Ellen Driscoll is an artist whose sculptures, drawings, and installations explore resource consumption and material lineage. Her large-scale public works include Night to Day, Here and Away for the Sarasota National Cemetery; Distant Mirrors for the Providence River; FastForwardFossil #2 at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Revenant and Phantom Limb for Nippon Ginko in Hiroshima. Earlier projects include The Loophole of Retreat at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, As Above, So Below for Grand Central Terminal, Catching the Drift for the Smith College Museum of Art, and Wingspun for Raleigh–Durham International Airport. Driscoll has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Anonymous Was a Woman, and others, and a 2014 Fine Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is Program Director of Studio Arts at Bard College.
