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  1. Kuruvungna / Santa Monica, Kuruvungna Village Sacred Springs (Spring Water, Eucalyptus Leaves, Duckweed) by Amy Elkins, Image 1.

    Amy Elkins

    Kuruvungna / Santa Monica, Kuruvungna Village Sacred Springs (Spring Water, Eucalyptus Leaves, Duckweed), c. 2022

    Inkjet print on Canson Baryta Photographique paper

    30 x 40 in

Amy Elkins is a visual artist and educator based in Berkeley and Sacramento, CA. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. She works primarily in photography and installation and has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the complexities of gender, race and identity, including how they are impacted by systems of power: prisons, the military, colonization, and hierarchies built upon social constructs. Most recently Elkins' work pivots to include explorations of self as well as her family's deeply rooted and complex history in Southern California as an 8th generation born on Tongva/Gabrielino land in the greater Los Angeles area with the ancestral blood of both colonized and colonizer. Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary.

Elkins has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally. Her first book Black is the Day, Black is the Night won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award. It was listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME, Humble Arts Foundation, Photobook Store Magazine and Photo-Eye among others. Her second book Anxious Pleasures was published by Kris Graves Projects. Elkins co-founded Women in Photography (WIPNYC) with Cara Phillips in 2008. The primarily internet-based project showcased the work of lens-based women artists outside of the traditional model of the commercial art world.