Ella Mahoney is a visual artist, illustrator, and educator, and a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). She holds a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts and an MA in Art Education from Pratt Institute. Her interdisciplinary practice centers on storytelling, often drawing from Wampanoag creation stories and her personal experience of indigeneity and connection to land and water.
Working primarily in oil, acrylic, and silk painting, Mahoney’s recent work focuses on large-scale silk installations that evoke the movement, memory, and atmosphere of north east coastal environments. She has illustrated children’s books for the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project and collaborated with institutions such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Long Island Children’s Museum, and MassArt, exhibiting in gallery and museum settings and creating immersive works in dialogue with performance and place.