Elizabeth Bergeland (b.1983) grew up in Wyoming and Colorado and earned her BFA in painting alongside Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 2006. Bergeland keeps a studio in Philadelphia, PA.

Combining figurative realism with abstracted or imagined elements and spaces, her work talks with the use of symbolism. She has a strong desire to suspend the question- to allow it to sit. To get comfortable with questions not needing to be answered. Bergeland has a strong desire to enlarge the social narrative; specifically surrounding our ideas surrounding the way we think about masculinity and femininity.

Bergeland has exhibited nationally and had her first solo exhibition in 2022. Her, work has been featured in