Amy Elkins

Amy Elkins is a visual artist currently based in the Bay Area. She works primarily in photography 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. Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary.

Elkins received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is currently an MFA candidate in the Art Practice program at Stanford University. She has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and North Carolina Museum of Art; among others.