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 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 and Other Animals were released by Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam) in 2010 and 2014 respectively. A selection of work from his series "Animal Studies" was published in "Animalia," an issue of the the leading British literary journal Granta. In 2021, he provided the photographs for the Notting Hill Editions (UK) best selling book On Cats: An Anthology with an introduction by Margaret Atwood (TheHandmaid's Tale). His work is represented in Amsterdam by Schilt Publishing Gallery, and in Hudson, New York by Davis Orton Gallery.
Education
San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts; Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1971.
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, USA, 2000.
Forcast: Shifts in Direction, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA, 1994.
The Post-Industrial Landscape, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA, 1994.
Visible Language, New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Six Photographers, Hung Chong Gallery, Taipei, China, 1991.
The Concealed Camera, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA, 1988.
Cross Currents II: Recent Additions to the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA, 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, USA, 1981.
The Eyes Have It: Photographic Images, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA, 1976.
Photo/Synthesis, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 1976.
Light and Substance, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 1973; Claremont College, Pomona, California, USA, 1974; University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 1974; Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, USA, 1974.
Works in Selected Collections
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France.
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium.
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA.
Het Groote Museum, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, USA.
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA.
University of California, Magnes Collection, Berkeley, California, USA.
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, California, USA
Works in Selected Artists’ Books Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.
The Tate, London, England.
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.
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
New York Public Library, New York, New York.
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
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
"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, 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.
"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 MacLoed, page 56.
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, Ellen Ullman, MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux,