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Elise Ansel (b. New York, NY) received her Master of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1984. 

She has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Cadogan Contemporary, London, United Kingdom; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Danese/Corey, New York, NY; David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI; David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT; The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; and Auxier/Kline, New York, NY.

Ansel has been included in institutional group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; and Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków, Kraków, Poland; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Eli Lilly Foundation, Indianapolis, IN; Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Ice, Miller, Denadio, and Ryan, Indianapolis, IN; Sopwell House, St. Albans, United Kingdom; Art Masters Solutions, London, United Kingdom; and the Spring Island Trust, Spring Island, SC.

Ansel lives and works between New York and Maine.