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Education
2022 MFA, Visual Arts
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2018 BA, Studio Art and Art History
University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
Upcoming St. Louis Lambert Airport, St. Louis, MO
2024 The In-Between, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Reaping Havoc, Southern Missouri Art Connection, Hollister, MO
2023 The Figure, Reclaimed, Aneka Ingold and Livia Xandersmith, Carolla Art Exhibition Center, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
2022 Contemporaneous Entanglement, Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City, IL
2020 Mortal Flesh, McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, Evansville, IN
2018 July Featured Artist: Livia Xandersmith, Stac Gallery, Evansville, IN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Punk Rock Art Show, 31art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2023 Make Art / Work: Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art Staff Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
9th Biannual Exhibition, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO
Small Works Invitational, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
A Decade of Opportunity: 10 Years of the Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship, McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, Evansville, IN
Hung Together, Gallery 210 @ FAB, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2022 Nine Ways to Sunday, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, St. Louis, MO
2021 Art St. Louis XXXVII, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Out of this Room, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2020 Two Week Notice, Washington University in St. Louis, St, Louis, MO
2019 59th Annual Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
2018 24th Annual Working Together Show, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
Hoosier Women in Art: Stories, Garfield Park Arts Center, Indianapolis, IN
All Painting Annual Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
Open Theme Annual 2018 National Exhibition, Webster Arts’, St. Louis, MO
Teaching and Higher Education Experience
2024- Present Lecturer, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Drawing
2022- Present Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2023-22 Lecturer, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Painting
2022 Part-time faculty, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Art Elective
2022 - 20 Teaching Assistant at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2D Design, Advanced Printmaking, Painting: Art Practice (Anatomy Figure Structure), Into to Painting
Awards/ Fellowships/Grants
2023 Sam Fox Staff Personal Development Grant, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis
2022 2022 Thesis Production Grant, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis
2019 Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship
2018 1st Place, All Painting Annual Exhibitions, Contemporary Art Gallery Online
Painting Merit Award, 48th Annual Juried Student Art Show, MAC/PACE Galleries, Evansville, I
Print Media
2024 Nina Seidel, Suboart International Magazine, Issue 30, 104.
“Conversations with Livia Xandersmith”, Voyage STL Magazine, July, 29, 2024
https://voyagestl.com/interview/conversations-with-livia-xandersmith
Pat Eby, “Made in St. Louis: Colorful Surrealist Paintings stem from Pandemic”, St. Louis Post Dispatch Newspaper, Oct. 31, 2024
https://www.stltoday.com/life-entertainment/local/made-in-st-louis-colorful-surrealist-paintings-stem-from-pandemic/article_7e10ddde-96c8-11ef-80b4-7f47a778a49c.html
2022 Picture Day, published in Art in America. MFA in Visual Art promotional material, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis.
2020 Connie Stambush, Illume Magazine, 1, 36.
2019 Creative Quarterly, Issue 54, 18, 19.
2018 Kandis Robinson, Fishhook, Vol. 8, 25, 45, 88.
2017 Courtney Marshall Fishhook, Vol. 7, Cover, 44, 69, 81.