Mid-Atlantic Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

David Oresick

Saturday, October 24, 2015 @ 11:00am,

Panel 3: Process, Discovery, Revelation

David Oresick is a curator, artist, and the Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Silver Eye is a non-profit gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary fine-art photography and related media to inform, engage, and inspire diverse audiences and communities. Central to its mission is the creation of innovative exhibitions and programs that bring forward issues, ideas, and perspectives relevant to our times. Silver Eye is also committed to directly supporting today's artists through fellowships, professional development, and other opportunities for creative and professional growth.

David holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a co-founder of the video-art screening series Video Playlist at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and was the Manager and an exhibitions committee member at Light Work in Syracuse, New York. He has curated and helped to organize several exhibitions including Close to Home and A World Imagined, as well as screenings including Heartaches & Holy Rites, and Mixtapes & Mashups.