b. 1984 Houston, lives and works in Brooklyn
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 TIME will tell, Massimo Ligreggi Gallery, Catania, Italy
2019 Elizabeth Moran: Against the Best Possible Sources, Southern Methodist University’s Hawn Gallery and Hamon Arts Library, Dallas, Texas
2018 Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, New York
2016 Measuring Visual Disturbances, Black Crown Gallery, Oakland, California
2014 Record of Cherry Road, New York University's Gulf & Western Gallery, New York, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
on view through August 27
2023 Language in Times of Miscommunication, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2021 Sows doubt, that wasn’t, never said, Spectral Lines at SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC, New York, NY
2021 Teachable Moment, Stove Works, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2020 \ ˈtəch \*, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, New York
2020 ██████ is Sublime Propaganda, Spectral Lines, Ridgewood, New York
2020 Bound up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
2020 Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2020 This side, or the other…, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, New York
2020 A Light Without Shadow, Artists Alliance Inc, New York, New York // virtual exhibition
2020 Looking Forward While Looking Back: History Interplays, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York // virtual exhibition
2020 they, Massimo Ligreggi Gallery, Catania, Italy
2019 SALLY, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, New York
2019 New Media after the Goal of Science and Technology is Blurred, 2019 Lishui Photography Festival, Art Museum, Lishui, China
2019 The Artifact Labyrinth: unfixed histories and the language of transformation, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2019 Truth and Lies, Belfast Photo Festival, Writer's Square, Belfast, United Kingdom
2018 Record Keepers, James Madison University's Duke Hall Gallery, Harrisonburg, Virginia
2018 Somewhere down the line, there’s a fine line between a deadline and the bottom line., NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York
2016 From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
2015 Too Close to Home, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
2015 (Im)materiel, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2015 Elizabeth Moran & Paccarik Orue, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California
2015 Embodied Place: Observations & Notations, Sierra Nevada College's Holman Arts & Media Center, Incline Village, Nevada
2014 Night Contact, Brighton Photo Biennial 2014, Brighton, England
2014 9/50 Southeast Arts Presenters Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2013 Boundaries, University of Nebraska's Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2013 Tokyo International Photography Festival, 72 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; United Photo Industries Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Cover to Cover, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California
2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2012 The Collector's Eye, The Collection of Frazier King, FotoFest, Houston, Texas
2012 The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco, California
2012 Corner of the World, MacArthur B Arthur, Oakland, California
EDUCATION
2014 MA Visual & Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2013 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
2007 BFA (magna cum laude) Photography + Imaging, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, New York, New York
AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2021 Studio Immersion Project Fellowship, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
2020 NYC Artist Residency Program, Residency Unlimited, New York, NY
2019 VSC Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2019 Project Space Residency, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2018 NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program + Fellowship, New York, NY
2018 Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2017 LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance Inc., New York, NY
2015 Rayko Photo Center Artist-in-Residence Program, San Francisco, CA
2014 Photoboite's 30 Under 30 | Women Photographers
2013 Tierney Fellowship
2013 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers (US) Winner
2012 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship
COMMISSIONS
2015 Magnum Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies, Laying Foundations for Change
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020–Present Adjunct Faculty, School of Art and History Design and Theory, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, New York
2017–Present Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, New York
2015–2016 Visiting Faculty, Undergraduate Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2014–2016 Lecturer, Undergraduate Photography, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California
SELECTED LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES
2022 Visiting Artist, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2020 Visiting Artist, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2020 Visiting Artist, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2020 Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Visiting Artist, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2019 Visiting Artist, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2018 Visiting Artist, International Center of Photography (ICP) School, New York, NY
2018 "Insider Focus," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2018 CAA Conversations Podcast: Elizabeth Moran and Erica Molesworth, March 19, 2018
2018 Visiting Artist Presentation, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY
2017 Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2016 Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2015 Visiting Artist, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2014 Visiting Artist, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2014 Visiting Artist, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2014 "The Photograph as Evidence: Contingencies of Meaning and Mattering," Providing Visibility, Visual and Critical Studies Spring Symposium, San Francisco, CA
2014 Visiting Artist and Critic, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2014 Visiting Critic, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013 "Correspondence 1," Cover to Cover, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2012 "For Christopher Fife," Open Show SF Bay Area #38, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2011 "For Christopher Fife," Survival, Society for Photographic Education West Regional Conference hosted by Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, CA
2010 Visiting Artist, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Taylor Dafoe, “Editors’ Picks: 17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week,” Artnet News, January 18, 2021 (link).
