Elizabeth Chapin
EDUCATION
2025 - 2027 - Food and Art Alternative MA, The Gramounce, Madrid, ES
2024 - 2025 - Cohort of the Mythic Body, Josh Schrei, The Emerald Podcast
2021 - 2024 - Mentorship with Shahzia Sikander and Holly Hughes, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
1997 - 2014 - Portrait Artist, New York City and Austin, TX
1993 - Bachelor of Fine Art from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1992 - Studio Art Centers International (Cleveland Institute of Art), Florence, Italy
1990 - Université d'Aix en Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
1990 - Parsons School of Design, Paris & Dordogne, France
1971 - Born in Jackson, MS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - “Treespell,” Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
2021 - “Banishment of Solitude,” Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 - “Deconstructing Nostalgia,” Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
2016 - “Careful/Uncareful” Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
2014 - “Diversity of Affection” Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
1996 - “Friends & Saints,” The Gallery Upstairs, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026- “Nectar,” with Karen Hawkins, Austin, TX
2025 - “Inside Out,” Martha’s ATX at Westside Market, Austin, TX
2025 - “Re-Figurations,” The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Site Gallery, Sculpture Month, Houston, TX
2024- “Once More, With Feeling,” curated by Coka Trevino and Shea Little, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2024 - “Impulse” Anderson Ranch Arts Center, mentored by Shahzia Sikander and Holly Hughes, Snowmass, CO
2023 - “The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure,” The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Site Gallery, Sculpture Month Houston Biennial Festival, Houston, TX
2022 - “Mind:Full,” benefiting Artists for Artists: US Little Galleries, Houston, TX
2021 - “Howdy, Stranger,” Concept Animals crit group show, curated by Hayley Morrison, Darcy Book & Casey Alfstad, Perkins & Will, Austin, TX
2021 - “The Femme Abstract,” pop up exhibit curated by Moya McIntyre, Austin, TX
2021 - “Mother of Flowers,” Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
2020 - “Feast Day of St. Elmo: Saints and Intermediaries,” Vault Stone Shop, Austin, TX
2018 - “Landscapes, Portraits and Still Lifes,” inaugural exhibition, DORF, Austin, TX
2007 - Two-person exhibition with Kevin Greenblatt, 4 Walls Fine Art, Austin, TX
2000 - Get Real Art, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1998 - Inaugural Group Exhibition, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1997 - Brown’s Gallery, Jackson, MS
1995 - Mayana Gallery, New York, NY
1995 - Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
1994 - Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1994 - The Parthenon, Nashville, TN
1994 - Salon International, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1994 - Eudora Welty Gallery, Jackson, MS
1993 - Thesis Show, Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1991 - “Women in Art”, Group Exhibition, Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 - Interior Beauty Salon, “Elizabeth Chapin,” February, 2024. Link
Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, “Elizabeth Chapin: Treespell,” January 8, 2024. Link
Shoutout LA, “Meet Elizabeth Chapin,” January 2, 2024. Link
2023 - Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, “Top Five: November 2, 2023,” November 2, 2023. Link
Glasstire: Texas Visual Art, “The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure,” October 7, 2023. Link
Melissa Richardson Banks, “Public Opening: ‘The Sleep of Reason: The Fragmented Figure’ presented by Sculpture Month Houston,” October 3, 2023. Link
City Book Houston, Chris Becker, “Sawyer Yards Silos Transformed for ‘Sculpture Month,’ Which Starts Saturday,” October 3, 2023. Link
2022 - Texas Highways, Clayton Maxwell, “The Art of Spring, Wildflowers Serve as Inspiration for these Texas Artists”, March 2022. link
2021 - Forbes Magazine, Brienne Walsh, “In Sculptural Paintings, Elizabeth Chapin Unravels the Path to Original Sin,” April 26, 2021. Link
Design Milk, Kelly Beall, “F5: Artist Elizabeth Chapin Shares a Kitchen Staple, Favorite Podcasts + More,” November 19, 2021. Link.
Sightlines, “The Line-up: Women Artists to See on the Austin Studio Tour,” November 12, 2021. Link.
Luxe Magazine, Paulette Pearson, “Up the Fun Factor with This Austin Artist’s Far-Out Portraits,” June 4, 2021. Link.
The Vale Magazine, Katerina Papathanasiou, “Banishment of Solitude: An Interview with Elizabeth Chapin,” March 5, 2021. Link.
Sightlines Magazine, Barbara Purcell, “Art in the Absence of Touch: ‘The Femme Abstract,’” January 6, 2021. Link.
My New Orleans, Andy Myer, “Garden Party: Mother’s Day Gifts and Picks for Spring,” April 30, 2021. Link.
Austin American-Statesman, Austin360, Michael Barnes, “Viva la ‘Femme Abstract,’ a Colossal Art Show in East Austin,” January 8, 2021. Link.
Austin Chronicle, Robert Faires, “The Femme Abstract,” January 8, 2021. Link.
2020 - The English Room, Holly Phillips, “Artist Spotlight Series: Elizabeth Chapin,” December 1, 2020. Link.
Whitewall, Katy Donoghue, “How Painting Is Taking Care of Artist Elizabeth Chapin,” April 21, 2020. Link.
Tribeza, Suzanne Kilpatrick, “A Day in the Life of the People Defining Spring Style in Austin,” April 2020. Link.
2019 - The Austin Chronicle, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Elizabeth Chapin: ‘Deconstructing Nostalgia’ at Wally Workman Gallery,” March 8, 2019. Link.
2018 - The Austin Chronicle, Shalavé Cawley, “Midterms Matter Wants to Get Young People Voting: How a Group of Austin Creatives Are Trying to Make a Difference,” September 29, 2018. Link.
Sightlines, “Our West Austin Studio Tour Picks,” May 5, 2018. Link.
Sightlines, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “As High Costs Drive Austin Artists Away from the Eastside, New Spaces Pop Up Elsewhere,” May 28, 2018. Link.
Glasstire, “New Artist-run Space Will Open in Austin with Stellar Group Show,” April 26, 2018. Link.
ArtDaily.org, “Artist Run Experimental Project Space DORF Opens its Doors with Inaugural Exhibition,” May 11, 2018. Link.
Fields Magazine, “Introducing DORF, Austin’s Newest Home Gallery Space,” May 18, 2018.
2016 - The Austin Chronicle, Sam Anderson-Ramos, “‘Elizabeth Chapin: Careful/Uncareful’ at Wally Workman Gallery,” December 16, 2016. Link.
2014 - Aether, Elizabeth Tigar, “Elizabeth Chapin: Gravity and Splendor,” October 15, 2014. Link.
Tribeza, M. Dunn, “Elizabeth Chapin: Diversity of Affection,” October 1, 2014. Link.
2012 - Tribeza, Kaitlyn Crawford, “Home Is Where the Art Is,” April 1, 2012.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 - Three year mentorship with Shahzia Sikander, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass CO
2020 - FAC Ocad University Residency, Florence Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Dell Children’s Hospital, Austin, TX
W Hotel, Austin, TX