Elena Sisto (born 1952, in Boston, MA) is an American painter based in New York.
Her work is influenced by Philip Guston, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, and other modernist artists.
She is known for her figurative paintings laden with symbolic meaning, that frequently focus on the experience of being a woman artist.
In an essay published in March 2016,[1] critic and former Museum of Modern Art curator Robert Storr compared Sisto to contemporary artists Carroll Dunham and Dana Schutz.
Her work has been the subject of essays by Stephen Westfall,[6] Robert Storr, Debra Bricker Balken, Carol Kino, Hearne Pardee,[7] and inspired the fiction piece Pan’s Fair Throng by novelist Rick Moody.