SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS / EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2027 Text & Image, Proxy Gallery, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA
2026 Everyone Stands Beneath Their Own Dome of Heaven or Hell, Santora Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2024 After Hiroshima (Part 1), Santora Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
After Hiroshima (Part 2), Santa Ana College Art Gallery, CA
Atmospheric Catharses, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 Atomic Index, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Make Me a Summary of the World, This Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2022 Dark Archive, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Catharses / Antidotes, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California
2020 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75, 13 billboards throughout Ohio, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, OH
All to Pieces, with Susanne Slavick, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2019 After Hiroshima, Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
2018 Blue Traumas, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono
After Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Workers Dreaming, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2017 Illuminated Artifacts, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
2016 Momentary and Infinite Light, with Mayumi Matsuo, Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
Abandoned Shadows, installation in an abandoned school in Fukushima, Japan
2015 Seventy-Year-Old Shadows of Hiroshima, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
East to East, Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Hiroshima Skies, billboard project, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
70 Years After Hiroshima, Frederic Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ladders, Artifacts and Trees: Works from Hiroshima, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
After Hiroshima, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough, North Carolina
2011 After Aftermath, The Former Imperial Bank, an A-Bombed building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Beland Galley, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts
2010 Aftermath, Global Education, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, with a lecture by Noam Chomsky
2009 Flags for Hiroshima, Cosign Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
2007 Oma Auma, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2005 Road in Sight, with Mel Chin, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina
2003 Workers Dreaming and Mutter, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, Tennessee
Workers Dreaming and Protesting Cartography, White Box, The Annex, New York, NY
Protesting Cartography, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2000 New Frontiers IV, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
1999 Bragg Murders - a violent cartography, The Modern Museum, Durham, North Carolina
Workers Dreaming, with Jane Marsching, Brewhouse Space 101, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1997 Labour < > Leisure (Global Economy), Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
1996 Mutter, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
1995 A Retrospective, The Grove, Raleigh, North Carolina
Pleasures of Gender, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina
1992 A Wall of Incoherent Dresses, Franklin Furnace, New York
1991 Embodiment, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Group Exhibitions
2026 Atomic Dragons: SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Nichols and Lenzner Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Nuclear Past, Present, and Future: Art in Action, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace, 1976-2026, Rudin Family Gallery, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn, NY
Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Making [Art] History: Acts, Actions, and Reenactments, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Hiroshima Library, curated by Brandon Shimoda, Albert Seay Music and Art Library at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Biennial Means Necessary, Proyectos Raul Zumudio, New York, NY
2025 Coming Into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Ecocide: Nature in the Shadow of War, Crow’s Nest, Baltimore, MD
Lineage & Cloth, 3-woman show, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, Wilmington College, Ohio
Nuclear Exposures: SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Family Tree, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA; Martin Art Gallery, Allentown, PA; Pearl Kennard Gallery, Mansfield, OH
Synecdoche: Fragmentation and the Art of Perception, Cerritos College Art Gallery, CA
My Favorite Things, Proyectos Raul Zamudio, New York, NY
2024 Pacific Standard Time: curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector, Getty Museum / Caltech, Pasadena, California
Plutonium and Silver, Uranium Film Festival, CineWorks, Vancouver, Canada
Recent Acquisitions, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Tryst Art Fair, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Biennial Means Necessary, Proyectos Raul Zumudio, New York, NY
Watching War in American Culture, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2023 Family Tree, Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Cases of Exposure, SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Balance / Imbalance, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine
Art that Matters to the Planet: Interconnectivity, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
2022 Ballots Not Bullets, White Box, New York, NY
Family Tree, Dowd, Gallery, SUNY Cortland, New York
Contemporary Works on Paper, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Love Letters, Lump Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina
Immemory: On Covid-19, online collective archive exhibition, https://covid-immemory.com/pandemic-portraits
2021 Family Tree Whakapapa, The Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Vanishing, This Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2020 Family Tree Whakapapa, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, NZ
The Future Challenges Us Now, LaborFest, San Francisco, California
The World of Drone Art, curated by Beryl Pong, Being Human Festival, Sheffield, UK
2019 Catastrophes and Artifacts, Hiroshima City University Museum, Japan
Photo LA, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
Arboreal, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, Florida
Apocalypse Then and Now, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, New York
The Haunted Archive, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Texas
Dear Leader, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Gender, Sexuality, and Cartography, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford, California
2018 Peace and Justice, Delaware State University Arts Center Gallery, Dover
MARX@200, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Atomic Traces, curated by Liz Faust, New York, New York
Art of Armistice, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia
Valediction, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
2017 After Hiroshima, IoDeposito, B#S Gallery, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
Governors Island Art Fair, New York, New York
Hiroshima Nevermore, Centro Culturama, Goiânia, Brazil
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina
The Nothing That Is, The Carnegie Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016 Hiroshima Never More, Matilha Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
The Last Four Years, Cohen Gallery's closing exhibition, Los Angeles, California
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
Atomic Particles, Mobius Gallery, Bothell, Washington
Art Ring, Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture, Japan
Anywhere But Here, Curated by Bill Thelen, LUMP, Raleigh, North Carolina
Future-Isms, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York
2015 Photography and the Scientific Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The Art of Humanity, Rubelle and Norman Schifler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Hiroshima / Nagasaki 70, Angrense Society for Ecological Protection, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Hiroshima Intersections, Gallery Intersections, Hiroshima, Japan
Fall Out, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Atomic Photographers Guild, Bank of Japan, A-bombed Building, Hiroshima, Japan
The Nothing That Is, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of MD, Baltimore
Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
Photo Basel, Cohen Gallery Booth, Basil, Switzerland
Under One Sky, Dianxi Science and Technology Normal University, Lincang, China
2014 Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Le Plateau, Dakar, Senegal
Highlights, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Out of Rubble, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, PA; Jack Olson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
Close to Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
State of Emergency: Disasters, VanEvery Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC
FotoFever, Cohen Gallery Booth, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
2013 Jeonju Photography Festival, War and Memory, curated by Hoon Jung, Jeonju, Korea
Imago Mundi, collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stamplalia, Italy
Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA; String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, New York
Particles on the Wall, Washington State University's Art Center, Seattle, Washington
Risk and the Landscapes of Militarization, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
Influenced by the Sun, curated by Peter Bartlett, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Gallery, OH; Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, PA
The Fire Does Not Go Out, Baron Gallery, Oberlin College, Ohio
Divergence: Photographs from Atomic Photographers, Form Gallery, Perth, Australia
To What Purpose? Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Atomic Photographers Guild, The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, Arvada, CO; Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, Washington
Behind the Atom Curtain, Uranium Film Festival, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
2011 Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology, Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Offrez l'art de demain, URDLA, Lyon, France
Behind the Atom Curtain, Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Sala Terrana, Heiligenkreuzehof, Vienna, Austria
Vedute, URDLA, Lyon, France
Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
2010 Race, Sex, Politics, Religion: 4 things not to talk about in the South, Space One-Eleven, Birmingham, AL; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Deutsche Bank Americas Collection, Deutsche Bank, Raleigh, North Carolina
Atomic Photographers Guild, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Congress, Switzerland; Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Bad Moon Rising, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, Missouri
Capitalism in Crisis, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, New York
Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, North Carolina
Cool, Collected and in Context, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Paper Politics, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Grassroots Cartography, Sea Change Gallery, Portland, Oregon
To Be or Not to Be, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
2008 Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Audacity of Desperation, PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space, New York, NY; Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, California
Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Northwest Contemporary Gallery, Indiana
Heroes, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina
Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires
Paper Quilts, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Paper Politics, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY; Red House Gallery, Syracuse, NY; K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2007 The Big Picture, Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Paper Politics, L’Art + Anarchie, Montreal, Canada; Walker’s Point Center, Milwaukee, WI; Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Contemporary Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
2006 Restating Empire, curated by Deborah Paine, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington
Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, catalogue
Paper Politics, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Food For Thought Gallery, Portland, OR
Racing Pages, New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, NY
2005 PatriART: Artists Defend Civil Liberties, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
Art / Work, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts
The Simnuke Project, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, California
Crosscurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, catalogue
Workers of the World, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paper Politics, Phinney Gallery Center, Seattle, Washington
2004 News from Home, The Annex, New York, New York
Felix Variations, Play Space, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Women in the Middle: Border, Barriers, Intersections, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery
Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, Studio 84, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
The Art of Politics, Ashmore Gallery, Miami, Florida
Toxic Landscapes, the Puffin Foundation, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Art Center, Loveladies, New Jersey
Hall of Portraits, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Pinkard Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Paper Politics, In These Times, Chicago, IL
2003 Lost Weekend, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bad Touch 4 + 5, Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
The New Normal, Borofsky Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Les Fables de la Fontaine, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle; Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2002 Art Basel / Miami, Art Positions, curated by Janet Phelps, Miami, Florida
Figurative Works, curated by Olga Viso, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Toxic Landscapes, Reino de este Mundo International Gallery, Havana, Cuba; The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
Les Fables de la Fontaine: Temple University, Rome, Italy; Center for Art and Culture at MICA, Aix-en-Provence, France
Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Towards Tomorrow, curated by Tammy Rae Carland, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Dream: A Painter Looks at Photography, Squareblue Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Bad Touch 3, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois
2001 New Art 2001, curated by Bill Arning, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Toxic Landscapes, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pennsylvania
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA, Buffalo, New York
