solo exhibitions
Garrison Art Center, "Blue Like an Orange", Garrison, NY 2020

Happy Lucky No.1 Gallery, "Say, sea," Brooklyn, NY 2018

Catskill Art Society, “Low Tide”, Livingston Manor, NY 2017
Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH 2016
Gallery Molly Krom,”More, I need more…”, New York, NY 2015


selected group exhibitions

201@105 Gallery, “Underrated Overlooked Underpaid”, New York NY 2022

Ground Floor Gallery,Deep Blue See: An Exhibition for Child Abuse Prevention,Brooklyn NY 2020

A.I.R. Gallery, Fe*Mail*Art 2020 Postcard Show, Brooklyn, NY 2020

Brooke Lanier Fine Art, “Selective Memory”, Group Show, Philadelphia, PA 2019

Brush Coat Cover: 2019 Wheaton Biennial, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, MA 2019
Kibbee Gallery, “Civil Discourse”, Atlanta, GA 2018
Humble Arts Foundation , New Photography, Group Show 56: Source Material, March 2018
Ground Floor Gallery, “Current Locations”, Brooklyn, NY 2017
Salon Zurcher Mini Fair, Gallery Molly Krom, Paris, France 2016
Brandt-Roberts Galleries, Abstract Invitational, Columbus, OH 2016
The Cluster Gallery, “Reformed & Reimagined” Three Person Show, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Art Zealous/Workville, Group Display, New York, NY 2016
Megalodon Pop Up Exhibition, Hosted by Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ 2015
Art On Paper Fair, Gallery Molly Krom, New York, NY 2015
Sculptor's Guild, "Transformation: Upcycle", Governor's Island, New York, NY 2014
Cutlog New York, “Women with Means” Gallery Molly Krom, New York, NY 2014
Castello 925 “Come Together: Collage”, Venice, Italy 2014
Gallery Molly Krom "Come Together: Collage", New York, NY 2014
Bermuda Society of Arts "Trash Art" Hamilton, Bermuda 2012
Tang Museum "Skidmore College Alumni Exhibit" Saratoga Springs, NY 2007, 2012 
Windjammer Gallery II "Spring Show" Hamilton, Bermuda 2012
NYCCT Grace Gallery "Group Show" Brooklyn, NY 2011
DUMBO Arts Festival “Open Studios” Brooklyn, NY 1996-2012
Jonathan Levine Gallery,  “Panorama Project 3", New York, NY 2008
Cooper Union “Summer Residency Program Exhibition” New York, NY 2006 
DUMBO General Store & Gallery “One Person Show” Brooklyn, NY 2005 
Red Gallery at Savannah College of Art & Design “Small Works” Savannah, GA 2004 
Manhattan Borough President’s Office “Figurative Vision” New York, NY 2004 
Elmira College “Random Selections” Elmira, NY 2004
Bermuda Society of Arts “Melange a Trois” Hamilton, Bermuda 2002 
The Front Room "21st Suffragettes" Brooklyn, NY 2001 
Alliance Francaise “Lacoste Alumni Exhibit” New York, NY 2001 
Brooklyn Museum of Art “DUMBO Studio Tour” Brooklyn, NY 2001
The Front Room "Elsewhere:Williamsburg" Brooklyn, NY 2000

registries/flat files

Peep Space Flat File, Tarrytown, NY 2020

The Painting Center, New York, NY 2018 

Peirogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY 2004-present

Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY 2015-present

The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY 2004-2014

Clementine Gallery, New York, NY 1999-2001


grants/awards

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2019

Finalist, The 2019 Alexander Rutsch Award and Solo Exhibition in Painting, Pelham, NY 2019

Philip Guston Material Award, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1986


residencies

Monson Arts, Monson, ME 2022


Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2019

The Corporation of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY 2017

The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, Laceyville, PA 2016

Cooper Union Summer Residency Program, New York, NY 2006


publications

Hyperallergic, A View From The Easel, January 21, 2019

DART International Magazine, “Say, sea,” @happylucky no.1”, D. Dominick Lombardi, Nov., 2018

Lula JAPAN, Issue 9 “Pleasure of Black”, 2018

The Jealous Curator, Elise P. Church, March 23, 2018

Le Quotidian De L’Art, Le Salon Zurcher se veut accessible, Damien Sausset, October 22, 2016

Painters Bread, Studio Visit, January 23, 2016

ArteFuse, Elise P. Church at Molly Krom Gallery, Tatiana Istomina, February 21, 2015

Poetic Depth in Collages by Elise Church, Luca Coser and Joe Kupillas: Notes on how abstract shapes suggest movement and a sense of transformation, Sanda Iliescu, December 24, 2013


education

New York City College of Technology, Associate in Applied Science, Brooklyn, NY 2011

Lacoste School of Arts, Lacoste, France 1985, 1994

Parsons School of Design, Paris, France 1988-1989

Skidmore College, Bachelor of Science, Saratoga Springs, NY 1987