Elissa Rae Ecker is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and lecturer currently working in Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a BFA in painting from the Peck School of the Arts at The University of Milwaukee, USA, and an MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA. Elissa’s work deals with relationships between femininity, consumerism, and domesticity. The work explores the absurdities of gendered objects and expectations of the spaces we create and willingly inhabit in a capitalist-driven marketplace that encourages consumption. Often wry in execution, her work spans object making, time-based media, and net-art experiments.
As a founding member of LIV_ID (Bangkok-based feminist art collective) she also curates and creates art experiences beyond typical art world boundaries with projects including a local market pavilion in the 2018 Bangkok Biennial as well as projects with the French Embassy of Bangkok for their annual Galleries night.