
Georgia Elrod
Painting, Drawing & Works on Paper
b. 1979, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Hudson Valley, NY
Painter Georgia Elrod’s work was recently featured in New American Paintings #146 curated by New York Magazine's Jerry Saltz. Additional features include Two Coats of Paint, Architectural Digest, ArtMaze, and Vice / Garage. Elrod is co-director and co-founder of the artist-run gallery RUTHANN in Catskill, NY, and was previously a co-director at Underdonk in New York City from 2015 - 2024.
EDUCATION
2010 Hunter College, M.F.A
2001 The Colorado College, B.A. with honors in Fine Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Brush the Heat, Peninsula, NYC
2019 Heartbeats, Peninsula Art Space, NYC
2014 Around the Corner, Novella Gallery, NYC
2012 Here and Here, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2010 Open System, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, NYC 2006
2006 Georgia Elrod: Recent Paintings and Drawings, JGallery, Maplewood, NJ
2006 Viewfinder, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, NYC
2005 Brief Histories, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Proximities, TAPPAN, NYC
2024 Echoes of Being, TAPPAN, Los Angeles, CA
2024 What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerp
2024 La Banda, Tappeto Volante, NYC
2023 5 Fragments, The Middle Room, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Inaugural Show, The Middle Room, Los Angeles, CA
2023 NADA @ Foreland, Catskill, NY
2023 Future Fair, Peninsula, NYC
2023 APEIRON, Tappan, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Headspace, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2022 Bodacious Autonomy, Peep Space, Tarrytown NY
2022 Wunderdonk, Underdonk, NYC
2022 SUNSETS, Underdonk, NYC
2022 Inaugural Show, Peninsula Art Space, NYC
2021 Selfie, The Birdhouse Gallery, NY Transmissions, Underdonk, NYC
2021 PLATFORM 03, PLatform.com / David Zwirner TORQUE, Peninsula Art Space, NYC
2021 Moon Burn, Goldmali Gallery, Online
2020 Purple, Underdonk, NYC
2020 MIRROR EYE, Ortega Y Gassett, NYC
2019 Wildernesses, curated by Johnny Mullen, Peninsula Art Space, NYC A Fairly Secret Army (notes from New York), Dusseldorf Germany Curated by Paul Whiting
2019 Polishing the Jewel Box, Disturb the Neighbors, NYC
2019 Blue Bananas, Far X Wide, NYC
2019 The Oblique, curated by David Gibson, NYC
2019 Making (It) Work, California College of the Arts
2019 The Unusuals, The Painting Center, NYC
2018 Graces, Curated by Nicholas Cueva, 5-50 Gallery, NYC Private Practice, Underdonk, NYC
2017 Show Me Yours, Underdonk, NYC Truth, BRIC, NYC
2016 Soft & Hard, Trestle Projects, NYC Beauty, Openings Collective, NYC
2015 Borderlands, COOP Gallery, Nashville TN
2015 Family Ties, curated by Julie Torres and Bonny Leibowitz, 500X, Dallas, TX
2015 New Work City, curated by Julie Torres
2015 Momenta Art, NYC
2014 Second Family, 2 Rivington, NYC
2014 Family Style, Formerly Pocket Utopia, NYC Rum Punch!, 204 Parkside, NYC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Georgia Elrod: Anatomist of the Burlesque, Two Coats of Paint, October 2023
2023 Headspace, Cleveland.com, March 2023
2023 Headspace--A Painting Show, Cleveland Scene, March 2023
2022 Art Maze Magazine, Issue #27
2021 I Like Your Work Podcast, October 2021
2021 Ante Mag, July 2021
2020 New American Paintings, Issue #146 Juried by Jerry Saltz
2019 Art Viewer, July 2019
2018 Art Maze Magazine, Issue 9, 2018
2015 Gorky’s Granddaughter, Studio Interview 9/2015 Painter’s Table, “Georgia Elrod: Studio Visit” October 24, 2015
2013 Big Bell Magazine, San Francisco, CA
2012 "Georgia Elrod:Here and Here", Lynne deSilva Johnson
2012 exitstrata.com
2012 Upstate's Downtown Weekly Update vol.3 no.37, 2012
2011 Catalog, Rogue Element, RH+ Gallery, Istanbul Turkey
2011 Catalog, Rogue Element, RH+ Gallery, Istanbul Turkey
2011 Interview in RH+ Magazine, Issue 76, January 2011
2011 "Creation and Conservation", Edward Gomez, Art & Antiques Magazine
2005 "First Show Signals Sweetness", Frederick Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
2005 "Memphis Native Returns to Showcase Art", Frederick Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
AWARDS
2008 William Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College
2001 Mary Chenoweth Award in Art, The Colorado College
RESIDENCIES / PANELS
2022 Interlude Artist Residency, Livingston NY
2020 Artist Talk, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
2020 Artist Talk, Keene State College, Keene NH
2019 "Making (It) Work: Panel Discussion", California College of the Arts, Oakland CA
2016 “How we get to imagery”, Panel Discussion at Trestle Projects, NYC
2014 WAAW Residency, San-Louis, Senegal
2013 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VA
2013 Panelist for Exit Strata's Exhibit A, Launchpad, NYC
2012 Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY
2011 Arteles Creative Center, Partial Grant, Haukijarvi, Finland
2004 Vermont Studio Center, Partial Scholarship, Johnson, VT
2003 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency, NYC
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