Elisa Garcia de la Huerta was born in Santiago, Chile on March 19th, 1983. She received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile in 2006. She lived in London, UK in 2007. In 2008 she received the Chilean Bicentennial National Scholarship to do her Master in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts. She got her MFA at SVA in 2011. She currently lives in New York City where she developes her interdisciplinary art practice independently and as a member of the feminist art performance collective The Push Pops with whom she recently received a NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship to do "Oral History of Ice Cream" in the summer of 2012 and is currently doing a residency at Soho20 Gallery.