Elizabeth Bergeland (b.1983) grew up in Wyoming and Colorado and earned her BFA in painting alongside Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 2006. Bergeland keeps a studio in Philadelphia, PA.

Combining figurative realism with abstracted or imagined elements and spaces, her work talks with the use of symbolism. She has a strong desire to suspend the question- to allow it to sit. To get comfortable with questions not needing to be answered. Bergeland has a strong desire to enlarge the social narrative; specifically surrounding our ideas surrounding the way we think about masculinity and femininity.

Bergeland has exhibited nationally and had her first solo exhibition in 2022. Her, work has been featured in Create Magazine, Friend of the Artist, Philadelphia Magazine, 1st Look TV, Artit Magazine, Root Quarterly, The Visionary Projects, Fuerteventura Times, and Design Sponge. She is the illustrator of the children’s books, Being Edie is Hard Today (2019), and The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection (2021), with publisher Little,Brown and Company. The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection received a Kirkus Star review, an NPR review, was listed among “The 10 Best Children’s Books of 2021” by Smithsonian Magazine, and her illustrations were selected by the Society of Illustrators Museum for their annual “Original Art Show”. She lives with her husband and three children.