Education

2007
Master of Fine Arts
Studio Art, University of British Columbia

2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major in Visual Art, Simon Fraser University

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise
Curated by Karina Iskandarsjah, Trinity Square Video, Vitrine, Toronto                                                                                                           

2016
High Kicks Into the Air Forever and Ever and Ever
Curated by Vanessa Kwan
grunt gallery, Vancouver

2011
Auditions
Curated by Shaun Dacey
Access Gallery, Vancouver

2006
Character Sketches
Curated by Sharon Bradley
Parking Spot Gallery, Vancouver
In Conjunction with SWARM 2006

Group Exhibitions

Upcoming 2024 (October)
We Made This Mostly at Home with Stuff We Already Had in Our Apartment: Prop Performance and Camp in Contemporary Canadian Video Art
Curated by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau. FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton        

2018
Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
Curated by Whitney Brennan
Access Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2017
Love and Rockets
Curated by Derrick Chang
VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, BC

2017
Soft
Curated by Coral Short
Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany

2015
Spirit Gum
Curated by Jesse Birch and Kara Hansen
Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC

2014
Beside Yourself
Curated by Marina Roy
AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Center, UBC

2013
Back to the Door
Curated by Kim Nguyen
Artspeak, Vancouver, BC

2012
Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses
Curated by Jordan Strom
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC

2011
Cabin Fever (touring exhibition)
Curated by JJ Kegan McFadden
Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan

Re-Live
LIVE 2011, Performance Art Biennale
Curated by Jesse Birch, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver

Not Sent Letters Cabaret
Curated by Jeremy Todd, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver

The Fair: International Contemporary Art in Vancouver
Waldorf Hotel, Representing Access Gallery

2010
This is Uncomfortable: Relational Dissonance in Recent Video
Gallery TPW, Toronto
Curated by Gabrielle Moser and Arpi Kovacs

Cabin Fever
Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg
Curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden

2009
Yule Log Invitational
VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver

2007
Green
UBC Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver

Since Before and After
Simon Fraser University Alumni Exhibition
Alexander Centre, Vancouver

2006
Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
UBC Master of Fine Art, Curatorial Studies Exhibition
Belkin Satellite, Vancouver

2004
Deeper and Deeper, A Collaborative Project
Peter Conlin, Elizabeth Milton
Access Gallery, Vancouver

Production, Consumption, Function
The Meeting: Jesse Gray, Vishal Jugdeo, Paul Kajander, Elizabeth Milton Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
Curated by Jeremy Todd
In Conjunction with InFest, Festival of Artist Run Culture

Entertaining Performance, Performing Entertainment
CounterPublics Ad Hoc Project Space, Vancouver

2003
Signal and Noise
Curated by Jen Weih
VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver

Performances

2023
Queen Tilly & the Marys
LIVE Performance Art Biennale 
VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC

2019
Guided Meditation with VHS Eyelashes
Capture Photography Festival, Featured Programming
VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC

2018
Dynasty Handbag’s Weirdo Night
Zebulon, Los Angeles, California

Pink Waves
Deconstrukt Projekts, Brooklyn, NY

Pink Noise
Not Sent Letters & Guests
Dynamo, Vancouver, BC

2017
Downfall
Shooting Gallery Performance Series
Dusty Flowerpot, Vancouver, BC

Punching A Pillow Until The Sun Rises
Nuit Blanche Toronto
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario

Tastemakers Series: Big Rock Candy Mountain
with Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling
Queen Alexandra Elementary School, Vancouver, BC

2015
Spirit Gum Interpretive Tour as Norma Rocher
Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC

Spirit Gum Cabaret
Nanaimo, BC

2014
Opening Gala, Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Vancouver, BC

Science Fair
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver, BC

Terrible Beauty
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery

Not Sent Letters Cabaret
VIVO Media Arts Centre

2013
Not Sent Letters Cabaret
Western Front, Vancouver

Hold Them Up in Good Light
Access Gallery, Vancouver

2012
Red Alert: A Talk Show on the Brink of Disaster
Performance with Olof Ollson
Western Front, Vancouver

Again and Again and Again
FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery

Not Sent Letters Cabaret
Presenting in A Room: A Deeper Investigation into Presenting in a Room

2009
Jerry and Liza, Whiskey Pitt Cabaret
Helen Pitt Gallery, WISE Hall, Vancouver

2008
Jerry and Liza Performance
Access Gallery, Vancouver

2006
Helen’s Wedding (with Paul Kajander)
Helen Pitt Gallery, Heritage Hall, Vancouver

2005
Jerry and Liza, The Happiest Night of Your Life
Helen Pitt Gallery ARC & Access Gallery

2004
Jerry and Liza Performance (with Jeremy Todd)
Access Gallery, Ukrainian Hall, Vancouver

Video Screenings

2019
Cracks and Vines, Place
Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Vancouver

2018
Cotton Candy Insullation Keeps You Warm and Cuts Like Glass
in conjunction with Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
Access Gallery, Vancouver

