Elizabeth Neel | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1975: Born in Stowe, VT
: Lives and works in New York, NY

2007: MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2002: Diploma Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997: BA, Brown University, Providence, RI

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "In the Guts of the Living," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2023: "The Ghosts of My Friends," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Elizabeth Neel: Limb after Limb," Pilar Corrias, Savile Row, London, UK
: "Elizabeth Neel: Arms Now Legs," Salon 94, New York, NY (Link)
2020: "Elizabeth Neel: In The Belly of the Whale," Various Small Fires, Seoul, South Korea
: "Life in Halves," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Elizabeth Neel: Nightjars and Allies," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2018: "Tangled on the Serpent Chair," Mary Boone, New York, NY
2017: "Claw Hammer," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016: “Vulture and Chicks,” Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2015: "Lobster with Shell Game," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014: "The People, the Park, the Ornament," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2013: "3 and 4 before 2 and 5," Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2012: "Routes and Pressures," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Sphinx Ditch," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
: "Leopard Complex," Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY
2010: "Stick Season," The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
2009: Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan, Italy
2008: "Make No Bones," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2005: Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "R U STILL PAINTING???," Falcon Art Collective, New York, NY
2021-2022: "Eternal Seasons," LGDR & Wei, Hong Kong
2021: "No Line on the Horizon," Levy Gorvy, Palm Beach, FL
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Structures of Feelings," Curated by Piper Marshall, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2018: "Paintings," Mary Boone, New York, NY
: “Surface Work,” Victoria Miro, London, UK (Link)
2016: “August and Everything After,” Plymouth Rock, Zurich, Switzerland
2014: "Speaking Through Paint," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2013: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2012: "Modern Talking," curated by Nicola Trezzi, Cluj Museum, Romania
: "Uri Aran/Elizabeth Neel, ‘I mean orange" Studiolo, Zürich, Switzerland
2011: "A Painting Show," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
: "Four Rooms," Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
: "Painting Overall," Prague Biennial 5, Prague, Czech Republic
: "Going Where the Weather Suits My Clothes, A Fall of Light of Fabric," Mothers Tank Station, Dublin, Ireland
2010: "Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool," curated by Bob Nickas, Sagaponack, NY
: "Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Purity is a Myth", Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
: "Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York," The Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2009: "Cave Painting," curated by Bob Nickas, New York, NY
: "Abstract America," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
: "On Paper," Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland
: "Pulp Fiction," Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2008: "A Seer Out of Season," On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
: "Subtraction," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
: "8 x 11/A4," James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY
2007: "Late Liberties," John Connely Presents, New York, NY
: "Salon Nouveau," Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria
: "Landscape," Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY
2006: "Farewell to Icon," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Garden Party," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
: "New Work," Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY
2005: "Flower Power," Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY
: "Off My Biscuit," Destroy Your District, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

Bibliography

2026: Hazard, Elizabeth. "Artist Elizabeth Neel on Control, Chaos, and the Language of Painting," Fine Art Globe, March 11 (Link)
: Tauer, Kristen. "With ‘In the Guts of the Living,’ Elizabeth Neel Translates the Language of History Into the Art of the Present," WWD Magazine, March 1 (Link)
: MutualArt Staff. "5 Must-See Exhibitions in February 2026," MutualArt, February 10 (Link)
2025: Seph Rodney, Andrew Russeth and Holland Cotter. "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May," The New York Times, May 22 (Link)
2022: Gottschaller, Pie. "Elizabeth Neel," Burlington Contemporary, April 5
2021: Clavarino, Elena. "Elizabeth Neel With a new show at Pilar Corrias, in London, Alice Neel’s granddaughter forges a path of her own," September 25 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "Elizabeth Neel Grew Up Painting With Her Famous Grandmother. Now, Her New Abstractions Are Getting Attention in New York and London," Artnet, August 23 (Link)
2020: Loos, Ted. "Smaller Fairs Mean Great Art, Closer to Home," New York Times, March 14 (Link)
2018: Smith, Roberta. "At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell," New York Times (web), September 27 (Link)
2017: Tauer, Kristen and Leigh Nordstrom, “Art Basel Miami Beach Preview: The Scene in the Design District,” WWD (web), December 4 (Link)
2016: Madden, Kathleen, “Elizabeth Neel,” Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon
2015: Deyris-Henry, Dorothe. "The New Abstraction in the U.S. (and Why It Is New)," Art Press, March
: Vesnik, Ana. "Elizabeth Neel at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery," Widewalls, May
: Knight, Christopher. "Review: A process that ricochets between chance and order," Los Angeles Times, June 21
: Johnson, Grant. "Choreography and Calligraphy: Elizabeth Neel at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," ArtInfo (web), July 2
: Parkes, Olivia. "Messy Art to Depict Our Messy Lives," Broadly (web), November 13
2014: Bunker, John, "Review: Elizabeth Neel at Pilar Corrias," abstract critical, May 23 (Link)
: Palomar, MK. "Elizabeth Neel: interview," studio international, May 20
: Elizabeth Neel: The People, The Park, The Ornament, Volt Caf, May 13
: Exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by American artist Elizabeth Neel opens at Pilar Corrias, Art Daily, May 1
2013: Miller, Leigh Anne, "The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’t Want to Miss", Art in America online, May 16
2011: Falconer, Morgan. "Elizabeth Neel, Leopard Complex," Art Review, Summer/Issue 51
: "Top 100," Flash Art, Nov/Dec 2011, p. 51
: Sherwin, Skye. "Artist of the Week 156: Elizabeth Neel," The Guardian, September 22
: Smyth, Cherry. "Elizabeth Neel: Sphinx Ditch," This is Tomorrow, September 28
2010: Coxhead, Gabriel. "Purity is a Myth," Time Out London, June 24
2009: Smaldone, Andrew. "Elizabeth Neel," ArtReview Magazine, December, p. 127
: Nickas, Bob. "Painting Abstraction," Phaidon, pp. 54-57
: Harpers Magazine, (featured image), September, p. 28
: Auder, Michel. "Elizabeth Neel," Interview Magazine, June/July, pp. 86-89
: Saatchi Gallery, Abstract America, Jonathan Cape/Random House, pp. 112 – 121
: "New York Artists Dictionary," Flash Art, March/April, p. 69
: Wheatley, Charmaine. "Elizabeth Neel," Border Crossings, Issue 109, pp. 93-94
2008: "Make No Bones," New Yorker Magazine, December 8, pp. 20-21
: Allsop, Laura. "Preview: Elizabeth Neel," Art Review Magazine, November, p. 47
: Camhi, Leslie. "People Are Talking About," Vogue, November, p. 235
2007: Trachtman, Paul. "Back to the Figure: Recognizable forms are showing up in the works of a new wave of contemporary painters," Smithsonian Magazine, October
2006: Spence, Rebecca. "Boundary Issues," ArtNews, April pp. 124-125
2005: Cohen, David. "A Branch of A Truly American Tradition," The New York Sun, June 9, p.16

Public Collections

: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA