Elisabeth Mraz was born in Vienna in 1969. She works with textile materials, focusing primarily on knitting, as well as embroidery and crochet. She also draws and paints. Her works are characterized by a strong ornamental quality and emerge through a slow, continuous process.

Mraz has been working at Jugend am Werk since 1999. In 2018, she moved from the housekeeping department to a studio at Haus werd:art, where she has worked continuously on her art ever since