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EDUCATION
2016
Florida State University Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Tallahassee, FL
2010
Northern Kentucky University, Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting, Highland Heights, KY
2009
KIIS Study Abroad via Murray State University, Advanced Photography, Professor Barry Andersen, Jean Monnet FIAP, Paris, France
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022
DNA Artist Residency (October), Provincetown, MA
ChaNorth (August), Pine Plains, NY
Innovate Grant, Honorable Mention
2021
DNA Artist Residency (July), Provincetown, MA
Stay Home Gallery and Residency (January), Paris, TN
2020
DNA Artist Residency (September), Provincetown, MA
2017
The Maple Terrace Artist Residency Program (Inaugural AiR October-December), Brooklyn, NY
The Wassaic Project Artist Residency (June), Wassaic, NY
2016
Vermont Studio Center, with artist grant, (July), Johnson, VT
International Sculpture Center Student Award Nominee
Mary Ola Reynolds Miller Endowed Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts, FSU
2015
Boom Gallery Fellowship (June), Cincinnati, OH
FSU Exceptional Opportunity Award, FSU
2014
Andy McLaughlin Memorial Endowment, FSU
SOLO, TWO, AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Layered: works by Elise Thompson and Rachel Gisela Cohen, curated by Hayley Ferber, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
Ctrl [Alt] Self, curated by Allison Westerfield, Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA
2021
Waiting Room, curated by Allison Westerfield, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
2020
Fun Baggage: Brittany Ham and Elise Thompson, Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, TX
2019
Below Ground/Above Ground, Also Gallery, Online
2018
Chunk: Scott Bell and Elise Thompson, 500 X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Portal 4: Cast Shadows and Feelings, SOUP Experimental and Cat Family Records, Tallahassee, FL
2017
Threw It, Through It, SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee, FL
2016
Squish Squish Pop Pop: Paintings by Scott Bell & Elise Thompson, Oglesby Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2015
Amiable Strangers: Painting by Elise Thompson & Nathan Weikert, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Crimson Tide, curated by Brent Hayden and Sarah Choe, Soft Times Gallery, San Fransisco, CA
Echoes of the Ancient, curated by Jacki Davis, Jolene Dosa, and Ambrus Gero, 56 Bogart Ste. 122, Brooklyn, NY
A Fluid and Emphatic Now, curated by Joshua Edward Bennett, Tinney Contemporary at Bobby Hotel, Nashville, TN
Collar Works’ Flat File 2021-’22, curated by Kate Mothes, Collar Works, Troy, NY, Online
2021
Moody, curated by Deanna Evans Projects, Studio Archive Project, Online
IN THE WAKE OF SLUMBER, juried by Natalia Nakazawa, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
Mythopoeia, curated by Nathan Mullins, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2020
Shapeshifters, Terrain Gallery, curated by Joe Hedges (online during COVID-19), Spokane, WA, Online
home:body, curated by Shayna Cohn, Distance Gallery, Online
Living Easy, Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine, curated by Bret Shirley, BS Projects, Houston, TX
2019
Ad Astra Per Aspera, curated by Will Hutnick, The Wassaic Project: Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
Soft Science, curated by Chelsea Raflo, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
Traditions: Compounded, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Alternate Dimensions, Miller Gallery, Charleston, SC
Salad Days, curated by Kate Mothes, Online
2018
Excavations; Shindig, curated by Saralene Tapley, Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, TX
F.P.O.V. (Female POV), curated by Carlos E. Kempff Seleme, MOTT NYC, Manhattan, NY
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2017
Wassaic Project Open Studios, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Utopia/Dystopia, Gallery 2, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
The Figure: Interpreted Through Contemporary Mediums, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Water Hose Project Show, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Fresh American Art, ArtMe Today, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Space Between You And Me, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA Thesis FSU, Tallahassee, FL
The Big Reveal, The Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH
2015
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL
Concrete Acquaintance, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Perspectives: Art, Liver Diseases, and Me, Reed Messe Congress Centre. Vienna, Austria
Art + Language, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2014
Built, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee, FL
Last Friday, The Plant, Tallahassee, FL
10×10, Boom Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Shift, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
MAGENTA Show, Modern Makers at Niehoff Urban Studio, Cincinnati, OH
2013
Material Witness, curated by Women’s Caucus for Art of Georgia, Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Unsettled Bodies, curated by Edna Dapo, Phoenix Center For The Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2012
Fourth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition, juried by Amy Freeman, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Golden Ticket, juried by Aaron Betsky, Tina Tammaro, and Anthony Luensman, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
The History of the Universe Part One: In the Beginning, curated by Chris Reeves, Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Bluegrass Biennial, juried by Becky Alley, Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
2011
More is More, juried by Melissa Vandenberg, Lexington Art League’s Loudoun House, Lexington, KY
Lady Parts, Southgate House Gallery, Newport, KY
Artists of the 21st Century, juried by Andrea D. Rudloff, West Tennessee Regional Art Center, Humbolt, TN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
Maake Magazine Issue 14, curated by Kaveri Raina, Maake Magazine, Oct. 2022
Interview: Elise Thompson’s Otherworldly Abstract Dioramas, Innovate Grant, Jan. 2022
2021
Nolan, Joe, Bobby and Tinney Contemporary Team Up for A Fluid & Emphatic Now, Nashville Scene, Nov. 2021
Mullins, Nathan, Mythopoeia, limited ed. book to accompany the exhibition, designed by Drum Machine Productions, Print, Apr. 2021
2020
Artists To Watch | Elise Thompson: Transparency And Ambiguity, VAST Magazine, Issue 1, Digital and Print, Aug. 2020
Meet the Women Behind 2020’s New Lines Alleyway Murals, ArtWorks Cincinnati, Oct. 2020
2019
Friend of the Artist Vol. 8 Interview with Taylor O. Thomas, Print and Digital, US
Hayes, Melissa, Alternate Dimensions at Miller Gallery presents whimsical creations in an all-female exhibition, Charleston City Paper, Feb. 2019
2018
Miller Gallery Features Fresh Work and Faces in “Alternate Dimensions”. Holy City Sinner, Dec. 2018
2017
ArtWorks Cincinnati, Transforming Cincinnati: How a Decade of ArtWorks Murals Changed People and Communities Forever, Orange Frazer Press, December 2017
DeBlasio, Victoria, VICTORIA DEBLASIO on Elise Thompson’s Threw It Through It, SOUPmedia, April 2017
2016
New American Paintings #124 South, Juror Emily Stamey, June/July 2016
2015
Hedges, Joe. Amiable Strangers: Paintings by Elise Thompson and Nathan Weikert, Boom Gallery, July 2015
Seda-Reeder, Maria. Art: Amiable Strangers: Paintings by Elise Thompson and Nathan Weikert, CityBeat,
July 22, 2015
Lauw, Haley. Things That Matter, limited edition lexicon to accompany the work of Haley Lauw
2013
Grissom, Harriette. Review: Irony overshadows angst, humor edges anger in show of women artists at Agnes Scott, Arts ATL, October 17, 2013
2012
Redder, Maxwell. Stand-In God, AEQAI Journal of Critical thinking and Review in Contemporary Art,
July 29, 2012
2011
Morris, Matt. Lady Parts, CityBeat, June 2011, p15