Christine Elfman

Christine Elfman is an artist working in photography, exploring photo-poetics, materiality, and ephemerality. Her work has been shown widely, with solo exhibitions at Penumbra Foundation, Wasserman Projects, Houston Center for Photography, EUQINOM Gallery, TILT Center for the Contemporary Image, and University of the Arts. She has been awarded a Light Work grant in photography, and residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the Cape Cod National Seashore. Reviews, interviews, and portfolio features have appeared in BOMB magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, and Der Greif. Elfman received her B.F.A. from Cornell University in 2004 and M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2012. She has worked extensively with alternative and historic photographic processes in her studio practice and at Scully & Osterman Studio, George Eastman Museum, and Berkeley Art Museum. She currently teaches photography at Ithaca College and Cornell University, and has taught previously at San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, Bowdoin College, and Wells College. She is represented by EUQINOM Gallery in San Francisco.