Elinor Carucci

Born in 1971 in Jerusalem, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography and moved to New York that same year. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Solo shows include Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery in London, among others. Her group exhibitions include presentations at The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and The Photographers’ Gallery (London).

Carucci’s photographs are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), among others. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and ARTnews, among many other publications.

She has received several prestigious awards, including the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and a NYFA Fellowship in 2010. Carucci has published four monographs: Closer (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a Dancer (SteidlMack, 2005), Mother (Prestel, 2013), and Midlife (Monicelli Press, 2019).

Carucci teaches in the graduate program of Photography and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts and at the International Center of Photography. She is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.