2024-2025 Artist in Residence: Elizabeth Gerdeman | Master in Business Administration

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Elizabeth Gerdeman

2024–2025 Artist in Residence

Elizabeth German Portrait Photo

Elizabeth Gerdeman is a visual artist born in Columbus, Ohio, and based primarily in Germany since 2011. Elizabeth was awarded a University Fellowship to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA), which she received, with an additional Interdisciplinary Specialization Certification, from The Ohio State University. She previously earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) from the Columbus College of Art and Design, where she was also awarded a scholarship. She is the first in her family to receive a degree of higher education. During her undergraduate studies, Elizabeth was also a member of Americorps, part of the Corporation for National & Community Service, where she served as an art teacher in an after-school program for “at-risk, inner city youth” in a neighborhood where she had attended school as a youth herself. Elizabeth has taught at art academies and universities in the USA and Europe since 2008.

A selection of her recent honors include the publication of her work in New American Paintings (Issue #161); the selection of her work for the Project Anywhere Global Exhibition Program supported in partnership between Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology, (Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC) and the Centre of Visual Art, (University of Melbourne); the selection of her work in an exhibition at City Hall in Dresden, Germany; and the award of an Individual Artist Grant by the City of Leipzig, Germany. Exhibition venues for her work include among others the Modern Art Museum Yerevan in Armenia; Athens Digital Arts Festival in Greece; Z(orten) Art Space in Switzerland; Else Foundation Symposium in Mexico; Artrooms Moravany in Slovakia; site-based public interventions in Chiavenna and in Venice, Italy; Hammond Harkins Galleries in Ohio; Stockton University Art Gallery in New Jersey; and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig in Germany.

Elizabeth Gerdeman’s work is driven by places that exist at the intersections of nature and culture, where her interdisciplinary practice of painting, installation, and site-specificity continues to evolve from experiences in such varied and complex areas of the world. During her time as Artist-In-Residence at Western New Mexico University, Elizabeth plans to pursue projects that combine atmospheric sciences with traditional nature-based practices rooted in weather lore, using the surrounding environment and local insights as platforms for these explorations.