Carol Elkovich

Contact: celkovich@cca.edu & carolelkovich@gmail.com

Artist Biography

Carol Elkovich (born 1969, Michigan) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her practice spans textiles, printmaking, painting, photography, and installation, and she is best known for materially driven projects that investigate landscape, migration, and inherited systems of making. Through weaving, natural dyes, and digitally mediated imagery, Elkovich explores how place operates as a living archive—where memory, labor, and ecological change accumulate over time.

Her work frequently develops through sustained, site-responsive series that engage specific geographies and ancestral terrains. Recent and ongoing projects examine diasporic transmission, craft lineages, and chromatic memory through tapestry sketches, hand embroidery, and layered installations. These bodies of work often juxtapose slow, labor-intensive processes with digital and mechanical systems, using material translation as a method for reading landscape and tracing cultural continuity across time and place.

Elkovich’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in Italy, Scotland, Ireland, France, South Korea, and throughout the United States, often in connection with invited artist residencies. She has been a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom, hosted by the Glasgow School of Art, and has completed residencies in Italy and the UK. Her work is held in numerous private and corporate collections. Elkovich is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she has taught for over two decades, and her research and practice continue to bridge studio production, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary inquiry.