Elizabeta Betinski is a producer, writer and curator with roots transplanted to Los Angeles from Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Elizabeta was a founder and Director of Overtones Gallery, a contemporary art space in Los Angeles that showcased 70+ national and international artists in over forty exhibitions from 2003 through 2009. She was a co-editor of the seminal encyclopedia on Los Angeles artists, L.A. Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, published in December 2010 by the California/International Arts. In 2012, she graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Via bardoLA, a Los Angeles-based arts nonprofit organization that Elizabeta established in 2014, she curated and produced We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles that premiered as a Collateral Event at La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2015. In 2016-17 Elizabeta served as Executive Director of the inaugural Desert X, a major international contemporary art exhibition featuring site-specific installations throughout the desert in Coachella Valley, California. Returning to her work with bardoLA in 2019, she helped bring AFRICOBRA to the 58th iteration of La Biennale di Venezia and in 2022, Elizabeta curated and produced the organization’s third official Collateral Event, Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light for the 59th La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2022.