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Amy Elkins (b.1979) was born and raised in Southern CA. She studied photography in CA, New Orleans (under the legendary Jazz photographer Herman Leonard) and New York, where she received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her photographs explore notions of vulnerability, identity and transitory states. Elkins’ earlier work, Wallflower, looked into the nuances of gender identity and the male psyche. In her more recent work, Elkins turns to the more aggressive, competitive and violent aspects of male identity through projects Elegant Violence, looking to young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game and Black is the Day, Black is the Night, which conceptually explores masculinity, vulnerabilty and identity through correspondence with men serving life and deathrow sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the US.
In February 2012 work from her Elegant Violence series will be included in the group exhibition Sports Show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as well as in a two person exhibition at Light Work Gallery with Jen Davis. In addition in February, work from her Black is the Day, Black is the Night series will be featured in an all womens international exhibition regarding prison photography at the Noorderlicht Photography Gallery in the Netherlands.
Elkins’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including shows at Kunsthalle wien in Vienna, Austria, The PIP International Photo Festival in Pingyao, China, Gallery Elsa in Busan, South Korea, Barbara Walters Gallery, National Arts Club, Tina Kim Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York as well as Carnegie Art Museum in CA, among many others.
Her work has been published in American Photo, Arch+, Corduroy, Dear Dave, EyeMazing, Harpers, Newsweek, NY Arts, NY Times Magazine, OUT, PDN, POP photo and Vision Magazine among others. In 2011 Elkins was awarded with the Lightwork Artist-in-Residence prize.
In June of 2008 Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips co-founded wipnyc.org, a platform for showcasing both established and emerging women in photography.
Elkins is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York where she recently had her second solo exhibition.
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Amy Elkins (b.1979) was born and raised in Southern CA. She studied photography in CA, New Orleans (under the legendary Jazz photographer Herman Leonard) and New York, where she received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her photographs explore notions of vulnerability, identity and transitory states. Elkins’ earlier work, Wallflower, looked into the nuances of gender identity and the male psyche. In her more recent work, Elkins turns to the more aggressive, competitive and violent aspects of male identity through projects Elegant Violence, looking to young Ivy League rugby athletes moments after their game and Black is the Day, Black is the Night, which conceptually explores masculinity, vulnerabilty and identity through correspondence with men serving life and deathrow sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the US.
In February 2012 work from her Elegant Violence series will be included in the group exhibition Sports Show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as well as in a two person exhibition at Light Work Gallery with Jen Davis. In addition in February, work from her Black is the Day, Black is the Night series will be featured in an all womens international exhibition regarding prison photography at the Noorderlicht Photography Gallery in the Netherlands.
Elkins’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including shows at Kunsthalle wien in Vienna, Austria, The PIP International Photo Festival in Pingyao, China, Gallery Elsa in Busan, South Korea, Barbara Walters Gallery, National Arts Club, Tina Kim Gallery and Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York as well as Carnegie Art Museum in CA, among many others.
Her work has been published in American Photo, Arch+, Corduroy, Dear Dave, EyeMazing, Harpers, Newsweek, NY Arts, NY Times Magazine, OUT, PDN, POP photo and Vision Magazine among others. In 2011 Elkins was awarded with the Lightwork Artist-in-Residence prize.
In June of 2008 Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips co-founded wipnyc.org, a platform for showcasing both established and emerging women in photography.
Elkins is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York where she recently had her second solo exhibition.
