Claire Elliott - 05

Claire Elliott (b.1985) is an artist who lives and works in Portland, OR, where she is a member of Wave Contemporary. Elliott’s work addresses concerns about the relationship between humans and landscape, how we define ‘nature’, and the idea of painting as a medium. Elliott received her BS from Skidmore College in 2007 and an MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2014. Her work is represented in public and private collections nationally including Soho House Portland and Fidelity Investments Art Collection. Publications that have featured her work include Create Magazine, Borderline Press and Studio Visit Magazine.
Recent exhibitions include her solo shows, Afterbloom, at One Grand Gallery and What’s Left on the Stem at Never Coffee in Portland as well as the WAVE Collective shows En Motion and The Nexus of Here, and Let Nature In at The Painting Center in New York City.