- Display Name
- Elizabeth Ross
- Website
- http://www.elizabethrossmx.com
- Date/Place of Birth
- México City, México
- Gender
- Female
- Preferred Media / Type of Work
ceramic sculpture
video
photography
ritual axions
- Artist's statement
I am a woman of earth. My hands are fire, my spirit is the air that links the memory of men and women that holds life. The ocean of time surrounds me and gives birth to ancient forms that touch your soul.
You know as I know. I'm a medium.
And also, I am a woman that likes to play. A precious stone. Sand. Light.
I belong to the roots of humankind: I can slightly get into your dreams. The magic speaks as you touch the mud hard as stone. The dust made glass. The flesh made light.
Elizabeth Ross is a self trained artist in as many disciplines as she can put her hands/intellect/body/technology on. She works from her need to produce/induce change.
One of her main interests lies on the multiple layers of identity, her own and the others’, as the land and her landscapes. Migration and mobility, the challenging status of nomadism, the politics of ritual and resistance and the direct interaction with the community, are also central to her work.
She comes from clay and feels comfortable working with multimedia as well as land art, performing ritual axions as well as writing or teaching, lecturing and holding a diversity of workshops aimed to intertwine arts with common everyday life.
She founds and directs 5célula, a nonprofit organization that links art and communities in México and 3Multiverse in Spain. Also founds i d e n t i d a d e s, an international residency/encounter aimed on relate art, street, environment, memory, community and politics together.
Since 2003 she prefers to show and make art in the streets and public spaces.
- Art Education
1971 Communication. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF
1972 English. Central London Polytechnic. London.
1976 Visual Arts and Nahuatl language, Universidad Veracuzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, México.
for all the rest, she is selftaught
- Exhibitions
ONE WOMAN EXHIBITIONS IN MUSEUMS AND FOUR WALL SPACES
2008
Looking for a Heart, Casa de las Organizaciones Sociales, Morelia, Mich
The hands of Dream – Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo latino,Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia.
Breakthrough: the last ceramics, Morelia, San Miguel de Allende
2006
Open heart – what is love?, Galería Bola Santa, Morelia
We want us alive. Comisión de los Derechos Humanos, Morelia
Unter rot: YA BASTA! Kunstmeile Krems. Krems an der Donau, Austria
Rot identität, Basement, Wien, Austria
2005
Ley Lines, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, South Wales, Uk
2004
Possible women, Possible Worlds. Installations and Ritual Axions in European Tour (Wales, Spain, Germany, Helvetia, Holland)
Photography, Civil Organizations House, Morelia
Journey Tales: Earth. Installation, Universidad Michoacana Campus,
Notlallo. Indiana University, USA
Journey Tales: Water / Journey tales: Air. installations. Centro Cultural Universitario, Morelia, Mich.
2003
Journey Tales: Fire, first of 4 Journey Tales installations in Morelia
2002
Notlallo: my body, my earth. Michoacan Museum, Morelia, Mexican Institute, San Antonio, TX. USA. -Installation and performance.
Sesame. Uruapan, Mich.
2001
elizabethross.mx,retrospective. XIII International Music Festival
Sesame.
Naked White. La Bola Santa Gallery. Morelia, Mich.
Journey. The Gallery, México City.
1999
Translated. The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts.Canada.
In Diana’s hands/Notlallo. Contemporary Art Museum, Morelia,
Moon Stones. The Gallery, México DF.
1998
City on the way. Mexican Consulate at El Paso, Tx. USA
Road of Memory Revisited. Michoacán Masters Gallery, Morelia, Mich
Three cane: clay and maize. QuadroArte Gallery, Morelia, Mich.
Three cane: the word, performance
1997
Road of Memory. ExColegio Jesuita Cultural Center, Patzcuaro,
Elizabeth Ross ceramic sculpture, Museum of Western Cultures, Colima City.
1993
Profound City, itinerant installation, traveling throughout Mexico until 1996
1991
Double Spring, in my own gallery at Valle de Bravo, Edo de México.
1990
Woman: a cosmogony, Cultural Centre, Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
- Awards and Publications
2011 Portakal Çiçegï, Orange Blossom III International Plastic Arts Colony, Sapanca, Türkiye
Le Temple Artist in Residence, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
2010 Artist in Residence, Art Point Gumno, Sloeshtica, Makedonija
2009 TAHO, Artist in Residence, TouScene Stavanger, Norway
2008-9 Michoacan State Culture System Laureated, One year stipendium.
2007 Artist in Residence, Art and Ecology Residence, Guapamacátaro, México
2006 Artist in Residence Stipendium, Kunstmeile Krems, Österreich
2005 Tocavén Prize for Artistic Value, La Voz de Michoacán, México
Artist in Residence Stipendium, Coed Hills Rural Art Space, Cymru/ Wales
2004 Travel award, Rechberghausen Art Fest, Deutschland
Artist in Residence, VII Xuntanza Obradoiro Internacional Das Artes Plásticas, Galicia, España
2002 Travel award, Keramik Museum Westerwald, Hoer- Grenzhausen, Germany, Capel Celfyddyd Wales
Michoacan State laureated, Jouney Tales project.
