Elizabeth Presa (born 1956) is an Australian visual artist and academic based in Melbourne. She is Head of the interdisciplinary Victorian College of the Arts Centre for Ideas. Working with sculpture her work uses a range of materials and processes, including sericulture, apiculture and casting. Some of her installations use plaster as a forensic tool to examine traces of the psyche, biological life and the environment. She is an academic, an author and has also worked as a curator and gallery director.