Homegrown, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Media/Tonic, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pennsylvania
Ladyfest, Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
A Social Event Archive, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000 Flesh and Blood V, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, Illinois
Flesh and Blood IV, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
1999 Requiem, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Flesh & Blood III, The New Gallery, Miami, Florida
What Will You Miss? Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
National Exposure, curated by Colin Westerbeck, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Flesh and Blood II, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Tough and Tender, curated by Bill Thelen, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
1998 Context, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Steel, Brew House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Art on Paper, curated by Amy Cappellazzo and Laura Hoptman, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
1997 Flesh and Blood, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Women in the Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1996 White Columns, curated by Bill Arning, Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC
Artists Exhibition, curated by Donald Kuspit, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, North Carolina
1994 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
National Fiber Arts, curated by Annette Cowenberg, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
Female Trouble, City College Gallery, New York, New York
Revenge, site-specific installation, Chamber Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Wall to Wall, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, New York
Beyond Body, 494 Gallery, New York, New York
Fate of the Earth, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Neurotic Art: The Return of the Repressed, Artists Space, New York, New York
Queer Bodies, Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1991 Crude Thinking, MWMWM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Furious Women, Furious Work, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Small Things, Northern Illinois Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Evidence, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gigantic Women / Miniature Work, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois
Personal / Political - Sexuality Self-Defined, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois
Women Speak for Themselves, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Through a Mask, Darkly, Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022 - 2025 Artist-In-Residence, University of California, Irvine
2024 Lenscratch Art + Science Competition, Honorable Mention
2022 CalTech-Huntington Art and Research Residency, Pasadena, California
2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, Visiting Scholar at Hiroshima City University, Japan
Nominated for the Prix Pictet, Paris, France, by Curator Jean Wainwright, Tate Modern, UK
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Artist-in-Residence, URDLA, Lyon, France
2008 Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor (through 2012)
Artist-in-Residence, Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
2006 North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship
2004 Kenan Faculty Fund, retention of promising and outstanding faculty in the face of unprecedented competition from peer institutions
2002 Triangle Art Award, The Independent Weekly, Durham, NC
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship
1998 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative / Pew Charitable Trust Public Art Award
North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artists Fellowship
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1996 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, July Artist-in-Residence
1995 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship for fall, UNC
SELECTED LECTURES + PRESENTATIONS
2026 Keynote Address, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Gallery Talk, Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace 1976-2026, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Panel Participant, Art, Science, and the Nuclear Legacy, Nichols and Lenzner Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Artist Lecture, The Marriage of Art and Science, with David Richardson, California State University, San Marcos
Panel Participant, Damage: Notes on A Queer Aesthetic, Jonathan Alexander, book launch, Leslie Lohman Museum New York, NY
2025 Panel Participant, Beyond the Era of the Witness: 80 Years Later, Passing the Lessons Forward, UCLA, CA
Exhibition Panel Participant, Archive as Witness: Memory and Art in Nuclear Histories, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
Gallery Talk, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2024 Artist Lecture/Panel, James Michelin Distinguished Lecture Speaker Series, Crossing Over: Art and Science, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Artist Lecture, Santa Ana College, CA
2023 Artist Lecture, California State University San Marcos
Artist Lecture, University of Illinois, Chicago
Artist Lecture, California State, Fullerton
Artist Lecture, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2022 Artist Lecture: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Artist Lecture: Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Artist Lecture: The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Artist Lecture: Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College, Norwalk, California
Gallery Talk, Dowd Gallery, SUNY, Cortland, New York
Artist Lecture: Claremont Graduate Seminar on Curating Art and Science, Caltech Archives, Pasadena, CA
WebEx Seminar, SUNY, Cortland, New York
2021 Artist Lecture: Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Artist Webinar: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Museum Talk: Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Museum Talk: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, New Zealand
Gallery Talk: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Artist Lecture: Wilmington College, Ohio
Artist Lecture: Emory University Photographers Speaker Series, Atlanta, Georgie
2019 Artist Lecture: University of Groningen, Netherlands
Gallery Talk: Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Gallery Talk: Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
Artist Lecture: Minerva Art Academie, Groningen, Netherlands
Presenter: Liberal Democracy and Social Practice panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, New York
Presenter/ Workshop Leader: Visualizing the Archive, University of Groningen and Minerva Art Academie, Netherlands
2018 Artist Lecture: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Artist Lecture: University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Artist Lecture: Keohane and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Presenter: Responses to Nuclear War, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Poetry Reading, SurVision Books, Pearse Street Library, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Artist Lecture: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Artist Lecture: Temple University, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Artist Lecture: Turchin Center for the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
Presenter: After Hiroshima, exhibition panel, Gallery B#S, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
2016 Keynote: Claremont McKenna College, Nuclear Policy Conference, Claremont, California
Gallery Talk: Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
Presenter: PICTURE, magazine launch, with Luc Sante, An-My Lê, Jeffrey Anderson, Dru Donovan, John Pilson, MoMA / PS1, New York
2015 Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Gallery Talk: Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Talk: ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art), MECA (Maine College of Art), Portland
Gallery Talk: Duke University, Asian Pacific Studies, Fredric Jameson Gallery, Durham, NC
2014 Artist Lecture: Gettysburg College and Civil War Institute, Pennsylvania
Artist Lecture: Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
Presenter: Out of Rubble, Symposium, Gettysburg College and Civil War Institute, Pennsylvania
2013 Artist Lecture: California College of Art, Photography Lecture Series, San Francisco, California
Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Keynote: Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, Florida
Artist Lecture: Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Presenter: Visualizing Trauma, panel moderated by Fred Ritchin, with Brett Van Ort and Jeff Jacobson, MoMA/ PS1, Long Island City, New York
Presenter: Book Launch, After Hiroshima, ICP (International Center for Photography), New York
Keynote: Remembering Hiroshima/Witnessing Peace, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Co-Convener, Out of Rubble panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California
Presenter: Fukushima, Lessons Learned panel, Oberlin College, Ohio
Convener: Metamorphs: Artists Spin Science, symposium, Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC, Chapel Hill
2011 Artist Lecture: Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
Artist Lecture: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Artist Lecture: The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presenter: Surviving the Atomic Bomb, panel with an artist lecture, Duke, Durham, NC
2010 Distinguished Lecture: Humanities Seminar, University of Hartford, Connecticut
Distinguished Lecture, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, North Carolina
2009 Artist Lecture: University of Manchester, Department of Art and Visual Studies, UK
Artist Lecture: University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Presenter: To Be or Not to Be, A Painter's Dilemma, symposium, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Artist Lecture: University of Manchester, Department of Art and Visual Studies, UK
2007 Artist Lecture: The Museum of Fine Arts, Eight Photographers Series, Boston, Massachusetts
Artist Lecture: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Artist Lecture: Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts
Artist Lecture: Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Presenter: Political Photography, with John Pilson, Taj Forer and Andrew Lichtenstein, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Presenter: Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference, St. Louis, MO
Presenter: Charta Books for Peace, with Howard Zinn, Michael Lally and Moises Saman, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2006 Presenter: Anthropology, Art and Activism: Wars Unfinished, U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa and Korea, Brown University, Providence, RI
2005 Artist Lecture: Brown University, Providence, RI
Artist Lecture: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Artist Lecture: Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2004 Artist Lecture: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England
Artist Lecture: University of Buffalo, NY
2003 Artist Lecture: Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
2002 Presenter, panel in conjunction with the group exhibition “Toxic Landscapes,” Jose Marti National Library, Havana, Cuba
Artist Lecture: The Center for Advanced Art and Culture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
2000 Artist Lecture: The Center for Advanced Art and Culture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en- Provence, France
Gallery Talk: The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1999 Artist Lecture: University of Miami, Florida
Co-Convener, Local / Global Photographic Practices at the End of the Millennium, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Artist Lecture: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Lecture: Duke University, Durham, NC
1997 Presenter: “Skin Deep: Beauty, Displeasure, Agency,” The Index of Beauty, Society for Photographic Education: LACE, CA
Artist Lecture: The Rhetoric of Art, Censorship, and Public Funding, Claremont McKenna College, CA
1996 Presenter: Performance Studies Formations, “Maternity, Visuality, Performativity”, Northwestern, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Artist Lecture: DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Artist Lecture: Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
1995 Artist Lecture: American Civil Liberties Union Annual Conference
1992 Artist Lecture: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Artist Lecture: Syracuse University, NY
1991 Artist Lecture: Yale Summer School at Norfolk, CT
SELECTED CULTURAL SECTOR POSITIONS
1994 – present, Independent Curator
Curatorial Projects
2027 About Milk, Santa Ana College Gallery, CA
2024 Viral Integration, UC Irvine, CA
2021 Betsy Kenyon; Migiwa Orimo; and Ejecta Projects; Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2020 Andre Leon Gray; Faculty Works, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2019 Nuclear Visions; Kelly Popoff; Andrew Johnson; Angela Kelly, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Carrack, Durham, NC
2017 Materia: Heterotopia, Materialization; Dystopia, Dematerialization; Utopia, Rematerialization, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Anxious Condition, Anchorlight, Raleigh, North Carolina
Cameras are Clocks for Seeing, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2016 We Stand. We Matter. Art Majors installation and forum, UNC, Chapel Hill
2015 Beyond Cameras, Duke/UNC MFA, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Proto-Anti-Para-Ultra-Contra-Post-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
2014 Anti-Precision, Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC; Liberty Arts, Durham, North Carolina
2013 A Taste of Empathy, Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC, Chapel Hill
2011 Self-Observed, Curatorial Projects class, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Don't Be Intimidated by this Painting, Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Ground We Walk On, Local Histories, 523 Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC
Local Histories II, Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, North Carolina
2009 Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, North Carolina
2005 Images That Matter: Us and Them, Honors Seminar, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Loom 3: Labeler, co-curator, with Jeff Waites, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2003 Violent Violence, Gallery Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Loom 2 and Loom 1, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, North Carolina
2001 Perpetuating History, student collaboration at Silent Sam, confederate memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill
1997 Mother Smother Other Lover, Alcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1995 Day Without Art for AIDS Awareness, Glass Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1994 Bodily Functions, Student Union Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
Rinse and Spin, student exhibition at 8 business locations, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
2025 Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience,Wilmington College Peace Resource Center / Oakland University Art Gallery
2024 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech 1920-2020, Caltech Library, Pasadena, Getty Foundation Publications, p 176-177
