Susanne Slavick Bio

Susanne Slavick is a painter and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art in the School of Art where she joined the faculty in 1984 and served as head between 2000 and 2006. After earning a B.A. from Yale, summer study at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and graduate study in Rome, she began exhibiting in Philadelphia where she completed her M.F.A. at Temple University's Tyler School of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, Mt. Desert Island through the Four Seals Foundation, and in Skoki, Poland through the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, as well as an exchange professor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Slavick began showing nationally through the Struve Gallery in Chicago and has exhibited in museums and galleries in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh, as well as in Europe and Asia. Her paintings have been recognized through an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has recently been recognized as the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2008 Artist of the Year.

	*Susanne Slavick, Professor of Art*
	Susanne Slavick is a painter and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art in the School of Art where she joined the faculty in 1984 and served as head between 2000 and 2006. After earning a B.A. from Yale, summer study at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and graduate study in Rome, she began exhibiting in Philadelphia where she completed her M.F.A. at Temple University's Tyler School of Art. She has been an artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, Mt. Desert Island through the Four Seals Foundation, and in Skoki, Poland through the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, as well as an exchange professor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Slavick began showing nationally through the Struve Gallery in Chicago and has exhibited in museums and galleries in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh, as well as in Europe and Asia. Her paintings have been recognized through an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has recently been recognized as the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2008 Artist of the Year.