Biography
Elliot Ross was born in Chicago in 1947. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium. His early, conceptual, process-oriented photography was included in the influential 1974 exhibition "Light and Substance," curated by Van Deren Coke. His project "Animal" has been featured in fotoMAGAZIN (Germany) in its "Masterpieces of Photography" series, in Foto & Video (Russia), and in a number of other publications. His critically acclaimed books Animal, Other Animals, and Crows Ascending were released by Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam) in 2010, 2014, and 2024 respectively. A selection of work from his series "Animal Studies" was published in "Animalia," an issue of the leading British literary journal Granta. In 2021, he provided the photographs for the Notting Hill Editions (UK) best-selling literary book On Cats: An Anthology with an introduction by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale). In 2024, a critically acclaimed solo exhibition of his work, “Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals,” was mounted at the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi. His work is represented in Amsterdam by Schilt Publishing Gallery.
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts; Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1971.
Representation
Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Books
Crows Ascending, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2024 (the complete version).
Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals, Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, 2024.
Crows Ascending and Other Work, Workroom Gallery, San Francisco, 2022.
Elliot Ross: Selected Work 2007-2020, Workroom Gallery, San Francisco, 2020.
Other Animals, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2014.
Animal, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2010.
Yehudhith, Hawkhaven Press, San Francisco, 2004.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), San Francisco, 1984.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Crows Ascending, Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024.
Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals, Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium, 2024.
Crows Ascending and Other Work, Workroom Gallery, San Francisco, 2022.
Elliot Ross: Selected Work 2007-2020, Workroom Gallery, San Francisco, 2020.
Elliot Ross: Animal, Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2015.
Other Animals, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, New York, 2014.
Other Animals, United Photo Industries, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York, 2012.
Animal, Nassauische Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2012.
Animal, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2011.
Animal, LUX Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010.
Animal, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2010.
Yehudhith, The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011.
Yehudhith, Stredoslovénska galeriá, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 2007.
Yehudhith, Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005.
Yehudhith, Muzeum SNP, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, 2005.
Yehudhith, House of Photography, Poprad, Slovakia 2005.
Yehudhith, Jewish Museum San Francisco, California, USA, 2004.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, California, USA, 199
Spleen (after Baudelaire), Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1994.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), Photography Gallery, Art Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 1994.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), The Light Factory Center for Photographic Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 1994
Spleen (after Baudelaire), Gallery, Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, 1993.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), WorkSpace Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1992.
Spleen (after Baudelaire), Feldheym Library Galleries, San Bernardino, California, USA, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions
American Splendour: New Photography, Ilon Art Gallery, New York, New York, 2018.
PhotoCat, Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017.
From the Archive, ilon Art Gallery, New York, New York, 2016.
Difficult Art and the Liberal Arts Imagination, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery,
Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2013.
Fear and Loathing, Art Photo Index Exhibitions, 2013.
Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York, 2010.
New Visionaries 2009, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 2010.
The Museum of Unnatural History, ClampArt, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2010.
Staring, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, U.S.A., 2009.
Photographers:Network 2009, studio Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Germany, 2009.
New Works/Old Story, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA, 2009.
Scents of Purpose, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, USA, 2005.
Artists' Books from Nashville Collections, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2003.
Face to Face: Contemporary Portraits, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, California, USA, 2001.
Neural Notations, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2000, USA; Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA, 2000; The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001.
San Francisco Art Institute: Fifty Years of Photography, Trans-America Pyramid, San Francisco, California, 2000.
Forecast: Shifts in Direction, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 1994.
The Post-Industrial Landscape, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1994.
Visible Language, New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Six Photographers, Hung Chong Gallery, Taipei, China, 1991.
The Concealed Camera, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1988.
Cross Currents II: Recent Additions to the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1986.
Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA, 1985.
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Ruth Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1981.
The Eyes Have It: Photographic Images, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1976.
Photo/Synthesis, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1976.
Light and Substance, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1973; Claremont College, Pomona, California, 1974; University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, 1974; Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, 1974.
Works in Selected Collections
Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris, France.
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas.
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium.
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California.
Groote Museum-Artis, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
University of California, Magnes Collection, Berkeley, California.
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, California.
Works in Selected Artists’ Books Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
The Tate, London, United Kingdom.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
New York Public Library, New York, New York.