De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, Drone Imaginaries, Kathrin Maurer, pp.66-67, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Moderna SuperAÇÃO! Geografia - Volume 1, Editora Moderna Press, Brazil, p. 261
2022 The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh, cover image, Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA
Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures, pp. 282-287; pp. 383-423, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Canada
2021 The War Lawyers, Craig Jones, cover image, Oxford University Press, UK
The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Figure 1, color plate, pp. 6-7, Wiley, USA
Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision, Manchester University Press, UK, cover image and p. 32
2020 Family Tree Whakapapa, exhibition catalogue with essays by Katherine Guinness and Rawiri Smith, New Zealand
Holding History in Our Hand, Wilmington College’s Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium and Response Project, USA
2019 Insurgent Aesthetics, Ronak K. Kapadia, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 95-101; color plates 9-12, USA
2018 Cameramouth, chapbook of poetry, New Poetics, SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Photography in America, Miles Orvell, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 200-201
2015 PICTURE magazine, Issue 1, edited by John Pilson and Matthew Booth, page 66, NY
Gut Feminism, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Disorder, teNeues Publishing, London, UK, pp. 74-75 + 127,
War Power, Police Power, Marc Neocleous, cover image, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland
2013 After Hiroshima, bilingual monograph of my work, essay by James Elkins, Daylight Books, NY
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Organix: Contemporary Artists from the USA, edited by Diego Cortez, Benetton Corporation, Fabrika, Italy
War + Memory: The 6th Jeonju Photo Festival, Korea, "War, Image and," pp.50-55
2012 Black and Blue, Carol Mavor, Duke Press, photograph, p. 160, (text about, p. 52), USA
2011 Reconstructing Conflict, edited by Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, cover image
Latinamericanism After 9/11, John Beverly, Duke Press, cover image, USA
2010 Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies,Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, "Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss," pp.115-144
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, the University of California Press, cover image, USA
What I Keep, Photographs by Susan Mullally, "What I Keep So You Can See Me," Introduction by elin o'Hara slavick, Baylor University Press, USA
2009 Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, edited by Josh McPhee, PM Press, Oakland, CA, pp. 8, 122 + 147
Fixing Sex, Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, Katrina Karkazis, cover photograph, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
2008 Reading Boyishly, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, photographs, pp. 140 and 367, USA
Bombing Ourselves, winter, Extra! Extra! Pamphlet series #2, Azul Editions, CT, USA
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Duke University Press, cover art, USA
2007 Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography, essays by Howard Zinn, Carol Mavor, and Catherine Lutz, Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy
2006 Fables of La Fontaine, Constantine and Koren Christofides, University of Washington Press, Seattle/London, page 68, USA
2003 Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines, Diana Freedman and Olivia Frey, editors, Duke University Press, cover photograph, USA
2001 Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Catherine Lutz, with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick, Beacon Press, USA
1999 The Untimely Present, Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction, Idelber Avelar, Duke University Press, front cover photography, USA
Periodicals
2026 Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, poems, pp. 68-69; collages, pp. 24, 67, 104, March 21, Northampton, MA
Low Hanging Fruit, Apricot Rosemary ice Cream, poem, April 26; Bone Rungs, poem, April 6, Pasadena, CA
2025 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Witness, poem, Hong Kong, special issue 85 on Reparation
Blue Lake Review, I Write You Because I do Not Understand Myself, poem, Issue #1
Der Greif, Tomorrow is Today, selected by Hank Willis Thomas, p. 63; Black Box, selected by Charmaine Toh and Philippe Pirotte, Munich, Germany
Knowing Bodies, edited by Cindy Rehm, Middlepause, poem and Mirror, collage, March 25
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, poems and collages, pp. 24, 58, 94-95, Vol 19, Issue 2, Northampton, MA
2024 Women’s Studies Quarterly, Unbearable Being(s), Volume 52, fall/winter, collage and text, pp 174-175
Yes We Cannibal, 7” vinyl record cover for Helen Gillet’s experimental cello, Baton Rouge, LA
Citric Acid: An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly, “Selections of Resistance: Viral Integration,” elin o’Hara slavick, Issue 9, March
Hyena, Surreal Feminism, journal edited by Cindy Rhem, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Colorado Nuclear Atlas, “Dark Archive,” elin o’Hara slavick, January 14
The Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, In Balance/Imbalance, summer
2021 A New Nothing, edited by John Pilson, Sleeper Publications, Pittsburgh, PA and Durham, NC
The Brooklyn Rail, A Tribute to Diego Cortez (1946-2021), organized by Raymond Foye, September 1, “Poem to Diego,” elin o’Hara slavick
2020 Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, vol. 10, “Dance/Movement Collages by elin o’Hara slavick,” spring
Love In The Time of COVID, A Chronicle of a Pandemic, Nov. 13, New Zealand
2019 American Quarterly, “Grievability and Nuclear Memory,” Jessie Boylan, vol 71 no. 2, pp. 379-388
Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, “Marx on Earth,” Barbara McCloskey, 15 (2): 244-251
Artlines, Womens’ Caucus for Art, summer edition, NY
2018 White Hot Magazine, “Apocalypse: Then and Now,” Jonathan Goodman, April, 2019
Full Bleed, feature on my collages, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland, back cover and pp. 86-91
Afterimage, Vol. 45, No. 4, “Marx@200,” Benjamin Ogrodnik, pp 26-28
2015 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "Hiroshima Mon Amour," Vol. 13, Issue 32, No. 4, August 10
BLOW Photo, featured photographer, "After Hiroshima," May, Dublin, Ireland
Critical Military Studies, "Re-Imagining Hiroshima in Japan," Photograph, p.1, June, Taylor & Francis
Union of Maine Visual Artists Quarterly Journal, "The Mapping of the Incomprehensible," 8-page spread of collages and text
2014 Burnaway, "On Hiroshima: Q&A with elin o'Hara slavick," Amy White, August 4
2013 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "After Hiroshima: an interview with elin o'Hara slavick," Amy White, Volume 11, Issue 19 No. 3, May 13
Spectrum, journal of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria
2012 The Journal of Cultural Studies, Routledge, Vol. 26, Numbers 1-6, cover images
2011 Hiroshima Research News, Hiroshima Peace Institute, "An American Artist in Hiroshima, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nov., page 4
2010 The Asia-Pacific Journal, “Art, Politics, Memory, and Language: A Conversation between Artists Hong-An Truong and elin o'Hara slavick
Public: Art, Culture, Ideas, Toronto, Canada, “Memorials in the After Aftermath: France and Japan,” photographic essay, January
Papers of Surrealism, “Eight Surrealist Collages and Poems,” elin o’Hara slavick, Spring, University of Manchester, UK
2009 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "Hiroshima: A Visual Record," elin o'Hara slavick, Vol. 30-3-09
CounterPunch, "Flags for Hiroshima," Weekend Edition, front page, September 18
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA: "Ishiuchi Miyako, Hiroshima, Japan," Nov/Dec, p. 63
Visual Anthropology of Japan, "Hiroshima: A Visual Record," August 6
Journal of Critical Asian Studies, Routledge, "Hiroshima: After Aftermath," 41:2, 307-328
2008 Anthropology Today, London, UK, front, inside front and back cover photographs, October
2007 Red Pepper Magazine, London, UK, August, “Bomb After Bomb,” p. 51, inside back cover
2006 American Ethnologist, November, Issue 33(4), photographs
Daylight Magazine, Issue #5, Workers Dreaming, Chapel Hill, New York, London, pp. 54-59
Cultural Politics, July, Field Report – Protesting Cartography: Places the U.S. has Bombed, Oxford, UK, pp. 245-254
2002 American Anthropologist, New York, NY, Volume 104, Number 3, September, cover and photographs pp. 728 and 730
Southern Atlantic Quarterly, Durham, NC, spring, “Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11,” photographs p. 289
The Independent, Durham, NC: “Pictured Southern: Contemporary Southern Photography from Walker Evans to Sally Mann,” January 2
2001 The Independent, “Life in War’s Shadow,” November 7-13, photographs pp. 7, 30-31; “Otherworldly,” November 7-13, p. 33
Adbusters, Vancouver, BC, Canada, January, “Global Economy Postcard,” p.6
2001 Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Memories of Nature,” Sept/Oct., pp. 39-40
2000 The Progressive, Madison, WI, January, “A Doll for the Global Economy,” p. 15
1999 Printed Matter, Inc., NY, distribution of Post-Colonial Girl Paper Doll, booklet printed by Paper Crane Press, 10 pages
1994 Whitewalls, Chicago, IL, “A Wretch Like Me,” edited by Robert Blanchon, fall, p. 39
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2026 No Edges on a Sphere, Karina Lutz, poetry book, cover image, NatureCulture, Northfield, MA
2025 Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, edited by Claude Baillargeon, Wilmington College Peace Resource Center / Oakland University Art Gallery
2024 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech 1920-2020, edited by Peter Sachs Collopy and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech Library, Pasadena, Getty Foundation Publications
De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks, edited by James Patton Rogers, Drone Imaginaries, Kathrin Maurer, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Moderna SuperAÇÃO! Geografia - Volume 1, Editora Moderna Press, Brazil
2022 The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh, cover image, Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA
Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures, edited by Livia Monnet, image featured in “Lingering Radiation: On Violent Pasts and Open-Ended Futures,” Ruby De Vos; “Inheritance: Radiant Reflections from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima: 20 poems by Bo Jacobs for 20 Photographs by elin o’Hara slavick,” McGill-Queen’s University Press, Canada
2020 Holding History in Our Hand, artist book on the occasion of the 75th memorial of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for Wilmington College’s Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium and Response Project, Peace Resource center, Wilmington, Ohio, USA
2021 Hiroshima City Art Works, Kohei Hosogaya, exhibition catalogue, Hiroshima City Culture Foundation
The War Lawyers, Craig Jones, cover image, Oxford University Press, UK
Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision, edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer, Manchester University Press, UK, cover image
2019 Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life, Duke University Press, Foreword by Catherine Lutz
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, Ronak K. Kapadia, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
2018 Cameramouth, chapbook of poetry, New Poetics, SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Photography in America, Miles Orvell, Oxford University Press, UK
2015 Camera Atomica, John O'Brien, Art Gallery of Ontario and Black Dog Publishing
PICTURE magazine, Issue 1, edited by John Pilson and Matthew Booth, NY
Gut Feminism, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Disorder, teNeues Publishing, London, UK
War Power, Police Power, Marc Neocleous, cover image, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland
2013 Cartographer of sinister history, Monika Rydiger, International Cultural Centre Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies, Mark Selden, Palgrave MacMillan, NY
After Hiroshima, bilingual monograph of my work, essay by James Elkins, Daylight Books, NY
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Organix: Contemporary Artists from the USA, Edited by Diego Cortez, Benetton Corporation, Fabrika, Italy
War + Memory: The 6th Jeonju Photo Festival, Korea, "War, Image and Memory"
2012 Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour, Carol Mavor, Duke Press, USA
2011 Art Critiques: A Guide, James Elkins, New Academia Publishing
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Stephen Graham, Verso Books, NY and London
Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds, “Above the Dead Cities,” Derek Gregory, Routledge, London and New York
Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies, edited by Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, cover image
Latinamericanism After 9/11, John Beverly, Duke Press, cover image, USA
2010 Rethinking the Power of Maps, Denis Wood, Guilford Press, New York and London
Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, edited by John Armitage, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, "Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss"
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, edited by Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, the University of California Press, cover image, USA
What I Keep, Photographs by Susan Mullally, "What I Keep So You Can See Me," Introduction by elin o'Hara slavick, Baylor University Press, USA
2009 The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists explore Cartography, Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, edited by Josh McPhee, PM Press, Oakland, CA
Fixing Sex, Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, Katrina Karkazis, cover photograph, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2008 Reading Boyishly, Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, USA
Bombing Ourselves, Extra! Extra! Pamphlet series #2, Azul Editions, CT, USA,
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Duke University Press, cover art, USA
2007 Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography, monograph of my work with essays by Howard Zinn, Carol Mavor, and Catherine Lutz, Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy
2006 Fables of La Fontaine, Constantine and Koren Christofides, University of Washington Press, Seattle/London, USA
2004 Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity, Peter Lang USA, "Collecting Loss," Carol Mavor
2003 Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines, Diana Freedman and Olivia Frey, editors, Duke University Press, cover photograph, USA
2001 Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Catherine Lutz, with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick, Beacon Press, USA
1999 Becoming, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
The Untimely Present, Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Idelber Avelar, Duke University Press, front cover photography, USA
1998 Media Performance Along the Border, Johannes Berringer, John Hopkins University Press
Periodicals
2026 LA Times, An anti-nuclear art show opened in L.A. County. Then the U.S. bombed Iran, Chloe Shrager, March 27
Hyperallergic, How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb, Austen Villacis, March 27
