Elvira Hufschmid is a multimedia artist; Diploma/Meisterschülerin »Sculpture« Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar Saar/Germany and Master of Fine Arts, »New Genres« San Francisco Art Institute/USA 2002;


Artist in Residence 2011-13 at TRIUMF - Canadas National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, (with Ingrid Koenig und Margit Schild);

Visiting Artist Emily Carr University Vancouver/Canada 2010 and 2011 (with Margit Schild);
Lecturer for »Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice«, Music Departement at the University of Arts Berlin/D 2010;
2007-09 Guestprofessor for "Artistic Transformation Processes" in an interdisciplinary team of eleven artists and academics at the University of the Arts Berlin/D; Lecturer at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar/Germany 2003-2004 and Kunsthochschule (Academy of Fine Arts) Weissensee Berlin/ Germany, 2005/06;


2010 Grant of the Rhein Neckar Cultural Foundation, Heidelberg/D (with Kaaren Beckhoff); 2009 Grant "KunstKommunikation" of the DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst/D (with Margit Schild and Antje Havemann).
2006 Karl Hofer Prize University of the Arts Berlin for the joint project “Stille Post!” (Chinese Whispers!); Grant of the Hans-Böckler Foundation Düsseldorf/D; Kunst-Förderpreis of the Capital of the Federal State of Saarbrücken/D 2004; Jack & Gertrude Murphy Award der San Francisco Foundation/USA 2001; Student Grant of the Hans-Böckler Foundation Düsseldorf/D 1998.