elin O'Hara Slavick

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 in 1994, where she held the titles of Distinguished Term Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies.[1]

Career

Slavick received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.[2] Her published books include Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (with a forward from Howard Zinn)[3] and After Hiroshima (with an essay by James Elkins).[4] She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles.[5]

In 2018, she has published a chapbook of Surrealist poems entitled Cameramouth (SurVision Books, Ireland.)

Personal life

Slavick was raised by a German mother and a Catholic father, and began taking photographs as a young child.[1] Her parents were leftists.[6] Slavick is married to epidemiologist David Richardson and has two children.[6]

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References
  1. "elin o'Hara slavick | Art Department". art.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. "CV". elin o'Hara slavick. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  3. slavick, elin o'Hara; Zinn, Howard; Mavor, Carol; Lutz, Catherine (2007-01-01). Elin O'Hara slavick : bomb after bomb, a violent cartography. Charta. ISBN 9788881586332. OCLC 137233064.
  4. slavick, elin o'Hara (2013). After Hiroshima. United States: Daylight Books. ISBN 9780983231653. OCLC 832409350.
  5. "Cohen Gallery | Artists". www.stephencohengallery.com. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  6. "On Hiroshima: Q&A with elin o'Hara slavick". BURNAWAY. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
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