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California.
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia.
Florida Atlantic University, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, Florida.
Selected Publications
"Elliot Ross - Crows Ascending," Focus Magazine (Netherlands), Focus editors, 9 oktober 2024.
Image(s) d’un collection II, Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, 2024.
"Musée de la Photographie Charleroi: Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals," L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, An Devroe, May 10, 2024.
"Pense-Bêtes - Expo Seeing Animals au Musée de la Photo," Pense-Bêtes, Télésambre, 10 mai 2024 (video).
"Elliot Ross dévoile le regard animal," Le Soir (Belgium), Jean-Marie Wynants, 30/04/2024.
"Photoshoot animalier époustouflant : découvrez les clichés captivants de Elliot Ross!" Photoreporter magazine (France), 2 April 2024.
"Seeing Animals: les Animaux prennent la pose pour Elliot Ross," Phototrend magazine (France), Baptiste Thery-Guilbert, 2 avril 2024.
"ELLIOT ROSS: DES ANIMAUX ET DES HOMMES," LM Magazine (France), Clémence Ménart, avr 1, 2024.
"Oog in oog met dieren - Seeing Animals van Elliot Ross," OKV magazine (Belgium), An Devroe, 2024, Maart.
"In Charleroi kun je nu ook beestjes kijken,"De Standaard (Belgium), Karel De Weerdt, Donderdag 29 februari 2024.
"Charleroi: nouvelles expos du musée de la photo, Seeing Animals met le visiteur en face à face avec les animaux," L'Avenir (Belgium), Seb G., 07-02-2024.
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi: Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals," L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (France), Xavier Canonne, 5 February 2024.
"Beautés farouches," Photographie Ouverte, Xavier Canonne, FÈVRIER > MAI 2024.
Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals, Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, introduction "Fierce Beauties" by Xavier Canonne, 2024.
Elliot Ross: Selected Work 2005-2020, Workroom Gallery, San Francisco, 2020.
The Elliot Ross Atelier, Sharon Wickham, 2020.
"Animal and Other Animals," Photo-letter #27 (Berlin-Paris), December 17, 2019.
"Animal #152," PDN Photo of the Day, August 18, 2019.
"Animal and Other Animals," Photo-letter (Berlin), June, 2019.
"IMAGE DU JOUR," l'Autre quotidien (France), 27/2/2018.
"ELLIOT ROSS AIME LES ANIMAUX," l'Autre quotidien (France), 27/2/2018.
"Elliot Ross' Animal Studies," L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (France), February 27, 2018.
"Animal Studies," Granta, Issue 142: Winter 2018 "Animalia" (UK). Introduction by Alexander
MacLeod.
"Les photographes sont des catlovers commes des autres," Réponses Photo (France), Carine Dolek, January 29, 2018.
"Trending: Dogs, Cats ... and Other Pets to Start Off 2018," David Schonauer, Pro Photo Daily (USA), December 31, 2017.
"Top Photographers' Feline Friends, Lomography magazine (Austria), 2017-12-13.
"PhotoCat," Shutr.photo (Netherlands), December, 2017.
"Mundo gatuno: un libro rinde homenaje a los felinos a través de la mirada de fotógrafos como Martin Parr," Gemma Cuadrado Soler, TheCreativeMag (Barcelona), TheCreativeNet, November 29, 2017.
"PhotoCat," Alberto Sánchez Mena, Seiyu (Spain), November, 2017.
"Expo: Les grands photographes aussi sont fous de chats," Chloé Riondet, The Photo
Academy Magazine (France), November 28, 2017.
"Leading Photographers' Snapshots of Nonchalant Cats," AnOther Magazine (UK),
Belle Hutton, November, 27, 2017.
"Een bundeling van kattenplaatjes," NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), 17 November, 2017.
"A New Photo Book for People Who Love Cats," Ellyn Kail, Feature Shoot, November 13, 2017.
PhotoCat, Shilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2017.
Granta, Issue 141: Autumn 2017 (UK). Animal (127) accompanies story "Lagomorph" by Alexander MacLeod, page 56.
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, Ellen Ullman, MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2017. Photograph page 160.
