ELINOR CARUCCI

“INTIMACY IN FOCUS”

Elinor Carucci (b. 1971, Jerusalem) is an acclaimed 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 relocated to New York City the same year. From 1993 to 2006, Carucci also pursued a professional career as a Middle Eastern dancer. Carucci’s work has been featured in prominent solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Notable solo shows have taken place at Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, and Gagosian Gallery in London. Her group exhibitions include displays at prestigious 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. In 1999 she had her first European solo exhibition at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt with her work “Closer”. Her photographs are included in major collections, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Carucci’s editorial work has been widely published in leading outlets such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, and Aperture. Among her many accolades, she has received the ICP Infinity Award (2001), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), and a NYFA grant (2010). Carucci is the author of five critically acclaimed monographs: Closer (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a Dancer (Steidl/Mack, 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). The latter was celebrated with solo exhibitions at The Jewish Museum in New York City and Edwynn Houk Gallery. Currently, Carucci teaches in the graduate program of Photography and Lens-Based Art at the School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City.

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