[3] She was awarded the price Humankind Leo Burnet in 2013[4] and the 23rd Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art in 2022.
[5][6] Elsa Werth practice includes installation, sculpture, video, artist's books, and sound pieces.
[8] She uses alternative modes of exchange and expression to contradict a world she considers subject to the cult of material values.
Since 2016 she curates Potential Visual Evocations,[10] an ongoing outdoor traveling exhibition that took place in Paris, Clichy, Shanghai, Montreal, La Louvière and Seoul.
[11] Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou,[12] Kadist Art Foundation,[13] Les Abattoirs,[14] Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Normandie-Caen [fr],[15] the Frac des Pays de la Loires,[16] the Frac Franche-Comté [fr],[17] the Centre national des arts plastiques,[18] the Rennes 2 University Cabinet du livre d'artistes.