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Elizabeth Velazquez
Born 1977
Monticello, NY
Teaches in Brooklyn, lives and makes art in Queens, New York
EDUCATION
2013-2016 The Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, NY
2004 M.A. Painting, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2004 Summer Arts Intensive, 92nd Street Y, Manhattan, NY
2000 B.S. Art Education, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2022 New York Latin American Art Triennial, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2022 Care/Repair: Mending the Circle, Queens Botanical Garden, Queens, NY
2022 Care/Repair: Mending the Circle, Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY
2021 Out Front 24/7, Flushing Town Hall and King Manor Museum, Queens, NY
2021 Para construir a casa enquanto se caminha, Casa Contemporanea, São Paulo, Brasil
2021 Un/Common, The Yard Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Transcendence, Local Project, Queens, NY
2021 Process to Project: What Comes Out of Our Sketchbooks, JCAL, Queens, NY
2021 Emerging From Isolation: Notes on the Pandemic, CUNY York College, Queens, NY
2020 Art Off-Screen, https://neumeraki.com/art-offscreen,International Outward facing exhibition
2019 Imagining America National Gathering Exhibit, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2019 2-Person Exhibition, Cigar Factory, Queens, NY
2018 SEQAA (C)ART Festival, King Manor Museum, Queens, NY
2018 Fallacy of Edifice: Cohabitation (AlterWork Studios), AlterWork Studios, Queens, NY
2018 Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, Cigar Factory, Queens, NY
2018 Southeast Queens Biennial, CUNY York College, Queens, NY
2017 Artist Co-Op, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2017 Yeah, That’s What She Said: Motherland, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2017 BackLot Art Festival, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2017 SEQAA & ART&COM Open Studio, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
2016 Yeah, That’s What She Said: Body of Work, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Yeah, That’s What She Said, Babycastles Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Yeah, That’s What She Said, Specials on C, Manhattan, NY
2013 Small Works Exhibition, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, New York, NY
2011 Black and White Show, B.W.A.C., Brooklyn, NY
2010 100 Works on Paper, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Ready Set Create, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2008 4×6 for Riverspace, Riverspace, Nyack, NY
2008 Borimix 08’, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
RESIDENCY
2021 Works on Water / Underwater New York Residency, Governors Island, New York, NY
2020 Works_on_Water Walking the Edge NYC, Instagram takeover
2020 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Program, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2019 Works on Water / Underwater New York Residency, Governors Island, New York, NY
2018 Cigar Factory Residency, Cigar Factory, Queens, New York, NY
2018 Works on Water / Underwater New York Residency, Governors Island, New York, NY
2018 The Living Studio 2018 Artist Residency, The Living Gallery, New York, NY, 10009
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, NYFA & DCLA, New York, NY
2019 apexart International Fellowship Program, apextart New York, NY
2018 New Work Grant, Queens Art Fund, Queens, NY
2016 Jamaica Arts Leaders Program, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2016 Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion Program, Soul Fire Farms, Grafton, NY
COMMISSIONS
2022 Sarah Cameron Sunde: 36.5 Durational Performance with the Sea, water ritual, NY Estuary, NY
2022 New York Latin American Art Triennial, Installation, Lehman College Art Gallery Rotunda, Bronx, NY
2018 ReImagine End of Life Festival, Ritual at Washington Square Park, New York, NY
2018 Stacey Robinson: You Never Can Always Sometimes Tell, Installation, Jack, Brooklyn, NY
2018 No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, Outdoor Installations and ritual performance, CUNY York College, Queens, NY
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2022 David Schwittek, Sacred Meets Profane in Urban World, Turnbull Speaker Series Lehman College, Octorber 25
2020 Bethany Tabor, Rewriting Rituals: History Resisted, Green-Wood Cemetery, October 8
2020 Eileen Jeng Lynch, Art Off Screen, Zoom Conversation with Artists, August 27
2020 Virtual Studio Visit Network, VSVN x Wave Hill Collaboration, Instagram Live, May 15
2020 Spiral Magazine, “A Manual for the Momentary: DIY Rituals from Reimagine, Published by Rubin Museum
2019 Etty Yaniv, “Elizabeth Velazquez: All Realities” Art Spiel, October 7
2019 Elizabeth Velazquez, Reshaping Public Memory, Eradicating White Supremacy, Imagining Amer., UNM, Oct 19
2019 Jillian Steinhauer moderator, Collective Grief:The Design, Politics and Future of Memorials, EFAProjectSpace, May 2
2019 Elizabeth Velazquez, “Remembrance: A Ritual at Washington Square Park,” Medium, January 30
2018 Sarah Cascone, “Art Will Help Reshape How We Cope With Death…” Artnet News, October 3
2018 Audra Lambert, “Experimental Edifices: Artist Elizabeth Velazquez’ Installation…” Ante. Arts Magazine, August 10
2017 Interview by Clocktower Radio, “QCA’s Creative Conversations.” February 22
2015 Art Students League of New York on Painting, published by Watson-Guptill
2014 Felicia R. Lee, “A Look at Looking Different ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society.” NY Times, Dec 2
2014 Cara Buckley, “Rising Rents Leave Artists Out In The Cold.” NY Times, March 14
2013 Interview by Rebecca Norton, “East and Abroad Episode 8: NARS and Signals.” June 11
2012 Interview by Nadia Williams for Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, BK Hist. Society. Online project, March 12
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005- Visual Arts Educator, PS/IS 89 Cypress Hills Community School, Brooklyn, NY
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2019- Manas Americanas, member, New York, NY
2017- SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance), Founding Member, Queens, NY
2014 Kara Walker: We Are Here event, Co-organizer for participatory public art project, Brooklyn, NY
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