Elizabeth Allen-Cannon is an artist working primarily in painting and collage. Her work explores the amorphous and unstable qualities of femininity, as well as ancient and modern aspects of landscape. Attracted to that which is dated, sentimental, and matronly, she uses painting as a site for the obsessive untangling of the past, and for the endless project of her own self-reinvention. Her most recent work is an artist book containing four poems, the text of which oscillates in legibility while describing various female characters: a personification of a tree, the spirit of a 7,000 year old pond, and several caricatures of herself. She has participated in residencies at Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO ), Ox-bow (Saugatuck, MI), and Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY). Her work has been published in New American Paintings and exhibited at Nationale (Portland, OR), Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Carthage College (Kenosha, WI). In 2015, her artist book Native Tongues was acquired by the Artist Book Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Currently, Elizabeth teaches in the Performing and Visual Art Department at Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL).