Bio
Elizabeth Simonson is a visual artist based in Minneapolis who creates large sculptural installations using everyday materials such as tape, wire, tiles, fishing line and beads that explore patterns found in nature, algorithms, and imperfect systems.
A graduate of Hunter College’s Master of Fine Arts program, Elizabeth originally moved to New York from her native Minneapolis to pursue a career as a professional ballet dancer with the Feld Ballet. Her familiarity with time-based, performative art forms has informed her exploration of sequentially based installations that often take weeks to construct and have at times been very temporal in their existence.
Her work has been shown in numerous public institutions that include the Walker Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, the Kohler Art Center, Krannert Art Museum, Addison Art Gallery, Austin Museum of Fine Art in addition to galleries in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York. Her work can be found in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Goldman Sachs Collection, Hunter College, Walker Art Center, Minnesota Museum of Art, Plains Art Museum as well as private individuals across the country.
In 2011 she was awarded the Mcknight Fellowship grant and in 2014 she received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. In 2012 Minnesota Originals created a documentary about her and her work.