Elana Herzog uses material culture to consider aspects of ephemerality and entropy, pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion. Her current focus is on the global migrations of culture and technology as seen through the lens of textile.
Herzog has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She was awarded residencies at Wave Hill, MacDowell, CEC Artslink, The Albers Foundation, Marie Walsh Sharpe Program, LMCC Workspace and Dieu Donne Paper, among others. Herzog received a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, NYFA Fellowships, the Lambent Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Award.