Elisabeth Tonnard

Elisabeth Tonnard is an artist and poet working in artists’ books, photography and conceptual literature. Since 2003 she has published twenty-eight books, which are included in numerous private and public collections. The bookworks range in scale and method from a book that is completely invisible, to a book containing a short story that swallowed a novel, to a book that is a swimming pool. The work has won several awards, most recently the Jury Prize in the 2011 Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, and is being exhibited widely. Tonnard received an MA in literature from the Radboud University in The Netherlands and a MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. In her work, literature is processed by visual culture and visual events are seen in the light of literature. She lives and works in The Netherlands.