About

Susanne Slavick is an artist, curator and University Professor of Art Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University where she served as Head of the School of Art from 2000-06 and taught from 1984-2022.  Her curatorial projects include When the Bough Breaks (2019), Marx@200 (2018) commemorating the legacy of Marx’s critique of capitalism; Unloaded (2015), a traveling group show exploring the impact of guns in our culture; and Out of Rubble (Charta, 2011) a book and traveling exhibit featuring international artists who respond to the aftermath of war.

Slavick’s work pursues empathic unsettlement through images that remind us of what we stand to lose after what we have lost already. She has exhibited internationally, with solo and two-person shows most recently at University of Virginia, Gettysburg College, McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, the Chicago Cultural Center, Accola Griefen Gallery in New York, and Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University. Getting There, an exhibit with her partner and colleague Andrew Ellis Johnson exploring our response to immigrants and refugees has toured to four venues, including the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in 2021. Family Tree, an exhibit with three sisters, incorporates images of trees in social, political and environmental conditions. It premiered in New Zealand in 2020 and is touring the USA between 2022-2025.

Slavick graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Yale University, studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and earned an MFA at Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia.

Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and through four awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2019, she was awarded the College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award and the College of Fine Arts Henry Hornbostel Teaching Award.

Slavick’s essays and articles have appeared in Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism (Routledge 2024); Art, Advocacy, and Sexual Violence (University of Washington Press 2024); Journal of Visual Culture (SAGE 2018); Technology and Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press 2018); Formations of Identity: Society, Politics, and Landscape, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016); American Rubble (Haverford College, 2016); Cairo: Images of Transition (transcript Verlag, 2013); Hyperallergic, Maine Arts Journal, Cultural Heritage and Arts Review; Cultural Politics (Duke University Press); Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; and Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics.

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