Their[a] work concerns disability, justice, temporality, and historical experience.
Their debut album, The Clearing (2021), accompanied by a book, is described as a score of stuttering[2] and an act of resistance against performative fluency.
[3] Ellis has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship (2022),[4] a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2022),[5] and a Creative Capital Grant (2022).
[6] The artist received MacDowell residency Fellowships in 2019 and 2022.
[7] Ellis is represented twice in the 2024 Whitney Biennial as a solo artist and a member of the People Who Stutter Create (PWSC) collective.