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EDUCATION
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2003 M.F.A Painting University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1994 B.F.A. Sculpture University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
COMMISSIONS
2021 MTA Arts & Design, Long Island Railroad, laminated float glass, New Hyde Park, NY
2018 Public Art for Public Schools, Sites for Students Program, mosaic mural, PS14x, Bronx, NY
2017 EVO Rock + Fitness, painted mural, Louisville, CO
2009 Archstone Avenir, permanent wall installation for building lobby and reception, Boston, MA
2005 New Britain Museum, permanent installation for new restrooms, New Britain, CT
GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2025 The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, Lake Como, Italy
2025 Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Research, UMass Amherst
2025 ADVANCE Equitable Practices in Collaboration (EPiC) Award, UMass Amherst
2024 Fellowship Kahn Institute, “Worldbuilding for Futures Beyond Capitalism”
2022 CODAawards, 2022 Top 100 CODAworks
2022 Puffin Foundation Grant: On Distant Keys
2019 Americans for the Arts, Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review
2019 CODAmagazine, Transformative Walls V 2019, CODAworx
2016 Can Serrat International Art Residency, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
2016 Creative Economy Initiative Grant, UMass Office of the President
2015 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Visiting Artist Residency, American Academy of Rome, Italy
2011 Puffin Foundation Grant : Morril Mural
2006 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant Fellowship, Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA (forthcoming)
2023 Garvey Simon, Sandy Litchfield: Gently Place Me Here, New York, NY
2019 Tulane University, School of Architecture, The Fun Palace Factor, New Orleans, LA
2017 Greenfield Community College, Deciduous Cities, Greenfield, MA
2016 Garvey|Simon, Deciduous Cities, New York, NY
– Carroll and Sons, Deciduous Cities, Boston, MA
– Carroll and Sons, Filterscape, Boston, MA
2013 Carroll and Sons, What Blooms in the Rubble, Boston, MA
– Hope and Feathers, Mostly Elsewhere, Amherst, MA
2011 Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA
2009 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Broken Appeal for Balance, Amherst, MA
2008 Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2007 Bernard Toale Gallery, Canoe Trip, Boston MA
2006 Metaphor Contemporary Art, The Rounded World, Brooklyn, NY
– Bernard Toale Gallery, Surrounding Practice, Boston, MA
2005 Galleria Duemilla, Manila, Philippines
2004 Bernard Toale Gallery: Boston Drawing Project, Sandy Litchfield, Boston, MA
2003 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Amherst, MA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Foundations, Daisy Craddock and Sandy Litchfield, Garvey|Simon, Artsy
2022 Future Fair, Raft of Sanity & Garvey|Simon, with Roberley Bell, New York, NY
2022 Raft of Sanity, Positions and Props, with Roberley Bell, Buffalo, NY
2021 A.P.E. Ltd, Positions and Props: a loosening line, with Roberley Bell , Northampton, MA
2015 Hooloon, Sandy Litchfield with Richard Taransky, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Tabor Art Gallery, Overlap with Jen Simms, Holyoke, MA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Canada, Paper Tigers, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Pier 36 with Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
Bernay Fine Art, Holiday Show, Great Barrington, MA
2024 Sobering Galerie, Un Jour d’Été, Paris France
Bernay Fine Art, Summer Time
2023 Central Connecticut State University, “Silent Spring,”  New Britain, CT
2020 Easthampton City Arts, Post Pause, Online Exhibition
Distance Gallery, Masters of the Universe,  Online Exhibition
Bernay Fine Art, Contemporary Landscapes, Great Barrington, MA
2019 Bernay Fine Art, Summertime, Great Barrington, MA
Bernay Fine Art, The “X” Factor: Works by XIV Women Artists, Great Barrington, MA
2018 Umeda Gallery at Hankyu, New York Art Lab, Osaka, Japan
Student Union Gallery, UMass Amherst, After Party, Amherst MA
2017 Garvey | Simon, Leavings: The After Images, New York, NY
Martha Gault Art Gallery, East by Northeast, Slippery Rock University, PA
2016 Art in Embassies – US Dept of State, A Sense of Place, Sophia, Bulgaria
– INTERVENTIONS III, curated by Isidro Blasco and Piril Gunduz, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Fitchburg Art Museum, Land Ho!, Fitchburg MA
– Satellite Contemporary, In the Company of Color, Las Vegas, NV
– Seen Gallery, Our First Show, Pawtucket, RI
– Art on Paper, Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
2014 Garvey|Simon, Fete de la Nature, New York, NY
– Satellite Contemporary, Out-of-Towners, Las Vegas, NV
2013 Station Independent Projects, In The Zone, New York, NY
– Skylight Gallery, Earthward, New York, NY
–   Garvey|Simon, Fragments, New York, NY
– Taber Art Gallery, Holyoke Community College, Overlap, Holyoke, MA
– Arkansas Art Center, Collector’s Show, Little Rock, AR
– Littlejohn Contemporary and Garvey|Simon, Bestiary, New York, NY
2012 Trestle Gallery, Revisions, Brooklyn, NY
– Eric Carl Museum, Amherst Biennial, Amherst, MA
2011 Jasper Rand Museum, Pioneer Women, Westfield, MA
2010 Paper City Project Space, Pioneer Women, Holyoke, MA
2009 Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Wayfinding, Willimantic, CT