Curation

2015
Waves & Flickers, Projections and Music in the Planetarium
Hello Blue Roses, Holy Hum, Red Hot Icicles Burning on Fire, Jen Weih, Khan Lee and Steve Hubert
MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver, BC

Artist Talks 

2024
Visiting Artist on Persona in Video Art, Lauren Marsden’s Media Studio Course
Emily Carr University of Art & Design

2020
Visiting Artist, Matilda Aslizadeh’s Media Studio course
Department of Visual Art, Art History & Theory
University of British Columbia

2019

Panel Discussion: Personality/Persona: Identity Building in Photography
Capture Photography Festival, Inform Interiors, Vancouver, BC

2018
Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
Access Gallery with Whitney Brennan, Sydney Southam, Lauren Marsden

2017
Special Sunday Supper, Curated by Sydney Southam
Performative Artist Talk with Tara Travis
Vancouver, BC

Tastemakers, Organized by Helen Reed & Hannah Jickling
Intervention and Artist Talk
Queen Alexandra Elementary School, Vancouver, BC

2016
High Kicks Into the Air Forever and Ever and Ever
Group Meditation/Artist Talk, grunt gallery, BC

Artist Talk | Performance Based Practice
Douglas College, BC

2015
Artist Talk as part of Dazzle Camouflage
Art Lab, Nanaimo Art Gallery, BC

Screen Time, Organized by Theatre Replacement
Panel Response to Niwa Gekidan Penino’s A Room Nobody Knows

 2014
Public Artist Talk
Artspeak, Vancouver, BC

2014
Langara College Fall Articulation Series
Vancouver, BC

2012
Surrey Art Gallery
Educational Outreach Program
Artist Talk in relation to Scences of Selves exhibition

2012

SFU Community Engagement Office and the Portland Hotel
Super Cool Tuesdays: Introduction to Contemporary Art

2011
Emily Carr University (North Island College)
Speaker Series, Guest Lecturer

2011
Access Gallery, Vancouver
re: Auditions Exhibition and Residency, Public Artist Talk

2009
Langara College Fall Articulation Series
Public Artist Talk

2007
Green, Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
Public Thesis Defence

2004
Production, Consumption, Function
Helen Pitt Gallery
In conjunction with Infest Festival of Artist Run Culture

Reviews

June 14, 2018, Canadian Art, “Must Sees” (Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech)

“Showing at Nuit Blanche” Morgan Bocknek, The Globe and Mail, Metro, September 30, 2017 pressreader.com

“Nuit blanche 2017 Gay Guide” Justin Gray, Yohomo, September 30, 2017 yohomo.ca/blog/nuit-blanche-2017-gay-guide

April 3, 2016, Michael Turner, Preview Magazine, “Elizabeth Milton: High Kicks Into the Light Forever and Ever and Ever”

July 8, 2015, Sadaf Ahsan, National Post, “Haters’ Guide to Summer: Cool down with culture”

June 24th, 2015, Vancouver Sun. “What’s On”, Re: Waves and Flickers

Nanaimo News Bulletin,”Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Newest Exhibition Examines Human Performance”
Nicholas Pescod, June 9th, 2015

Nanaimo Daily News, “Spirit Gum Merges Costume with Character”
June 6, 2015

Ha, Bo. “Elizabeth Milton”., Left Coast Art, June 2015

“Phalluses, Freud, and Pig Ladies at the Groundswell Cafe”
Adrian Mack, Georgia Straight, May 6th, 2015

FPA 319W-2014, “Beside Yourself”, Anchi Lin
December, 2014

City Lights, Novus TV. April 2014, Fuse Vancouver Art Gallery | Terrible Beauty

“Scenes of Selves: Occasions for Ruses Examines Contemporary Self Portraiture”
Robin Laurence, Georgia Straight, September 25, 2012

“Not Sent Letters Cabaret”
Amy Fung, Post Pacific Post, January 22, 2012

“Re-LIVE feat. Raymond Boisjoly, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Curtis Grahauer, Brian Lye,Elizabeth Milton, Ron Tran. Curated by Jesse Birch.”
Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Stacey Ho

“Elizabeth Milton: Summer Stock”
Leah Sandals, Canadian Art, Online, “See it”, May 5, 2011

