EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - MFA in Photography                   

PRATT INSTITUTE  - BFA in Photography     

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 “The State of Being Indivisible ( I want a perfect soul)” Brookline Arts Center, Brookline MA

2022 “Getaway” Antenna Works, New Orleans, LA.

“A Brief History of Happiness” Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens GA.

2020  “Searching for the Miraculous” AC Institute, New York, New York

“The Symphony of Names: No Man Is An Island” In-Sonora 11, Madrid, Spain

“Searching for the Miraculous” VisArts, Rockville, MD.

2018      “The Symphony of Names: No Man Is An Island” Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA.

2015      “You Can Not Be Replaced” Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL.

2014 “From Far Away Across the Universe” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.

“The Accident” Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA.

2003     “Fans part IV (living inside the cosmic egg)” 16mm film Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.

2002 “Fans part III (the Lee Olds show)” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.

1999 “Candy Coated” Locust Projects, Miami, FL.

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025

“As it Unfolds” NADA Curated by Fitsum Shebeshe

2024     

Platforms, Athens Greece

“Nombrar_” Galería de Arte del Palacio Municipal de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

“To Be Named” Gallery Oak Park, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

2023

Nomad II, Torrance, CA.

“To Be Named” Organized by the Smithsonian's Recovering Voices Program and Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network at Bard

Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin Germany

Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY

Circuits and Currents, Athens, Greece.

“Stratigraphy” Arts Letters & Numbers, New York

Open Mind Art Space, Santa Monica, CA

York Art Gallery, York, England

2022               

“Searching for the Miraculous” Curfew Tower, Cushendall, Northern Ireland

VAFT, Video Arts Festival Turku, Finland

Open Mind Art Space, Santa Monica, CA

Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal

2021                

Reclaim Award, Cologne, Germany

Video Fenster, Cologne, Germany

BBA Currents, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina

2020                

“Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty”, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York

BBA Art Prize, BBA Gallery, Berlin Germany

“Sound, Spectacle, and Situation” UMF Art Gallery, Farmington Maine

2019                

Adelaide Festival Center,  Adelaide, Australia

“http: //www: a birthday celebration”  Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR

2018                

“Smoke & Mirrors” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California.

“12th Arte Laguna Prize” Venice, Italy

2017                

“Spin Cycle” SIM gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland.

4Culture e4C electronic gallery, Seattle WA.

"Attach Files" 50/50 Kansas City, Missouri

Unauthorized SFMOMA show #454, SF MOMA

2016                

“RETHink Art Digital Festival”, House of Culture, Rethymno Crete, Greece.

2015                

“Celebrity Portraits” Holy Family University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

“LA Woman” Piece College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA.

"The State of Being Human" Woody Gaddis Gallery, Edmond, OK

2014                

"LA Woman" Marrickville Garage, Marrickville, Australia.

2013                

“Amorphous” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

2011                

“Chain Letter” Shoshana Wayne Gallery Santa Monica, CA.

2005         

"Hello Earthlings!" Renaissance Theater Hollywood, CA.

2002         

“Globle>Miami<Island” Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL.

“Miami in Manhattan” Wooster Projects NY, NY.

2001         

“Witness....” Fredric Snitzer Gallery project room, Miami, FL .

“Humid” Moore Building, Miami, FL curated by Dominic Molon.

“The Uncanny” Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida.

"Girls on Top" Galerie Valerie Cueto Paris, France.

"Emerging" Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL.

“Platform Pledge” Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2000         

“Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyper-Reality” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.

“Culture of Class” Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute of the Arts, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Departing Perspectives” curated by Fredric Snitzer, Miami, FL.

“Mount Miami: American Artists in Tel Aviv” The Artists’ Studio Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.

“To the edge of the page” Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL.

“Young Miami” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.

“Home Invasion” Miami, FL.

“Sarasota Biennial” Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025

“AI or Game Show Personality? Elizabeth Withstandley’s “The State of Being Indivisible” Toys With Identity in the Digital Age” in The Boston Art Review by Karolina Hac

2024

“Eleven Art Exhibitions to see in Massachusetts This Fall” by Jacquinn Sinclair, September 10, 2024, Boston Art Review.

2023 

Making Miami : The Story of an Art Community

“What’s in a Name? Opalka exhibit takes a crack at it” by William Jaeger published in the Times Union on 9/28/2023               

Future Now 2023, Aestheticia Magazine

99 Future Blue Chip Artists, Artsted

2022                

“Getaway” published by Antenna Gallery February 2022.

2020                

Al-Tiba9 Magazine, Original Issue 05, June 2020.

“Searching for the Miraculous (Part 2: The Journey)”, artist book, published by Locust Projects 2020

2019                

Locust Projects: The 20th Anniversary Retrospective, by Locust Projects

SOLO Magazine, Issue 1, 2019.

Murze Magazine, issue 8 October/November 2019.

http://www: a birthday celebration, exhibition catalogue Carnation Contemporary

2018                

Datebook: Videos of Icelandic journey, denim as movable sculpture and summer film     

series, LA Times, August 2018

“Smoke & Mirrors” prompts reflection among viewers with serious themes by Madeleine Powell, La Vista, January 30th 2018

“Smoke and Mirrors” Exhibition Catalogue, Torrance Art Museum.

12th Arte Laguna Prize, Exhibition Catalogue.

2017                

Alumna Exhibition Video at Seattle Gallery, The University of Alabama College News, March 7th 2017

Andy Behrle, Blake Marques Carrington and Elizabeth Withstandley Join e4c rotation, 4 Culture, April 20, 2017.

Unauthorized SFMOMA exhibition catalogue

2016                

Making it Grey, exhibition catalogue, Locust Projects.

2015                

Elizabeth Withstandley’s “You Can Not Be Replaced” is a fitting goodbye for Dimensions Variable, by Nichole Martinez The Miami New Times, September 1, 2015

RESIDENCIES

2024 Arctic Circle Residency, Svalsbard

2023 Arvo Pärt Center, Estonia

2022 La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chile

2021 AIRIE, Everglades National Park, FL

2020 InnovAIR, Valletta Cultural Agency, Malta

2019 The Curfew Tower Residency, Northern Ireland

2017 SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland

2016 The Curfew Tower Residency, Northern Ireland

2015 Arteles Creative Residency Program, Finland

2004 The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Nevada

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS and RECOGNITION

2025 Finalist Fondation François Schneider’s Contemporary Talent

2023 Aesthetica Art Prize Finalist

Kite Prize for Contemporary Art (finalist)

2021 Reclaim Award, Cologne Germany

Grand Prize Winner See Me “Journeys”

2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant

Hopper Prize Spring 2020 (shortlist)

BBA Prize, Berlin Germany

2019 Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2019, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

2000 New Forms Miami, Division of Cultural Affairs Grant, 2000