Elisa Ortega Montilla is an artist who works and exhibits between the U.S. and Spain. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California in 2019, after over a decade of international social work.  Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, KCRW, LUM Art Magazine, and the University of California's Women's Month, among other places. Her projects have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, and art fairs in Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, China, and the U.S, including the Torrance Art Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, and most recently, at the Textile Art Biennial at Est_Art Space, Madrid. She has received numerous awards, grants, and residencies, including from the Rafael Botí Foundation, California Arts Council, Sustainable Arts Foundation; and Vermont Studio Center, among others. She recently completed the PEI (Independent Studies Programme) at MACBA.