Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist who shows regularly in New York City, Provincetown, Seattle and Santa Fe. For over three decades her work has been in hundreds of solo and group shows across the country and internationally. Her monoprints were featured in a solo exhbition in Lima, Peru, at the Institute of Culture in 1999. Her last solo exhibition at Rice-Polak Gallery in August, 2006 was reviewed in the Boston Globe and she is currently working on her next show at the Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM which opens in December, 2007.

Awards include a 2007 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for printmaking, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the New York Print Club Emerging Artist Award, the CCVA Award (awarded by Michael Gitlitz, Director, Marlborough Gallery) at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, first prize of $5000.00 in the LANA International Arts Competition (awarded by Wayne Thiebaud) along with full fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, National Seashore Residency, the Vermont Studio Center and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. She has been a guest artist (printmaking) at the Vermont Studio School from 2001 to 2004. Her work is in several public collections including the New York Historical Society, Fleming Museum, University of Texas and Hofstra University. Corporate collections include Pfizer, Bankers Trust, I/B/E/S, Odyssey, Fidelity Investments, Cablevision and Zurich Insurance. Private collectors include Philip Glass, Night Shayamalan and Robert Rothchild. Recent publications include The Boston Globe, Art and Auction, Art of Our Town, calendar, 2006, New York Times (twice), Arts Magazine, The Banner (Provincetown), The Albuquerque Journal and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Firmin teaches several painting/printmaking workshops throughout the year at Great River Arts Institute, VT, UCCCA (Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts) , West Kortright Center, NY, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC and Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Cape Cod. She is also on the faculty at SVA in the continuing education department.