photo credit: Cathy Watkins

Elizabeth Duffy (b. 1962, Tachikawa, Japan) has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including at the Drawing Center, White Columns, Wave Hill, Planthouse Gallery and DM Contemporary in NYC, the RISD Museum in Providence, the Newport Art Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT and  La Tricoterie and Le Senghors in Belgium. Recent Solo exhibitions include Wearing at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, NY and Various States of Amnesia at Planthouse Gallery in NYC. She has held residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Sirius Art Center in Cobb, Ireland and at Arts Itoya in Takeo, Japan, and has been invited to residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, and MacDowell in Peterborough, NH. She has also been an artist in residence at VCCA in Virginia, The Jentel Foundation and Ucross in Wyoming the Wedding Cake House in Providence, RI. Most recently she was an artist-in-residence at Espace Columban, where she worked with Opera BiancoNero on a production of Schubert's Winterreise. 

Duffy is the recipient of awards from the the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, where she was awarded grants in both Sculpture and Craft in 2019. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Art News, Art on Paper, Art New England, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, Art Spiel, and numerous other publications. She has also curated exhibitions including Dead Ringer at the Bristol Art Museum and Office Space at the Rockland Center for the Arts and the New Art Center in Newton, Massachusetts.

Duffy received her MFA from CUNY/Brooklyn College and her BA from Rutgers College. She did graduate work in Art History  at CUNY/Hunter College and in Museum Studies: Costume and Textile Restoration at FIT. She studied French Language and Culture at the Sorbonne in Paris, Jewelry at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and received a Certificate from the New York Studio School in Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. She lives and works in Providence, RI and teaches in the Art Department at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and in the Graduate Program at Vermont College of Fine Art.