Lisa Ellis

Lisa Ellis has been the Conservator, Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Art Gallery of Ontario since 2007. Before that she held objects conservation positions, fellowships and internships at the MFA, Boston, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Historic New England, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Parks Canada, the Redpath and McCord Museums (Montreal), as well as at the Agora Excavations in Athens, Greece, and at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology labs in Bodrum, Turkey. Currently, Lisa is part of an international research team devoted to understanding the bronze works of Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). Most recently, she was the technical lead for the award winning exhibition “Small Wonders: Boxwood Gothic Miniatures” which opened at the AGO in 2016 and went on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum. Lisa has lectured and published widely on the use of cutting edge technology  used for both the fundamental research and in the exhibition space of “Small Wonders,” in particular Micro CT scanning, Advanced 3D Analysis software and Virtual Reality. Lisa has recently begun an intensive technical investigation of a 16th century, Northern European wooden sculpture in the AGO’s collection, and continues to work with miniature Gothic boxwoods.