Elinor Carucci

Elinor Carucci (b. 1971, Jerusalem) is an Israeli-American fine-art photographer of Jewish North African and Bukharian descent. She earned a degree in photography from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1995 and moved to New York City the same year. From 1993 to 2006, she also worked as a professional Middle Eastern dancer.

Carucci’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows internationally. Her solo exhibitions have been held at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Gallery Fifty One, The Jewish Museum (NY), FOMU (Belgium), and Gagosian Gallery (London). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, and The Photographers' Gallery in London.

Her photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her editorial work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and W.

She has received the ICP Infinity Award (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), and a NYFA grant (2010).

Carucci has published five books: Closer (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a Dancer (SteidlMack, 2005), MOTHER (Prestel, 2013), Midlife (Monacelli Press/Phaidon, 2019), and The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Portrait of Justice (Clarkson Potter/Random House, 2023).

She teaches in the graduate program in Photography at the School of Visual Arts and in the Art Department at Hunter College, and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.