b.1982 Palo Alto, CA
/lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2008-2009: CUNY Hunter, New York, NY Visual Arts MFA program
2005: Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT, Artist in Residence
2000-2004: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Painting BFA with honors
1998, 1999: California State Summer School for the Arts, painting, sculpture, photography, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
Awards and Honors
CENTER Santa Fe 2021 CENTER Personal Award Recipient
Surface Design Association Grant: Socially Engaged Practices: 2016
Showcase Winner, ArtSlant, 2013
Paul Pfeiffer Zabar Residency Seminar, Hunter College: 2009
James Kerry Marshall Zabar Visiting Artist Public Critique, Hunter College: 2008
Gawker Artist, 2008
Vermont Studio Center Grant: 2005
RISD Design Diploma Creator: 2004
Florence Leif Painting Award + Grant: 2004
Commission of Retirement Gift for California State Superintendent of Schools from California Art Teachers: 2002
Palo Alto Emerging Artist Award + Grant: 2000
Mural Commission, Henry M. Gunn Student Activities Center: 2000
California State Arts Scholar: 1998 and 1999
CSSSA visual arts double major award: 1998 and 1999
Henry M. Gunn art achievement award: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Exhibitions & Events
Left Coast Annual, juried by Lucia Sanroman, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2016
Introductions, curated by Jim Osman, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
RISD by Design, Providence, RI, 2014
First/Last, Parklife, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Where to from There?, selections by Arnold J. Kemp, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2013-14
READ All Over, Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA, 2013
Structure, juried by James Bacchi, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013
Perceptions, curated by Melissa Metzler, Flow Art Space, St. Paul, MN, 2013
Inaugural Benefit, Novella Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
Southern Exposure’s Monster Drawing Rally, THE NWBLK, San Francisco, CA, 2013
Everything Must Go!, PROXY, San Francisco, CA, 2013
Fresh Works, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA, 2013
Photography from the Edge, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2013
Photo Op, juried by Daniel Farnum, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO, 2013
Firmly Rooted, juried by Doug Stapleton, M S Rezny Gallery, Lexington, KY, 2012
Arrest Me, juried by Scott Lawrimore, PUNCH Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2012
Summer National Juried Exhibition, juried by Lucinda Barnes, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA, honorable mention, 2012
HOME, juried by Terry Ariano, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY, 2012
Texas National, juried by Dave Hickey, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX, 2012
Left Coast Annual, juried by Michael Schwager, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2012
Pictures of Nothing, Juried by Carol Prusa, JF Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, 2012
Centering the Margin, curated by Anthony Ryan, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, 2012
True Colors, Digital Arts: California, online juried exhibition, 2012
America’s 2012: Paperworks, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, North Dakota, 2012
Portfolio Show, Pacific Arts League, Palo Alto, CA, 2011
Juried Show 2011, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA, 2011
Voyeur: See and Be Seen, juried, Brooklyn Artists Gym, NY, 2011
2011 Annual Juried Art Competition, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AR, 2011
Melancholy: At the Bottom of Everything, Projekt30, online juried exhibition, 2011
New Directions, 2010, juried by Nat Trotman, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2010
RISD Biennial NYC 2006, curated by Robert Storr, Exit Art, New York, NY, 2006
Bite Size, The Matzo Files, New York, NY, 2005
Studio 333, Sausalito, CA, 2005
Wind, Sea, Sky, Project One, juried, Easton’s Beach, Newport, RI, 2004
Familiar Surfaces, Solo, Carr Haus Gallery, Providence, RI, 2004
Selected, juried, First Baptist Church, Providence, RI, 2004
This Is Now, Women Painters, Carr Haus Gallery, Providence, RI, 2004
If These Walls Could Talk, solo, 61 South Main St Providence, RI, 2004
Painting and Sculpture Senior Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 2004
RISD Student Gallery Board Juried Painting Exhibition, Providence, RI, 2003
Painting Department Biennial Juried Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 2001
Foundation Studies Exhibition, Waterman Gallery, Providence, RI, 2000
California Governor’s Office, Sacramento, CA, 2000
Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, 2000
Spangenberg Theater, Palo Alto, CA, 2000
Fresh Air, San Jose State University, juried, San Jose, CA, 1999
Press & Mentions
RISDXYZ, Spring/summer 2014, pg. 57
Manifest, International Photography Annual 2, Cincinnati OH, 2014
Structure, exhibition catalog, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013, pp.10-11.
‘A Talk with Lizzy Cross,’ Rogue Art Research & Writing, Andrea Magee Steedman, May 13, 2013
Gempari.tumbler, May 2012
Northwest Art Center; America’s 2012: Paperworks, exhibition catalog. Minot State University, 2012
Studio Visit Magazine; vol. 16. Boston, MA: Open Studios Press, 2011
“Lizzy Cross”, Jam It Down, blog, August 2011
Radcliffe, Austin, Things Organized Neatly, Tumblr, 2011: 11,000 reblogs on Tumblr
Mankoff, Robert. The New Yorker Caption Contest Book, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008, p.78.
McDermott & McGough, Because of Him, Cheim and Read, New York, 2008
Siemon, Allen, Rebecca Hart and Kinsey Katchka, Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, Detroit Institute of the Arts, 2007, p.9.
Bray, Natalie, Stephen Vitiello: Slow Planes, Fast Trees (sound works and documents), Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (now ‘Virginia MoCA’), Virginia Beach, 2007, p.48.
The New Yorker, July 13, 2006 p.86.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Julie Mehretu, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany, 2006, p.206