“Amy Fung’s Top 3: Prairie Prescience”
Amy Fung, Canadian Art, Online Reviews, December 23, 2010

“Art Burn: Give Me Fever”
Sandee Moore, Uptown Magazine, November 11, 2010

“Expressing Suppression”
Elysse Huratdo, The Manitoban, Visual Art Reviews, November 16, 2010

“Group Show at Gallery TPW”, Arts, Review
Matthew Purvis, Blog TO, July 5, 2010

“This is Uncomfortable: Awkward Artistries”
Adi Baker, Canadian Art, Online Reviews, July 22, 2010

“Art Gallery: Belkin Exhibit: Spookily Exciting”,
Monica Rudd, The Peak issue 7, volume 125, February 19, 2007

“Swarm 7: Smiths “Karaoke Offers Irony”,
Alexander Varty, Georgia Straight, September 14-21, 2006, p.81

Critical Essays and Curatorial Texts

Weiyi Chang, “Queen Tilly & the Marys”, LIVE Performance Art Biennale 2023, Response

ed. Lavery, Lauren,  “Elizabeth Milton: Artist Feature”, Peripheral Review Annual Print Publication 2019, Toronto

Randal, Chris. “New Feelings: Roach Complex” Real Life Magazine, NY, June 13, 2019.

Brennan, Whitney. “Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech” Curatorial Text, 2018

Jickling, Hannah and Helen Reed. “Tastemakers” Postscript, 2017.

“Shooting Gallery, Curator’s Note” Sarah Gallos, September 29, 2017

Helen Reed, 2016, Stretch Sateen, in relation to High Kicks Into the Air Forever and Ever and Ever

Del Bucchia, Dina. “Back to the Door,” Postscript, 2014.

Marina Roy, 2012 “Office Takes, Auditions and Casting Couch”
Critical Text in relation to Auditions Exhibition
Published by Access Gallery, Vancouver

J.J. Kegan McFadden, 2010 “Cabin Fever”
Critical Text in relation to Cabin Fever Exhibition
Published by Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg

Gabriel Moser & Arpi Kovacs, 2010 “This is Uncomfortable”
Critical Text in relation to This is Uncomfortable: Relational Dissonance in Recent Video
Published by Gallery TPW, Toronto

Kirsten Forkert, 2004, “Economy of Means”
Published in Correlation with: Production, Consumption and Function, Helen Pitt Gallery

Artist Residencies

2019
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, ON

2018
Deconstrukt Projekts, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Skaftfell Centre for Visual Art, Iceland

2011
Access Gallery with Support from the Western Front
May 9 — June 25, 2011
Access Gallery Residency Programme, Vancouver

2010
Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
August — September, 2010
Self Directed Summer Residency

Awards & Grants

2022
Explore & Create, Canada Council of the Arts

2020
BC Arts Council Project Grant for Visual Arts

2013
BC Arts Council Visual Art Project Grant

2005
Graduate Entrance Scholarship (UBC)

2004
Visual Art Development Award (VADA) | Contemporary Art Gallery & Vancouver Foundation

2001
Burnaby Art Gallery Award for Visual Art | Award for Excellence at Simon Fraser University

Community

2015-2019
Board of Directors
Artspeak, Vancouver, BC

2008–2011
Vice President of Board of Directors
Helen Pitt Gallery, ARC

2003–2008
Volunteer
Access Gallery & Helen Pitt Gallery

Auctions

2022
Peripheral Review, Auction, Toronto

2021
Photorama (Edition), Gallery TPW, Toronto

2015
Access Gallery, Auction, Vancouver

2012
Western Front, 39th Anniversary Auction
Let There Be Light, Vancouver

2012
Access Gallery
Groove is in the Art, Vancouver

2011
Access Gallery
Total Eclipse of the Art, Vancouver

2011
Helen Pitt Gallery Auction, Vancouver                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Professional Experience

2008
Programme Coordinator, Artspeak

2006
Head Costume Designer
Hero of Our Times, Film Production
Director: Matilda Aslizadeh

Artist Mentorships

2015-present
Dazzle Camouflage, Youth Program
Nanaimo Art Gallery
Nanaimo, BC

2019
Mentor for Dance and Performance
Made in BC
Mentorship with Zahra Shabab

2016
Code Switching, Youth Program
Nanaimo Art Gallery
Nanaimo, BC

Art Instruction

2023-present
Assistant Department Chair
Department of Fine Arts. Langara College

2009-present
Faculty
Department of Fine Arts. Langara College

2011-2014
Adjunct Faculty
Visual Arts, School for Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University

2009-2011
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Continuing Education, Emily Carr University of Art & Design