Christine Elfman

Photographer

Christine Elfman (born 1981, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA) received her MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts and BFA in Painting from Cornell University. Recent solo exhibition venues include Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), and Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco, CA). Elfman's interest in ephemerality has been influenced by her work with historic collections at the George Eastman House, University of Rochester Rare Books Library, and the Berkeley Art Museum. Awards and fellowships include the San Francisco Artist Award, the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship, and artist residency at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation. Her work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Photograph Magazine, SF Weekly, The Photo Review, and Lapham’s Quarterly. She teaches photography and drawing at Cornell University.