Liz Price is a painter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Liz Price was born in Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1981 with an undergraduate degree in sculpture. She lived and worked in New York City for several years before moving to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania. There she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting in 1988.
Neil Welliver was chairman of the program at the time, while other critics and visiting artists included Rafael Ferrer, William Bailey, Altoon Sultan and Alex Katz. Price paints in a painterly realist tradition, citing influences ranging from Cezanne, Matisse and Vuillard to Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter, Janet Fish, and Lois Dodd.
Education
1988 University of Pennsylvania, MFA
1984-85 Columbia University, post-graduate studies in painting and philosophy
1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1981 University of Louisville, BA, Fine Arts
Experience
2005-2012 President, Board of Directors, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia
2007 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Fellowship, Ballycastle, Ireland
1990-present Art teacher and painting instructor- Fleisher Art Memorial, Baldwin School, workshops, and private painting instructor
1987-88 Teaching assistant for Edmund Bacon, History and Theory of Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Prince Street Gallery, New York, Juried Exhibtion, Bill Scott, juror
2024 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2023 “Luminous: New Paintings from the Studio of Liz Price”, Wheelhouse Art, Louisville, KY
2023 “Outside: Small Paintings”, Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2022 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2020 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2019 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibiton
2018 “The Shape of Flowers": New Paintings by Liz Price”, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2018 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2017 Cerulean Arts Collective, Philadelphia, Inaugural Exhibition
2016 Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, "Fluid Lucidity", three person exhibition
2015 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY, "A New Beginning", recent paintings
2015 Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Elizabeth Osborne, juror
2014 Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Cindi Ettinger, juror
2013 Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, “Small Works”, curated by Bill Scott
2013 Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, Virginia, Group Exhibition
2012 Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, Solo Exhibition
2010 Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, Virginia, Group Exhibition
2007 Pennsylvania Art Conservatory, Summer Group Exhibition
2006 Philadelphia Foundation, "The Art of Access", Group Exhibition
2005 St. Andrew's School, Middletown, Delaware, Solo Exhibition
1998 Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, Group Exhibition
1996 William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Group Exhibition
1993 Actor's Theater of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, Solo Exhibition
1989 First Street Gallery, New York, "Interior/Exterior" Group Exhibition
1989 Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Solo Exhibition
1989 Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania, Solo Exhibition
1988 First Street Gallery, New York, "First Street Selects", Group Exhibition
1987 Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Solo Exhibition
1986 The Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, Solo Exhibition
1986 Liberty National Bank Gallery, Louisville, Invitational Exhibition