Canvas Rebel, “Meet elin o’Hara slavick,” April 24, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-elin-ohara-slavick/
2024 The Democracy Chain, “After Hiroshima: Atomic-Bomb Influenced Photographic Work by Lifelong Peace Activist,” Liz Goldner, Issue #32, March
2022 Counterpunch, “The Bomb that Cracked an Island,” Jeffrey St. Clair, Sept. 23, Petrolia, CA
DARIA, Denver Art Review, Inquiry and Analysis, "Dark Archive," Jose Antonio Arellano, September 15, Colorado
2021 Wairarapa Times-Age, “Family trees celebrated,” Gareth Winter, p. 25, Feb. 11, New Zealand
Featherstone Phoenix, “Family Tree Whakapapa exhibition is a treasure,” Jen Olson, Vol XXVI, Issue 1, New Zealand
2020 American Quarterly, “On Violence, Seen Remotely,” Elspeth Iralu, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1047-1055, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Spectator, USC Journal of Film and Television Criticism, “Negative Hauntology and the Nuclear Sublime,” Katherine Guinness, p. 31-39
Monday Artpost, “Family Tree Whakapapa,” Dec. 28, Ocean and Pounds Publication, Hong Kong
PhotoForum NZ, “Family Tree Whakapapa,” December 20, New Zealand
Wairarapa Times-Age, “Family tree exhibition,” Becky Bateman, Nov. 3; “Family Tree Whakapapa,” Gay Butler, p. 14., Dec. 27, Masterton, NZ
Surveillance and Society, Robert Heynen, Queens University, Canada, 18 (4), 559
2019 Dagblad Noorden, Groningen, Netherlands, “Vergeten atoombom weer actueel,” Illand Pietersma, September 6, cover and page 11
2018 Mediations, Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, Katherine Lawless, Volume 31, No. 2, Special issue: Materialism and the critique of Energy
Winston-Salem Journal, “Innovation and tradition: Past and present approaches to photography,” Tom Patterson
Sublime Imperfections, “Autoradiographs in contemporary art.” Ruby de Vos, October 30, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Chronicle, “Kenan ‘Workers Dreaming’ exhibit challenges popular notions of labor,” Alizeh Sheikh, October 24, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017 Giorno e Notte, La Tribuna, “72 Anni Dopo La Bomba Atomica,” Elena Grassi, front page, August 6, Treviso, Italy
Cultural Anthropology, “What Matters,” Catherine Lutz
Indy Week, “Materia – A Temporal Collaboration,” Brian Howe, p. 44; “The Anxious Condition,” Noah Rawlings, p. 33, Durham NC
2016 Axon, Creative Explorations, Cassandra Atherton, No. 10, University of Canberra, Australia
2015 Tokyo Times / Shimbun, November 27, page 26
Frieze, “The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show in Five Parts,” Mimi Luse, Oct. 21, London, NY
Chigoku Daily, "International Artists Express Hiroshima," Hiroshima, Japan
Library of Congress, “Remembering Hiroshima in Photographs,” Barbara Orbach Natanson, August 6
CRAVE, "Seventy-Year-Old Shadows of Hiroshima," Nicole Borgenicht, August 26, LA
Portland Press Herald, "Far East and Down East on view at MECA Gallery," June 7, Maine
Portland Phoenix, "Traces, transformations and trajectories," Britta Konau, July 2, p 30; "Be on the lookout for elin o'Hara slavick," June 5, p. 21, ME
2014 Lens/cratch, "The Swap," Grant Gill, April 14
DC Sight Unseen, "The Other Side of Disaster," Adrian Muoio
Burnaway, " Artists Respond to States of Emergency," Nick Kahler, March 13
New Mexico Mercury, "Another Way of Seeing," Margaret Randall, March 28
NECSUS, European Journal of Media Studies, “Photographed by the earth," Thomas Pringle, pp. 131-154, Amsterdam, Dec. 4
2013 New York Times, Weekend Arts II, Paper Gallery, Dreamscapes, Abysses And Radiation, Dana Jennings, p. C24, August 23
Los Angeles Times, "Haunting residue of Hiroshima," Leah Ollman, October 24, page D14
Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture top story, "U.S. bombing seen through artist's eye in 'After Hiroshima' book," Liesl Bradner, Aug. 4, p. E3
San Francisco Chronicle, Books top mention, "After Hiroshima, by elin o'Hara slavick," Kenneth Baker, August 2
San Francisco Chronicle, "Fiery indelible images," Kenneth Baker, page F7
Times Higher Education, “Arts of the Political: New openings for the Left,” book review featuring my book cover, July 11
Images Magazine, Paris, France, #59, p. 91, "After Hiroshima," book review
Photo-eye Blog, Art Photography and Books, "Atomic Studies in Blue," Colin Pantall, July 25
FOAM, All about Photography, "Black Shadows: Photography and Forgetting," Esther Teichmann, May 30, Netherlands
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "Radiated Relics," vol. 110 no. 21, May 22
D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc., featured image, Cory Reynolds, August 23
Artweek LA, elin o'Hara slavick: Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Vol. 136, Sept. 16
Actuphoto: Actualite Photographique, "elin o'Hara slavick presents After Hiroshima at the Daylight Project Space," April 19
CTBTO Spectrum Magazine, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Issue 20, Front and back cover image, pp. 34-35, July, Vienna
2012 Landscape Research, “Researching Militarized Landscapes,” Chris Pearson, Vol. 37, UK
Geographical Imaginations: War, Space and Security, "Seen/Seduced from Above," Derek Gregory, December 10, 2012
Cartographic Perspectives, “Function and Beauty (In Defense of Useless maps), Nat Case, pp. 17-22
Sarah Lawrence Magazine, "The Good Fight," Katharine Reece, spring, p. 26
2011 Postcolonial Representations of Women, “Possibilities for Subverting the Dominant Visual Regime,” Rachel Bailey Jones, pp. 169-193, Springer
Chugoko Newspaper, "An American Artist displays 50 works in Naka-ku," Doumen Masakazu, Hiroshima, Japan, September 21
The Independent, Chris Vitiello, Durham, NC, "The Triangle's visual art scene expanded in 2011," Dec. 28; “Don't Be Intimidated by this Painting," Dec. 21; "Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women at the NCMA," May 18; "Live here now: Chapel Hill show animates concepts of place," February 16, page 28
2010 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New series 35- 2, 2010, “War and Peace,” Derek Gregory, page 175
The Herald Sun, Durham, NC, "Exhibit on Bombing," September 2; “Slavick revisits Hiroshima after the bomb," Blue Greenberg, January 1
Duke Magazine, Durham, NC, "The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists explore Cartography," Teka Selman, page 56
The Independent, David Fellerath, Durham, NC, "To the End of the World with Noam Chomsky and elin o'Hara slavick," October 6
2009 InJournalism Magazine, Alfie Wilkinson, March 15, University of Sunderland, UK
Independent, Durham, NC; “Radiant Art – elin o'Hara slavick' studies of aerial bombardment,” Brian Howe, Dec. 30, p. 21; "Eight Days a Week" + "Indy Pick" for Hiroshima: After Aftermath, Nov. 18, p. 25; "Gone to Croatoan, Group Show Durham tackles the troubles and hopes of the times," David Fellerath, January 28, cover image and pp. 22-23; "The Year in the Arts," Amy White, p. 15
2008 Mmegi, Gaborone, Botswana, “The Naiveté of Bombardiers,” Sheridan Griswold, August 22, p. A4
Cartographic Perspectives, Milwaukee, WI, Review of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, Daniel G. Cole, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 67-68; Review of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, Mark Denil, pp. 68 -70, Number 60, Spring
Zivil, Stuttgart, Germany, “Bomb After Bomb,” Werner Schulz, spring, pp. 3-4
Afterimage, the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, NY, Book Review, Jill Connor, Spring, 2008, pp. 26-27
2007 Independent, Durham, NC, “slavick charts history's nightmares in Bomb After Bomb: A screaming comes across the sky,” Brian Howe, August 22
CounterPunch, “Bomb After Bomb,” Howard Zinn, December 15
Countercurrents.org, “Bomb After Bomb,” Howard Zinn, December 18
ArtUS, Los Angeles, CA, “Prosecuting the Cartography of Violence,” Ryan Griffis, pp. 62-63
Border Crossings, Toronto, Canada, Book Review, Andrea Fitzpatrick, winter, pp. 107-108
DOMUS, Contemporary Architecture, Design, Art, Milan, Italy, “Geography of War,” Nov.
Big, Red and Shiny, Boston, MA, “Bomb After Bomb, a Book Review,” Matthew Nash, July 17; “Art and Activism,” Matthew Nash, April 8
2004 Independent, Durham, NC "Best Bet: in label making and unmaking," Kirk Ross, May 19
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA: "Loom 3: Labeler," Ann Millett, Sept., pp. 44-45
2003 The Guardian, London, England, "Within These Walls," Craig Taylor, December 17
Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Critical Art from America," Rutger Pontzen, July 19
2002 Independent, Durham, NC “The Anti-Warriors: In a year consumed by war, triangle peace activists helped keep debate and dissent alive” Jon Elliston, p. 22, November 27; “Protest Maps; slavick’s work maps the fatal seduction of distance,” Elizabeth Howie, November 13; “Zine Stream,” John Valentine, July 31; “Triangle Art Awards, elin o’Hara slavick, Artist/Activist,” June 25
The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC, “Exhibit shows photo world upside down,” Eric Ferreri, May 27
Art Papers, “Some Kind of Dream,” Julia Ridley Smith, Sept., pp. 38-39
2001 Independent, Durham, NC “The Personal is Political,” Clancy Nolan, June 20, pp.28-29
Winston-Salem Journal, NC: “A Little like Home,” Tom Patterson, June 17
2000 Art Papers, “The Lyon Biennale,” Nov/Dec. pp. 55-56; “URDLA, Photography as a Form of Printmaking,” Sept/Oct., pp. 55-56; “Sarah Jones and Clementina Hawarden: Kindred Spirits of Photography,” Aug., pp. 47-48
New Frontiers IV, catalogue essay, Todd Smith, Curator of American Art, Mint Museum
South China Post, Hong Kong, “The Beauty of Flesh & Blood,” Fionnuala McHugh, January 9
Winston-Salem Journal, NC, “Art of the State,” Tom Patterson, May 21, Arts Section, front page, p. E1; “Pictures with Punch,” Tom Patterson, April 30, p. E5; “Art as Politics,” Tom Patterson, April 9, Arts Section front page, pp. E1-E2; “Eclectic Mix,” Tom Patterson, July 2; “Not in Mint Condition,” Tom Patterson, June 4
Ming Pao Daily, Hong Kong, “Four Faces, Daughters, Sisters, Nerves,” Carol Ying Kei, Jan. 29, p. 22
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Flesh & Blood,” Dinah Ryan, Sept., pp. 43-44
1999 Winston-Salem Journal, NC, “Getting it to Make Sense,” Tom Patterson, October 24, p. E4
1998 Philadelphia Weekly, “Context,” Miriam Seidel, Sept. 2, pp. 37-38
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Studio Visit with elin o’Hara slavick,” Linda Dougherty, March, pp.29-31; “Labor < > Leisure (Global Economy),” Linda Dougherty, Jan., p. 59
1997 Cultural Studies, Routledge/London, “Collecting Loss,” Carol Mavor, spring, pp. 113-137
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Family weaves symbolism into exhibition,” Thomas, Dec. 13, p. B-8
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “Flesh and Blood has Chekhov Drama,” Shearing, Nov. 30, p. E6
Chapel Hill Herald, “Professor’s Presentation Sparks Discussion on Equality,” Fugate, Nov. 3
1995 News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, “Students, Critics Praise Award-Winning Artist,” Chuck Twardy, Feb. 25
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “The Unhappiness of Gender,” Linda Dougherty, March 2
The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC, “Durham Artist Wins Right To Show,” J. Tew, March 3
Fiberarts, “BASF Fiber Show: Powerfully Disturbing,” Bill Alexander, pp. 60-62
New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, “Artist Wins Censorship Fight in Raleigh,” Woody Holliman, May
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “The Pleasures of Gender,” July, pp. 58-59; “7th Annual Fiber Arts Exhibition,” Bill Alexander, March, pp. 50-51
1994 Binocular, Australia, “From Dada to Mama: Feminism, The Ready-Made and Contemporary Practice,” Margaret Morgan, pp. 11-29
1992 New York Post, “The Dress off Her Back,” Jerry Tallmer, December 11
P-Form, Chicago, “Embodiment: Sharing Our Wounds,” Johannes Birringer, Issue 25
1991 New Art Examiner, Chicago, Il, “Sister Serpents,” Bill Stamets, April, p.35
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA / Master of Fine Arts 1991 MFA in Photography
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA / Bachelor of Arts 1988 BA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2022 – Present Founder of SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), 8 women artists addressing the nuclear condition
2019 – Present Founder of the Collaborative Collage Collective
2010 – Present Atomic Photographers Guild; 2023-2025 Advisory Committee
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2026 Sarah Lawrence College / Visiting Professor, fall semester, Bronxville, NY
2022 - 2025 University of California, Irvine / Artist-in-Residence / Communications Specialist /Founded the School of Public Health Art Collection
2022 CalTech, Pasadena, California / Huntington Art and Research Fellowship, Visiting Lecturer
2015 Hiroshima City University / Visiting scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
1994 - 2021 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill / Professor Emerita since 2021
Tenured Full Professor since 2002
Director of Graduate Studies for Studio Art, 2014-2017; 2004-2006
Advisory Board, Institute of Arts and Humanities 2010-2013
Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor 2008-2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art 2006-2008
Associate Chair, Art and Art History Department 2004-2005
Tenured Associate Professor of Art 1999-2002
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor 1994-1999
Public Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Queens Museum, NY
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
UBS Bank, Basel, Switzerland
URDLA, International Center for Printmaking and Books, Lyon, France
The National Library of France, Paris
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Library of Congress, Washington DC
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Grand Rapids Museum of Art, MI
The Gund Museum, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
The Museum of Modern Art Library, NY
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library, CA
John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
The Law School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Institute for Contemporary Art Public Collection, Portland, Maine
Madison Art Collection, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill
Van Every Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Luciano Benetton / Benetton Corporation, Treviso Museum, Italy
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center, NY
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro, NC
Asian Studies, UNC, Chapel Hill
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
Cerritos College Public Art Collection, Norwalk, CA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
Santa Ana Community College, California
The Estate of Howard Zinn, Boston, MA
Sara M. Vance, SMV Media, Cincinnati, OH
CounterPunch, Petrolia, CA
Vacant Space, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Block C / Marinus Augustijn and Agnes Scholte, Groningen, Netherlands
Ontological Museum of Collage, Sante Fe, NM
The Archive of Modern Conflict, London, UK
The John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Drawing Center, Viewing Program’s Artist Registry, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Artist Files and Artists’ Books Archives, New York, NY
Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Archive, NY
Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Hiroshima Library, curated by Brandon Shimoda
2027 Text & Image, Proxy Gallery, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA
