featured flat-file artist for HUE[S]PACE, an installation by Debra Ramsay, ODETTA Gallery, 229 Cook Street, Brooklyn, NY
Dristi: A Concentrated Gaze, curated by Elizabeth Heskin and Patricia Spergel, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY
2nd Hand Pulled Print Exhibition, SITE:BROOKLYN, Brooklyn, NY
Art & Design 20/21, Garvy Rita Art & Antiques, Boston, MA
2015
Art on Paper, Gallery Molly Krom, Pier 36, New York, NY
Lost Cat: Art in the Age of Social Media,The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Family Ties, curated by Julie Torres and Bonny Leibowitz, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Going Big, curated by Suzan Shutan and Susan Carr, Central Booking, New York, NY
Seeing Sound, with Jane Harris, Alex Paik and Gelah Penn, ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Evolution of Immediacy, curated by Kevin Daly, The Art Garage, Ball & Socket Arts, Cheshire, CT
2014
Second Family, curated by Julie Torres, 2 Rivington Street, New York, NY
Perception, Illusion, Magic, The Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
Summer Sheets: selected works on paper, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
Mid-Year Exhibition, The National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
2013
Working It Out, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Creative Mischief, The National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
Art Forms, An Exhibition of Artist Fellowship Recipients, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT
SOLOS 2013, The Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
New Work, Fred. Giampietro 91 Orange Street Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012
Modesty: a Policy, The Bogart Salon, Brooklyn, NY
Paper New England: A 5th Anniversary Look, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
2011
Shared Sensibilities: Sol LeWitt and His Friends, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
An exchange with Sol LeWitt, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Abstract Principles, Fairfield Art Center, Fairfield, CT
Out of Line, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Abstracted, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The San Francisco Art Fair, eo art lab, San Francisco, CA
Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2008
183rd Annual: An Invitational of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Focus New Haven, PNE, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
Red Dot, New York City and Miami, eo art lab, Chester, CT
2005
Work from The LeWitt Collection, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2003
The 25th Annual Drawing Center Benefit Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002
Criss-Cross: Elizabeth Gourlay, Sol LeWitt, Ken Morgan, Cary Smith, Paesaggio Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2000
4 Painters: 4 Women, Anderson University, Anderson, IN
Connecticut Commission on The Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Hartford, CT
Sum + Substance, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
1988-1997
The Drawing Show, 1988, The Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Curator’s Choice/New Directions, The Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
Contemporary Still Life, The East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
Measurement, Metaphor and Color, Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD
The Connecticut Open, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Eclectic Landscapes, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
1986
Selections 34, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
EDUCATION
MFA in Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 1985
BA (First Class Honors), Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983
Fellowship at Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, CT, 1982
AWARDS and COMMISSIONS
Commission, Art Advisory Service, Vail, CO, 2020
Juror/Visiting Artist, Art & Art History Department, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 2017
Visiting Artist, Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT, 2016
Artist Fellowship Grant from the DECD/CT Office of the Arts, 2012-2013
Invited artist in residence at the studio of Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, Italy, 2011 & 2012
Invited artist, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, 2007
Site-specific painting, The New London Cancer Center at Crossroads Professional Building, Waterford, CT, 2006
Two site-specific wall drawings, The Ashforth Company, Stamford, CT, 2003 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship Grant, 2000-2001
Fellowship Grant at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 1986, 1988 & 1993
The Andrew Grant Traveling Scholarship, Edinburgh College of Art, 1981 & 1982
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Two Coats of Paint, Museum Exhibitions, Elizabeth Gourlay : Connecticut Colorist, March 3, 2023, HERE
Meg Hitchcock, In Their Studios : Elizabeth Gourlay, May 2, 2022, HERE
Jacquelyn Gleisner, Mighty Minis, Melanie Carr Gallery, March, 2018, HERE
Daphne Anderson Deeds, review of Becoming, The Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, June 6, 2017, HERE
Caroline Cunningham, Transcendent Moments, New England Home Magazine~Connecticut, Spring, 2016, HERE
James Panero, The New Criterion, Gallery cronicle, Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay 2013-2015, Fox Gallery, NYC, November, 2015, HERE
Janis Mink, In Historical Context: Some thoughts about the work of Elizabeth Gourlay, Exhibition 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 Gourlay: 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, (November 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
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
HRH Princess Lamia Al Saud
Art Advisory Service
The Montefiore Fine Art Collection
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
MISCELLANEOUS
Applied Color, and Painting + Abstraction, Instructor, RISD|CE, 2010-present
Concepts in Two Dimensions, Visiting Assistant Professor in Art at Connecticut College, 2011
Painting, cello 7, on the cover of the book of poetry, Parallel Lines, by Dennis Barone, 2011
Painting, ramie 1, chosen as the cover for Nature Genetics magazine, May 2011
Painting, medlar orange, chosen as the cover for Nature Genetics magazine, March 2009
Elizabeth's work is included in Geoform.net, an online scholarly resource curatorial project and international forum whose focus is the use of geometric form and structure in contemporary abstract art. It is edited by Julie Karabenick.