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 inPictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2011.
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.
Elinor lives and works in New York City.
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
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2010
Intimacy, James Hyman Gallery, London
2009
My Children, Le Bleu du ciel, Lyon, France
Women in photography, www.wipnyc.org
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
Closer, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
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
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
Insight, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium
2010
Fototage Trier 2010, Germany
Family Files, Jewish Museum, Munich, Germany
All My Lovin, Lodge Art Center, FotoFestival Lodge
This is not an invitation to rape me, University of Pennsylvania, Fox Art Gallery
Pictures by Women, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009
BMW price finalists, Paris Photo, Paris, France
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 (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
2007
The Naked Portrait, curated by Martin Hammer, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Kiss & Tell, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
On the Wall: Photographs by Aperture magazine artists, Aperture Gallery, New York
Second Skin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and, 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 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, National Portrait Gallery, London
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, RiccoMaresca Gallery, New York, NY
New Photography, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Selected Publications:
2009
The Portrait - understanding portrait photography, rockynook, Glenn Rand and Tim Meyer
100 New York Photographers, Rizzoli, Cynthia Maris Dantzic
2006
Vitamin, New perspective in photography, Phaidon
2005
Carucci. DIARY OF A DANCER - Monograph, Steidl
Family, Phaidon, Sophie Spencer-Wood
Oprah - Live your best life, Oxmoor House
2004
Photography as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson World of art, Charlotte Cotton
2003
Curve, Universe, Martha Schwendener
Art and Photography, Phaidon, David Campany
Women by women, Prestel, Jacek Slaski and Peter Delius
sensation, Steidl,
the family, Windsor press
2002
Photographs by Elinor Carucci, Monograph, Chronicle books
SKIN, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Princeton Architectural Press, Ellen Lupton
2000
VE/The New Nude, Chronicle, Genevieve Field
1999
Love and Desire, Chronicle books, Ewing, William
MaleFamale, Aperture
1998
Sleep, Universe/Rizzoli, Peacock, Robert and Gorman
Selected Awards:
2010
NYFA fellowship
2009
Finalist, BMW award
2002
The Guggenheim Fellowship
2001
The ICP Infinity award for the young photographer
The Buhl Foundation Grant
The Friends of Photography (SF), Special Honorable Mention-Ruttenberg Award
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture - Project Grant
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