Elizabeth Leister

Elizabeth Leister is a digital media artist whose expansive practice includes video, performance, drawing and virtual & augmented reality. Her projects act as meditations on the unreliability of memory and the passing of time conceptualized through a feminist perspective on the body in motion, poetics and transformations in the natural landscape. Her videos and installations have been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Torrance Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art Bologna, Italy; The Drawing Center, Art in General, Apex Art and P.S. 122 in New York; Counterpath in Denver and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. She has performed at homeLA, LACE, and Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles, the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries in Wales, the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at University of Reno, and Outpost Artists Resources in New York.  Leister's XR projects have been presented in Luminex 2.0, Mana Body + Camera Festival, XR for Change/Games for Change and the CURRENTS New Media Festival, among other venues.   Her video, Silent Gardens, was commissioned for Public Art CA at the California Natural Resources Agency, in Sacramento, California.  She is a 2015 recipient of a COLA Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Cultural Affairs in LA.