Ella den Elzen is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Her multi-disciplinary practice engages writing, image-making, video, sound, and installation to consider and critique the politics and policies of the built environment, historical modes of representation, and forms of knowledge-production and preservation.
She is currently a curatorial assistant at Dia Art Foundation. Ella was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program during 2023-24.
Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) from 2020-2023. Ella has co-instructed Contemporary Architectural Theory at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, with a focus on subjectivity and modern property, and taught an undergraduate studio on alternative archives at McGill University.
