Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Elle Pérez

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2022

Elle Pérez makes photographs imbued with desire and a profound sense of care. Their images depict intimate moments and emotional exchanges in visceral detail, often working collaboratively with those they photograph to create works that reflect on the ever-changing nature of identity.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Devotions” (2022), Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; “from sun to sun” (2019), Public Art Fund, New York; and “Diablo” (2018), MoMA PS1, New York. Perez’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Barbican Centre, London; Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Studios

Nef

Elle Pérez worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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