Tealia Ellis Ritter (b.1978) is an American artist. Her debut monograph, The Model Family, was released in March, 2022 by Loose Joints. Ellis Ritter's work contends with the intersecting roles of the photograph as personal document, familial marker of time and object with physical surface. Her interests lie in exploring the complex relationship between photographer and subject, the changing nature of intimacy over time and photography’s role in identity, performance and archive creation. She is presently engaged in work on her second book, a collaborative project involving images from her late father’s photographic archive, focusing on themes of physicality, authorship and womanhood.

Ellis Ritter’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently by Aperture, Taschen NYC, the Swab Art Fair, Barcelona and as part of Designing Women III: MOTHER. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, AnOther Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine, i-D, Mouvement Magazine, France, The Financial Times of London and Elephant Magazine. The Model Family, as well as additional works, are held in several private and public collections including the library at MoMA, The University of Iowa, Rutgers and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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