CONTACT
elizabethsimsprojects@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA Claremont Graduate University, CA 2005
BA College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 2003
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Prima Materia, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA 2017
Water Discipline, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016
Hello, How Are You? Invisible Venue and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2012
Valediction for a Sunbeam, Arthur B MacArthur Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011
The Authority Workshop, Held in multiple venues, including Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011
From the Top of the Ocean to the Bottom of the Sky, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA 2005
Sacred Spaces/Public Places, CCA Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2003
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Wind Over Water, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA 2021
Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State at the Governor's Mansion, the California State Governor’s Mansion, CA 2021
Strange Forest, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2018
Radical Landscapes, di Rosa, Sonoma, CA 2016
The Disquiet: Bay Area Currents 2014, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA 2013
Kala Artists Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2012, 2013
Inverse Internet Operating Manual, Art Micro Patronage with Dena Beard, Oakland, CA 2012
Open Source, Invisible Venue, Oakland, 2011
Open, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2006
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, CA 2005
PUBLICATIONS
On Landscape Painting, North American Review, 2021
Taking the Cure, North American Review, 2020
Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction
Cited as a Notable Essay of 2020 by Best American Essays
Elizabeth Sims: Collection Rotation, SFMoMA's Open Space Blog, 2013
Interview with Osha Neumann, Art Practical, 2013
The End of Art, SFMoMA's Artists' Bloc: Artists of the 99%, 2011
A Radical Pedagogy, 1984 Press, 2010
Olafur Eliasson: Take Your Time, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring 2008
Brave New Site: Here There Be Monsters, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Fall 2006
Not a Review: Lauren Bon's Not a Cornfield, Coagula, Issue #80 2005
Laura Owens' Guerrilla Girliness, Thing: CGU's Critical Arts Journal, 2005
John Curren's Guilty Pleasure, Thing: CGU's Critical Arts Journal, 2005
PANELS
The Disquiet: Bay Area Currents 2014, ProArts Gallery, Oakland CA 2014
Inverse Internet Operating Manual, Art Micro Patronage with Dena Beard, Oakland, CA 2012
Contemporary Art and Radical Politics, Annual Bay Area Radical Book Fair, San Francisco, CA 2012
The New Art Economy Summit, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011
RESIDENCIES
Vermont Studio Center Fellow, Vermont, 2023
The Wassaic Project, New York, 2012