Elaine O'Neal (photographer)

Elaine O'Neil (born 1946) is an American fine art photographer. She studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology and earned her MS at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1970. Her photographic works about the mother daughter relationship have received many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship.

Her photographs have been exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York; The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Houston Center for Photography; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo; The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and The Telfair Museum in Savannah,GA.

Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Eastman Museum; the Library of Congress; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

In 2009, O'Neil published her monograph Mother Daughter Posing As Ourselves with RIT Press. She is also a respected educator, who has lectured and taught in Brazil, England, Israel, Australia, and throughout the United States. She was a faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA and later at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.