Elizabeth Lide has a BFA in graphic design from the University of Georgia and an MFA in printmaking from Georgia State University. Her solo shows have included The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (formerly Nexus), Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, La Mama in New York City, SECCA in Winston-Salem NC; and group shows at MOCA GA, the Carlos Museum at Emory University, and Eyedrum in Atlanta.
Her artists’ books have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, The University of Damascus, The University of North Carolina, Duke University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Iowa, SCAD, the Sackner Collection, and The Minnesota Center for Book Arts. She has been awarded residences at The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Hambidge Center, Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and with the UGA Department of Art in Cortona, Italy. She is in Who’s Who of America Women and was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women. She has been a graphic designer for the industrial designer Raymond Loewy and design director for Art Papers magazine. She has taught art at Paideia School since 2004 and was a Visiting Professor of Art at Agnes Scott College in the fall of 2009. Her solo show will be at Sandler Hudson Gallery in January 2012.