elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist. She began teaching in the department of art at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies. Sheis currently the Artist-in-Residence in the College of Health Sciences, UC, Irvine. She was the Huntington Art and Research Fellow at Caltech in 2022.

Career

Slavick received a BA from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

and a MFA in photography from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Her published books include ''Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography'' (with a forward from

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn ...

) and ''After Hiroshima'' (with an essay by James Elkins). She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2018, she has published a chapbook of

Surrealist Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

poems entitled ''Cameramouth'' (SurVision Books, Ireland.)

Personal life

Slavick was raised by a German mother and a nationless Catholic father, and began taking photographs as a very young child. Her parents are progressive pacifists, activists against war and hunger, greed and corruption. Slavick is married to

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

br>David Richardson
and has two children.

References

External links

Official website

After Hiroshima book

Shoutout LA

Atomic Photographers Guild

Dark Archive, ExhibitionReview

Holding History in Our Hand book
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slavick, Elin OHara Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sarah Lawrence College alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Surrealist poets