Liz Sullivan
BFA, ASA - CV 2025
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust
Liz Sullivan completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a double major in drawing and painting, from the University of Calgary in 1997. Since then, her career has included art teaching, commissions, murals, as well as painting projects in her studio. Her art exhibition history spans 35 years with her paintings in art collections in Canada, USA and Ireland as well as the Alberta Foundation for the Arts public art collection. She participates in local/travelling exhibitions with the Alberta Society of Artists AND with Burns Visual Arts Society(BVAS), Canada's oldest studio cooperative that celebrated 45 years in 2024.
Bachelor of Fine Arts/International Art Residencies:
2014 – Banff Artist in Residence, Banff, AB
2011 – Emma Lake Residency, Saskatoon SK (with guest artist Kim Dorland)
2009 – Emma Lake Residency, Saskatoon SK (with guest artist David Alexander),
2008 – Cill Rialaig Art Residency, Ireland
2002 – Cill Rialaig Art Residency, Ireland
1997 – BFA, University of Calgary, AB
Selected Solo/Two Artist Exhibitions:
2020 – Glorious & Free, Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery, Frank, AB
2020 – Sojourns: Real and Imagined, Framed on Fifth Gallery, Calgary, AB
2019 – Bow, Calgary Central Library, Calgary, AB
2017 – High, Western GM Drumheller Gallery, Drumheller, AB
2015-16 – High, Michaelangelo Gallery, Calgary, AB
2013 – Water Stories, Blue Rock Gallery, Black Diamond, AB
2012 – Renew, Arts on Altlantic Gallery, Calgary, AB
2010 – Equinox, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB
2010 – Pilgrimage, Arts on Atlantic Gallery, Calgary, AB
2008 – Alberta Gold, Art and Soul Gallery, High River, AB
2004 – Green Pastures and Beyond, ArtSpace Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Calgary, AB
2001 – Green Pastures, Still Waters, Kalef-Halpin Gallery, Calgary AB
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 – Vibrant, Franz Dopf Gallery, Calgary, AB
2024 – Wild, Franz Dopf Gallery, Calgary, AB
2024 – BVAS 45th Anniversary Exhibition Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB
2024 – This is What We Do, It's Who We Are, BVAS (45th Anniversary), Western GM Gallery,
Drumheller, AB.
2023 – Home and Migration, ASA Traveling Exhibition, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2023 - The Art of Freedom, BVAS exhibit, Western GM Gallery, Drumheller, AB
2022 – Connections, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Calgary, AB
2021 - The Art of Freedom, BVAS Exhibit, Alberta Society of Artists (ASA) Gallery, Calgary, AB
2020 - The Art of Freedom, BVAS Exhibit, Calgary Central Library, Calgary, AB
2019 - Something to Crow About, 40th Anniversary Exhibit, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB
2018-19 - Air, ASA Traveling Exhibition, various venues, AB
2016-17 – Bridges, Leighton Arts Centre,& various venues, AB
2016 – Signs & Symbols, Artpoint Gallery, Calgary, AB
2015 – Alberta Textures, ASA, Walterdale Theatre, Edmonton & Bluerock Gallery, Black Diamond AB
2014 – Celebrating Alberta, ASA exhibit, North Dakota Art Centers, Minot & Cando, ND, USA.
2013 – Alchemy, Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer, AB
2013 – Trains and Mountains, Whyte Museum, Banff, AB
2012-17 – Connections, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB
2011 - Blossoms & Botanicals, Whyte Museum, Banff, AB
2009 – Prism, Visual Arts Alberta Association Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2006-7 – Common Ground, Various Venues for the Alberta Society of Artists/Manitoba Society of Artists, AB & Manitoba
2007 – Artist Home + Studio Tour, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary AB
Selected References/Publications
2023
2020
2011
2009
2006
2003
2002
2001
2000
Kolafa Patrick, “Exhibition commemorates Liberation of the Netherlands” The Drumheller Mail, May 17, 2023 – pg 12.
Remy Jane, “Vrijheid” (Freedom Exhibit) BKK Magazine (The Netherlands) #338, 3rd magazine -pg10
Mifi Purvis, “Landscape in Motion”, Leap Magazine, Edmonton, Alberta. Spring 2011, My Leap article - p. 50.
Gilbert Bouchard, “Vivid Colours Celebrate Spring”, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alberta. April 3, 2009, Section D (Visual Arts Review), p 1
Jane Harrison, “Colour Is Their World”, The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. March 19, 2006, Section D, p.1-2.
“A” Channel “Spirit of Place” TV interview
Monica Schael, “In the Galleries”, Gallery Guide, Calgary & Area, Alberta,Canada. Spring 2002, p.GG4
Bill Brooks, “Unveiling Competition”, The Calgary Sunday Sun, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Sept 30, 2001, p.11.
Kathy E. Zimon, Alberta Society of Artists -The First Seventy Years, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. p. Pl. 32b.
Selected Collections:
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Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Alberta Cancer Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Alberta Children's Hospital (Rotary Flames House)Calgary, Alberta
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Brookfield Properties, Banker's Hall, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Findlay Smith LLP, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Enbridge, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Elizabeth Design, Ireland
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Richlyn Energy, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
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Tom Baker Center, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Van Osch Design, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"Adept at portraying the lush grasses and scrub brush of the northern Prairies, this painter (Liz Sullivan) produces work that is wonderfully loose and not slavishly realistic. Working with red underpainting, Sullivan loves the texture of her medium, the process of drawing with paint and the joy of making marks on canvas."
- Gilbert Bouchard
Art Reviewer for the Edmonton Journal
April 3, 2009