2026 Everyone Stands Beneath Their Own Dome of Heaven or Hell, Santora Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2024 After Hiroshima (Part 1), Santora Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
After Hiroshima (Part 2), Santa Ana College Art Gallery, CA
Atmospheric Catharses, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA
2023 Atomic Index, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Make Me a Summary of the World, This Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2022 Dark Archive, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Catharses / Antidotes, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California
2020 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75, 13 billboards throughout Ohio, Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, OH
All to Pieces, with Susanne Slavick, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2019 After Hiroshima, Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
2018 Blue Traumas, Lord Hall Gallery, University of Maine, Orono
After Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, New Image Gallery, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Workers Dreaming, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2017 Illuminated Artifacts, Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
2016 Momentary and Infinite Light, with Mayumi Matsuo, Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
Abandoned Shadows, installation in an abandoned school in Fukushima, Japan
2015 Seventy-Year-Old Shadows of Hiroshima, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
East to East, Institute for Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Hiroshima Skies, billboard project, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
70 Years After Hiroshima, Frederic Jameson Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ladders, Artifacts and Trees: Works from Hiroshima, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
After Hiroshima, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough, North Carolina
2011 After Aftermath, The Former Imperial Bank, an A-Bombed building, Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima, Beland Galley, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts
2010 Aftermath, Global Education, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, with a lecture by Noam Chomsky
2009 Flags for Hiroshima, Cosign Projects, St. Louis, Missouri
2007 Oma Auma, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2005 Road in Sight, with Mel Chin, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, North Carolina
2003 Workers Dreaming and Mutter, Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, Tennessee
Workers Dreaming and Protesting Cartography, White Box, The Annex, New York, NY
Protesting Cartography, The John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
2000 New Frontiers IV, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
1999 Bragg Murders - a violent cartography, The Modern Museum, Durham, North Carolina
Workers Dreaming, with Jane Marsching, Brewhouse Space 101, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1997 Labour < > Leisure (Global Economy), Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
1996 Mutter, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
1995 A Retrospective, The Grove, Raleigh, North Carolina
Pleasures of Gender, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina
1992 A Wall of Incoherent Dresses, Franklin Furnace, New York
1991 Embodiment, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Group Exhibitions
2026 Atomic Dragons: SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Nichols and Lenzner Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Nuclear Past, Present, and Future: Art in Action, National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace, 1976-2026, Rudin Family Gallery, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn, NY
Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Making [Art] History: Acts, Actions, and Reenactments, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Hiroshima Library, curated by Brandon Shimoda, Albert Seay Music and Art Library at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Biennial Means Necessary, Proyectos Raul Zumudio, New York, NY
2025 Coming Into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Ecocide: Nature in the Shadow of War, Crow’s Nest, Baltimore, MD
Lineage & Cloth, 3-woman show, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, Wilmington College, Ohio
Nuclear Exposures: SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Family Tree, Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA; Martin Art Gallery, Allentown, PA; Pearl Kennard Gallery, Mansfield, OH
Synecdoche: Fragmentation and the Art of Perception, Cerritos College Art Gallery, CA
My Favorite Things, Proyectos Raul Zamudio, New York, NY
2024 Pacific Standard Time: curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector, Getty Museum / Caltech, Pasadena, California
Plutonium and Silver, Uranium Film Festival, CineWorks, Vancouver, Canada
Recent Acquisitions, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Tryst Art Fair, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Biennial Means Necessary, Proyectos Raul Zumudio, New York, NY
Watching War in American Culture, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2023 Family Tree, Erie Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Cases of Exposure, SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Balance / Imbalance, L.C. Bates Museum, Hinkley, Maine
Art that Matters to the Planet: Interconnectivity, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
2022 Ballots Not Bullets, White Box, New York, NY
Family Tree, Dowd, Gallery, SUNY Cortland, New York
Contemporary Works on Paper, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Love Letters, Lump Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina
Immemory: On Covid-19, online collective archive exhibition, https://covid-immemory.com/pandemic-portraits
2021 Family Tree Whakapapa, The Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
Photography is Dead, Long Live Photography!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Vanishing, This Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2020 Family Tree Whakapapa, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, NZ
The Future Challenges Us Now, LaborFest, San Francisco, California
The World of Drone Art, curated by Beryl Pong, Being Human Festival, Sheffield, UK
2019 Catastrophes and Artifacts, Hiroshima City University Museum, Japan
Photo LA, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California
Arboreal, Bailey Contemporary, Pompano Beach, Florida
Apocalypse Then and Now, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, New York
The Haunted Archive, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Texas
Dear Leader, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Gender, Sexuality, and Cartography, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford, California
2018 Peace and Justice, Delaware State University Arts Center Gallery, Dover
MARX@200, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Atomic Traces, curated by Liz Faust, New York, New York
Art of Armistice, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia
Valediction, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
2017 After Hiroshima, IoDeposito, B#S Gallery, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
Governors Island Art Fair, New York, New York
Hiroshima Nevermore, Centro Culturama, Goiânia, Brazil
Spectacle and Scaffolding, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina
The Nothing That Is, The Carnegie Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016 Hiroshima Never More, Matilha Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
The Last Four Years, Cohen Gallery's closing exhibition, Los Angeles, California
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
Atomic Particles, Mobius Gallery, Bothell, Washington
Art Ring, Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture, Japan
Anywhere But Here, Curated by Bill Thelen, LUMP, Raleigh, North Carolina
Future-Isms, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York
2015 Photography and the Scientific Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The Art of Humanity, Rubelle and Norman Schifler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Hiroshima / Nagasaki 70, Angrense Society for Ecological Protection, Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Hiroshima Intersections, Gallery Intersections, Hiroshima, Japan
Fall Out, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Atomic Photographers Guild, Bank of Japan, A-bombed Building, Hiroshima, Japan
The Nothing That Is, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina
Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of MD, Baltimore
Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
Photo Basel, Cohen Gallery Booth, Basil, Switzerland
Under One Sky, Dianxi Science and Technology Normal University, Lincang, China
2014 Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Le Plateau, Dakar, Senegal
Highlights, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Out of Rubble, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, PA; Jack Olson Gallery, DeKalb, IL
Close to Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
State of Emergency: Disasters, VanEvery Smith Gallery, Davidson College, NC
FotoFever, Cohen Gallery Booth, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Photo LA, Cohen Gallery Booth, Los Angeles, California
2013 Jeonju Photography Festival, War and Memory, curated by Hoon Jung, Jeonju, Korea
Imago Mundi, collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stamplalia, Italy
Out of Rubble, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA; String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora, New York
Particles on the Wall, Washington State University's Art Center, Seattle, Washington
Risk and the Landscapes of Militarization, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
Influenced by the Sun, curated by Peter Bartlett, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Out of Rubble, Bowling Green State University Gallery, OH; Miller Gallery, Kutztown University, PA
The Fire Does Not Go Out, Baron Gallery, Oberlin College, Ohio
Divergence: Photographs from Atomic Photographers, Form Gallery, Perth, Australia
To What Purpose? Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Atomic Photographers Guild, The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, Arvada, CO; Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, Washington
Behind the Atom Curtain, Uranium Film Festival, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
2011 Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology, Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Offrez l'art de demain, URDLA, Lyon, France
Behind the Atom Curtain, Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Sala Terrana, Heiligenkreuzehof, Vienna, Austria
Vedute, URDLA, Lyon, France
Out of Rubble, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
2010 Race, Sex, Politics, Religion: 4 things not to talk about in the South, Space One-Eleven, Birmingham, AL; Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Deutsche Bank Americas Collection, Deutsche Bank, Raleigh, North Carolina
Atomic Photographers Guild, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Congress, Switzerland; Cooper Union, New York, NY
The Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Bad Moon Rising, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, Missouri
Capitalism in Crisis, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California
A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, New York
Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, North Carolina
Cool, Collected and in Context, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Paper Politics, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Grassroots Cartography, Sea Change Gallery, Portland, Oregon
To Be or Not to Be, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
2008 Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Audacity of Desperation, PS 122 Gallery at DEMO Space, New York, NY; Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, California
Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Northwest Contemporary Gallery, Indiana
Heroes, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina
Last Book, organized by Luis Camnitzer, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires
Paper Quilts, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Paper Politics, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY; Red House Gallery, Syracuse, NY; K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2007 The Big Picture, Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Paper Politics, L’Art + Anarchie, Montreal, Canada; Walker’s Point Center, Milwaukee, WI; Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Contemporary Photography from The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
2006 Restating Empire, curated by Deborah Paine, Gallery 110, Seattle, Washington
Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, catalogue
Paper Politics, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Food For Thought Gallery, Portland, OR
Racing Pages, New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, NY
2005 PatriART: Artists Defend Civil Liberties, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
Art / Work, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts
The Simnuke Project, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, California
Crosscurrents, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, catalogue
Workers of the World, A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paper Politics, Phinney Gallery Center, Seattle, Washington
2004 News from Home, The Annex, New York, New York
Felix Variations, Play Space, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Women in the Middle: Border, Barriers, Intersections, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery
Active Duty, Armed Artists of America, Studio 84, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
The Art of Politics, Ashmore Gallery, Miami, Florida
Toxic Landscapes, the Puffin Foundation, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Art Center, Loveladies, New Jersey
Hall of Portraits, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Pinkard Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Paper Politics, In These Times, Chicago, IL
2003 Lost Weekend, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bad Touch 4 + 5, Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA; Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
The New Normal, Borofsky Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Les Fables de la Fontaine, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle; Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2002 Art Basel / Miami, Art Positions, curated by Janet Phelps, Miami, Florida
Figurative Works, curated by Olga Viso, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Toxic Landscapes, Reino de este Mundo International Gallery, Havana, Cuba; The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, New Jersey
Les Fables de la Fontaine: Temple University, Rome, Italy; Center for Art and Culture at MICA, Aix-en-Provence, France
Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Towards Tomorrow, curated by Tammy Rae Carland, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Dream: A Painter Looks at Photography, Squareblue Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Bad Touch 3, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois
2001 New Art 2001, curated by Bill Arning, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Toxic Landscapes, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pennsylvania
