Elizabeth Renstrom

Elizabeth Renstrom is a Brooklyn-based artist working across photography, video, and installation. Her work creates safe yet critical spaces that use identity to examine the effects of nostalgia. Through these spaces, she investigates the way we use images and how we craft our identities in relation to pop culture. Often her work contrasts themes of feminism with the pitfalls of commercialism. Renstrom replicates the bright pop of editorial photography within her personal work, inspired by years working in magazines. This, combined with elaborate sets and a touch of humor, become a tool to interrogate the advice columns magazines sell to young women. Renstrom published her first book, Carnal Knowledge, in 2020 with Prestel UK. Her editorial work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Instagram, and Vice, among others.