Lily Stelzer

Painting and drawing

© Lily Stelzer 2025

© Lily Stelzer 2025

Photo Credit: Rebecca Gray

About Lily Stelzer

Lily Stelzer is an artist and educator based in Seattle, WA. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Drawing with Honors from the University of Washington in 2020. Lily's paintings often begin as poems, her work translating sensation and memory into visual language. Lily was diagnosed with debilitating Long Covid in 2022 and her new work focuses on disability and connection to the earth.
Learn more about Long Covid here

Exhibitions

"Ongoing" Solo Exhibition, Gallery on 2nd, Seattle, WA, 2023
Emerald City Art Collective Fall Show, Gallery 4500, Seattle, WA, 2021
Awareness Show 2021, Phinney Center, Seattle, WA, 2021
Honors Graduation Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2020
Painting and Drawing Student Exhibition, Sand Point Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2019
Awareness Show 2019, SPACE Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2019

© Lily Stelzer 2025

Lily's work has shifted to small, portable drawings and gouache paintings since becoming disabled with Long Covid in 2022

© Lily Stelzer 2025