Born St. Louis, Missouri elizabeth@elizabethknowles.com
		MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL BA, CUM LAUDE, PHI BETA KAPPA, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
		ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PILOT PROGRAM, Miami Beach, FL E. D. FOUNDATION GRANT, Kearny, NJ MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS, Austerlitz, NY CORPORATION OF YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, Sweet Briar, VA LANCASTER GROUP AWARD, New York, NY ARTISTS SPACE ARTISTS GRANT, New York, NY LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION GRANT, Brooklyn, NY JOYCE CARLYLE MEMORIAL FUND, The Banff Centre, Canada ALEX DEMOND FUND AWARD, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
		2010 ENCOUNTERS, Governor’s Island, New York, curated by Ann Aptaker and Rocio Aranda-Alvarado for the Sculptor’s Guild PAINTINGS, Moi Meme, New York, NY WIND THROUGH THE TREES: AUDITORY AND KINETIC SCULPTURE Jenkins Arboretum, Devon, PA 2009 READY TO UNVEIL, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ AN ALPAN GATHERING, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY WHAT’S NEW IN NEW YORK?  Sirani Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA FORMATIVE LINES: WORKING IN DRAWING AND SCULPTURE, Governor’s Island, New York, curated by Rachel Liebowitz and Joanna Kleinberg of the Drawing Center SPACE IS THE PLACE: CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE AT CHESTERWOOD, Chesterwood National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA, curated by Denise Markonish of MASS MOCA REPETITION, REASON AND REPOSE, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY WINDOWS ON FIFTH, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 2008 SELF-CONTAINED, Supermarket, Stockholm, Sweden PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY 101, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY 2007 WINDOWS ON FIFTH, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY UNLIKELY MATERIALS, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY A SEQUENCE OF STEPS, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY INSTALLATION/WORKS ON PAPER, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy 2006 FLUIDITY…ABSTRACTION TRANSFORMED, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY ON PAPER/OF PAPER, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY PEER PRESSURE, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY DIMENSION, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY 2005 SMALL WORKS, Jay Bond Gallery, New York, NY OFF THE WALL, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, NY SUMMER SALON, The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY POINT OF VIEW, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY PAPER, PAPEL, PAPIER. . . NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY STUDY IN RED, Public Project sponsored by INFINITI, Herald Square, New York, NY 2004 ENDS AND MEANS, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY WHITE MATTERS, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY DIGITAL MEDIA, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN SUMMER, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY 2003 CREATED IN MIAMI BEACH, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Lincoln Theatre, MB, FL EIGHT ARTISTS, Miami Beach City Hall, Miami Beach, FL PAPER, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, AIR, New York, NY 2002 CONFIGURING IDENTITY, untitled X (space), New Haven. CT THE AMERICANS, Video Screening, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL SEE THROUGH, Satellite Project Space, Long Island City, NY FLARB, Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, FL NEW ARTISTS/NEW WORK, Nese Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY 2001 UNDER THE INFLUENCE, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY SUMMER, Barbara Levy Gallery, Fire Island, NY 2000 CONCEPTUAL WORKS, Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
		ENCOUNTERS, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado and Ann Aptaker, Sculptor’s Guild, Governor’s Island, NY, 2010 READY TO UNVEIL, Ben Goldman, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, 2009 CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE AT CHESTERWOOD, Denise Markonish, Chesterwood National Trust for Historic Preservation, Stockbridge, MA, 2009 “Zen in the City,” Rachel Sokol, PRECOGNITO, January/February 2009 “The Stuff That Creativity Is Made Of,” Benjamin Genocchio, THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 8, 2007 “Don’t Fit the Traditional Definitions,” Helen Harrison, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 22, 2006 “Masterworks Old and New, Leavened by a bit of Whimsy,” Helen Harrison, THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 16, 2005 “ARTSEEN,” Christopher Howard, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, November 6 2004 “Art will be where you’ll find it this fall,” Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD, August 24, 2003 “Visiting artists capture South Beach’s sights, sounds," Richard Brand, MIAMI HERALD, August 10, 2003 “FLARBergasted,” Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD, Wednesday, August 8, 2002 “Experimental Media Works are Understood at FLARB,” Crissa-Jean Chappell, STREET, October 3, 2002 “Art Reviews,” Phyllis Braff, NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, January 9, 2000 “The Ticket,” Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD, Dec 6,1998 “Art Review,” Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD, June 10, 1998 “Watching out for the World’s Watchers,” Elisa Turner, MIAMI HERALD, August 8, 1997 “New Artists On the Block,” Judy Cantor, THE NEW TIMES, May 4, Miami, FL, 1995