1999 Banff Artist in Residence Stipendium, FONCA and Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Selection and lecture: Primer Encuentro Nacional de Cerámica,
1998 Selection: I Bienal Olga Costa de Pintura y Escultura
Selection: Segunda Bienal de Arte en Cerámica,
1996 FONCA National Grant to publish Vientos, periodismo cultural en Morelia
1995 Travel award, Arte del Momento, La Habana-Morelia-Valinhôs, La Habana, Cuba.
Publications on her work:
PUBLICATIONS ON HER WORK
• Ciudad Profunda (catalog). Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce/La Voz de Michoacán. 1993
• Ciudad Profunda, Josefina María Cendejas. Acento, La Voz de Michoacán. 1993
• La ciudad de Elizabeth Ross, el sueño del barro, Neftalí Coria. Acento, Febrero 1994 y La Jornada Semanal, January 1994
• Elizabeth Ross: ceramista. El Suplemento, DIFOCUR, Sinaloa 1994
• Cerámica Profunda, Carlos Blas Galindo. El Financiero, 1995
• Elizabeth Ross: creación y arte ceramista. Nery Córdova: El Ensayo, centauro de los géneros. Editorial de la Universidad de Sinaloa, 1996
• Sólo un guiño (catalog). Ingrid Zuckaer. Editorial Praxis, 1998
• Sculpture mexicaine: petit format ou David contre Goliat, Leonor Cuahonte. París/México, 1998
• The Gallery, art & design (catalog)1999
• Elizabeth Ross: el lenguaje del barro, Verónica Pérez Alejos, Época, 1999
• Travesía/Journey (catalog). Ingrid Zuckaer, Ana Pellicer, Mark Morris, Ed Bamiling, Carlos Blas Galindo. Morelia 2000
• Colores y trazos, pintores michoacanos contemporáneos. Armando Ceja Bravo, IMC/UVAQ, Morelia 2001
• Notlallo: instalación cerámica (catalog). S.R.E. –Ayuntamiento de Morelia.
• A Meeting of Civilisations. Mark Morris. CeramicTECHNICAL No. 15, November 2002. Australia.
• Elizabeth Ross. Ralf Burger. Kalkspatz e.V Töpferblatt 2-2003, Alemania
• Identidades.01, digital catalog, Cuadernos del Viento 2004
• Posible Women, Polvo Magazine, Art and Ritual, Fall 2004, Chicago, Illinois.
• Kunst auf dem Weg (catalog). Recberghausenstadt, 2004
• Where the many worlds fit, Iwan Bala, Planet, the Welsh Internationalist, no.170 April 2005, Wales
• VII Xuntanza Obradoiro – Internacional das Artes Plásticas “A Solaina” De Piloño (catalog). Xunta de Galicia, 2005
• Agua, Carwyn Evans, Tu Chwyth, cyfrol 23, Awst 2005. En galés. Wales, RU
• Identidad y agua. Identidades.02, digital catalog, Gea, 2005
• Breathing Ground/Anadal Daear, International Art Show, (catálogo) Coed Hills, Wales. 2006
• Song lines, « swyn ar bapur », Iwan Bala, en Mary Lloyd Jones, first Language. Gomer Press, Wales 2006
• The Tile Project, Destination : the World. (catalog). UNESCO, 2006
• Breathing Ground, Debbie Savage, a-n magazine, october 2006, UK
• Take me somewhere good, Iwan Bala, Re:imaging Wales, a yearbook of the visual arts. Edited by Hugh Adams, Seren Books, Wales 2006
• Plástica contemporánea michoacana, vol.1, catálogo digital. Secretaría de Cultura del Edo de Michoacán, 2007
• Identidades,03 galicia_michoacán, 5célula arte y comunidad 2007
• La axión de Elizabeth Ross. Marcela Murúa Rosen, Escáner Cultural, año 10, número 102, marzo 2008. www.escaner.cl/node/655
• Space is the Place, (catalog) Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami Fla. 2008
• Y seguirán naciendo porque la muerte es mentira: Elizabeth Ross. Itaca, Homines, Portal de Arte y Cultura. www.homines.com, Málaga, Octubre 2008
• Artist of the Week, Elizabeth Ross — http://www.public-republic.net/artist-of-the-week-elizabeth-ross.php
• Elizabeth Ross, artista visual. Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas, http://www.museodemujeres.com/matriz/04_galeria.htm#19
• Y sin embargo se mueven, producción de arte hegemónico feminista. Natalia Eguiluz, UAM 2010
• artFem.TV. 2010-2011
- Work Held in Collections
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce, México
Calgary University, Ab., Canada
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez , México
Los Oficios, La Habana, Cuba,
Capel Celfyddyd, Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales, UK.
Fundación Cultural La Voz de Michoacán. México
Gobierno del Estado de Michoacán. México
Ceramic Museum, Mino, Japan
Wyndham City Art Center, Australia.
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. México
Casa Museo Poeta Javier de la Rosa, Vila de Agaete, Isla de Gran Canaria, Spain,
Casa Museo A Solaina de Piloño, Galicia, Spain.
Coed Hills Rural ArtSpace, Wales.
Literaturhaus, Kunstmeile Krems,Austria
ArtPoint Gumno, Sloestica, Macedonia
Mairie de Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
Portakal Çiçegï, Ankara Turkey
