portrait by Marcus Morris
Amber Elison works across disciplines to mine the felt experience between presence and absence, legible and illegible, said and unsaid. Through video, performance, photography, and text, she questions the relationship of personal narrative, familial and social histories, fiction, and ancestral folklore. Often collaborating with dance and sound artists she seeks multi-sensory methods of experience, creating experimental documentaries and immersive performative spaces.
A recent graduate of the MFA program in art at The Ohio State University, Amber was born and raised in Houston, Texas, her ancestors having migrated to Turtle Island from Scotland and Ireland. She now lives on the traditional lands of the Tankawa, Apache, Jumano, Cibolo, Cantona, Casquesa, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Wichita, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Alabama-Coushatta, Creek, Kickapoo, Yksleta Del Sur Pueblo, and Yaqui nations, now also known as Central Texas.