lizmmccarthy@gmail.com
Education
BFA, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2009
Exhibitions
2013 –
RESIDUUM, (Scene) Metrospace, Group Show, Lansing, MI
Women’s History Month Artist Showcase, Bucktown-Wicker Park Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
WAX / WANE, Solo Show, 106 Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
2012 –
PSAD: Program, Suffer, Abstain, Deprogram, Group Show, President’s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
2011 –
WAX / WANE, Solo Show, Acre Projects, Chicago, IL
2005- 2011 Resident Artists’ Small Works, Group Show, Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Art of Work, Group show, Arrow Head Room,Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
In Stitches: Smile Now, Cry Later, Group Show, Colbalt Gallery and Studios, Chicago, IL
MDW Fair, Geo Lofts, Chicago, IL
Remember, Hallow, Places, Animals, Group Show, Eel Space,
Chicago, IL
2010 –
Strapped: Plays and Art About Recession, The Inconvenience, Chicago IL
Mind’s I, Group Show, Roxaboxen Exhibitions
Chicago, IL
2009 –
R.A.T. Gallery Group Show, Radical Art Team Gallery
Gardenville, PA
Annual Juried Show, Tucker Cooke Gallery
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Mapping the History of Experience: Liz McCarthy Solo Exhibition, Tucker Cooke Gallery, University of North Carolina at Asheville
2008 –
Art Front Group Show, Highsmith Union Gallery
Asheville, NC
Annual Juried Show, Tucker Cooke Gallery,
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Publications
2010 –
AREA Magazine, “Nothing Great Gets Done Alone,” Chicago, IL
2009 –
Headwaters Annual Creative Arts Magazine, Photograph, Asheville, NC
University of North Carolina at Asheville Undergraduate
Research Journal,
“Photograph as a Surface for Response,” Asheville, NC
2008 –
Mountain Xpress, “Dry Harvest,” photographic essay,
Asheville, NC
Southeastern Philanthropy Catalog, Photographs, Southeastern
Philanthropy Conference, Asheville, NC
Honors and Awards
2011 –
Artist in Residence – ACRE Artist Residency, Stueben, WI
Community Arts Assistance Program Cultural Grant – Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, Chicago, IL
Individual Artist Project Grant – Illinois Arts Council, IL
2009 –
Associate Artist Residency with Master Artist Rineke Dijkstra – Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2008 –
Ogilville Excellence in Art Endowed Scholarship – University of North Carolina at Asheville
2007 –
Ryan Patrick Jones Excellence in Photography Award – University of the North Carolina at Asheville
Other Professional Experience
2009 – Current – Co-Director, Curator, Roxaboxen Exhibitions and Studio Co-op, Chicago, IL
2011 – Art Instructor, Kaleidoscope, Chicago, IL
2009 – Student Tour Guide, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2008 – Editorial Photographer, Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC