Angela Ellsworth

Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist combining traditional and nontraditional art materials primarily in sculpture, painting, and performance. The work embodies a wide range of subjects such as endurance, illness, queerness, and social ritual. Ellsworth is interested in art merging with everyday life where public and private experiences collide in unexpected spaces. 

Ellsworth's creative research has been reviewed and cited in Artforum, Art News, Canadian Art, Fiber Arts, Frieze Art, Landscape Architecture, New York Times, Wallstreet Journal, and Performance Research. They have presented work nationally and internationally including the Getty Center (Los Angeles, CA,) Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia,) Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland,) National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland,) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, CA,) Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver, CO,) Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA,) New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM,) Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ,) Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ,) Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C,) Sun Valley Museum of Art, (Sun Valley, ID,) The Church (Sag Harbor, NY). 

Public collections include Alturas Foundation (San Antonio, TX,) Crystal Bridges (Bentonville, Arkansas,) Museum of Art and Design (New York, New York,) Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Desert, CA) and Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ,) Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ,) Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.) Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ,) Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT,) and 21c Museum Hotel to name a few. 

Awards and grants include Art Matters, Arizona Commission on the Arts, DiverseWorks, funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, Franklin Furnace, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, from Mexic-Arte Museum, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. Ellsworth is a professor in the School of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and Founding Director of the Museum of Walking. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix, AZ,) Turner Carroll Gallery (Santa Fe, NM.) and Modern West Fine Art (Salt Lake City, UT.)