Eliza works in installation, photography, drawing, movement, and performance, navigating the tension between form and ephemerality. Through massing and reordering mundane, often rejected, materials, her work explores structure and improvisation, the materials acting as registrations of mechanical processes and the mechanism for capturing transitory events.

Born in New York City, Eliza moved to the suburbs of Kansas City when she was nine. She trained in dance, theater and performance, before turning to landscape architecture after the fall of the World Trade Center. Eliza continues to explore and integrate studies of embodiment, movement, light, and shade through numerous media, seeking fissures of transcendence and possibility, all while tethered by gravity and ground.

For inquiries, please write to eliza [dot] shaw [dot] valk at gmail [dot] com.