EDUCATION
1993 Estienne School of Art - Applied Arts, Paris
1995 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet to Matisse and Beyond , Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, October 24 2018– February 10 2019, New York
2018 Face Forward, Carroll Square Gallery, September 7 – December 7 2018, Washington D.C.
2018 Revealing Interiors, Princeton University Art Museum, May 5 – October 28 2018, Princeton, NJ
2018 Harlem Perspectives, Faction Art Projects, 20 Apr – 13 May 2018, Harlem, NY
2017 Island Might, No commission, Miami Basel
2017 Uptown, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, June 2, through August 20, 2017, New York
Re-imagining a Safe Space, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, March 30 through October 20, 2017, New York
2016 Selling the Shadow P. 1, Gallery MOMO, Cape Town
The Pineapple Show, Tiwani Contemporary, London
2016 The Moon is my only luxury, Long Gallery Harlem, New York
2015 ReSignifications, Fondazione Biagotti Progetto Arte, Florence
2013 Face Time: New Portraiture Now, Ground Floor Gallery, New York
2013 Volta, New York
2013 International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Martinique (BIAC), Martinique
2012 Voices of Home, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York
2012 Voices of Home, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
2011 Standing With Papa Legba, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute,
2011 New York
2011 Curate NYC, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2011 Crown Heights Gold, Skylight Gallery, New York
2011 Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College Main Room, Santa Ana.
2011 Our History is our Strength, UBS Art gallery, Stamford, Connecticut.
2010 Fashioned In Time, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2010 Ain’t I a Woman, MoCADA, New York
2010 Bon Vivant Gallery, Philadelphia
2010 There is No Looking Glass Here, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York
2009 The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 The Arts Council, Greenwood
2009 In the Courtyard: Contemporary Women Artists, California African American Museum, 2009 Los Angeles
2009 Cooperative, Pounder-Kone Artspace, Hollywood
2008 Fondation Balthus, Rossiniere, Switzerland
2008 L’Art a la source Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 Fondation Balthus, Rossiniere, Switzerland
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. “Portraits in Black: Styling, Space, and Self in the Work of Barkley L. Hendricks and Elizabeth Colomba,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Volume 38-39. p. 70
Brooks, Kalia. “Interview.” Ubikwist Magazine, Volume 3. Fall 2016. p. 214
Colomba, Elizabeth. “Reclaiming History: A Visual Essay,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Volume 38-39. p. 196
Jackson, Ayana V. “The black women that art history forgot,” Blog. True Africa. May 3, 2016.
Koushyar, Arman. “Strange Fruit: The Pineapple Show” Blog. IAM: Intense Art Magazine. September 8, 2016.
Monique Long, editor. The Moon is my only luxury, exhibition catalogue, May 1– June 26, 2016, Long Gallery Harlem. New York.
Trigg, Sarah. “Tour an Artist’s Light-Filled Parisian-Style Studio in Harlem,” New York Magazine, The Cut. Blog. New York. April 22, 2016. (In conjunction with New York Magazine’s Art and Design issue)
Ward, Kelvin. “The Moon is my only luxury,” Vlog. The Bholdr. New York. May 14, 2016.
2015 Ellyn Mary Toscano and Awam Amkpa, eds. ReSignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings, exhibition catalogue, May 29 through August 29, 2015, New York University. Florence
2013
Long, Monique. “If You Like…”, Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Summer/Fall 2013, p. 45.
2012
Arc Magazine. “Exhibition: I Am Woman, new paintings by Elizabeth Colomba,” ARC Magazine. November 13, 2012, p. 36
Martinez, Vanessa. “The Impressive Profile of French Film Storyboard Artist and Painter Elizabeth Colomba,” Blog. Indiewire. Los Angeles. April 3, 2012.
2011
Stacy Davies and Charlie Scheips, eds. Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, exhibition catalogue, September 12 – November 1, 2011, Santa Ana College Foundation. Santa Ana.
Kidane, Zemen ““Ain’t I A Woman” Blog. Revisited: Getting to know the Artists,” Black Atlantic Resource Debate. March 28, 2011.
2010
Massara, Kathleen.“Who Ain’t A Woman?” L Magazine. August 4, 2010.
“There is No Looking Glass Here: The current exhibition at the Wall Gallery of Deutsche Bank,” Deutsche Bank Art Magazine, p. 12.
2009 Crockett, Tamara. “The Color Guard”, Upscale magazine, August 2009, p. 90.
Love, Graham. “Art fills Uptown,” The Index Journal, February 2009, p. 2A.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 Honored by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles for artistic contributions to the city
2015 Athena (2013) was awarded to the winners of the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival (along with a twenty-five thousand dollar cash prize).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2018 Director for a film for the Metropolitan Opera's MetShorts series, CENDRILLON featuring Grace Bol. Premiere: Live at the Met: Saturday, April 28, 2018
2018 The Library (Oil on canvas, 2005) is adapted for the cover of the paperback edition of FALSE LIGHTS, a novel of historical fiction by K. J. Whittaker. WHITTAKER, K.J. False Lights. S.l.: HEAD OF ZEUS, 2018. Print.
2016 Black Portraitures, Conference: Black Portraitures III: Reinventions, Strains of Histories and Culture, Johannesburg, panelist/presenter.
2015 Black Portraitures, Conference: Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Restaging Histories, Florence, panelist and participant in dedicated group exhibition
2013 Black Portraitures, Conference: Black Portraitures: The Black Body in the West, Paris, panelist/presenter
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Princeton University
The Studio Museum in Harlem