Elizabeth Leister engages a practice that includes video, performance, drawing and XR production.  Her projects act as meditations on the unreliability of memory and the passing of time conceptualized through a feminist perspective on the female body, language and landscape.

Her work has been presented at the Torrance Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, and the Delaware Museum of Art; The Drawing Center, Art in General, Apex Art and P.S. 122 in New York, Counterpath in Denver and Highways Performance Space and Gallery in Santa Monica in addition to various artist run spaces.

Leister has performed at homeLA, LACE, and Highways Performance Space, Perform Chinatown, Beyond Baroque and Electric Lodge in Los Angeles. Her networked performances have been presented at the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries in Wales, the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at University of Reno, Outpost Artists Resources in New York and in Low Lives, among other venues.  Her VR work has been exhibited at XR for Change, Currents New Media Festival, FIVARS, REFEST by Culturehub, FEMMEBIT and Mana Body + Camera Festival and other festivals. 

She received an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles, and additional grants through The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The Leeway Foundation of Philadelphia.  Leister was awarded a 2015 COLA Fellowship from the Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles.

She earned an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Fine Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.  Leister is Assistant Professor in Emerging Media Production in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at CSUN.