Photo courtesy of Priya Vaswani
Photo courtesy of Priya Vaswani
Biography
Eliza Clifford is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist, printmaker, and arts educator. She is currently an MFA Printmaking candidate at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.
Her work investigates how we look, perceive, and remember through both digital and craft-based technologies. Working across printmaking, book arts, textiles, alternative photography, natural dyeing, quilting, and sewing, she collages, weaves, and reconstructs images and material surfaces to explore memory, transformation, and the layered nature of human experience. Her practice examines cycles of erosion, repair, and persistence, creating memory-landscapes that reflect the tensions between permanence and change, intimacy and fragmentation, within our internal and external environments.
Clifford has taught and worked at organizations including Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and the Metropolitan Center for Visual Arts (VisArts). She has completed artist residencies at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Remarque Print Workshop, and Penland School of Craft.
Her work is held in national collections including the University of Pittsburgh, The Ohio State University, and the Kansas State University Print Archive. She has exhibited at venues such as Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Baltimore Fine Print Fair, the Morgan Conservatory, the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Kent State University, the McLean Project for the Arts, and VisArts. Most recently, she presented her first solo exhibition, The Flowers We Keep, at VisArts.
About Lavender Lizard Press
Lavender Lizard Press is a small handmade goods shop by Eliza Clifford (she/her) established in 2019 and based in Maryland. Through Lavender Lizard, Eliza creates illustrations and visual narratives which she translates onto prints, zines, fabrics, handmade journals, and other goods. All products are designed, dyed, printed, and made by hand.
Lavender Lizard has participated in the following markets and fairs:
The Stew Art + Things Holiday Market (2021), Pittsburgh Zine Fair (2021), Takoma Park Artery Spring Fair (2021), Philly Zine Fest (2021, 2022), Women’s Studio Art Book Fair (2022), Capital Art Book Fair (2023), Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (2023, 2024), Jersey Art Book Fair (2023, 2026), Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (2026), DC Art Print Fair (2026).
Education
Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
MFA in Printmaking, expected Spring 2027
Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, expected Spring 2027
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BFA in Book Arts, Graphic Design, and Printmaking, 2019
Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies
Solo Exhibitions
2025
The Flowers We Keep, The Metropolitan Center for Visual Arts (VisArts), Rockville, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions and Portfolios
2026
SUPERIMPOSED, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
30x30x30 Exhibition, VAR Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
We Mend in End Times, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC
2025
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Collab, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Quilt Show, Quilt Circle, Kingsessing Recreation Center, Philadelphia, PA
2024
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Fabrication, Portfolio for Mid-America Print Council Conference, Kansas City, MO
From the Earth to the Sky, Gallery Y, Washington, DC
Leftovers, Portfolio for Mid-America Print Council Conference, Kansas City, MO
Paper Toys: Visual Wonder, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, RISD/Brown University,
Providence, RI
Vibrant Matter: Works on Wood, Fundraiser Print Portfolio, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2023
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
11th Annual Juried Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2023 Peggy Doole National Small Works Competition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair, Baltimore, MD
Collective Celebrations of the Body, VisArts, Rockville, MD
Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Art Exhibition, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
Meant to Fade, Laneway Gallery, Cork City, Ireland
2022
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Body Talk, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center Alexandria, VA
Cake Stand Biennial, Crust Bucket Collective, Fayetteville, AK
Five to Nine, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Mid America Print Council Juried Members’ Exhibition, Center for Visual Arts, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Meeting at Candle Mountain, Women’s Studio Workshop, Store Space Gallery, Kingston, NY
New Adjusted and Transformed, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA
Post-Grad Residency Group Exhibition, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Self: Multimedia Exploration of Identity, Expression, and Perception, Forest Road Arts, Brentwood, MD
2021
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Artist’s Multiples Exhibition, but, also, Washington, D.C.
Crust Bucket Trunk Show, Crust Bucket Collective, Fayetteville, AK
Postcard Quilt Exhibition, organized by Zak Foster and Amanda Nadig, Brooklyn, NY
2020
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Crust Bucket Fridge Door Exhibition, Crust Bucket Collective, Fayetteville, AK
Hyball Auction Showcase Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Member MASHUP Exhibition: Election Year, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
SHE DC, Shop Made in DC, Washington, D.C.
2019
10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
art-438-10-19 BFA Exhibition 2, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Honors, Awards, Residencies
2025 - 2027 University Fellowship, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2024 Winter Artist in Residency, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
2023 Visiting Artist in Residence, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
2022 Elizabeth Catlett Memorial Award, Mid-America Print Council Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2021 Post-Graduate Artist in Residence, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA,
2020 Apprentice, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
Collections
Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Fine Arts Library, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Kansas State University Print Archive, Manhattan, KA
SGCI Archives, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennessaw University, Kennessaw, GA
Projects and Contributions
Organizer and Contributer, Printmakers Connect Zine Exchange
Art Contributer, NextNOW Fest, University of Maryland-College Park
Art Contributer, Art for Mutual Aid DC, CHAW, Washington, D.C.
Vice President + Creative Director, AIGA UW-Madison, Madison, WI
Member, Fresh Hot Press, Madison, WI
Member, AIGA UW-Madison, Madison
Selected Bibliography
“The Hand: The Magazine for Reproduction-Based Art, Issue 32”, featured artist: page 52, The Hand, Prairie
Village, KS, April 2021.
“Torpedo Factory Art Center Welcomes the 2021 Cohort to Post-Grad Residency Studio,” East City Art,
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2021.
Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: A wide array of media carry election-year messages,” The Washington Post,
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2020.
Rudig, Stephanie. “Paintings by the Number: Local Gallery Exhibits We’re Loving This Spring.” Washington City Paper, 25 Apr. 2025,
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/762963/galleries-art-shows-may-dc/.
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