Elizabeth Tinglof is a Los Angeles based artist and curator interested in the changing conversation of our eco and cultural landscape. Her abstract environmental depictions are reminiscent of aerial topography with surfaces that reference the essence and mapping of garden plans, as if one could unearth the traces of environmental history beneath the soil. 

She is the founder of Rough Play Projects, Joshua Tree, CA raw land designated for Site-specific Installations and co-founder of Rough Play Collective, an artists curatorial group based in Los Angeles. Tinglof recently became an awardee of The Versailles Foundation/Munn Artist In Residence Program, Claude Monet Gardens, Giverney, France (2022), which has lead to a her current collaborative project Unearthing, participated in the exhibition, Seeds - Soil, ​​​​​​Seaver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020) and completed an artist residency at the Gilsfjörður Arts Artist Residency, Westfjords, Iceland (2019). She has also curated several exhibitions including, Still (2022), Have to Hold (2020), SHE (2018) at Launch Gallery, LA, CA.

Her work has been exhibited throughout Southern CA including exhibitions with The Robert Berman Gallery and Berman/Turner Projects, Bergmont Station, Santa Monica, CA and California State University, Northridge Gallery, The Brand Library Gallery, Launch LA Gallery and Cerritos College Gallery, Post, Backspace, Embed Gallery and Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School. Tinglof has recently expanded her work internationally with a collaborative site-specific installation for Holme Kunst in Arrhus, Denmark

In 2010 volunteering as a photo journalist, and video documentarian Tinglof documented the after effects of the Gulf oil spill and the 2010 Haiti earthquake for the UCLA-HGD Project, a non-profit organization providing  medical care and education to Petit Goave, Haiti. 

Tinglof received her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, her MFA from California State University Northridge and in 2016 attended Sotheby's Art Institute London for a curatorial program. She is a recipient of the the EJ Leiber Fund Award (2012), CSUN Arts Council Award (2011), The Hans Burkhardt Memorial Scholarship (2010) and The Graduate Association Thesis Research Award (2010).