Elena Disabato is a painter and mixed media artist living in the Logan Square neighborhood of her hometown, Chicago. Following college at Syracuse University (BFA ’00) with a semester in Florence, Italy studying Renaissance painting, she lived in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, curating the fine art portion of bi-monthly “Art & Science” events at Galapagos Art Space, until 2006 when she returned to Chicago. Three of her pieces were shown in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for the Sustainable Architecture Chicago exhibit in tandem with Bruce Mao’s Massive Change exhibit.
She took a hiatus from creative expression to forge a career marketing for architects, which proved to only stifle her ability to make Art. Beginning in 2018, she reintroduced herself to her creative process and pursued securing over a dozen commissions in the next 2 years. In 2020 she decided to leave the architecture industry and pursue making Art full time. She has been making new work regularly ever since and is actively taking commissions.