Paradise in Search of a Future, CEPA, Buffalo, New York
Homegrown, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Media/Tonic, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pennsylvania
Ladyfest, Arches Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
A Social Event Archive, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000 Flesh and Blood V, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Counter Productive Industries, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, Illinois
Flesh and Blood IV, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
1999 Requiem, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Flesh & Blood III, The New Gallery, Miami, Florida
What Will You Miss? Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
National Exposure, curated by Colin Westerbeck, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Flesh and Blood II, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
Tough and Tender, curated by Bill Thelen, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
1998 Context, Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Steel, Brew House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Art on Paper, curated by Amy Cappellazzo and Laura Hoptman, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
1997 Flesh and Blood, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Women in the Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1996 White Columns, curated by Bill Arning, Green Hill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC
Artists Exhibition, curated by Donald Kuspit, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, North Carolina
1994 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
National Fiber Arts, curated by Annette Cowenberg, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
Female Trouble, City College Gallery, New York, New York
Revenge, site-specific installation, Chamber Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Wall to Wall, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, New York
Beyond Body, 494 Gallery, New York, New York
Fate of the Earth, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Neurotic Art: The Return of the Repressed, Artists Space, New York, New York
Queer Bodies, Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1991 Crude Thinking, MWMWM Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Furious Women, Furious Work, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Small Things, Northern Illinois Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Evidence, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Gigantic Women / Miniature Work, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois
Personal / Political - Sexuality Self-Defined, Gallery 2, Chicago, Illinois
Women Speak for Themselves, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Through a Mask, Darkly, Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2022 - 2025 Artist-In-Residence, University of California, Irvine
2024 Lenscratch Art + Science Competition, Honorable Mention
2022 CalTech-Huntington Art and Research Residency, Pasadena, California
2015 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, Visiting Scholar at Hiroshima City University, Japan
Nominated for the Prix Pictet, Paris, France, by Curator Jean Wainwright, Tate Modern, UK
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
2010 Artist-in-Residence, URDLA, Lyon, France
2008 Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor (through 2012)
Artist-in-Residence, Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
2006 North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship
2004 Kenan Faculty Fund, retention of promising and outstanding faculty in the face of unprecedented competition from peer institutions
2002 Triangle Art Award, The Independent Weekly, Durham, NC
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship
1998 Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative / Pew Charitable Trust Public Art Award
North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artists Fellowship
Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
1996 The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, July Artist-in-Residence
1995 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship for fall, UNC
SELECTED LECTURES + PRESENTATIONS
2026 Keynote Address, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Gallery Talk, Standing Slightly Outside: Franklin Furnace 1976-2026, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Panel Participant, Art, Science, and the Nuclear Legacy, Nichols and Lenzner Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Artist Lecture, The Marriage of Art and Science, with David Richardson, California State University, San Marcos
Panel Participant, Damage: Notes on A Queer Aesthetic, Jonathan Alexander, book launch, Leslie Lohman Museum New York, NY
2025 Panel Participant, Beyond the Era of the Witness: 80 Years Later, Passing the Lessons Forward, UCLA, CA
Exhibition Panel Participant, Archive as Witness: Memory and Art in Nuclear Histories, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
Gallery Talk, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
2024 Artist Lecture/Panel, James Michelin Distinguished Lecture Speaker Series, Crossing Over: Art and Science, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Artist Lecture, Santa Ana College, CA
2023 Artist Lecture, California State University San Marcos
Artist Lecture, University of Illinois, Chicago
Artist Lecture, California State, Fullerton
Artist Lecture, Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, NY
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2022 Artist Lecture: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Artist Lecture: Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Artist Lecture: The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Artist Lecture: Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
Artist Lecture, Cerritos College, Norwalk, California
Gallery Talk, Dowd Gallery, SUNY, Cortland, New York
Artist Lecture: Claremont Graduate Seminar on Curating Art and Science, Caltech Archives, Pasadena, CA
WebEx Seminar, SUNY, Cortland, New York
2021 Artist Lecture: Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Artist Webinar: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Museum Talk: Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Museum Talk: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton, New Zealand
Gallery Talk: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Artist Lecture: Wilmington College, Ohio
Artist Lecture: Emory University Photographers Speaker Series, Atlanta, Georgie
2019 Artist Lecture: University of Groningen, Netherlands
Gallery Talk: Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Gallery Talk: Galerie Block C, Groningen, Netherlands
Artist Lecture: Minerva Art Academie, Groningen, Netherlands
Presenter: Liberal Democracy and Social Practice panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, New York
Presenter/ Workshop Leader: Visualizing the Archive, University of Groningen and Minerva Art Academie, Netherlands
2018 Artist Lecture: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Artist Lecture: University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Artist Lecture: Keohane and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Presenter: Responses to Nuclear War, Forum for Scholars and Publics, Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Poetry Reading, SurVision Books, Pearse Street Library, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Artist Lecture: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Artist Lecture: Temple University, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Artist Lecture: Turchin Center for the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
Presenter: After Hiroshima, exhibition panel, Gallery B#S, Treviso and Punto Croce, Venice, Italy
2016 Keynote: Claremont McKenna College, Nuclear Policy Conference, Claremont, California
Gallery Talk: Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan
Presenter: PICTURE, magazine launch, with Luc Sante, An-My Lê, Jeffrey Anderson, Dru Donovan, John Pilson, MoMA / PS1, New York
2015 Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Gallery Talk: Vacant Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Talk: ICA (Institute for Contemporary Art), MECA (Maine College of Art), Portland
Gallery Talk: Duke University, Asian Pacific Studies, Fredric Jameson Gallery, Durham, NC
2014 Artist Lecture: Gettysburg College and Civil War Institute, Pennsylvania
Artist Lecture: Mt Rokko Photography Festival, Kobe, Japan
Presenter: Out of Rubble, Symposium, Gettysburg College and Civil War Institute, Pennsylvania
2013 Artist Lecture: California College of Art, Photography Lecture Series, San Francisco, California
Artist Lecture: Hiroshima City University, Japan
Keynote: Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, Florida
Artist Lecture: Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Presenter: Visualizing Trauma, panel moderated by Fred Ritchin, with Brett Van Ort and Jeff Jacobson, MoMA/ PS1, Long Island City, New York
Presenter: Book Launch, After Hiroshima, ICP (International Center for Photography), New York
Keynote: Remembering Hiroshima/Witnessing Peace, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Co-Convener, Out of Rubble panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California
Presenter: Fukushima, Lessons Learned panel, Oberlin College, Ohio
Convener: Metamorphs: Artists Spin Science, symposium, Institute for Arts and Humanities, UNC, Chapel Hill
2011 Artist Lecture: Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
Artist Lecture: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Artist Lecture: The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presenter: Surviving the Atomic Bomb, panel with an artist lecture, Duke, Durham, NC
2010 Distinguished Lecture: Humanities Seminar, University of Hartford, Connecticut
Distinguished Lecture, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, North Carolina
2009 Artist Lecture: University of Manchester, Department of Art and Visual Studies, UK
Artist Lecture: University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Presenter: To Be or Not to Be, A Painter's Dilemma, symposium, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2008 Artist Lecture: University of Manchester, Department of Art and Visual Studies, UK
2007 Artist Lecture: The Museum of Fine Arts, Eight Photographers Series, Boston, Massachusetts
Artist Lecture: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Artist Lecture: Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts
Artist Lecture: Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Presenter: Political Photography, with John Pilson, Taj Forer and Andrew Lichtenstein, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Presenter: Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference, St. Louis, MO
Presenter: Charta Books for Peace, with Howard Zinn, Michael Lally and Moises Saman, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2006 Presenter: Anthropology, Art and Activism: Wars Unfinished, U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa and Korea, Brown University, Providence, RI
2005 Artist Lecture: Brown University, Providence, RI
Artist Lecture: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Artist Lecture: Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2004 Artist Lecture: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England
Artist Lecture: University of Buffalo, NY
2003 Artist Lecture: Watkins College of Art and Design, Nashville, TN
2002 Presenter, panel in conjunction with the group exhibition “Toxic Landscapes,” Jose Marti National Library, Havana, Cuba
Artist Lecture: The Center for Advanced Art and Culture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en-Provence, France
2000 Artist Lecture: The Center for Advanced Art and Culture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Aix-en- Provence, France
Gallery Talk: The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1999 Artist Lecture: University of Miami, Florida
Co-Convener, Local / Global Photographic Practices at the End of the Millennium, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Artist Lecture: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Lecture: Duke University, Durham, NC
1997 Presenter: “Skin Deep: Beauty, Displeasure, Agency,” The Index of Beauty, Society for Photographic Education: LACE, CA
Artist Lecture: The Rhetoric of Art, Censorship, and Public Funding, Claremont McKenna College, CA
1996 Presenter: Performance Studies Formations, “Maternity, Visuality, Performativity”, Northwestern, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Artist Lecture: DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Artist Lecture: Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
1995 Artist Lecture: American Civil Liberties Union Annual Conference
1992 Artist Lecture: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Artist Lecture: Syracuse University, NY
1991 Artist Lecture: Yale Summer School at Norfolk, CT
SELECTED CULTURAL SECTOR POSITIONS
1994 – present, Independent Curator
Curatorial Projects
2027 About Milk, Santa Ana College Gallery, CA
2024 Viral Integration, UC Irvine, CA
2021 Betsy Kenyon; Migiwa Orimo; and Ejecta Projects; Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2020 Andre Leon Gray; Faculty Works, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2019 Nuclear Visions; Kelly Popoff; Andrew Johnson; Angela Kelly, Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Carrack, Durham, NC
2017 Materia: Heterotopia, Materialization; Dystopia, Dematerialization; Utopia, Rematerialization, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Anxious Condition, Anchorlight, Raleigh, North Carolina
Cameras are Clocks for Seeing, Allcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
2016 We Stand. We Matter. Art Majors installation and forum, UNC, Chapel Hill
2015 Beyond Cameras, Duke/UNC MFA, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC
Neo-Pre-Proto-Anti-Para-Ultra-Contra-Post-Photography, Spectre Arts, Durham, NC
2014 Anti-Precision, Center for Advanced Hindsight, Duke University, Durham, NC; Liberty Arts, Durham, North Carolina
2013 A Taste of Empathy, Center for Undergraduate Excellence, UNC, Chapel Hill
2011 Self-Observed, Curatorial Projects class, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Don't Be Intimidated by this Painting, Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Ground We Walk On, Local Histories, 523 Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC
Local Histories II, Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough, North Carolina
2009 Bail Out Biennial, Golden Belt, Durham, North Carolina
2005 Images That Matter: Us and Them, Honors Seminar, Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Loom 3: Labeler, co-curator, with Jeff Waites, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC
2003 Violent Violence, Gallery Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Loom 2 and Loom 1, Old Label Mill, Pittsboro, North Carolina
2001 Perpetuating History, student collaboration at Silent Sam, confederate memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill
1997 Mother Smother Other Lover, Alcott Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1995 Day Without Art for AIDS Awareness, Glass Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
1994 Bodily Functions, Student Union Gallery, UNC, Chapel Hill
Rinse and Spin, student exhibition at 8 business locations, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
