Carucci's published books are Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), and Mother (2013), the latter portraying nearly a decade of her motherhood project.
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Life and work
Carucci was born on June 11, 1971, in Jerusalem, where she served in the Israeli Army for two years from 1989–1991, and received a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1995. She lives and works in New York City with her husband Eran and their two children. She is a member of the Faculty in Photography at the graduate program of the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has also taught at Princeton University.
Publications
Closer. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2002. ISBN 9780811834940.
Chronicle, 2009. ISBN 9780811870443 . Second edition. With a foreword by Susan Kismaric. 80 photographs.
Diary of a Dancer. SteidlMack, 2005. ISBN 978-3865211552.
Mother. Prestel, 2013. ISBN 978-3791348155.
Solo exhibitions
Some of her solo exhibitions are listed below:
1996: National Arts Club, New York
1996: Princeton University, Visual Arts Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1997: RiccoMaresca Gallery, New York
1999: The Photographers' Gallery, London
1999: Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
1999: Prague House of Photography, Prague
1999: Detail, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York
2000: Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2000: Details, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2002: 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2002: Closer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York; Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, 2002; Gagosian Gallery, London, 2003; Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2004.
2004: New Gallery/Thom Andriola, Houston, TX
2004: Images of family and pain, Scalo Gallery, Zurich, SZ
2006: Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
2006: Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2006: Analix Forever, Geneva, SZ
2006: Photography Gallery Vilnius: Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers, Lithuania
2006: Diary of a Dancer, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York; 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium, 2006; Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany, 2006.
2006: It's me, Herzlia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlia, Israel
2006: Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York NY
2007: Art Academy of Cincinnati, Convergys Gallery
2007: Biennale de la Photographie, Luik, Belgium
2008: Women in photography (www.wipnyc.org)
2010: Intimacy, James Hyman Gallery, London
2010: My Children, Centre pour la Fotografie Contemporaine Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon
2011: Insight, FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium
2011: Love, in spite..., Tavi Art Gallery, Israel
2011: BORN, Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York
2012: Fotografins hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2014: Mother, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Awards
2000: “Thirty under 30 Young Photographers to Watch”, Photo District News
2001: Winner, Best Young Photographer, Infinity Award, International Center of Photography
2002: Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationP
2010: Artists' Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York
Collections
Carucci's work is held in the following permanent collections:
