Elizabeth Burden

Lives and works in USA

Artist statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist blending studio work with social practice. I engage in a process of artistic archivy to reflect on geographies, imaginaries, and vestiges of the future/past/present of Black life (polytemporality and polychronicity). I am 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. I have been an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA (2023), the Santa Fe Arts Institute (Revolution Residency, 2022; Truth and Reconciliation Residency, 2019), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Trainings for the Not Yet, 2019). I was a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellow (Arizona State University, 2020).

Artwork

• Radiant Ordinariness [series], 2025. Digital prints on aluminum panel
• #WhereJoyLives, 2025
• #Whereas/ As If, 2024
• In This Here Life We Flesh, 2024. Installation view, diptych, digital print on vellum with hand work
• Dreaming into Existence [series], 2024. Mixed media on paper and canvas
• Six Generations: Connections, 2024
• The Blossoming, 2022. Cut vinyl, chapbooks, and two-channel audio
• The Parable of the Ravens, as Observed by a Wayfarer Near a Crossroads with Two Trees, One Filled with Raucous Birds and the Other Silent Ones; Or Lessons in Discord and Harmony, 2022. video
• Box Stack 1, 2020. Screen print on cardboard
• Shadows: Not a Black and White Issue #3, 2019. Cut cling vinyl
• Liminal Space: (b)light, 2017. Digital print on acrylic panel and transfer type
• Cartographies: Indictments and Impunities [series], 2016. Archival digital print on Gatorboard
• 365 Days (One Year Later), 2015. Digital print on Gatorboard
• Burden of Blackness: Lamentations, 2006. Oil on panel