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2022 Coming Up for Air, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2021 End of Summer Blues, Elizabeth Awalt/ Tom Fels, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA
Eternity in an Hour, Elizabeth Awalt and Elizabeth O’Reilly, Virtual
2018 Elizabeth Awalt, Force of Nature, Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, ME
2017 Sea Change, Matter and Light Fine Art, Boston, MA
2015 New Work, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2012 Fruiting Bodies, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Cascade, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
2011 New Paintings, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2008 Lessons in Botany, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2007 Sanctuary of Light, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Elizabeth Awalt/Stoney Conley, In Nature, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
2004 Hook, Line and Sinker, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Fresh Produce, GASP, Brookline, MA
1995 Seasonal Meditations, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY
1994 Elizabeth Awalt, Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany
1990 Yellowstone After Fire, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY
1988 Elizabeth Awalt, G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA
Gallery Artists, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME
Maine the Painted State, Greenhut Gallery, Portland ME
2022 Undercurrents: Water+Human Impact, Concord Center for Arts, Concord, MA, catalog
Gallery Artists, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2021 Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19, Broad Institute, catalog
Landscape, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2019 Havana Biennial, Mantanzas, Cuba, catalog
Back to Nature, Caldbeck Gallery, May Group Show
2018 May Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2017 A Flower Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2016 Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2015 Verdant, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Double Vision, Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Spring Light, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2014 Light is Uplifting, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
June Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2012 Spring Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2011 The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Danforth Museum of Art,
Framingham, MA
2010 Maine Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2009 Drawing, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, MA
2008 Order Insecta, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
From a Fixed Point, Regis College, Weston, MA
2005 Great Buys: Museum Purchases, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2004 Maine Biennial, Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
1999 Artists at Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
1998 Boston Public Library Collects, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
1995 Herbert W. Plimpton Collection of Realist Art, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Directors Choice, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Inspired by Nature, Boston College Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

Books/Catalogs
Post Road, Issue 39, Art by Elizabeth Awalt, 2022
Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19, catalog of exhibition, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, essays by Elizabeth Awalt, Alan Lightman, and Barbara O’Brian, 2021
100 Boston Painters, Chawkey Frenn, Schiffer Publishing, 2012
2010 Biennial Juried Exhibition, CMCA, essay, Bruce Brown, 2010
Sanctuary of Light, Danforth Museum of Art, catalog, essay, Katherine French, 2007
Seasonal Meditations, forward by Anne Mac Dougall, 1995
The University of Notre Dame Friends and Alumni Collect, catalog, essay, Dean A. Porter, PHD, 1992
Neo-Romantics, catalog, introduction,  Gerrit Henry, 1989
The Face of the Land, catalog, June-Sept. 1988
Contemporary Romantic Landscape Painting, catalog, introduction, Gerrit Henry, Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven, p. 14, 1986
A Contemporary View of Nature, introduction, John Yau, 1986

Magazines/Newspapers:
Studio Visit, Open Studio Press, Volume 17, 2012
Boston Globe, “Delicious Contrast”, Cate McQuaid, February 2012
Art New England, “New Work by Elizabeth Awalt: Hook, Line, and Sinker, Meredith Fife Day, p.29, February/March 2005
Art in America, “Elizabeth Awalt at G.W. Einstein”, Paul C. Smith, p.137-138, reproduction, p. 138, March 1991
Art New England, Thomas Segal Exhibit, Charles Guiliano, December 1985

AWARDS/ HONORS aND RESIDENCIES

Virginia Center for Creative Arts, April 2018
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, Painting/Finalist, 1990
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, Painting/Finalist, 1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting, Individual Artist Grant, 1987
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship in Painting, 1983
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Summer, 1984
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 1981-82, 1982-83
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Fall, 1982
The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY, August 1982

PUBLIC aND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

AT&T, Chicago, IL
Bank Boston, Boston, MA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Fidelity Corporation, Boston, MA
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

TEACHING

College
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Visiting Faculty, 2002-2003
Boston College, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, 1984-2000, Tenured 1987
Workshops
Concord Art, 2005-2018
Truro Center for the Arts, 2018
Mentor
Lesley University MFA Low Residency Program, 2007