2025 Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience,Wilmington College Peace Resource Center / Oakland University Art Gallery
2024 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech 1920-2020, Caltech Library, Pasadena, Getty Foundation Publications, p 176-177
De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, Drone Imaginaries, Kathrin Maurer, pp.66-67, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Moderna SuperAÇÃO! Geografia - Volume 1, Editora Moderna Press, Brazil, p. 261
2022 The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh, cover image, Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA
Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures, pp. 282-287; pp. 383-423, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Canada
2021 The War Lawyers, Craig Jones, cover image, Oxford University Press, UK
The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Figure 1, color plate, pp. 6-7, Wiley, USA
Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision, Manchester University Press, UK, cover image and p. 32
2020 Family Tree Whakapapa, exhibition catalogue with essays by Katherine Guinness and Rawiri Smith, New Zealand
Holding History in Our Hand, Wilmington College’s Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium and Response Project, USA
2019 Insurgent Aesthetics, Ronak K. Kapadia, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, pp. 95-101; color plates 9-12, USA
2018 Cameramouth, chapbook of poetry, New Poetics, SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Photography in America, Miles Orvell, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 200-201
2015 PICTURE magazine, Issue 1, edited by John Pilson and Matthew Booth, page 66, NY
Gut Feminism, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Disorder, teNeues Publishing, London, UK, pp. 74-75 + 127,
War Power, Police Power, Marc Neocleous, cover image, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland
2013 After Hiroshima, bilingual monograph of my work, essay by James Elkins, Daylight Books, NY
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Organix: Contemporary Artists from the USA, edited by Diego Cortez, Benetton Corporation, Fabrika, Italy
War + Memory: The 6th Jeonju Photo Festival, Korea, "War, Image and," pp.50-55
2012 Black and Blue, Carol Mavor, Duke Press, photograph, p. 160, (text about, p. 52), USA
2011 Reconstructing Conflict, edited by Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, cover image
Latinamericanism After 9/11, John Beverly, Duke Press, cover image, USA
2010 Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies,Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, "Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss," pp.115-144
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, the University of California Press, cover image, USA
What I Keep, Photographs by Susan Mullally, "What I Keep So You Can See Me," Introduction by elin o'Hara slavick, Baylor University Press, USA
2009 Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, edited by Josh McPhee, PM Press, Oakland, CA, pp. 8, 122 + 147
Fixing Sex, Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, Katrina Karkazis, cover photograph, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
2008 Reading Boyishly, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, photographs, pp. 140 and 367, USA
Bombing Ourselves, winter, Extra! Extra! Pamphlet series #2, Azul Editions, CT, USA
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Duke University Press, cover art, USA
2007 Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography, essays by Howard Zinn, Carol Mavor, and Catherine Lutz, Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy
2006 Fables of La Fontaine, Constantine and Koren Christofides, University of Washington Press, Seattle/London, page 68, USA
2003 Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines, Diana Freedman and Olivia Frey, editors, Duke University Press, cover photograph, USA
2001 Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Catherine Lutz, with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick, Beacon Press, USA
1999 The Untimely Present, Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction, Idelber Avelar, Duke University Press, front cover photography, USA
Periodicals
2026 Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, poems, pp. 68-69; collages, pp. 24, 67, 104, March 21, Northampton, MA
Low Hanging Fruit, Apricot Rosemary ice Cream, poem, April 26; Bone Rungs, poem, April 6, Pasadena, CA
2025 Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Witness, poem, Hong Kong, special issue 85 on Reparation
Blue Lake Review, I Write You Because I do Not Understand Myself, poem, Issue #1
Der Greif, Tomorrow is Today, selected by Hank Willis Thomas, p. 63; Black Box, selected by Charmaine Toh and Philippe Pirotte, Munich, Germany
Knowing Bodies, edited by Cindy Rehm, Middlepause, poem and Mirror, collage, March 25
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, poems and collages, pp. 24, 58, 94-95, Vol 19, Issue 2, Northampton, MA
2024 Women’s Studies Quarterly, Unbearable Being(s), Volume 52, fall/winter, collage and text, pp 174-175
Yes We Cannibal, 7” vinyl record cover for Helen Gillet’s experimental cello, Baton Rouge, LA
Citric Acid: An Online Orange County Literary Arts Quarterly, “Selections of Resistance: Viral Integration,” elin o’Hara slavick, Issue 9, March
Hyena, Surreal Feminism, journal edited by Cindy Rhem, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Colorado Nuclear Atlas, “Dark Archive,” elin o’Hara slavick, January 14
The Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, In Balance/Imbalance, summer
2021 A New Nothing, edited by John Pilson, Sleeper Publications, Pittsburgh, PA and Durham, NC
The Brooklyn Rail, A Tribute to Diego Cortez (1946-2021), organized by Raymond Foye, September 1, “Poem to Diego,” elin o’Hara slavick
2020 Journal of Black Mountain College Studies, vol. 10, “Dance/Movement Collages by elin o’Hara slavick,” spring
Love In The Time of COVID, A Chronicle of a Pandemic, Nov. 13, New Zealand
2019 American Quarterly, “Grievability and Nuclear Memory,” Jessie Boylan, vol 71 no. 2, pp. 379-388
Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, “Marx on Earth,” Barbara McCloskey, 15 (2): 244-251
Artlines, Womens’ Caucus for Art, summer edition, NY
2018 White Hot Magazine, “Apocalypse: Then and Now,” Jonathan Goodman, April, 2019
Full Bleed, feature on my collages, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland, back cover and pp. 86-91
Afterimage, Vol. 45, No. 4, “Marx@200,” Benjamin Ogrodnik, pp 26-28
2015 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "Hiroshima Mon Amour," Vol. 13, Issue 32, No. 4, August 10
BLOW Photo, featured photographer, "After Hiroshima," May, Dublin, Ireland
Critical Military Studies, "Re-Imagining Hiroshima in Japan," Photograph, p.1, June, Taylor & Francis
Union of Maine Visual Artists Quarterly Journal, "The Mapping of the Incomprehensible," 8-page spread of collages and text
2014 Burnaway, "On Hiroshima: Q&A with elin o'Hara slavick," Amy White, August 4
2013 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "After Hiroshima: an interview with elin o'Hara slavick," Amy White, Volume 11, Issue 19 No. 3, May 13
Spectrum, journal of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria
2012 The Journal of Cultural Studies, Routledge, Vol. 26, Numbers 1-6, cover images
2011 Hiroshima Research News, Hiroshima Peace Institute, "An American Artist in Hiroshima, Vol. 14, No. 2, Nov., page 4
2010 The Asia-Pacific Journal, “Art, Politics, Memory, and Language: A Conversation between Artists Hong-An Truong and elin o'Hara slavick
Public: Art, Culture, Ideas, Toronto, Canada, “Memorials in the After Aftermath: France and Japan,” photographic essay, January
Papers of Surrealism, “Eight Surrealist Collages and Poems,” elin o’Hara slavick, Spring, University of Manchester, UK
2009 The Asia-Pacific Journal, "Hiroshima: A Visual Record," elin o'Hara slavick, Vol. 30-3-09
CounterPunch, "Flags for Hiroshima," Weekend Edition, front page, September 18
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA: "Ishiuchi Miyako, Hiroshima, Japan," Nov/Dec, p. 63
Visual Anthropology of Japan, "Hiroshima: A Visual Record," August 6
Journal of Critical Asian Studies, Routledge, "Hiroshima: After Aftermath," 41:2, 307-328
2008 Anthropology Today, London, UK, front, inside front and back cover photographs, October
2007 Red Pepper Magazine, London, UK, August, “Bomb After Bomb,” p. 51, inside back cover
2006 American Ethnologist, November, Issue 33(4), photographs
Daylight Magazine, Issue #5, Workers Dreaming, Chapel Hill, New York, London, pp. 54-59
Cultural Politics, July, Field Report – Protesting Cartography: Places the U.S. has Bombed, Oxford, UK, pp. 245-254
2002 American Anthropologist, New York, NY, Volume 104, Number 3, September, cover and photographs pp. 728 and 730
Southern Atlantic Quarterly, Durham, NC, spring, “Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11,” photographs p. 289
The Independent, Durham, NC: “Pictured Southern: Contemporary Southern Photography from Walker Evans to Sally Mann,” January 2
2001 The Independent, “Life in War’s Shadow,” November 7-13, photographs pp. 7, 30-31; “Otherworldly,” November 7-13, p. 33
Adbusters, Vancouver, BC, Canada, January, “Global Economy Postcard,” p.6
2001 Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Memories of Nature,” Sept/Oct., pp. 39-40
2000 The Progressive, Madison, WI, January, “A Doll for the Global Economy,” p. 15
1999 Printed Matter, Inc., NY, distribution of Post-Colonial Girl Paper Doll, booklet printed by Paper Crane Press, 10 pages
1994 Whitewalls, Chicago, IL, “A Wretch Like Me,” edited by Robert Blanchon, fall, p. 39
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2026 No Edges on a Sphere, Karina Lutz, poetry book, cover image, NatureCulture, Northfield, MA
2025 Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience, edited by Claude Baillargeon, Wilmington College Peace Resource Center / Oakland University Art Gallery
2024 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech 1920-2020, edited by Peter Sachs Collopy and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech Library, Pasadena, Getty Foundation Publications
De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks, edited by James Patton Rogers, Drone Imaginaries, Kathrin Maurer, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Moderna SuperAÇÃO! Geografia - Volume 1, Editora Moderna Press, Brazil
2022 The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh, cover image, Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA
Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures, edited by Livia Monnet, image featured in “Lingering Radiation: On Violent Pasts and Open-Ended Futures,” Ruby De Vos; “Inheritance: Radiant Reflections from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima: 20 poems by Bo Jacobs for 20 Photographs by elin o’Hara slavick,” McGill-Queen’s University Press, Canada
2020 Holding History in Our Hand, artist book on the occasion of the 75th memorial of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for Wilmington College’s Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium and Response Project, Peace Resource center, Wilmington, Ohio, USA
2021 Hiroshima City Art Works, Kohei Hosogaya, exhibition catalogue, Hiroshima City Culture Foundation
The War Lawyers, Craig Jones, cover image, Oxford University Press, UK
Drone Imaginaries: The Power of Remote Vision, edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer, Manchester University Press, UK, cover image
2019 Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life, Duke University Press, Foreword by Catherine Lutz
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, Ronak K. Kapadia, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
2018 Cameramouth, chapbook of poetry, New Poetics, SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Photography in America, Miles Orvell, Oxford University Press, UK
2015 Camera Atomica, John O'Brien, Art Gallery of Ontario and Black Dog Publishing
PICTURE magazine, Issue 1, edited by John Pilson and Matthew Booth, NY
Gut Feminism, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Disorder, teNeues Publishing, London, UK
War Power, Police Power, Marc Neocleous, cover image, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland
2013 Cartographer of sinister history, Monika Rydiger, International Cultural Centre Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies, Mark Selden, Palgrave MacMillan, NY
After Hiroshima, bilingual monograph of my work, essay by James Elkins, Daylight Books, NY
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Duke University Press, cover image, USA
Organix: Contemporary Artists from the USA, Edited by Diego Cortez, Benetton Corporation, Fabrika, Italy
War + Memory: The 6th Jeonju Photo Festival, Korea, "War, Image and Memory"
2012 Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour, Carol Mavor, Duke Press, USA
2011 Art Critiques: A Guide, James Elkins, New Academia Publishing
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Stephen Graham, Verso Books, NY and London
Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds, “Above the Dead Cities,” Derek Gregory, Routledge, London and New York
Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies, edited by Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, cover image
Latinamericanism After 9/11, John Beverly, Duke Press, cover image, USA
2010 Rethinking the Power of Maps, Denis Wood, Guilford Press, New York and London
Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, edited by John Armitage, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, "Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss"
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order, edited by Giles Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, the University of California Press, cover image, USA
What I Keep, Photographs by Susan Mullally, "What I Keep So You Can See Me," Introduction by elin o'Hara slavick, Baylor University Press, USA
2009 The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists explore Cartography, Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, edited by Josh McPhee, PM Press, Oakland, CA
Fixing Sex, Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, Katrina Karkazis, cover photograph, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2008 Reading Boyishly, Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, USA
Bombing Ourselves, Extra! Extra! Pamphlet series #2, Azul Editions, CT, USA,
Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Duke University Press, cover art, USA
2007 Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography, monograph of my work with essays by Howard Zinn, Carol Mavor, and Catherine Lutz, Charta Art Books, Milan, Italy
2006 Fables of La Fontaine, Constantine and Koren Christofides, University of Washington Press, Seattle/London, USA
2004 Not Just Any Dress: Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity, Peter Lang USA, "Collecting Loss," Carol Mavor
2003 Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines, Diana Freedman and Olivia Frey, editors, Duke University Press, cover photograph, USA
2001 Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Catherine Lutz, with photographs by elin o’Hara slavick, Beacon Press, USA
1999 Becoming, Carol Mavor, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA
The Untimely Present, Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning, Idelber Avelar, Duke University Press, front cover photography, USA
1998 Media Performance Along the Border, Johannes Berringer, John Hopkins University Press
