Amy Elkins

Lecturer

Email: aelkins@berkeley.edu
Website: www.amyelkins.com

Office Hours: 275 AAPB & Zoom: Wed via Zoom; 11a-12p (schedule @ calendly.com/amyelkins) Thur in-person, after class, by appt

Amy Elkins is a visual artist based in the Bay Area. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. She works in photography, installation and sculpture and has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration. Elkins has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art, South Bend Museum of Art, MSU Broad Museum, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, North Carolina Museum of Art and more. Her photographs have been published in Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, New York Times, New Yorker, PDN, Real Simple, Stella and Vice among many others. Elkins' first book Black is the Day, Black is the Night won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Mack First Book Award and the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize as well as listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME. Her second book Anxious Pleasures was released in August, 2022 by Kris Graves Projects.

Courses taught:
Art 21