"Elliot Ross, Animal Studies," Sacha Waldron, Point102 (UK), December 28, 2015.
"Gli Animali Ci Guardano," Paola Tavella, Amica (Italy), No. 6, June, 2015.
"Preview: Alan Klotz Teases New Additions and Prepares for AIPAD Show," BW Gallerist, March 10, 2015.
"Other Animals: An Interview with Elliot Ross," Sacha Waldron, Point102 (UK), February 9, 2015.
"Elliot Ross, Animals at Schilt Gallery," L'OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE (France), January 22, 2015.
"Other Animals,"Franziska Sauerwein, Guide to Unique Photography (GUP Magazine, Amsterdam), December 9, 2014
"PhotoBook Month: Elliot Ross — Other Animals," Harry Ross, Darwin Magazine (UK), Vol. 6, November, 2014.
"Elliot Ross Presents 'Other Animals,'" Actualité photographique (France), Jeudi 23 Octobre 2014.
"Elliot Ross: Fotografije Zivotinja koje opasno podsjecaju na ljude," Gordan Duhacek, Tportal, 18.11.2014.
"Photobook: "Other Animals," Die Zeit (Germany), 14-11-2014.
"Elliot Ross: Animals," Margarete Morissey, Obvious Magazine, March, 2013.
"Elliot Ross: Animals," Le Journalde la Photographie (France), February 20, 2013.
"Non-human Feelings," Vladimir Neskoromny, Foto & Video (Moscow), No. 6, June, 2012.
"Elliot Ross Animal," LandscapeStories (Italy), Issue 05, Animals, September 2011.
"Pictures from the Belfast Photographic Festival," BBC News, bbc.co.uk, 3 August 2011.
"Elliot Ross at the Belfast Photo Festival," The Telegraph (UK), the telegraph.com.uk, 26 July 2011.
“Neue Bücher,” Denis Brudna, Photonews (Germany), Nr. 6/11, Juni, 2011.
"Just One Look," William Kennedy, Sublime Magazine (UK), Issue 27, June - July, 2011.
“Animal Instincts,” Chris Bergeron, MetroWest Daily News, February 14, 2010.
“A Look at Animals, Real and Unreal,” Mark Feeney, The Boston Globe, February 4, 2010.
“Artists Reflect on the Seder Plate,” Laura Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 2009.
“Tierportaits des US-Fotokünstlers Elliot Ross,” (Masterpiece of Photography Series #15), Manfred Zollner, fotoMAGAZIN (Germany), Nr. 7, Juli 2008.
“Auf der Suche nach den Stars von morgen,” Manfred Zollner, fotoMAGAZIN.de, June 23, 2008.
“Houston FotoFest — Entdeckungen vom Meeting Place,” Anna Gripp, Photonews (Germany),Mai 2008.
“Výstava fotografií o holocauste,” Martin Krupa, VÚC BB Portál, June 25, 200
“Prazsky dum fotografie: Elliot Ross – Yehudhith,” Peter Volf, Combinacion, September 4, 2005.
“Se smutkem ve tvári, s hrodosti v dusi,” Lubor Falteisek, Maskil, September/October 2005
“Zenske telo a holocaust,” Edita Pacovska, fotografovani.cz, September 2, 2005.
“O zenství a o zidovství,” Libuše Mohelská, DIGIarena.cz, August 25, 2005.
“Schatten des Holocaust,” Bára Procházková, Radio Prague, radio.cz, August 22, 2005.
“Ross hleda v tvarich zen stigma holocaustu,” Magdalena Cechlovska, Kultura, August 18, 2005.
“Holocaust v teple ateliéru,” Matej Stránský, Respekt.cz, August 14, 2005.
“Poselstvi zidovskych zen,” Josef Chuchma, iDNES.cz, August 12, 2005.“Fotograf Elliot Ross a smutek zidovských zenaa,” Jirí Vanca, Pikant, August 3, 2005.
“Out of the Darkroom: Photos of Modern Jewish Women Spin Shoah into New Light,” Joe Eskenazi, J magazine, April, 2005.
“Aj ja som sa mohol stot jednou z obeti,” Andrea Kopernická, Sme, February 16, 2005.
“They Are Haunting Photographs that Recall a Time the World Will Never Forget…” Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2004.