Elisabeth Condon is a painter and traveler, whose work re-interprets Chinese principles of balance for an information-saturated world. Condon received the 2015 New York Pulse Prize for the body of work she created during a six-month residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai in 2014.
In 2015 Condon also received the New York Studio School Alumni Association's Mercedes Matter Award. Other awards and fellowships include a Hanban Confucius Institute Understanding China Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Florida Individual Artist Grant and numerous University research grants. Artist residencies include the Florida Everglades (AIRIE), Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai, Grand Canyon National Park, Wupatki Natiional Monument, Corporation of Yaddo, Fountainhead and Red Gate Beijing, among others.
In 2009 Condon's work was featured in a survey exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA, for which a catalog was published. Condon's work is held in public collections including the US Embassy Beijing, Swatch Art Peace Hotel Traces Collection Shanghai, The Sweeney Print Collection at the Museum of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, FL, the JP Morgan/ Chase Collection NY and the Francie Bishop Good Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
A Los Angeles native now based in New York, Condon has strong ties to Florida, where she was Associate Professor of Painting & Drawing at the University of South Florida, Tampa from 2003-14. Condon's work is represented by Lesley Heller Workspace, New York and Emerson-Dorsch, Miami.