Elizabeth Russell was born in Massachusetts, and is a painter and sculptor living and working in Berkeley and San Francisco. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts. Russell has participated in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Russell was one of the selected Charter Residents at Minnesota Street Project Studios in San Francisco. In 2016, she received a Travel Scholarship from California College of the Arts and she received The Westcliff Scholarship at Anderson Ranch Art Center that same year. Russell has had two solo shows with Interface Gallery. Her work has been written about by Art Slant, Sight Unseen, Two Coats of Paint and Curiously Direct.. (Full CV)

Press Selections:
The Best Abstract Artists You Should Know About | Architectural DIgest, Clever | Sydney Wasserman | May 2018
Sight Unseen: Saturday Selects | Jill Singer | May 2018
Artspace Highlight | May 2018
30 Artists and Galleries We Loved During New York Art Week | Sight Unseen | Jill Singer
Anxiety and the art fairs, NADA Edition | Two Coats of Paint | Sharon Butler
Review: Ghost in the Hay: Kim Bennett, Maysha Mohamedi, Laurie Reid, Elizabeth Russel | Curiously Direct | Aaron Harbour
North America's Must See Exhibitions This Fall | Art Slant |  Leora Lutz