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Elizabeth DeCoste is a Toronto-based artist with a BFA in cross-disciplinary arts from Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Their work revolves around the collection of natural materials and the methodologies of its display based in research on museology, scientific illustration, and folk taxonomy. Working primarily in sculpture, printmaking, and collage, their work explores ways of knowing that surround human-nature relationships.

DeCoste grew up in Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, Saskatchewan, the traditional territory of the Nêhiyawak, the Anihšināpēk, the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota nations, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. They are currently living and working in Toronto, the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Huron-Wendat, and the Missassaugas of the Credit.