2020 lydia see, ed., “Against the Best Possible Sources,” Engaging Collections Journal, no. 1 (July 2020) (link).
2020 Odette England, ed. Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2020), 30.
2020 Frazier King, ed. The Collector’s Eye: A Photographer’s View of His Contemporaries, (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2020), n.p.
2020 Gaia Castiglione, “TIME will tell,” Balloon Project, February 17, 2020 (link).
2019 Lee Cullum, “SMU exhibition uncovers some mysteries about a ‘small army of women fact checkers’ in early days of ‘Time’,” The Dallas Morning News (October 24, 2019): 12E (link).
2019 Ellis Jones, et al, eds., “Record of Cherry Road,” The Truth and Lies Issue, VICE 26, no. 1 (February/March 2019): 46–59 (link).
2018 "La Pornografia fa Scuola," Internationale, no. 1244 (February 23, 2018): 38–46.
2017 "Elizabeth Moran," YIELD, no. 5 (February 2017): 30–39.
2016 Pierre-François Galpin and Lily Siegel, eds., From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art (San Francisco: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2016): 108–113.
2015 "Readings," Harper's Magazine, (July 2015): 13.
2015 Alan Rapp, "Ten Most Exciting Photographers from the Past Year." Presentation at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, February 11, 2015 (link).
2014 Tate Shaw, ed., The Ephemeral, (Detroit: Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, 2014): n.p.
2014 Jackson Krule, “Photographing the Invisible,” The New Yorker, December 3, 2014 (link).
2014 Dan Damon, Interview. BBC World News Radio. November 25, 2014 (link).
2014 Jakob Schiller, “Live a Day in the Life of an Obsessive Ghost Hunter,” WIRED, August 26, 2014 (link).
2014 David Gonzalez, “Exploring the Photographic Spirit,” The New York Times, June 3, 2014 (link).
2014 Canbra Hodsdon, "Behind the Closed Doors of Kink.com,” Juxtapoz, March 28, 2014 (link).
2014 "Elizabeth Moran," British Journal of Photography 161, no. 7822 (March 2014): 20–21.
2013 "Sets and the City." Marie Claire South Africa, (October 2013): 60–61.
2013 Mary Ann Camilleri, ed. Flash Forward 2013, (Toronto: The Magenta Foundation, 2013), 220.
2013 Darren Campion, “Elizabeth Moran: Staging Desire,” Paper Journal, July 9, 2013 (link).
2013 Sophia Wise, “Work Space 2 (The Armory): Elizabeth Moran,” Hotshoe, May 9, 2013 (link).
2013 "The Armory," Prism Contemporary Photography Journal, no. 10 (March/April, 2013): 32–43.
2013 Emily Kirkpatrick, “Elizabeth Moran’s Kinky Photos,” The Wild Magazine, March 26, 2013 (link).
2013 Julie Ma, “A Woman Photographs Kink.com’s Custom Porn Sets,” New York Magazine, March 22, 3013 (link).
2013 Jakob Schiller, “Porn Without the Porn,” WIRED’s Raw File, March 15, 2013 (link).
2013 Anastasia Indrikova, “Kink,” Esquire Russia, (March, 2013): 146–159.
2013 Matteo Bittanti, "Elizabeth Moran’s The Armory," WIRED Italia, February 22, 2013 (link).
2012 Judy Walgren, "Elizabeth Moran on Facade as Reality,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2012 (link).
2012 Dominica Paige, "Trading Reason for Wonder," Conveyor Magazine, no. 3 (June 2012): 32–33.
2012 Liz Glass, "Open Studio," ArtSlant, April 8, 2012 (link).