Elyn Zimmerman

Elyn Zimmerman is a New York-based artist who works in a variety of media. Her photographs of archaic structures and ruins worldwide serve as a personal library of images that inform and stimulate her work as a sculptor of large scale sculptures, primarily in stone. Ms. Zimmerman has held solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and abroad and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Her work is represented in private, public, and corporate collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Chase Manhattan Bank among others. Ms. Zimmerman's large-scale outdoor projects for private and public institutions include works at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. and O'Hare International Center in Chicago, as well as a fountain memorial for the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing which was destroyed in the 2001 attack.

Winner of awards and honors for her work, including National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Ms. Zimmerman earned both her bachelor's degree and master of fine arts degree from the University of California in Los Angeles. She has also taught at several colleges in California and New York.