Liz Nania

Education:

      Boston University, College of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude, 1980

Selected Exhibitions:

2024 Pride Flag History, Stonewall Inn, New York, NY

2024 Hyde Park Show, The Pryde Gallery, Boston, MA

2024 Change, Local Hand Gallery, Boston, MA

2023 Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA

2020 Home, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2020 Horizon, Square Root, Boston, MA

2019 Two person exhibition: Creative Co-conspirators, Gorse Mill Gallery, Needham, MA

2018   The 12 x 12 Show: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2018   Fiber Art: BNN Gallery, Boston, MA

2017   Small Works, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2017   Spring: Gorse Mill Gallery, Needham, MA    

2016   Feast: Images of the Edible, Gallery Seven, Maynard, MA

2015   Layer by Layer: Encaustic Art by Boston Women, Parkside on Washington,  Boston, MA   

2014   Solo exhibition: Pies & Cakes, Fornax, Boston, MA

2013   Small Works, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

2009  20th Century Designers, Twentieth Century Limited, Boston, MA

2003   Universally: Nature and Each Other, Pasche Gallery, Wellesley, MA

2001   People’s Art, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2000  People’s Art, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

1999   Solo exhibition: Dancin’ Girls, Crone’s Harvest, Boston, MA

1995   See of Possibilities, Art Market, Jamaica Plain, MA

1993   Random Women: Four Collaborators, Trident Café, Boston, MA

1991   Solo exhibition: Dancin' with the Girls, Gallery at Indigo, Cambridge, MA

1987   Women’s Work: Political Art by Women, Femme Core Space, Boston, MA

1985   Art & Resistance, Femme Core Space, Boston, MA

Recent Publications:

Uppercase, 2023 & 2024, featured artist

Heyzine, 2022, featured artist

Queer X Design, 2019, featured artwork

Boston Voyager, 2018, featured artist

Residency:

        August 2018, Spaceus, Boston, MA

Selected Commissions:

       Museum of Fine Arts Shop, Boston: Crowning Glories: Two Centuries of Tiaras, 2001, and Art Deco, 2004.

Teaching and Organizing:

       Director and Founder of OUT to Dance, a dance studio for adults, Boston, 1998-present

       Art Instructor, Hale Barnard Corp, Boston, MA, 1986-91

       Art Instructor, Gateway Arts, Brookline, MA, 1982-87

       Art Instructor, Newton Public Schools, 1981-82

       Art Instructor, Somerville Public Schools, 1980-81

       Co-director, Femme Core Space, Art/Performance Gallery, Boston, MA, 1981-86