ABOUT THE ARTIST
Liz Scotta is a teacher, an illustrator, an urban sketcher, a collage artist and a watercolor painter. The first half of her life was spent in Connecticut, Mexico, and New York City. When she’s not traveling and sketching, she resides in San Francisco.
She is the author of My Sketchbook of San Miguel de Allende and Travels With a Sketchbook. Although you can count where. Liz has lived on one hand: Connecticut, Mexico; New York City, and San Francisco; as an Urban Sketcher she has traveled and drawn from Marrakesh to Mumbai, Paris to Philadelphia, San Francisco to San Miguel de Allende, New York City to York, England, and Boston to Budapest.
Liz is an American visual artist well recognized for her realistically rendered urban scenes. En plein air, she sketches people in urban settings from life. In a world where quick selfies and iPhone images rule, she wants her illustrations to call attention to minute details that the observer frequently overlooks.
GRANTS & AWARDS
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​Beyond Boundaries 1997,
Juried by Wayne Thiebaud, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Received Honorary Mention Award
ART RESIDENCY
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Joy as Subject: Mardi Gras Artist Residency in New Orleans,
Kolaj Institute, 24-28 January 2024
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Transit: How We Move Group Show
Senator Scott Weiner's Office
455 California Street, San Francisco
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Group2024
Not Just Paris: Scenes From France & More
Alliance Française, San Francisco
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Not Just Paris: Scenes From France
Alliance Française, Berkeley
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Fragments
Ingleside Gallery att Ballast Coffee,
San Francisco
2023
Sea Level Gallery, San Francisco
Artspan, Open Studio, Fort Mason
2021
DRI: M/2021 Space Q Sound & Vision
CCSF Virtual Art Gallery
Diego Rivera Art Project
San Francisco Women Artist Gallery
Collage & Mixed Media
“Adam & Eve - Temptation of Bacon"
2020
On the Edge at de Young Museum of Art:
"Zoom Meeting"
Collage, 18 x 24"
de Young Newsletters:
"View Out My Window"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"Aerial View"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"Dream Landscape"
Collage, 11 x 14"
"City Hall"
Collage, 11 x 14"
PandemicPortrait.com:
"Don't Touch Your Face"
Collage, 14 x 17"
Let's Face It at Museum of Craft & Design: Sequined Mask
2019
SF Open Studio
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: WATERCOLORS & MONOPRINTS
1997
Annual Watercolor Show, Juried by Kay Russell & Ann Switzer, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996
Museum West, SF, CA
Perceptions of the Earth & Sky, 1870 Gallery, Belmont, CA
1992 - 1995
Open Studio, SOMAR Gallery, SF, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Not Just Paris: Scenes From France, Author & Illustrator
2021
Artists of the San Francisco Bay
2019
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon, Illustration
2015
Travels With a Sketchbook, Author & Illustrator
2014
My Sketchbook of San Miguel de Allende, Author & Illustrator
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EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: QUILTS
1998
Galerie Periwinkle, Mill Valley, CA
All Creatures Great & Small, Juried by Barbara Banthien, Lochi Poutiattine, Karen Sin, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996
Nothing Serious, Juried by Phil Frank, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley
EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS: VISCOSITY MONOPRINTS
1999
Arts on Fire, Juried by Marian Parmenter, The Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
43rd Annual International Exhibition, Juried by Howard Fox, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
1998
Waterworks, Juried by Lucy Arnold, Don Jower, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Dreams & Visions, Juried by Susan St. Thomas & Juliet Wood, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1997
Pacific Edge Print Exhibition, Juried by Karl Kasten, Mendocino Art Center
West Coast Works on/of Paper 97, Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA
1996
ArtWorks9, 35th Biennial Juried Exhibition, Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA