Elinor Carucci

ELINOR CARUCCI
B.1971

ELINOR CARUCCI

Elinor Carucci was born in Israel and lives and works in New York.

Carucci's work is an intimate glimpse into her life and that of her parents, husband and children. As Carucci explains:

"The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world."

Her initial photographs often depicted her mother and now as a mother herself she frequently depicts her own children.

Solo exhibitions in London include The Photographers Gallery in 1998 and Gagosian Gallery in 2003.

Carucci was included in The Naked Portrait 1900-2007 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2007 and will be included in Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2010.

Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. In a relatively short amount of time, her work has been included in an impressive amount of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, London among others.

Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.

She was awarded the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Young Photographer in 2001 and The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. Carucci has published two monographs to date, her defining first book, Closer, is now available in a second edition with a new foreword by Susan Kismaric (Curator, Department of Photography, MoMA). Carucci currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and is represented by James Hyman Gallery, London and by i2i for her commercial work.

Lives and works in New York City

Solo Exhibitions

2009
My Children, Le Bleu du ciel, Lyon, France

2008

Women in photography, www.wipnyc.org

2007

Biennale de la Photographie, Luik, Belgium

Art Academy of Cincinnati, Convergys Gallery

2006

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York NY

2005

Diary of a dancer, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany

Diary of a dancer, 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium

It's me, Herzlia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlia, Israel

Diary of a dancer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

Photography Gallery Vilnius: Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers, Lithuania

Analix Forever, Geneva, SZ

Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia

Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2004

Images of family and pain - Scalo Gallery, Zurich, SZ

Closer, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

New Gallery/Thom Andriola, Houston, TX

2003

Closer, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2002

Closer, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Closer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium

2000

Details, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

1999

Details, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic

Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany

1998

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

1997

Ricco\Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

1996

Princeton University, Visual Arts Gallery, Princeton, NJ
National Arts Club, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2009
The Intimate Line, Sepia Gallery, New York
The Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans

2008

Second Skin - show continues to travel to Museo de Arte Contemoráneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico

2007

The Naked Portrait, curated by Martin Hammer, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Kiss & Tell, Curated by Kate Menconeri, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

On the Wall: Aperture magazine '05-'06 - Photographs by Aperture magazine artists, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY

Second Skin, Germany - Tour Exhibitiob dates/venues: 10 March - 06 May, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 30 June - 26 August, Kauhsiung Museum of Fine Arts

2006

Darmstadtr Tageder Fotografie, Germany

The Body Familiar, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA

The Female Figure, PS122 gallery, New York, NY

2005

Dash, London, Israel

Contemporary Israeli Photography, Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy

2004

Water, Ricco /Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

Love is in the air - Zman le Omanut, Tel Aviv, Israel

Water water everywhere - Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York NY

New Faculty - The Carpenter center - Harvard University

2003

New Inventory -, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

locating intimacy - SF Camera work, San Francisco, CA

the family - Windsor, Vero Beach , FL

Contemporary Art / Recent Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Self Performed, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA

Musrara - New York, Morel Drefler Gallery in Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel

Flesh Tones - 100 years of the nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York

As you like it, Visual art gallery, New York, NY

Hair the Show - Tabernacle, London, UK

2002

Naked - art upstairs, East Hampton, NY

Ten years: A Celebration 1993-2002 - John Kobal Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Skin, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY

The National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2001

Pretty, Ricco /Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award - The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

True story - Four-person show, Woodstock Center of Photography, NY

Images beyond the naked eye - WWF Exhibition, Traveling show in Europe and USA

2000

Grace, Woodstock Center of Photography, NY

Self-portraits, Galeria de Arte Fotografico, Mexico

Self portraits, New Gallery, Houston, TX

Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest, Houston, TX

1999

Elinor Carucci - Images from Vogue, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

Female, (curate by Vince Aletti), Wessel+O'connor, New York, NY

West and, Young Israeli Art, New York NY

Fiction Reality, Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Naked, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Looking Back over the Year, Association Gallery, London, UK

The Body Show, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK

Backstage, Serge Sorokko Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Madness, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany

Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY

Israeli Photography Today, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Blue, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1997

Oh Mama, The Museum of Israeli Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Sleepers, James Cox Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Realities, Ricco\Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
New Photography, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Bibliography

2007

The Honors Journal 2007 - Humanities -Come closer: Examining Elinor Carucci, Audrey Lawson

Mesachkim be nidme li - Haaretz weekend magazine - Yael Katzeer

2005

ARTnews , November - Exhibition review by Robert Ayers

PopPhoto.com (10/11) - Elinor Carucci Revealed - David Schonauer

The New Yorker (10/16) - exhibition image

The New Yorker (10/2) - exhibition review - Vince Aletti

Korean Photo, November - The Diary of Elinor Carucci - Bokyung Kim

Fahrenheit Arte Contemporaneo -August -September - La Mirada sutil de Elinor Carucci, Mariana Musi, Mexico

Digifoto, March - Elinor Carucci Ontmoeting Met

Aperture, Spring, - Elinor Carucci Theatre of Intimacy - portfolio and text by Diana C. Koll

Royal Photographic Society, November, book review by Anne Braydon

China Photo Press - Portfolio

American Photo, November December - In Focus - Review

Popular Photography, May - The Short List - Mason Resnik

360 Ma'a lot, May -June - Dance! - Profile by Eyal Vaiser

Forward (5/1) - The Sensual Embrace of Elinor Carucci's camera, Erica Brody

PDN, March - End frame, Jessica Todd Harper on Elinor Carucci

The Sunday telegraph Magazine (7/31) - Dancer in the dark - Kate Salter

Zeek, (10/28) - Diary of a dancer, Elliot Markell

ArtReview, September-October - Exhibition Review

360 degree, Israel (July) - Dance - profile

The British Journal of Photography (8/24) - Dance of life - 5 page profile, text by Katie Scott

The Village Voice (8/10), Choices - pick - exhibition review

The New Yorker (8/1) - exhibition review, Vince Aletti

The Sunday Telegraph Magazine (7/31) - Dancer in the dark - 4 page profile, text by Kate Salter

Eyemazing, Issue 7 - - Diary of a dancer - 8 page portfolio, text by Anna Holzman

The New York Times Magazine (5/22) - Night moves - 8 page portfolio

Popular Photography, May - The Short List - Mason Resnick

The Guardian (5/28), Review - In the picture

Zeek, Spring - Cover

Forward (4/1) - Private Dancer - Erica Brody

PDN, March - End Frame

Shots 87 - Self portraits

2004

Globs Ha'erev (11/15) - The family don't mind to be photograpged, they fell interesting - profile, Marisa Katz

Heeb, Summer, The guilt issue - Saying good bye

Art World China, June - Cover + 6 page profile - Yin Zi

The Village Voice (4/28) - New York in Bed - Cover + 3 pages and interview - Vince Aletti

PDN, May - Photo Annual, Magazine/Editorial

The Jerusalem Post (4/8) - Review - Gil Golfine

Haaretz (4/14) - Levels of intimacy, Review - Uzi Tzur

TimeOut Tel Aviv (4/1) - 10 facts on Elinor Carucci - Aviva Levinson

Haaretz weekend magazine (4/2) - No secrets, no lies, a profile - Dalia Karpel

The Guardian (4/1) - Why I love Elinor Carucci - Nick Johnstone

adbusters, Jan/Feb - 1 image featured

2003

Shots 82, December - 7 page profile, Russell Joslin

PDNedu, October - cover + 3 pages, all in the family - Elinor Carucci shoots close to home, Roberta Bernsten

adbusters, Sept/Oct - 4 images featured

Pictured, Creativity, movements and ideas within commercial photography, June - Selfridges Bodycraze - Elinor Carucci

Free eye Magazine, issue 3 - cover + 8 pages, Sophie Wright

The Art Newspaper, June - Exhibition review - Richard Pinsent

Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazine (4/25) - Cover + 11 page in the issue of women in the 21stst century

Granta 88, winter - Mothers, pp. 194

Granta Diary - months of July-August

Granta 87, Fall - Jubilee - pp.200

PDN, May - Photo Annual 2003 - photo books

The New York Times, Sunday, (1/5) - Naked - Harrison, Helen A.

2002

Fashionline, issue 4 Winter - intimate - 8 page profile - Redondo, Cristina

Mikarov - issue 9 - poetry and literature -Closer - Elinor Carucci - cover +8 page

Art on paper, July-August - Photo book beat, review - Dykstra, Jean

The Post and Courier, (8/4) - Carucci's photographs offer a 'Closer look at her family - Allan R Holmes

The Guardian Weekend Magazine (6/22) - cover + seven page profile - Move close - Brooks, Libby

The Village Voice (6/11) - short list - Aletti, Vince

New York Magazine/ The New Yorker (5/27) - Reviews

Photo District News, May - Galleries - two pages - "Closer" encounters - Kristina Feliciano

The Art Newspaper, May - Reviews - Sarah Douglas American Photo, May-June - nine page profile -Intimate Gaze - Goldberg, Vicki

2001

Professional Photography, July - Cover + eight page portfolio - Elinor Carucci, Avi Kalian

Jewish Week (6/ 22) - two page article - The family as muse, Belasco, Daniel

PDN , March - PDN's 30 Under 30 Alumni take their career to the next level

2000

Leica World, September - Cover + six page portfolio - Ego in the viewfinder, Koetzle, Hans-Michael

Sheva Yamim (8/25) - My family and other animals, Shaked, Ranan

Nerve Magazine, August - ten page portfolio - Scenes from a marriage, Proctor, Minna

The New York Times Magazine (4/23) - What They Were Thinking, Saint Louis, Catherine

Nerve Magazine, April - Caught Looking - Seven young photographers turn to the camera on their own bare souls, Prose, Francine

Photo District News Magazine, March- 30 Under 30 - Young Photographers To Watch, Senft, Bret

New York Magazine (2/14) - The New Generation of Women Photographers, Colman, david

1999

Kol Ha-Ir (10/22), Israel - I was scared of Tel Aviv, So I went to New York, Goshen, nir

Vogue Magazine US, November - Personal style-Elinor Carucci

Village Voice (10/12), Vince Aletti /New Yorker, Andrew Long (10/11)/NY Arts, October, Anne Ellegood - reviews

Ha'ir (8/13), Israel - Family Album - Elinor Carucci's Portfolio

Mlada Fronta Dnes (5/29), Blesk (5/11), FotoGrafie,Jully, Haarper's Bazar, June, Czech Republic - Reviews

Lidove Noviny(6/10), , Czech Republic - one page profile

Nova Channel, Czech Television - Interview

Kol Ha-Ir (7/9), Israel - about Sotheby's Auction, Rap, David

Art Das Kunstmagazin,July, Germany - New Photography, Muller, Zilke

Kreis-Anzeige (3/12)\Journal Frankfurt\Frankfurter Rundschau (3/5) \Fuldaer Zeitung, Germany - Review

PhotoNews, February, Germany, Every Day Picturs, Brudna, Denis

1998

Ha'arets (3/1)\Yerushalaim (12/19)\The Jerusalem Post (2/13), Israel - Reviews

AT Magazine (4/98), Israel - Flashdance, Shaked, Ranan

1997

Village Voice, (3/4)- Voice Choices, Aletti, Vince

Villager, (2/19) - A 'found' camera leads to a career, Hicks, Robert

Kol Ha-Ir, (12/1) - Art reviews, Givan, Debby

1996

La Isha Magazine (5/13), Israel - The photographs you will not see at Penthouse, Roman, Zipora

1995

Yerushalaim (12/1), Israel - Stripping in front of the camera is like washing dishes, Blum, Hila
Professional Photography Magazine, July, Israel - Selected work of 1995

2007

The Dreamers, Israeli television (HOT channel)

2005

Elinor Carucci, episode 8, City TV/Sex TV Canada

1997

Ticket for Two, Israeli Television (channel 2), feature segment, Ziv, Eldad

Editorial

2006

New York (12/25) - To turn into someone else

The New Yorker(12/25) - On chesil beach- By Ian McEwan

O Magazine, October - Women on the rocks

Best Life, July August - Under pressure by Bob Condor

Jane, April - 30 under 30

Newsweek (4/24) - Not always the happiest time - By Lissa Miller

The New Yorker(5/1) - Vessels - By Daniel Raeburn

Life (2/3) -"I raised a rock star" - Portfolio of Grammy nominees and their mothers

2005

Details, October - Who's afraid of a little manhandling? - by Ian Spiegelman

New York (11/28) - Average Joe - By Stephen Rodrick

Black Book, Fall, - Double Talk, Dana Vachon vs Charlie Rose

W Magazine, October - All of him

Modern Painters, September - Estate Sales & Fairy Tales - by Karen Wriht

Modern Painters, July August - Kiki and me - by Steven Sherrill and Eyeless in Arles - by Vince Aletti

New York (6/6) - Process, The last dance

Discover, June - Had King VIII's Wives only known… by Mary Duenwald

Absolute, June - Patsy Tarr

Absolute, May - The Photo League by Simon Dumenco

Men's Fitness, May - A guide to her glutes

O magazine April - Sleep

Men's Fitness, April - A guide to lips

New York (4/4) - Cover story - Kerik's crack-up

Details, April - Wise guy

Die tageszeitung (3/8) - Mann & Frau? Da geht nichts mehr! - cover + 9 page

The New York Times Style, Women's fashion spring 2005: Doll Face Scent of a woman?

The Village Voice (2/2) - Love Letters

The New York Times Magazine (1/9) - Toxic breast milk? - by Florence Williams

The New York Times Magazine - Kitchen Voyeur:

(1/9) - Lord of the Range

(2/20) - Clam Shack

(3/20) - Girl meets girl

(6/19) - Chow Hound

(8/21) - Sunny side up

(9/4) - The Original 'Unoriginal'

New York (1/3) - Cover + Eat here now - by Adam Platt

2004

The New York Times Magazine - Kitchen Voyeur:

(10/3) - Tart Dealer

(11/7) - Organically Grown

(12/19) - Party Politic

The New York Times Style, Women's fashion fall 2004:

Prick up your ears!

Do I look fat?

Lick your heels!

Posterior modern

New York (11/22) - Process, War Paint

The New Yorker (11/8) - Breakup Stories by Jonathan Franzen

New York (7/26) - Happy 85th Birthday, Bob Morgenthau - By Robert Kolker

W Magazine, September - Man with a mission

The New York Times Magazine (7/18) - Cursing Casanova - by Walter Kim

W Magazine, July - Brown's eye - by Julie Belcove

Fortune (5/17) - Is nanotech ready for it's close-up? By Nicholas Varchaver

2003

W Magazine, July - the age of agnes - by Julie Belcove

Discover, March, April, May, - Can the brain conquer emotions? Three parts cover story by Sreven Johnson

2002

The New York Times Magazine (12/15) - The perfect navel - by Clive Thompson

GEO, December - Vom Wesen der Liebe - 7 pages

The New Yorker (9/20) - Bodies - a story by Jessica Shattuck

Nylon, May - Secret Service - 6 page spread

The New York Times Magazine (5/5) - Jolts of Anxiety by Sandeep Jauhar

The New York Times Magazine (3/17) - Where music will be coming from - by Kevin Kelly

2001

Discover, December - The Blood Suckers - by Jack McClintock

Nylon, October - Hurts so good By Kara Jesella

The New York Times Magazine, (10/14), Love in the 21st Century by Matthew Klam

Fortune (9/3) - 100 Fastest Growing Companies - VISX

The New Yorker (8/23) - Family Furnishing - a story by Alice Munro

Elle US, April - Our Money, Ourselves?

Erets Acheret, (May-June), Israel- three pages - The morning after

Bare, March-April - Erotic, (May- June) - Happiness

Vogue UK, March - double spread - My daughter, my fault?

2000

Vogue UK, August - Double spread - Look back in hanger

Nylon, June - four page spread - Beauty Queen

Newsweek US & Japan (5/29) - four page spread - The Science of Women & Sex

1999

Vogue UK, November - eight page spread - Seventh scents

BIG Magazine, September- six page spread - Personal space

Special projects

2002

Bodycraze - May, a campaign for Selfridges in London on the of the theme of the body

Books

2006

Vitamin, New perspective in photography, Phaidon - pp. 050-053

2005

Elinor Carucci. DIARY OF A DANCER - Monograph, Steidl

Family, Phaidon, PP.78 -81, 199, Sophie Spencer-Wood

Oprah - Live your best life, Oxmoor House - pp. 92, 146,

2004

Photographs as contemporary art,Thames & Hudson World of art, pp. 159-160, Charlotte Cotton

2003

Curve, Universe, pp. 50-51, Martha Schwendener

Art and Photography, Phaidon, pp. 185, 289, David Campany

Women by women, Prestel, pp. 115, Jacek Slaski and Peter Delius

sensation, Steidl, pp. 50-51, 116-117

the family, Windsor press, (an exhibition catalogue)

2002

CLOSER - Photographs by Elinor Carucci, Monograph, Chronicle books

SKIN , Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 33, 65, 95, 143, 159, 209, Ellen Lupton (an exhibition catalogue)

2000

VE/The New Nude, Chronicle, pp. 133-136, Genevieve Field

1999

Love and Desire, Chronicle books, pp. 52, Ewing, William

MaleFamale, Aperture, pp. 78

1998

Sleep, Universe/Rizzoli, pp. 34, Peacock, Robert and Gorman, Roger

Awards

2002

The Guggenheim Fellowship

2001

The ICP Infinity award for the young photographer

2000

The Buhl Foundation Grant

1999

The Friends of Photography (SF), Special Honorable Mention-Ruttenberg Award

1998

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture - Project Gran

Talks and Seminars

2007

Pratt Institute School of Art & Design, New York, NY

Cincinnati Art Museum

2006

92 Y, NYC

Camera Club of New York/SVA Amphitheatre, NYC

Syracuse University

2005

Barnes and Nobles, Chelsea, NYC

Ringling school of Art and Design, FL

2004

Rhode Island School of Design, RI

Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY

Columbia University, New York NY

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2003

Javits Center/PhotoExpo, New York, NY

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Memphis University, Memphis TS

Pratt Institute School of Art & Design, New York, NY

2002

San Francisco Art Institute/Photo Alliance, San Francisco, CA

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Colombia University, Chicago, IL

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Curating and judging

2006

Passion, Umbrella arts, NYC - Judge and show curator

Selected Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

International Center of Photography New York, USA

Brooklyn Museum of Arts, USA

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Israel

The Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, Israel

Herzlia Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Dancing Bear Collection

Henry Buhl Collection

Education

1995         BFA, Photography - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1991         Army Service, Israel
1989         High School of Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem, Israel

Teaching Experience

Faculty, Princeton University

Faculty, Photography, SVA, New York NY, 2000 - present

Thesis adviser, SVA Graduate program, New York, NY - 2007 - present

Visiting lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - spring semester, 2004