Working across painting, collage, artist books, and poetry, Elizabeth Allen-Cannon explores the amorphous and unstable qualities of femininity, comparisons between women and nature, as well as ancient and modern aspects of landscape. Her work engages the drama between framing device and pictorial space; the real and the abstract.

Elizabeth 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 (New York, NY) and in 2021, received the Exile Books Exhibitor Prize at Small Press Fair (Fort Lauderdale, FL). Her artist book entitled "Heat, Tropics, Magic, Juice" was selected for an Individual Artist Project Grant by the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture.

Elizabeth has worked in various administrative capacities at institutions such as Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO), The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL), Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL).

Elizabeth has previously taught at Kansas City Art Institute in the Department of Continuing Education, and at University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts. She has given lectures on her work at University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL) and Eastern Florida State College (Cocoa, FL).

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