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Elise Rasmussen is a research-based artist working with lens-based media. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work internationally including venues such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum, the Bronx Museum & Pioneer Works (New York), Night Gallery & JOAN (Los Angeles), the University of Queensland Art Museum & Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Belvedere 21 (Vienna), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Dazibao & Skol (Montreal), the Art Gallery of Alberta & Latitude 53 (Edmonton), the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Gallery 44 (Toronto). Her work is a part of private and institutional collections, most notably LACMA (Los Angeles) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago). Elise received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Merit Scholarship and has been an artist at a number of residencies including the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), La Becque (Switzerland), the Nirox Foundation (South Africa), LMCC (New York), SOMA (Mexico City), the Banff Centre (Banff, Alberta) and she was a 2016 Fellow in the Art & Law Program (New York). Elise has been written about in publications such as Artforum, ArtReview, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, and the New Inquiry, and has received grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, NYFA/NYSCA, the Puffin Foundation, and the American Austrian Foundation. Born in Edmonton, Canada (Treaty Six, Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Elise currently resides in Los Angeles, California (Tovaangar, the traditional lands of the Gabrielino-Tongva Peoples).

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