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Bio

Elizabeth Meggs is a Brooklyn-based artist, illustrator, writer, and designer, whose most recent work includes paintings, photography, and hand-bound artist books. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a full academic scholarship, graduating summa cum laude with a BFA in Communication Arts and Design. She received her master's degree with distinction in Painting from Pratt Institute.

In the past decade, she has had five solo shows of new work, and exhibited in 80+ group shows, including “Go Brooklyn!” with the Brooklyn Museum, Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center, Hudson River Park in Chelsea, ISE Cultural Foundation, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Mariner's Museum, Firehouse Art Collective, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory, Galapagos Art Space, Edward Hopper House, Pratt Institute's Steuben and Dean's Galleries, Gravity Racers at Pierogi Gallery, and more.

Honors include being selected to attend the NYC Center for Book Arts' Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers; recipient of a Mellon Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship for Drawing in the State of Virginia. Memberships include SCBWI, The Daguerreian Society, The Typophiles, College Art Association, and The Visual Lunacy Society.

Recent publications include essay contributions to the Designers & Books website about "The Library of Philip B. Meggs and Libby Phillips Meggs" in which 16 books were profiled; and writing and photography for TRUEQUE, a collaborative artists’ book project between artists in Copenhagen, Mexico City, Berlin, London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro.