Etanda Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with paint who was born, lives, and creates on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), colonially referred to as Vancouver. She completed her BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2026. Elliott’s work is a synthesis of her fascination with the mundane phenomena and objects of everyday life and with the formal and material qualities of paint and other media.

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​Her works explore modes of seeing and inquiries of perception. She works from a personal archive of photographs. Her approach varies, sometimes allowing for a recognizable connection between her photography and her finished work, while at other times taking a more distant or abstract formal departure. She works with paint and its unique material qualities to expand upon her encounters and observations within her surroundings; this expansion is contingent on allowing space for both the conscious and unconscious in her artistic decision making. Formally her work borrows from the visual vocabularies of modernist painting, photography and film, print making, collage, and the digital realm.