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.

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. Her published books include Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography and After Hiroshima. She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 2018, she has published a chapbook of Surrealist poems entitled Cameramouth

Personal life

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