Elaine Kaufmann is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She received an M.F.A. in Painting from Hunter
College in 2004 and an M.A. in English Literature from San Francisco State
University in 1998. She has also studied at the Frank
Mohr Instituut in Groningen, Netherlands.
Kaufmann’s work focuses on examining how what we perceive as peripheral
or as central is constructed. She is particularly interested in issues at
the intersection of class and space. Recent projects have included drawing,
site-specific installation, artist’s books, performance, and video.
Her work has been shown in a range of galleries and museums, including the
Bronx
Museum of the Arts, the Brooklyn
Museum, Momenta
Art, and Factory
1241. She also has an ongoing interest in challenging the political structure
of the art world and has pursued alternative venues including cable access
television, activist public interventions, and the Internet.
Kaufmann was awarded an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) residency from the
Bronx Museum and an Independent Project Grant from Artists
Space. In 2007, a collaborative project, Brainstormers,
was awarded a grant from the Puffin
Foundation.