Elisabeth Arkhipoff was born in the Ivory Coast in 1973 in a bi-cultural family (Ukrainian father and Armenian mother). She studied contemporary literature and philosophy, and started her artistic career in 2000. She has had exhibitions at the Paris Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden; and the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.  Her work has been reproduced in several catalogues and magazines including: Frieze, Suddeutsche Zeitung, IDEA, ZOO, Dazed and Confused, Studio Voice, and Victionary. She lives and works in Paris.