Elizabeth Simonson

Elizabeth Simonson is a visual artist based in Minneapolis who creates pieces using everyday materials such as tape, wire, fishing line and beads, which explore patterns found in nature, algorithms, and imperfect systems. Receiving her MFA from Hunter College, Elizabeth originally moved to New York 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 public institutions that include the Walker Art Center, the Weisman Art Museum, the Kohler Art Center, and 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, Walker Art Center, Plains Art Museum, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.