Elle Pérez is an artist of Puerto Rican descent from the Bronx, New York. Pérez primarily works in photography, depicting the intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details within their portraits and landscapes.

In their work, people are not simply subjected to the process of making a photograph: they are essential to both the creation of the image and its life and distribution thereafter. As Cecilia Wichmann describes, their “images dwell in moments of grief and care, pain and desire, self-exploration, and transformation,” exploring “... the intimacy of relationship building, creating space to reflect on how we navigate ourselves in relation to others and the world.”

Their work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, and has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art (2022); the Carnegie Museum of Art (2021); Public Art Fund (2019); and MoMA PS1 (2018). They were included in the 59th International Venice Biennale (2022) and the Whitney Biennial (2019) and have been featured in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2022), Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2022), the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); the Barbican Centre, London (2020); and the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019).

They have been an artist in residence at MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Lightwork. In 2022, Pérez received the Abigail Cohen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

Pérez has taught at Harvard University in the Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department as an assistant professor.

They have held appointments at Williams College, Cooper Union and the Yale School of Art, and have taught photography at the Educational Alliance Art School in New York.