Elena Kulikova

Elena Kulikova creates sensual, vibrant and explosive images utilizing unique multi-layered processes which expand and deepen the work. She explores altered states, through hypnotic and surreal repetition within the photograph to depict change in time and the impermanence of our existence. Elena finds the supernatural in the ordinary and the recognizable in the strange, often within a single image. Innovative processing renders her subjects vivid and dreamlike, bringing together the human and the elemental, allowing the two amplify each other.

Elena learned from other photographers while working as a model and experimenting on her own, yearning to create from something beyond human understanding. Her photography career began in Amsterdam, where her clients included L'Officiel, Virgin Airlines, Lomography, and numerous publications. Her prints have been sold at Colette Paris (the world famous Paris-based Boutique) and the Urban Outfitters Apartment Print Shop. She is currently based in San Francisco.

EXHIBITIONS
2013 Cars West Gallery, 'Into a Billion Pieces', Oakland Art Murmur, California
2012 Langton Labs 'Hacked Organic', San Francisco, California
2009 Paris Collette Boutique Exhibition, DianaLogues ‘Through a Women’s Lens’
2009 Haleiwa North Shore Art Gallery, 'The Vivid and Colorful Exhibition', Hawaii
2007 Ad!dict Creative Lab Photography Exhibition, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Amsterdam Photo Fashion Week Photography Exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands


AWARDS
2006 American Photography, New York, 22 Archives