2008 Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Reverie, Worchester, MA
– Nicolaysen Art Museum, This is my Nature, Casper, WY
– Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Natural Acts: featuring MCC Fellows, Boston, MA
– AG Gallery, Dream & Reality, Brooklyn, NY
2007 The Portland Museum of Art, 2007 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME
– Gallery 51, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellows, North Adams, MA
– Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Americaura, Amherst, MA
2006 The Hunterdon Museum of Art, Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Clinton, NJ
– Heskin Contemporary, Red Dessert, New York, NY
– The Roger Smith Lab Gallery, Fantastic Routes, New York, NY
– Scope New York, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NY (and Scope Hamptons 2005)
– Galeria Galou, Fantastic Routes, Brooklyn, NY
– Silas Marder Gallery, Fall Show, Bridgehampton, NY
2005 Pierogi 2000 Gallery, Map Show: Selections from the Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
– The DeCordova Museum, Great Buys: Museum Purchases, Lincoln, MA
– The Fleming Museum, New Turf, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2004 The DeCordova Museum, 2004 DeCordova Annual Exhibition, Lincoln, MA
– The Peabody-Essex Museum, Conversations with Nature, Salem, MA
– Sharon Arts Center, Natural Response, Peterborough, NH
– Metaphor Contemporary Art, Breathing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Bernard Toale Gallery: The Boston Drawing Project: Edward Saywell Selects, Boston, MA
– The Canal Gallery, The Metaphoric Landscape, Holyoke, MA
– Gallery 100, Saratoga Springs, NY
PRESS
2024 Contemporary Art Underground, by Sandra Bloodworth and Cheryl Hageman, Phaidon
5.6.22 Annabel Keenan, New York Art Week: Future Fair, Artillery Magazine
10.21 B. Amore, Positions and Props: A  Loosening Line, Art New England, Boston MA
1.14.20 Public Art Review, issue 59, Projects We Love, St. Paul, MN
11.15 Olivia Kiers, Land Ho!, Art New England, Boston, MA
10.11.15 Cate McQuaid, Progressive Provocative Landscapes at Fitchburg, The Boston Globe
10.30.15 Donna Dodson, Land Ho! Artscope Magazine, Boston MA
12.17.13 Sally Deskins, Sandy Litchfield, Les Femmes Folles
11.11.13 D. Dominick Lombardi, Earthward Bound, The Huffington Post
1.25.13 Samuel Rowlet, Connecticut River Art Review: A Field Guide, Big, Red & Shiny
1.15.13 Cate McQuaid, Up From The Rubble, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
1.9.13 Publishers Pick, 12 Must See Painting Shows, New American Paintings > Blog
1.8.13 Cate McQuaid, Critic’s Pick, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
4.1.11 BOMBLOG, Word Choice image selected by Peter Moysaenko, BOMB
2.1.08 Hanna West, The Art of Wandering, Star Tribune, Casper WY
2.07 New American Paintings, Northeast Edition #68
4.9.06 Jane Gorden, A Museum Adds Space (and Sparkle), The New York Times, NY
4.6.06 Cate McQuaid, A Walk in the Woods, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
4.06 Greg Cook, The Great Outdoors, The Phoenix, Boston, MA
2.06 Ben LaRocco, Sandy Litchfield at Metaphor, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY
2.05 Evelyn Hankins, Catalog Essay, New Turf, The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
2.05 Jack Sotto, Abstract Landscapes at Duemilla, The Village Voice, Manila, Philippines
2.05 New American Paintings, Northeast Edition #56
6.04 Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Catalog Essay, The DeCordova Annual, DeCordova Museum, MA
6.30.04 Joanne Silver, DeCordova Works Magic of Imagination, Boston Herald, Boston, MA
6.18.04 Christine Temin, Annual a la Carte, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
TEACHING
2020-pr Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2014-20 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2014-15 Visiting Lecturer, Amherst College, MA
2014-15 Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College, MA
2011-14 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2009-10 Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College, MA
2009-11 Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2004-05 Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
GUEST LECTURES
2025 UMass Lowell, Department of Art and Design, Lowell, MA
2025 University of Toronto, Daniels, Defining Landscapes, Canada
2019 Tulane University, School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA
2017 Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
2013 Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, MA
2012 Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
2008 Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT
2008 Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2007 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2007 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
2006 New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT
2005 Chester College, Chester, NH
2005 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
– Adirondack Museum
– Arkansas Art Center
– Arkansas Museum of Fine Art
– Art Bank Collection US State Department
– Cleveland Clinic
– DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
– Fidelity Investments
– Fitchburg Art Museum
– Holyoke Community College
– Metropolitan Transit Authority, NY
– New Britain Museum
– Nicolaysen Art Museum
– NYC Department of Education
Pioneer Investments
Saratoga Surgery Center
Wellington Financial Management
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