Elliott Hundley

Elliott Hundley was born in 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He earned a BFA in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. In between, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 2002 and held residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2001), the Vermont Studio Center (2002), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2003).

Hundley works across collage, assemblage, painting, sculpture, and photography, often building large, pinned constructions of found and photographic material that reference myth and classical literature, including the story of Achilles. His work was presented in the Hammer Projects series at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2006, an early solo museum exhibition. He was included in Prospect.5: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, the 2021 to 2022 New Orleans triennial, and held a solo exhibition at Kasmin in New York in 2021. In 2019 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. A mid-career museum survey, By Achilles' Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity, ran at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from 2025 into 2026, and in early 2026 he curated Model World at Tierra del Sol Gallery in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Hundley's assemblages have drawn critical attention for their density and their engagement with classical source material. A 2006 assessment in Art in America, attributed to critic Karen Wilkin and preserved through secondary reproduction, linked his constructions to the combine tradition of Robert Rauschenberg. That reading of Hundley as working through accumulation and material contrast rather than a single-image statement has remained a consistent reference point as his later exhibitions, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art survey, have pushed his source material more explicitly toward Greek tragedy and antiquity.

Hundley's market runs primarily through the primary market rather than the auction room. He is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles and by Kasmin in New York. Public auction activity has been limited: Artnet's summary of his auction results shows a top recorded figure of around USD 135,000, but the specific work, auction house, and sale date behind that figure are not identified in the available public record, so it should be treated as an approximate, unconfirmed indicator rather than a verified auction high. Demand for his work has instead been shaped by museum exhibitions, biennial inclusions, and his 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Hundley's market signals are strongest on the institutional side: his work sits in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, LACMA, and The Broad, and he has had a dedicated museum survey and a Guggenheim Fellowship. There is no catalogue raisonne, so provenance and authentication should be confirmed through Regen Projects or Kasmin. The auction market for his work is thin and its record price is not fully documented in public sources, so collectors should rely on gallery-level information and museum activity rather than a single auction data point when assessing his market.