Education
MFA, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BA, Art History & Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions
2018 Overlying, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, OH
2018 Enough To, Some Time Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2017 Push Right Back, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
2016 Seen Not Heard, 2731 Prospect Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2015 Ambient Time, Bliss Gallery, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
2015 Lick Time, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2015 houseplay, sunroom, Cleveland, OH
2014 spacescape, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, AK
2013 Invisible Summer, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2012 promise, it’ll only take a minute to stop, W2S Series, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 The Proximity of Fate, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
2023 The Infinite Mix, Worthington Yards, Cleveland, OH
2022 Women Who Print, FIG, Cleveland, OH
2020 Make Ready for the Revolution, 2020 Mid America Print Council Conference, Kent State University
2019 resurface, 3-person exhibit, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2018 Small & Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
2018 After The Pedestal, Dr. Cathleen Chaffee, Juror, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2018 Cleveland in Newark, Denison’s Art Space, Denison University, Newark, OH. Curated by Ronald Abram
2018 The Expanded Broadside: Politics, Art, and Messages, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2017 Cut and Paste, Contemporary Collage, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Materialism, H Space, Cleveland, OH
2016 Places: Wednesday Group, Cohen Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2016 Of Rules and Rebellion, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2016 Beauty in Distinction, Gallery W, American Greetings Headquarters, Westlake, OH
2016 ReUNITE, Archive Exhibit, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2015 Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Works on Paper, 2731 Prospect Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2015 Juntos, Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery, Elyria, OH2015 About Place|Perspectives in Printmaking, Youngstown, OH
2014 William Busta Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Cleveland, OH
2014 Beyond the Platen, La Roche College Cantellops Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 Everything All At Once, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland, OH
2013 Sculpture and Object XVIII, Dom Umenia (House of Art), Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Peripheral Vision, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
2012 Stirring the Waters|Between Two Bodies, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 (re)threads, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY
2010 After the Pedestal, Astria Suparak juror, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
Residencies & Awards
2023 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Award, MOCA Cleveland, OH (Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels)
2018 FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence, Cleveland, OH
2017 VSC/Ohio Arts Council Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2017 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award
2015 Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award
2015 Award of Excellence. Dave Bown Projects (Curators: Katherine Pill, Ron Platt, Kelly Shindler)
2015 Quarter Art Editions, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2014 Rasmuson Foundation Artist Residency Program, Homer, AK
2014 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Award, MOCA Cleveland, OH (Andrea Hickey)
2011 Hedy and Michael Fawcett Prize for Visual Arts, Stone Canoe Journal, Syracuse University, NY
2011 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Award, MOCA Cleveland, OH (Mary Ceruti)
2010 Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY
Community Projects
2019 Hear Her Glenville, Sports Resource Center, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
2018 Hear Her Glenville, various locations in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, Cleveland, OH
2016 Just The Facts, collaboration with Corrie Slawson, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
2015 playgap, made for Mimeo Revolution: Artist Book + Zine Fair, MOCA, Cleveland, OH
2014 postcard connections, Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, AK
2013 Making Money the Harder Way, performance w/Corrie Slawson, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2013 Making Money the Harder Way, performance w/Corrie Slawson, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
Reviews & Essays
Long, Kyrie, Juried exhibit brings out the range of Interior artists, Fairbanks News-Miner, Oct. 4, 2018.
Hudak, Brittany, MAKERS: Elizabeth Emery, CAN Journal, May 2018
Hudak, Brittany, Digging Up the “Seeds of Colonialism”: Darice Polo at Some Time Gallery, CAN Journal, Jan, 2017
Delamotte, Nikki, “Project designed to help emerging sculptors in the area”. The Plain Dealer, Nov. 6, 2016.
(Emery, Elizabeth). “Ashley Lyon, Weighing the Sunset”. Cleveland Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series, Ed. Indra K. Lacis. The Sculpture Center, 2016, p.19.
Usami, Josh. “As Closing Time Draws Near for the William Busta Gallery, an Exhibition Not to be Missed.”,
SCENE, March 11, 2015.
“Most Interesting People 2015.” Cleveland Magazine, January 2015.
Armstrong, Michael. “Artist hopes to expand Cleveland, Homer tie.” Homer News, October 15, 2014.
Litt, Steve. “Kolodziej and Elizabeth Emery team up at Busta Gallery in Cleveland with shows you feel with your
eyes.” (review of solo show Invisible Summer), The Plain Dealer, May 10, 2013.
Stone Canoe, a journal of arts & ideas, Syracuse University, February 2011.
Keirn, Jennifer. “Experimental Art.” Cleveland Magazine, September 2009.
Wasserman, Nadine. "All Consuming." (review of solo show Glazed Over), Metroland, May 31, 2007.
Artist Talks & Presentations
2019 Pecha Kucha, Cleveland, OH
2019 Artist Talk, Community Culture Night, Art House, Cleveland, OH
2018 Juror Talk, 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks Art Associations, Fairbanks, AK
2018 Artist Talk, Here, Our Voices, MOCA Cleveland’s Teen Program, Cleveland, OH
2018 Moderator for Hear Her Glenville Panel Discussion, Cleveland, OH
2018 Artist Talk, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2017 Artist Talk, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2017 Artist Talk, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2017 Artist Talk, Push Right Back, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Public Collections
The Cleveland Clinic, Progressive Insurance, American Greetings, Rockefeller Collection (Dresden, Germany),
Westin Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland Artists Association, Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Metro Health Hospitals, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and Columbus Metropolitan Library.