Elizabeth Burden is a multidisciplinary artist blending studio work with social practice. She uses drawing, painting, video, sound, and other media ina process of artistic archivy to reflect on geographies, imaginaries, legacies, and vestiges of the past/present/future. She is intrigued by the pull of archives, the construction of histories, ephemeral inheritances, the role of memory and narrative, and the ways we make sense of it all. She seeks to create spaces of/for critical thinking, critical feeling, and critical reflection that lead to a re-imagining of possibilities.

She has been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Arts Institute and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and was a 2020 Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellow

Ms. Burden holds bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Studio Art (University of Arizona), and an MS in Geographic Information Science.