Periodicals
2026 LA Times, An anti-nuclear art show opened in L.A. County. Then the U.S. bombed Iran, Chloe Shrager, March 27
Hyperallergic, How Photography Helped Build the Atomic Bomb, Austen Villacis, March 27
Canvas Rebel, “Meet elin o’Hara slavick,” April 24, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-elin-ohara-slavick/
2024 The Democracy Chain, “After Hiroshima: Atomic-Bomb Influenced Photographic Work by Lifelong Peace Activist,” Liz Goldner, Issue #32, March
2022 Counterpunch, “The Bomb that Cracked an Island,” Jeffrey St. Clair, Sept. 23, Petrolia, CA
DARIA, Denver Art Review, Inquiry and Analysis, "Dark Archive," Jose Antonio Arellano, September 15, Colorado
2021 Wairarapa Times-Age, “Family trees celebrated,” Gareth Winter, p. 25, Feb. 11, New Zealand
Featherstone Phoenix, “Family Tree Whakapapa exhibition is a treasure,” Jen Olson, Vol XXVI, Issue 1, New Zealand
2020 American Quarterly, “On Violence, Seen Remotely,” Elspeth Iralu, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1047-1055, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Spectator, USC Journal of Film and Television Criticism, “Negative Hauntology and the Nuclear Sublime,” Katherine Guinness, p. 31-39
Monday Artpost, “Family Tree Whakapapa,” Dec. 28, Ocean and Pounds Publication, Hong Kong
PhotoForum NZ, “Family Tree Whakapapa,” December 20, New Zealand
Wairarapa Times-Age, “Family tree exhibition,” Becky Bateman, Nov. 3; “Family Tree Whakapapa,” Gay Butler, p. 14., Dec. 27, Masterton, NZ
Surveillance and Society, Robert Heynen, Queens University, Canada, 18 (4), 559
2019 Dagblad Noorden, Groningen, Netherlands, “Vergeten atoombom weer actueel,” Illand Pietersma, September 6, cover and page 11
2018 Mediations, Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, Katherine Lawless, Volume 31, No. 2, Special issue: Materialism and the critique of Energy
Winston-Salem Journal, “Innovation and tradition: Past and present approaches to photography,” Tom Patterson
Sublime Imperfections, “Autoradiographs in contemporary art.” Ruby de Vos, October 30, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Chronicle, “Kenan ‘Workers Dreaming’ exhibit challenges popular notions of labor,” Alizeh Sheikh, October 24, Duke University, Durham, NC
2017 Giorno e Notte, La Tribuna, “72 Anni Dopo La Bomba Atomica,” Elena Grassi, front page, August 6, Treviso, Italy
Cultural Anthropology, “What Matters,” Catherine Lutz
Indy Week, “Materia – A Temporal Collaboration,” Brian Howe, p. 44; “The Anxious Condition,” Noah Rawlings, p. 33, Durham NC
2016 Axon, Creative Explorations, Cassandra Atherton, No. 10, University of Canberra, Australia
2015 Tokyo Times / Shimbun, November 27, page 26
Frieze, “The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show in Five Parts,” Mimi Luse, Oct. 21, London, NY
Chigoku Daily, "International Artists Express Hiroshima," Hiroshima, Japan
Library of Congress, “Remembering Hiroshima in Photographs,” Barbara Orbach Natanson, August 6
CRAVE, "Seventy-Year-Old Shadows of Hiroshima," Nicole Borgenicht, August 26, LA
Portland Press Herald, "Far East and Down East on view at MECA Gallery," June 7, Maine
Portland Phoenix, "Traces, transformations and trajectories," Britta Konau, July 2, p 30; "Be on the lookout for elin o'Hara slavick," June 5, p. 21, ME
2014 Lens/cratch, "The Swap," Grant Gill, April 14
DC Sight Unseen, "The Other Side of Disaster," Adrian Muoio
Burnaway, " Artists Respond to States of Emergency," Nick Kahler, March 13
New Mexico Mercury, "Another Way of Seeing," Margaret Randall, March 28
NECSUS, European Journal of Media Studies, “Photographed by the earth," Thomas Pringle, pp. 131-154, Amsterdam, Dec. 4
2013 New York Times, Weekend Arts II, Paper Gallery, Dreamscapes, Abysses And Radiation, Dana Jennings, p. C24, August 23
Los Angeles Times, "Haunting residue of Hiroshima," Leah Ollman, October 24, page D14
Los Angeles Times, Arts and Culture top story, "U.S. bombing seen through artist's eye in 'After Hiroshima' book," Liesl Bradner, Aug. 4, p. E3
San Francisco Chronicle, Books top mention, "After Hiroshima, by elin o'Hara slavick," Kenneth Baker, August 2
San Francisco Chronicle, "Fiery indelible images," Kenneth Baker, page F7
Times Higher Education, “Arts of the Political: New openings for the Left,” book review featuring my book cover, July 11
Images Magazine, Paris, France, #59, p. 91, "After Hiroshima," book review
Photo-eye Blog, Art Photography and Books, "Atomic Studies in Blue," Colin Pantall, July 25
FOAM, All about Photography, "Black Shadows: Photography and Forgetting," Esther Teichmann, May 30, Netherlands
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "Radiated Relics," vol. 110 no. 21, May 22
D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc., featured image, Cory Reynolds, August 23
Artweek LA, elin o'Hara slavick: Until What Has Disappeared Appears, Vol. 136, Sept. 16
Actuphoto: Actualite Photographique, "elin o'Hara slavick presents After Hiroshima at the Daylight Project Space," April 19
CTBTO Spectrum Magazine, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Issue 20, Front and back cover image, pp. 34-35, July, Vienna
2012 Landscape Research, “Researching Militarized Landscapes,” Chris Pearson, Vol. 37, UK
Geographical Imaginations: War, Space and Security, "Seen/Seduced from Above," Derek Gregory, December 10, 2012
Cartographic Perspectives, “Function and Beauty (In Defense of Useless maps), Nat Case, pp. 17-22
Sarah Lawrence Magazine, "The Good Fight," Katharine Reece, spring, p. 26
2011 Postcolonial Representations of Women, “Possibilities for Subverting the Dominant Visual Regime,” Rachel Bailey Jones, pp. 169-193, Springer
Chugoko Newspaper, "An American Artist displays 50 works in Naka-ku," Doumen Masakazu, Hiroshima, Japan, September 21
The Independent, Chris Vitiello, Durham, NC, "The Triangle's visual art scene expanded in 2011," Dec. 28; “Don't Be Intimidated by this Painting," Dec. 21; "Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women at the NCMA," May 18; "Live here now: Chapel Hill show animates concepts of place," February 16, page 28
2010 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New series 35- 2, 2010, “War and Peace,” Derek Gregory, page 175
The Herald Sun, Durham, NC, "Exhibit on Bombing," September 2; “Slavick revisits Hiroshima after the bomb," Blue Greenberg, January 1
Duke Magazine, Durham, NC, "The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists explore Cartography," Teka Selman, page 56
The Independent, David Fellerath, Durham, NC, "To the End of the World with Noam Chomsky and elin o'Hara slavick," October 6
2009 InJournalism Magazine, Alfie Wilkinson, March 15, University of Sunderland, UK
Independent, Durham, NC; “Radiant Art – elin o'Hara slavick' studies of aerial bombardment,” Brian Howe, Dec. 30, p. 21; "Eight Days a Week" + "Indy Pick" for Hiroshima: After Aftermath, Nov. 18, p. 25; "Gone to Croatoan, Group Show Durham tackles the troubles and hopes of the times," David Fellerath, January 28, cover image and pp. 22-23; "The Year in the Arts," Amy White, p. 15
2008 Mmegi, Gaborone, Botswana, “The Naiveté of Bombardiers,” Sheridan Griswold, August 22, p. A4
Cartographic Perspectives, Milwaukee, WI, Review of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, Daniel G. Cole, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 67-68; Review of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, Mark Denil, pp. 68 -70, Number 60, Spring
Zivil, Stuttgart, Germany, “Bomb After Bomb,” Werner Schulz, spring, pp. 3-4
Afterimage, the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, NY, Book Review, Jill Connor, Spring, 2008, pp. 26-27
2007 Independent, Durham, NC, “slavick charts history's nightmares in Bomb After Bomb: A screaming comes across the sky,” Brian Howe, August 22
CounterPunch, “Bomb After Bomb,” Howard Zinn, December 15
Countercurrents.org, “Bomb After Bomb,” Howard Zinn, December 18
ArtUS, Los Angeles, CA, “Prosecuting the Cartography of Violence,” Ryan Griffis, pp. 62-63
Border Crossings, Toronto, Canada, Book Review, Andrea Fitzpatrick, winter, pp. 107-108
DOMUS, Contemporary Architecture, Design, Art, Milan, Italy, “Geography of War,” Nov.
Big, Red and Shiny, Boston, MA, “Bomb After Bomb, a Book Review,” Matthew Nash, July 17; “Art and Activism,” Matthew Nash, April 8
2004 Independent, Durham, NC "Best Bet: in label making and unmaking," Kirk Ross, May 19
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA: "Loom 3: Labeler," Ann Millett, Sept., pp. 44-45
2003 The Guardian, London, England, "Within These Walls," Craig Taylor, December 17
Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Critical Art from America," Rutger Pontzen, July 19
2002 Independent, Durham, NC “The Anti-Warriors: In a year consumed by war, triangle peace activists helped keep debate and dissent alive” Jon Elliston, p. 22, November 27; “Protest Maps; slavick’s work maps the fatal seduction of distance,” Elizabeth Howie, November 13; “Zine Stream,” John Valentine, July 31; “Triangle Art Awards, elin o’Hara slavick, Artist/Activist,” June 25
The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC, “Exhibit shows photo world upside down,” Eric Ferreri, May 27
Art Papers, “Some Kind of Dream,” Julia Ridley Smith, Sept., pp. 38-39
2001 Independent, Durham, NC “The Personal is Political,” Clancy Nolan, June 20, pp.28-29
Winston-Salem Journal, NC: “A Little like Home,” Tom Patterson, June 17
2000 Art Papers, “The Lyon Biennale,” Nov/Dec. pp. 55-56; “URDLA, Photography as a Form of Printmaking,” Sept/Oct., pp. 55-56; “Sarah Jones and Clementina Hawarden: Kindred Spirits of Photography,” Aug., pp. 47-48
New Frontiers IV, catalogue essay, Todd Smith, Curator of American Art, Mint Museum
South China Post, Hong Kong, “The Beauty of Flesh & Blood,” Fionnuala McHugh, January 9
Winston-Salem Journal, NC, “Art of the State,” Tom Patterson, May 21, Arts Section, front page, p. E1; “Pictures with Punch,” Tom Patterson, April 30, p. E5; “Art as Politics,” Tom Patterson, April 9, Arts Section front page, pp. E1-E2; “Eclectic Mix,” Tom Patterson, July 2; “Not in Mint Condition,” Tom Patterson, June 4
Ming Pao Daily, Hong Kong, “Four Faces, Daughters, Sisters, Nerves,” Carol Ying Kei, Jan. 29, p. 22
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Flesh & Blood,” Dinah Ryan, Sept., pp. 43-44
1999 Winston-Salem Journal, NC, “Getting it to Make Sense,” Tom Patterson, October 24, p. E4
1998 Philadelphia Weekly, “Context,” Miriam Seidel, Sept. 2, pp. 37-38
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “Studio Visit with elin o’Hara slavick,” Linda Dougherty, March, pp.29-31; “Labor < > Leisure (Global Economy),” Linda Dougherty, Jan., p. 59
1997 Cultural Studies, Routledge/London, “Collecting Loss,” Carol Mavor, spring, pp. 113-137
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Family weaves symbolism into exhibition,” Thomas, Dec. 13, p. B-8
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “Flesh and Blood has Chekhov Drama,” Shearing, Nov. 30, p. E6
Chapel Hill Herald, “Professor’s Presentation Sparks Discussion on Equality,” Fugate, Nov. 3
1995 News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, “Students, Critics Praise Award-Winning Artist,” Chuck Twardy, Feb. 25
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “The Unhappiness of Gender,” Linda Dougherty, March 2
The Herald-Sun, Durham, NC, “Durham Artist Wins Right To Show,” J. Tew, March 3
Fiberarts, “BASF Fiber Show: Powerfully Disturbing,” Bill Alexander, pp. 60-62
New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL, “Artist Wins Censorship Fight in Raleigh,” Woody Holliman, May
Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, “The Pleasures of Gender,” July, pp. 58-59; “7th Annual Fiber Arts Exhibition,” Bill Alexander, March, pp. 50-51
1994 Binocular, Australia, “From Dada to Mama: Feminism, The Ready-Made and Contemporary Practice,” Margaret Morgan, pp. 11-29
1992 New York Post, “The Dress off Her Back,” Jerry Tallmer, December 11
P-Form, Chicago, “Embodiment: Sharing Our Wounds,” Johannes Birringer, Issue 25
1991 New Art Examiner, Chicago, Il, “Sister Serpents,” Bill Stamets, April, p.35
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA / Master of Fine Arts 1991 MFA in Photography
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA / Bachelor of Arts 1988 BA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2022 – Present Founder of SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State), 8 women artists addressing the nuclear condition
2019 – Present Founder of the Collaborative Collage Collective
2010 – Present Atomic Photographers Guild; 2023-2025 Advisory Committee
ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
2026 Sarah Lawrence College / Visiting Professor, fall semester, Bronxville, NY
2022 - 2025 University of California, Irvine / Artist-in-Residence / Communications Specialist /Founded the School of Public Health Art Collection
2022 CalTech, Pasadena, California / Huntington Art and Research Fellowship, Visiting Lecturer
2015 Hiroshima City University / Visiting scholar, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
1994 - 2021 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill / Professor Emerita since 2021
Tenured Full Professor since 2002
Director of Graduate Studies for Studio Art, 2014-2017; 2004-2006
Advisory Board, Institute of Arts and Humanities 2010-2013
Glen Elder Distinguished Term Professor 2008-2012
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art 2006-2008
Associate Chair, Art and Art History Department 2004-2005
Tenured Associate Professor of Art 1999-2002
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor 1994-1999
Public Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Queens Museum, NY
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
UBS Bank, Basel, Switzerland
URDLA, International Center for Printmaking and Books, Lyon, France
The National Library of France, Paris
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Library of Congress, Washington DC
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Grand Rapids Museum of Art, MI
The Gund Museum, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
The Museum of Modern Art Library, NY
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library, CA
John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC
The Law School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Institute for Contemporary Art Public Collection, Portland, Maine
Madison Art Collection, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill
Van Every Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Luciano Benetton / Benetton Corporation, Treviso Museum, Italy
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center, NY
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro, NC
Asian Studies, UNC, Chapel Hill
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Peace Resource Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
Cerritos College Public Art Collection, Norwalk, CA
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania
Santa Ana Community College, California
The Estate of Howard Zinn, Boston, MA
Sara M. Vance, SMV Media, Cincinnati, OH
CounterPunch, Petrolia, CA
Vacant Space, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Block C / Marinus Augustijn and Agnes Scholte, Groningen, Netherlands
Ontological Museum of Collage, Sante Fe, NM
The Archive of Modern Conflict, London, UK
The John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Drawing Center, Viewing Program’s Artist Registry, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Artist Files and Artists’ Books Archives, New York, NY
Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Archive, NY
Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Hiroshima Library, curated by Brandon Shimoda