She holds a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union and an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art. In 2007 she was an Aldrich Museum Radius Fellow, and in 2008 she received a Weir Farm artist residency. In 2010 - 11 she was an Artist in Residence at the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan. Livensperger is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at SUNY Purchase. She has exhibited in numerous locations nationally and internationally, including New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Santa Monica, and Seoul.